THEORY OF SPIRITUAL RELATIVITY
Ego is the worldly identity based on your body, mind and reactions to the world. You think that identity is you. And there is no other identity. Right ? Now this identity is temporary. It will perish as soon as you die. Then where are you ?
There fore you need to ask yourself whether you are a being that exists only for a period of time. Or whether you have any permanent identity tat cannot be erased in time. That quest will lead you to the basic requirement that in order to seek the permanent identity you have to treat the worldly identity as not sacrosanct, not permanent or even 'real'.
It is like you see the sun rising in the east and travelling to the west. That is the sight you see when you are stationed on earth. If you relocate yourself to the moon, you will see the earth as a moon like blue sphere going around the stationary sun ! If you travel outside the solar system to the next star Alpha centauri, you will see the entire solar system moving along with the sun. Going further away to the centre of the Milky way Galaxy, you can see the sun and the solar system rotating about the centre of Milky way at 230 km per second. Remember 230 km per hour is a great sped on earth. Now 230 km per minute will be 60 times faster than the fastest of cars on Earth. Then how much ca be 230 km per second ? We travel through space at this breakneck speed every moment. We hardly know. Why ? Because our minds are preoccupied with small issues related to the body, mind, likes and dislikes. .
Lets shift our location to another Galaxy. Now the entire Milky way galaxy will appear to be rotating about its centre and also going out in a straight line outwards. Going further into space, we can see galaxies as stars as seen from Earth. All galaxies moving outwards from some precious centre of the universe and spinning about its own centre.
Now lets come back to Earth and take a deep breath ! Whew ! On earth, we again see the sun moving around the earth. Now you smile and know this is a view based on your location. The locations or formations of stars are just how they appear from the earth. Going out, these formations change shape and apparent location. So what could be the correct view ? Is it the sun going around the Earth as most easily seen by all, or the earth going round the sun or the entire planetary system moving around the sun ? Now You may say the last is the best view and pat yourself for seeing so clearly. But wait, Here, the sun is assumed stationary. Mind you. Sun is going around a massive Black Hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. And now imagine the entire Milky Way Galaxy moving outwards in space. Now imagine other galaxies also moving like our Milky Way Galaxy. Now imagine the Galaxies like stars moving outwards... We are seeing the present state of the universe, just about, in the correct perspective.
Similarly to see what you are exactly, you need to stand outside yourself and watch yourself without any leniency or bias. The beliefs and faiths and the ego or the worldly identity are imposed on yourself. With no other practical option, you accept or carry them. Besides you start feeling comfortable and 'safe' in this worldly identity, relations faiths and beliefs. This is like seeing the sun from Earth and believing it to be your reality. The intelligence tell you that there can be other views, more complete ones, if you care to step outside your own beliefs. But such views are not the experience of most. And people again slip back to their own views in tandem with the other people to feel the comfort of company. Thus we again feel quite comfortable with the sun going around the Earth. Thinking higher is disturbing the normal peace of mind. So most try to enjoy the comfortable life even with incorrect or incomplete knowledge. If you know, you will die. If you do not know also you will die ! So what is the big deal ? This is the query of the wise guys and common people.
So most fall back to the 'normal' and 'practical' experience of the sun moving around the Earth, the stars and formations as they appear from the Earth as 'true' or 'real'. Is it really real ? You know it is relative to your location, based on your body. Relocate the body to some other location in space, you see the same things in another perspective. So which perspective is 'true' ? Both are relative to the location and body. In short, both views are relative and not 'absolute'.
Now the query comes. Can there be an absolute vie ? We call i not view but 'vision'. Vision does not change with the body or its location. It is absolute. Everywhere the same thing is seen. rather everything is 'understood' in the correct perspective. Not merely 'seen', but 'understood'. "Understanding' is a beautiful meaningful word. One needs to 'stand' 'under' the sight to 'understand' the same. LOL ! Once one understands all, the challenge is over. The challenge posed by the existence. To gear up for this challenge, one needs to expand the mind, accept and accommodate all information, cannot sweep 'unwanted' or 'disliked' information. Because no information is unwanted. The mind is resisting to accommodate other views because you made the mind that way by conscious training. That creates your own small world carved out from the whole. Now that personal world becomes your liability. You try to defend it. Others try to trample it. Because nothing in this universe belongs to any one in particular. If best, it belongs to all. Everything actually belongs to everyone. On needs the permission of all the rest to temporarily own a part of the world as yours.
