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1.
Technological advancements and reality
2.
Action without Risk
3.
Different Teachers and You
4.
Pain is blockage
5.
The field of mind
6.
Outer disorder is for action
7.
Alert Mind
8.
Relationship with the present moment is unalterable
9.
Use of Intoxicants
10.
Misery of others
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1.Technological
Advancements and Reality
Whatever
you can see or obtain with senses and mind will always be contaminated,
limited, for use only. It cannot be used to understand reality,
the truth, which is a singular movement. Seer and seen are one in
that singular movement. Movement of senses, mind and outer word
is its expression.
Then we can never
know reality?
We
can only know the limit of our senses and mind, the frontiers of
mind. To reach at the end of the mind, to understand the programming
of the mind is to let the question of knowledge drop. Truth itself
shines.
Man wants to live in automation, this is an undisputed fact. He
wants unalloyed enjoyment, which is not tempered by any disturbance,
pain including disease, accident, losses.
Machines, computers, desire for money, power all go to show that
man wants to be free of all the turmoils of living through automation,
that is, every thing should move automatically just with the touch
of a button or by mere intention. But instead of understanding our
true nature, we are lost (limit ourselves to) in gadgets, money,
power and so on.
Automation of the whole scheme of the universe is the truth.
The fundamental error (as shown throughout these pages) to which
the mind is tethered corrupts our automation, as we feel more and
more miserable with more and more pressure on our mind.
The changes
(material advancements) in the material world are not evolution
for the individual. The material world presented at his birth is
'given' to him. The previous period's material performance is of
no consequence to him. A child born now can have no actual experience,
how the life would be without computers, mobile phones and satellite
television. So human evolution in time is nondescript. The period
from birth to death is the only period, which has any consequence
for the individual. Considering material progress as evolution makes
the evolution a graded concept, as if something is growing in man.
The previous man was doomed and over a period of time we will evolve.
By the same logic, for the future man we are in the doomed category.
It would mean that we can not come out of doom within our life time.
If we consider
present period, say, computer age superior to pre-computer era,
we forget that post computer period is ready to come. If we say
that we do not take any sensation of the post computer period, then
by the same logic, there was no sensation of the computer age in
the pre-computer era.
It means every
period is complete in itself. The material inventions are only for
our use and enjoyment in the present.
We are enamoured
by technology as if technology will deliver us, whereas it is only
change of name or form. Totality is not changed. The movement from
lesser technology to better technology or from no technology to
good technology is not a movement from disorder to order but play
within the order, from order to order.
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2.Action
without Risk
Can there be action without risk so that I
may act freely without being dependent upon results for my release,
joy?
When at the
moment of action, you are not seeking satisfaction in respect of
results; you eliminate all the risk thereby.
But
the results may not be in my favour?
You have to
be ready for this at the moment of action.
But
being ready means nothing; my anxiety still does not go?
Just be clear
that at the moment of action, you have no choice as to the results.
It is psychological error to feel satisfied about future results
now. Can you see it? To think at the moment of action whether the
result will be favourable or not is an extraneous thought, which
causes leakage of energy. You can never be certain now about the
future. The next moment is uncertain. By acknowledging its uncertainty,
by acknowledging the error, you release yourself from the fetters
of your imaginations. There is release of sufficient energy within
you to act. The energy that was locked in seeking satisfaction through
expectations is released. Then your efforts do not bother you.
Be sure that the universe does not exist to punish you because of
lack of knowledge or capacity. It is only the illusion of seeking
satisfaction about the future results now that troubles you.
Whatever knowledge or capacity you have at a particular moment is
sufficient to act without risk. Such actions are always without
any regret.
Now what happens, you do not depend upon the achievement of plans
and targets for your satisfaction. Now they have different meaning
for you.
Why
should we not feel satisfied when plans are achieved?
The satisfaction
enjoyed by the mind keeps you tied to the struggle'achievement'struggle
mode. This satisfaction is a myth, an illusion, which invites its
contra, that is, stress so that you may make efforts to achieve.
What
is wrong in it, this is life?