Similar to how we traveled to the outer space to see in the correct perspective how the stars and Galaxies move, we can critically analyse our own inner self and see what it is without any prejudgments. Here also, the location or point of perception is what is most important.
Most see things and happenings based on the body. Like seeing the sun as simply going around the Earth. Is it true ? It is. But only to those located on Earth. Is that the absolute vision ? You now know it is not. Does that matter to you ? Answer to this question will decide your further course of life. The most important question possible while living. See how most sweep this very fundamental query under the carpet and try to remain comfortable and 'sane' or 'normal' by seeing the sun going around the Earth.
Thus to know things in the correct perspective, or in the absolute way, where there cannot be two ways ever, one analyse oneself critically. One has to let go off all the biases, prejudgments, likes and beliefs from the mind. Other wise the sun will continue to go around the Earth and you feel falsely comfortable with that and try to make a life with that information. LOL ! But such lives will be incomplete. Invariably all such small partial worlds collapse and die out leaving the venturer empty, disillusioned or defeated by competition. Pain separation and death becomes a realty. You don't really want to end the good experiences. You wish it continues for ever. But Alas ! They wont. All experiences are timed. You cannot have more of that even if you are willing to spend all your possessions. Because possessions do not have currency in that experience. Only the state of mind has. And you have already loaded the mind with all your likes. The mind is heavy cannot move freely. Thus you made the mind closed and is trying to experience the bliss of freedom. It is impossible. You may get a whiff of freedom for a fleeting moment. But that wont last. Other likes of your mind will lead you to some other incomplete experience. Ultimately one gets tired and disillusioned. Time catches up with the body. Better experiences of others make you uncomfortable, if not jealous.
To see what you are in reality or truth or in absolute not in comparison, one as to strip the mind from the attachments and loads accumulated or fetched. Osho says"To know what is enlightenment, on does not have to 'learn' anything new. But 'unlearn' all the 'crap' that one has already learned. LOL !
So we know a lot of things. Like the Sun moves around the Earth ! LOL ! To live, this information is more than enough. Fortunately the Sun is not dependent on your understanding ! LOL ! Otherwise the Sun would be shifting according to what the most powerful thinker thinks ! Luckily, the Sun is unaffected by our understanding. A school drop out had once said "if we can put a hole in the sky, all the water will drain down !", He thought the blue sky is a solid thing above which the rain water is stored. Unless one reads, or get educated, the ideas will not change. Cannot change. After talking to an educated one, he might stop saying similar way to others. But his idea abut the sky is permanent. He may not even want to change it. He will live and die with that idea. The idea that one is comfortable with becomes his sky and world of understanding.
To know the absolute truth about yourself, there is only one way. That is to make the mind free of all understandings, whether right or wrong. Holding on to the body, likes and the world will not enable one to do this. The very world that one holds on to is slowly moving into death. All the 'people' or things that we see around are going to die out sooner or later. So which world are you holding on to ? The world around your body and mind. Right?
To most, there is no escape from this. There is no need either. Just condition the mind that, till death, I will hold on to my world ! And Lo ! You feel very comfortable and more importantly 'normal' with the others. Those who are comfortable with this, comprises the majority. It is not a crime. It is 'normal' life. Until we feel the need to know more, this 'normal' life will continue like a dream. To the 'enlightened' or 'awakened' soul, this 'normal' life is actually a sleep ! One has to get awakened from this sleep to attempt to get over this flow of life towards the waterfall of death. Most resort to the 'fate' and spend time till death blowing up balloons out of the desires of of their mind. Fully knowing that the balloons will break sooner or later. Not a comfortable thought at all. But there is no other way, or so they feel. And while they spend time like that till death, some try to show off their wealth or looks or size or talents to impress the rest, to feel good and forget death for sometime.
But death will catch up. There is no escape. That is unless one is able to relocate oneself beyond the reach of death. Is this possible ? Not in a way modern science thinks, like extending the life expectancy or keeping health till a few hundred years. Still, death will catch up. So is there a way to stump death ? No one really wants to die. And none really dies either LOL ! What happens is a changing of soiled or old dress for new and continuing the same way of life from where it ended. No heaven or hell after death ! Sorry about that.
The life continues in new forms. One dies with a certain pending desire on some worldly item, women or wealth or some particular experience. That if one does v\certain rituals one would get to satisfy these very desires in heaven is a very creative thought. But it is all hogwash. These ideas come from some basic human requirements in the first place. Like, one has to believe in someone or do things in a certain way as felt by someone, and many follow suit. The assurance is that the pending desires will be realised after death, Does anyone know what is after death ? None ! then what is the authority wit which such claims are made ? Religions play hard ball here and swear by someone whom they think (or wants others to think rather) was the authority. These claims are all relative. Someone is better off or more knowledgeable so the rest 'believes' or follows his ideas. Are his ideas absolute and crystal clear that they can be adopted as absolute truth ? Or was he also partially seeing things, may be better and clearer than most, but still not complete or absolute ? How do we know ?
There is only one way. Lets not disrespect anyone or their views. All are respectable. All are parts of this universe. So all are unique and important. But we would like to know the absolute truth. No what someone saw. But we want to know our self first hand. Is that possible ? Can we see things like say Jesus or Prophet Mohammed or Buddha ? Religions and priests will make faces at you. Because they think they cannot do that. They cannot. Because they are hardened minds, unwilling to learn or change. Interested in women and wealth. And hence are after the women and wealth in order to enjoy them at leisure. They will not rise above the normal human life, ever. They want others also to be in their level so that there is company of a few fools to feel safe till death ! LOL ! Safe till death ! Is that safe enough ? The wise priests will say "If you do things the way I tell you, you will get to enjoy better in heaven". It is a lie. A hallucination. A false promise. A cruel joke played on innocent minds to make them move in some particular way. It is actually a rime before God to misguide people to suit one's convenience.
If there is no heaven and unending experiences after death, and if the timed life on Earth offers only partially satisfying experiences, is there such an experience which does not end or not affected by time ? Even if it is there, it can only be beyond time and not within time. The positive news is THERE IS ! The negative news is.. In order to reach that state, one needs to let go off the world and attachments.
I had a personal experience when young and unemployed. I wanted yo marry a girl. None else i wanted to marry. But it occurred to me that there could be better grooms than myself. At least finance wise. My desire for the girl just remained that, even though the girl was willing to grant my desire. I felt it was a mistake to lure here into my life of uncertainty and penury, when she could live like a princess if she was allowed to go her normal course of life. This led to the fundamental question. What is the relation between me, her and the apparently more suitable groom ?
Thus to reach the higher levels of truth and reality, one has to let go off the world from mind. This is difficult but not impractical or impossible. Many have done this self surgery. Remember, you need to reach a certain maturity to do this. Else you simply create problem for yourself and all. That maturity is the desire to know the absolute truth. Not relative realities which are perishable. It is similar to going into outer space to have a good correct look at yourself on earth seeing (if not believing) that the sun moves around the Earth. We see people move around us. Its that the true view ? I mean is there any higher view possible ? Even if possible, it is far better to simply forget the hard realities and live comfortably among the friends and relatives.
However to go beyond this experience to know the truth, one as to let go off the world and people and sit in isolation. This, as already said, needs a certain level of maturity. With attachments in mind, this sitting alone is simply impossible. Your dear and near ones will be asking where you are and what you do. They will not simply accept you suddenly breaking off and sitting alone. So one should be past these sentiments to even sit alone. But once you are able to do this, strip the mind off all information and simply make it free. No information is required. Any information from the world is a liability, a botheration a drag at this stage, the gravity that pulls one down and keep rooted on earth or life.
The so called God or life source can be reached in meditation with a free detached mind which is the prerequisite for such revelations. When the world goes completely off the mind, the upper conscious rises in mind. Thus it is completely dependent on the mind. Minds attached to the world cannot reach the higher truth, simply because the mind is the medium through which such experiences are experienced. Thus a mind attached in the body and world will never reach Godliness for ever. Because such minds keep re-attaching to the world for experiences.