What we are
pointing out is that you are struggling to come out of struggle
only and not to remain struggling. The satisfaction keeps you tied
to struggle.
Will
ignoring, rejecting the satisfaction end the struggle?
Then this
rejection of satisfaction will become another allurement, another
satisfaction. We land up from where we started.
You have to observe the actual workings of your mind, that you are
always escaping the stress of struggle through drinks, sex, sense
of fulfillment in your work and even through religious activities.
True significance of drinks, sex etc. will be revealed to you when
you do not use them as escapes from your stress.
You can not manage your stress by any means. Managing stress is
the postponement of stress, which is ready to erupt any time. Understanding
the root of stress (that is, you are escaping the pain of stress
by satisfactory escapes) within you dissolves it.
Once you are actually aware, how your sense of gratification in
any thing or idea has bound you to stress, to all the negative situations-
you will be connected to 'Life', to 'wholeness'. You move on a different
track where only action is there and that is joy. Your dependence
upon future for results, for enjoyment is over.
Just understanding the above is sufficient. Understand and leave
the words. If you try to apply the above and obtain results, you
still move to seek satisfaction in results. Understanding the above
is itself action.
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3.Different
Teachers and You
You are confused
hearing the words of so many teachers, A, B or C, sometimes seeming
contradictory. You want a definite answer, a definite end. Now what
is the 'truth'? How to see, come out of this confusion and get to
the 'truth'? Seeing the confusion, not running from the confusion
to find a satisfactory slot is the end of the game. Mind gropes
to find and gets confused. When you see this game of the mind, how
it is trying to find a satisfactory slot, there is release of tremendous
energy within you.
Everybody
wants to be free of the process as results are tempting. Can one
watch that one is always depending upon results for release as if
the process is a compulsive activity? One is aware of this duality,
this conflict within, but never questions it. Even if it is questioned,
this questioning leads to some psychological comfort in the form
of any idea. When this questioning is without any motive of satisfaction,
there is fusion. One lands in the wonderland.
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4.Pain
is blockage
Every
pain if traced backward (without any motive) ends at one being blocked
in some idea, some satisfaction - which is dear to one, which one
does not want to release. If say, one's children are not getting
good marks - if one traces the pain, it traces out to be because
of blocking of oneself in the idea that children should be good
at studies. Releasing the block itself is tremendous energy, which
shows action without any residue, regret. Reacting to pain in a
stereotyped manner by blaming, complaining, feeling guilty is the
action of the present mind, which only perpetuates pain and suffering.
Pain always surmises out to be an offshoot of my blocking myself
in ideas very dear to me.
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5.The
field of mind
The agitation
of the mind is the disorder within the field of the mind. Mind observes
the outer world almost always with a tinge of this agitation (whether
positive or negative). The agitation perpetuates agitation as all
efforts to end the agitation add to the agitation. In keen observation,
it would be clear that at the time of action, mind can not end its
agitation as to the finality of the end. There is every possibility
that the end may end in trouble. Acknowledging this fact (not ignoring)
puts the mind in a fluid state, which may entail fear.
Now
seeing that you have no remedy to end that fear- no solace can end
that fear now, all solaces put off the fear- there is integration
within you, which releases tremendous energy, which puts an end
to fear. The fear surmises to be a thought in contrast to my pleasure,
satisfaction. Then mind simply puts order into its mechanical field
of knowledge available at the moment.
What the present mind is doing is to ignore the fear, ignoring gives
a satisfaction. The satisfaction is simply an addition to the agitation.
In pure observation, your satisfaction is fused with the fear. Time
as an entity to achieve ends. In the vitiated observation, I was
depending upon time to relieve me from fear at the end. In pure
observation, there is no reaction to fear as you have seen and pocketed
the fear. When you demand satisfaction, fear will raise its head.
Satisfaction is sensation in the field of time. It is simply a thought,
a spillover, a device to perpetuate the agitation.
The
vitiated observation tapers a spillover, which becomes a sensation
for the next moment. When there is no spillover, the observation
ends with the change in outer scene.