Those mature minds, which somehow realized the fleeting nature of the world experiences, try and transcend to the inner levels detaching the mind from the world and experience. Now a new experience happens. The experience of consciousness. One will slowly get absorbed in that experience and forget the world. Still one feels nothing is lost. The experience of timelessness. Pure Consciousness.. And one realises that is one's true nature. the absolute experience. Dropping the small world of you own likes is the price to pay for that experience. How many can do this ? Only those who can drop the world from the mind. That requires a maturity of mind. If you have reached that stage, go ahead and drop the world. If the world is still important to you, you need to spend time in space until you mature.
I hope the path is clear. There exists a more fulfilling experience, even if the whole world is dropped from mind. That is the assurance given by the Gurus. To pursue or not that experience depends on the individual, the maturity level, the resolve to pursue it. It is demanding and challenging. just to ensure that only those minds which are free and clean can reach there. And that is the name of the game.
There is no need to make one 'believe' in God. Minds are usually attached to the world and experiences. Until these minds have some sort of satisfaction, there is no spiritual growth possible. No need to believe in spirituality or God. Those minds which have reached the maturity to drop the world will get the door to heaven open. But that mind will not have any more desires. Because those minds with attachments and desires cannot even detach from the world. Therefore the idea of heaven where unsatisfied desires can be carried over is another desire of the attached dissatisfied minds. They never reach God, even if they swear by God every moment of pursuing their desires. they are not pursuing god at all. But their own desires and trying to imagine themselves to be clever while doing so. All such wise guys invariably experience pain of separation and death, however hard they try to hold the world.
Whether one believes in God or not, he is part of a mind boggling existence about which he knows precious little. That he is the part of an infinitely powerful existence beyond time and space is forgotten by the imposition of the world and desires in his mind. Then what one sees is the world. What enables one to see (or more precisely, what actually sees) is not inquired upon. That is not important to most. What appears desirable before them is important. What makes one feel that way or whether this attraction to te world can be overcome for some other better experience is not normally ventured into. Those who ventured also were not all successful. So the chances of reaching one's own real self is, ironically, very remote !
To compound matters there are any who tried but failed but still pretended as winners. People follow many such also-rans who slipped from the pinnacle of self realization, due to their own attachments in mind or desires or both.
Notwithstanding all these, it is worth a try. Anyway you are going to die otherwise.
Ego is the worldly identity based on your body, mind and reactions to the world. You think that identity is you. And there is no other identity. Right ? Now this identity is temporary. It will perish as soon as you die. Then where are you ?
There fore you need to ask yourself whether you are a being that exists only for a period of time. Or whether you have any permanent identity tat cannot be erased in time. That quest will lead you to the basic requirement that in order to seek the permanent identity you have to treat the worldly identity as not sacrosanct, not permanent or even 'real'.
It is like you see the sun rising in the east and travelling to the west. That is the sight you see when you are stationed on earth. If you relocate yourself to the moon, you will see the earth as a moon like blue sphere going around the stationary sun ! If you travel outside the solar system to the next star Alpha centauri, you will see the entire solar system moving along with the sun. Going further away to the centre of the Milky way Galaxy, you can see the sun and the solar system rotating about the centre of Milky way at 230 km per second. Remember 230 km per hour is a great sped on earth. Now 230 km per minute will be 60 times faster than the fastest of cars on Earth. Then how much ca be 230 km per second ? We travel through space at this breakneck speed every moment. We hardly know. Why ? Because our minds are preoccupied with small issues related to the body, mind, likes and dislikes. .
Lets shift our location to another Galaxy. Now the entire Milky way galaxy will appear to be rotating about its centre and also going out in a straight line outwards. Going further into space, we can see galaxies as stars as seen from Earth. All galaxies moving outwards from some precious centre of the universe and spinning about its own centre.
Now lets come back to Earth and take a deep breath ! Whew ! On earth, we again see the sun moving around the earth. Now you smile and know this is a view based on your location. The locations or formations of stars are just how they appear from the earth. Going out, these formations change shape and apparent location. So what could be the correct view ? Is it the sun going around the Earth as most easily seen by all, or the earth going round the sun or the entire planetary system moving around the sun ? Now You may say the last is the best view and pat yourself for seeing so clearly. But wait, Here, the sun is assumed stationary. Mind you. Sun is going around a massive Black Hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. And now imagine the entire Milky Way Galaxy moving outwards in space. Now imagine other galaxies also moving like our Milky Way Galaxy. Now imagine the Galaxies like stars moving outwards... We are seeing the present state of the universe, just about, in the correct perspective.
Similarly to see what you are exactly, you need to stand outside yourself and watch yourself without any leniency or bias. The beliefs and faiths and the ego or the worldly identity are imposed on yourself. With no other practical option, you accept or carry them. Besides you start feeling comfortable and 'safe' in this worldly identity, relations faiths and beliefs. This is like seeing the sun from Earth and believing it to be your reality. The intelligence tell you that there can be other views, more complete ones, if you care to step outside your own beliefs. But such views are not the experience of most. And people again slip back to their own views in tandem with the other people to feel the comfort of company. Thus we again feel quite comfortable with the sun going around the Earth. Thinking higher is disturbing the normal peace of mind. So most try to enjoy the comfortable life even with incorrect or incomplete knowledge. If you know, you will die. If you do not know also you will die ! So what is the big deal ? This is the query of the wise guys and common people.
So most fall back to the 'normal' and 'practical' experience of the sun moving around the Earth, the stars and formations as they appear from the Earth as 'true' or 'real'. Is it really real ? You know it is relative to your location, based on your body. Relocate the body to some other location in space, you see the same things in another perspective. So which perspective is 'true' ? Both are relative to the location and body. In short, both views are relative and not 'absolute'.
Now the query comes. Can there be an absolute vie ? We call i not view but 'vision'. Vision does not change with the body or its location. It is absolute. Everywhere the same thing is seen. rather everything is 'understood' in the correct perspective. Not merely 'seen', but 'understood'. "Understanding' is a beautiful meaningful word. One needs to 'stand' 'under' the sight to 'understand' the same. LOL ! Once one understands all, the challenge is over. The challenge posed by the existence. To gear up for this challenge, one needs to expand the mind, accept and accommodate all information, cannot sweep 'unwanted' or 'disliked' information. Because no information is unwanted. The mind is resisting to accommodate other views because you made the mind that way by conscious training. That creates your own small world carved out from the whole. Now that personal world becomes your liability. You try to defend it. Others try to trample it. Because nothing in this universe belongs to any one in particular. If best, it belongs to all. Everything actually belongs to everyone. On needs the permission of all the rest to temporarily own a part of the world as yours.
Similar to how we traveled to the outer space to see in the correct perspective how the stars and Galaxies move, we can critically analyse our own inner self and see what it is without any prejudgments. Here also, the location or point of perception is what is most important.
Most see things and happenings based on the body. Like seeing the sun as simply going around the Earth. Is it true ? It is. But only to those located on Earth. Is that the absolute vision ? You now know it is not. Does that matter to you ? Answer to this question will decide your further course of life. The most important question possible while living. See how most sweep this very fundamental query under the carpet and try to remain comfortable and 'sane' or 'normal' by seeing the sun going around the Earth.
Thus to know things in the correct perspective, or in the absolute way, where there cannot be two ways ever, one analyse oneself critically. One has to let go off all the biases, prejudgments, likes and beliefs from the mind. Other wise the sun will continue to go around the Earth and you feel falsely comfortable with that and try to make a life with that information. LOL ! But such lives will be incomplete. Invariably all such small partial worlds collapse and die out leaving the venturer empty, disillusioned or defeated by competition. Pain separation and death becomes a realty. You don't really want to end the good experiences. You wish it continues for ever. But Alas ! They wont. All experiences are timed. You cannot have more of that even if you are willing to spend all your possessions. Because possessions do not have currency in that experience. Only the state of mind has. And you have already loaded the mind with all your likes. The mind is heavy cannot move freely. Thus you made the mind closed and is trying to experience the bliss of freedom. It is impossible. You may get a whiff of freedom for a fleeting moment. But that wont last. Other likes of your mind will lead you to some other incomplete experience. Ultimately one gets tired and disillusioned. Time catches up with the body. Better experiences of others make you uncomfortable, if not jealous.
To see what you are in reality or truth or in absolute not in comparison, one as to strip the mind from the attachments and loads accumulated or fetched. Osho says"To know what is enlightenment, on does not have to 'learn' anything new. But 'unlearn' all the 'crap' that one has already learned. LOL !