To
take safety measures as are in vogue is to be in order, is to put
the mind in order. But to think that you are secure and safe is
a psychological error as it conceals the fear or danger of untoward
happening. To see the futility of the idea of safety, to see the
error is a mutation in the brain. No measure can eradicate your
fear of untoward happening.
Then for what purpose safety measures are there?
They are there as a matter of course, to be followed to avoid disorder,
to meet the demand of the moment, to let the life go on, to live
in coexistence.
But things are not so clear, there is conflict, confusion?
The confusion, conflict is the agitation within the field of the
mind. Seeing this clearly without any psychological effort to ward
them off reveals something, which is exclusive to you. It corrects
the observation. The spillover does not happen. The observation
ends from moment to moment.
Will
once seeing it is sufficient?
This question is an agitation demanding an end. Hence will perpetuate
the agitation. The correction of the observation is not a happening
in time. Nothing goes, nothing comes. There is simply an awareness
that confusion, conflict, disorder were erroneous perceptions. This
awareness is there from moment to moment, every time new. Mind experiences
newness of each moment. The awareness can not be held within the
field of mind, time. Mind retains its field as it is within the
ambit of time. The awareness locks it to act from moment to moment.
All demands within the field of time cease.When
you depend upon time to get release, to give you happiness- you
are bound to time. Can you see your bondage? Seeing the bondage
is the awareness of the bondage. Awareness of the bondage is the
end of the bondage.
What
is the bondage?
That tomorrow will deliver. We are fed by the idea that tomorrow
will be better. The conflict of tomorrow versus today will never
go. 'Truth' is not a dead thing that it will be realised tomorrow.
It is ever flowing energy, which is not dependent upon time or place.
Mind always postulates a satisfactory end, something done and every
thing fine.
What
is to be done tomorrow is a statement of fact. What is to be done
tomorrow to feel happy is a never ending game. To seek satisfaction
in possessions, relationships, situations or ideas (apart from the
actual momentary material use) is to seek in vain. The search never
ends as it (satisfaction) contains the fear and conflict of losing,
maintaining, having more. Fear surmises time and again. We are unable
to understand the pointers.
What
is the field of mind?
Field of mind is recording (memory), mechanical, arithmetical, factual
and to keep it in order and to stop when the field is in order-
not as an action of will but seeing the futility of going further.
Restricting the field of mind to actuality is a flight to the unknown.
What
about mind's cry for more facts, more information, more capacity
and so on?
At the moment of reckoning cry for more is not an actuality, hence
is a vitiation in its field.
Can
the mind not ask for more?
The 'more' will be an actuality tomorrow. In the field of time (mind),
there can not be more or less. It is. 'More' will be an actuality
when it becomes present. So the field of time never changes. It
remains 'what is'. This understanding settles your cry for 'more'.
The field of time is renewed every moment, which includes 'you'
also.
So
the field of time (mind), whatever it is, is to be treated as final?
It is again a judgment upon the field of mind. The vitiation always
wants something to lean on.
But
such thoughts are most likely to arise?
Watch these thoughts, which are extraneous to the field of mind.
Not that the vitiation is to be condemned. While watching you will
notice that it is a vitiation. This observation mutes your brain
and psyche.
Can one see that only to put order in the field of reality is all
that the mind can do? This is the limit of the mind.
Can
not the mind plan, think for future?
It can plan, think on paper, in words only. It can not bridge the
gap between present and future. So, future can be on paper in reality.
But
this is a fact, what is the difference between what you are saying
and what we are thinking?
The present mind thinks that future can be jubilant due to your
plans, thinking. This is a vitiation in the present.
It means no plans for the future?
You become aware that plans are only on paper. Your efforts to achieve,
the end- all are linked to the thread of eternity. Each period is
complete. You are not fulfilled in the realisation of your plans,
you are fulfilled in as it is. This understanding automatically
develops when you see the aforesaid fact. This understanding is
your connection to the 'whole'.
But
mind dwells on more, on future, on comparisons-it feels comfortable
in hope?