So we know a lot of things. Like the Sun moves around the Earth ! LOL ! To live, this information is more than enough. Fortunately the Sun is not dependent on your understanding ! LOL ! Otherwise the Sun would be shifting according to what the most powerful thinker thinks ! Luckily, the Sun is unaffected by our understanding. A school drop out had once said "if we can put a hole in the sky, all the water will drain down !", He thought the blue sky is a solid thing above which the rain water is stored. Unless one reads, or get educated, the ideas will not change. Cannot change. After talking to an educated one, he might stop saying similar way to others. But his idea abut the sky is permanent. He may not even want to change it. He will live and die with that idea. The idea that one is comfortable with becomes his sky and world of understanding.
To know the absolute truth about yourself, there is only one way. That is to make the mind free of all understandings, whether right or wrong. Holding on to the body, likes and the world will not enable one to do this. The very world that one holds on to is slowly moving into death. All the 'people' or things that we see around are going to die out sooner or later. So which world are you holding on to ? The world around your body and mind. Right?
To most, there is no escape from this. There is no need either. Just condition the mind that, till death, I will hold on to my world ! And Lo ! You feel very comfortable and more importantly 'normal' with the others. Those who are comfortable with this, comprises the majority. It is not a crime. It is 'normal' life. Until we feel the need to know more, this 'normal' life will continue like a dream. To the 'enlightened' or 'awakened' soul, this 'normal' life is actually a sleep ! One has to get awakened from this sleep to attempt to get over this flow of life towards the waterfall of death. Most resort to the 'fate' and spend time till death blowing up balloons out of the desires of of their mind. Fully knowing that the balloons will break sooner or later. Not a comfortable thought at all. But there is no other way, or so they feel. And while they spend time like that till death, some try to show off their wealth or looks or size or talents to impress the rest, to feel good and forget death for sometime.
But death will catch up. There is no escape. That is unless one is able to relocate oneself beyond the reach of death. Is this possible ? Not in a way modern science thinks, like extending the life expectancy or keeping health till a few hundred years. Still, death will catch up. So is there a way to stump death ? No one really wants to die. And none really dies either LOL ! What happens is a changing of soiled or old dress for new and continuing the same way of life from where it ended. No heaven or hell after death ! Sorry about that.
The life continues in new forms. One dies with a certain pending desire on some worldly item, women or wealth or some particular experience. That if one does v\certain rituals one would get to satisfy these very desires in heaven is a very creative thought. But it is all hogwash. These ideas come from some basic human requirements in the first place. Like, one has to believe in someone or do things in a certain way as felt by someone, and many follow suit. The assurance is that the pending desires will be realised after death, Does anyone know what is after death ? None ! then what is the authority wit which such claims are made ? Religions play hard ball here and swear by someone whom they think (or wants others to think rather) was the authority. These claims are all relative. Someone is better off or more knowledgeable so the rest 'believes' or follows his ideas. Are his ideas absolute and crystal clear that they can be adopted as absolute truth ? Or was he also partially seeing things, may be better and clearer than most, but still not complete or absolute ? How do we know ?
There is only one way. Lets not disrespect anyone or their views. All are respectable. All are parts of this universe. So all are unique and important. But we would like to know the absolute truth. No what someone saw. But we want to know our self first hand. Is that possible ? Can we see things like say Jesus or Prophet Mohammed or Buddha ? Religions and priests will make faces at you. Because they think they cannot do that. They cannot. Because they are hardened minds, unwilling to learn or change. Interested in women and wealth. And hence are after the women and wealth in order to enjoy them at leisure. They will not rise above the normal human life, ever. They want others also to be in their level so that there is company of a few fools to feel safe till death ! LOL ! Safe till death ! Is that safe enough ? The wise priests will say "If you do things the way I tell you, you will get to enjoy better in heaven". It is a lie. A hallucination. A false promise. A cruel joke played on innocent minds to make them move in some particular way. It is actually a rime before God to misguide people to suit one's convenience.
If there is no heaven and unending experiences after death, and if the timed life on Earth offers only partially satisfying experiences, is there such an experience which does not end or not affected by time ? Even if it is there, it can only be beyond time and not within time. The positive news is THERE IS ! The negative news is.. In order to reach that state, one needs to let go off the world and attachments.
I had a personal experience when young and unemployed. I wanted yo marry a girl. None else i wanted to marry. But it occurred to me that there could be better grooms than myself. At least finance wise. My desire for the girl just remained that, even though the girl was willing to grant my desire. I felt it was a mistake to lure here into my life of uncertainty and penury, when she could live like a princess if she was allowed to go her normal course of life. This led to the fundamental question. What is the relation between me, her and the apparently more suitable groom ?
Thus to reach the higher levels of truth and reality, one has to let go off the world from mind. This is difficult but not impractical or impossible. Many have done this self surgery. Remember, you need to reach a certain maturity to do this. Else you simply create problem for yourself and all. That maturity is the desire to know the absolute truth. Not relative realities which are perishable. It is similar to going into outer space to have a good correct look at yourself on earth seeing (if not believing) that the sun moves around the Earth. We see people move around us. Its that the true view ? I mean is there any higher view possible ? Even if possible, it is far better to simply forget the hard realities and live comfortably among the friends and relatives.
However to go beyond this experience to know the truth, one as to let go off the world and people and sit in isolation. This, as already said, needs a certain level of maturity. With attachments in mind, this sitting alone is simply impossible. Your dear and near ones will be asking where you are and what you do. They will not simply accept you suddenly breaking off and sitting alone. So one should be past these sentiments to even sit alone. But once you are able to do this, strip the mind off all information and simply make it free. No information is required. Any information from the world is a liability, a botheration a drag at this stage, the gravity that pulls one down and keep rooted on earth or life.
The so called God or life source can be reached in meditation with a free detached mind which is the prerequisite for such revelations. When the world goes completely off the mind, the upper conscious rises in mind. Thus it is completely dependent on the mind. Minds attached to the world cannot reach the higher truth, simply because the mind is the medium through which such experiences are experienced. Thus a mind attached in the body and world will never reach Godliness for ever. Because such minds keep re-attaching to the world for experiences.
Those mature minds, which somehow realized the fleeting nature of the world experiences, try and transcend to the inner levels detaching the mind from the world and experience. Now a new experience happens. The experience of consciousness. One will slowly get absorbed in that experience and forget the world. Still one feels nothing is lost. The experience of timelessness. Pure Consciousness.. And one realises that is one's true nature. the absolute experience. Dropping the small world of you own likes is the price to pay for that experience. How many can do this ? Only those who can drop the world from the mind. That requires a maturity of mind. If you have reached that stage, go ahead and drop the world. If the world is still important to you, you need to spend time in space until you mature.
I hope the path is clear. There exists a more fulfilling experience, even if the whole world is dropped from mind. That is the assurance given by the Gurus. To pursue or not that experience depends on the individual, the maturity level, the resolve to pursue it. It is demanding and challenging. just to ensure that only those minds which are free and clean can reach there. And that is the name of the game.
There is no need to make one 'believe' in God. Minds are usually attached to the world and experiences. Until these minds have some sort of satisfaction, there is no spiritual growth possible. No need to believe in spirituality or God. Those minds which have reached the maturity to drop the world will get the door to heaven open. But that mind will not have any more desires. Because those minds with attachments and desires cannot even detach from the world. Therefore the idea of heaven where unsatisfied desires can be carried over is another desire of the attached dissatisfied minds. They never reach God, even if they swear by God every moment of pursuing their desires. they are not pursuing god at all. But their own desires and trying to imagine themselves to be clever while doing so. All such wise guys invariably experience pain of separation and death, however hard they try to hold the world.
Whether one believes in God or not, he is part of a mind boggling existence about which he knows precious little. That he is the part of an infinitely powerful existence beyond time and space is forgotten by the imposition of the world and desires in his mind. Then what one sees is the world. What enables one to see (or more precisely, what actually sees) is not inquired upon. That is not important to most. What appears desirable before them is important. What makes one feel that way or whether this attraction to te world can be overcome for some other better experience is not normally ventured into. Those who ventured also were not all successful. So the chances of reaching one's own real self is, ironically, very remote !
To compound matters there are any who tried but failed but still pretended as winners. People follow many such also-rans who slipped from the pinnacle of self realization, due to their own attachments in mind or desires or both.
Notwithstanding all these, it is worth a try. Anyway you are going to die otherwise.
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