To see that hope is false as on today, mind's sticking to it is
an error, psychological error. To see the error, to understand the
error is an invitation to the 'truth' to operate. When you leave
the crutches of hope, you are grounded in 'what is'.
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6.Outer
disorder is for action
Either results
are in my favour or I am in favour of whatever the results are.
There is no 'in between'. The 'in between' is the error. This understanding
gives me tremendous clarity to act, to operate in the world. This
is one's understanding of the orderliness of the universe.
Can
there be action without any risk at the moment of action, which
is not dullness either?
If I am ready for any result, the action is without any risk. It
does not mean that I give in when the results are not favourable.
It (results) only indicates what further action is to be taken.
So at all times, I am operating without risk. Why should I admit
risk at any time? What is my compulsion to admit risk? This is because
I have a notion to feel gratified about the results at the moment
of action.
I
may be ruined if I do not feel satisfaction about results?
This is the psychological error which keeps us in perpetual conflict.
If you are ruined, you have to deal with ruin. Your satisfaction
will not be able to take you out of ruin.
By
not feeling gratified in the expectation of results, will every
thing be okay?
This statement is again an expectation of fixed result (every thing
okay). What ever is, it is order. You may like to change. But change
will be for the future. Change is from order to order. The outer
disorder is for your action and not to psychologically move from
disorder to order.
Tenselessness
in action is the key. Again it is not the result of your efforts.
It is to see, understand the truth of tenselessness in action. To
see something as wrong is to put yourself in conflict. Only action
exists. To put something as wrong (psychologically) and then act
is a perennial tension. The wrong is there only because of some
legal, moral, or other judgmental ideas we have made in our minds.
This
understanding itself affects the quality of your actions and goes
to change the structure of your brain cells. Then we are acting
because we are to act, that is all.
We are not barred from making corrections, when we perceive something
as wrong. When the sensation (as shown above) is sucked out of the
wrong, wrong loses its meaning, there is pure action.
But
this understanding is not pursued by the mind because it does not
satisfy it, it gives no satisfaction of blaming, complaining and
then reacting.
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7.Alert
mind
If
one is disturbed by any challenge, it means one was asleep (psychologically)
to that challenge. It does not mean that one should expect the challenge
but one's mind has to be aware to any challenge that comes before.
There is no question of non-acceptance of the challenge. It is a
state of total alertness of the mind, where every challenge is within
the ambit of awareness.
Can there be action from such a mind?
There can be no such action as requires the mind to sleep in respect
of some challenge. It acts with all the ramifications of action
now. It can not store any challenge to be faced in future. Challenge
means something unfavourable.
Does it ignore all unexpected challenges?
When the mind takes the jerk of all the challenges (in potential
form) that may pour into the mind; it makes the mind alive, there
is no question of unexpected challenges. Everything is. It is there
for action.
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8.Relationship
with the present moment is unalterable
To
operate in the world, every moment has to be taken as given for
action. You cannot say that you do not like the moment. It is there
like an insurmountable mountain before you. Not to accept it is
to break your head by saying, 'why it is there'.
Does it mean that we cannot change the things, if we do not like?
Your choice, your action is for the next moment and not for the
given moment. In fact, your acceptance of the present moment without
any ifs and buts fuses you with an energy, which itself impels you
for further action. This acceptance makes you aware of the unaware,
automatic responses of the mind. You become aware, how your mind
is working in a programmed manner. This awareness puts you on a
different track.
Non-acceptance
of the painful moment is to fight an illusory battle; the battle
can never end because the non-acceptance causes a division within
as if some one else is responsible, whereas in actuality this division
does not exist. Acceptance of the present moment is the first and
last step towards that oneness, which is the source of all life.
But
the acceptance of the moment without blaming, complaining, feeling
guilty is itself painful ?
The difference is that in non-acceptance, you escape the impact
of the pain by any wishful thinking, entertainment even by thinking
that it will be alright in future. In acceptance, the pain pierces
you, opens the blocked channels, you automatically move towards
oneness.
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9.Use
of Intoxicants
Can we explore why one takes to addiction
or why the need for such addiction is there?
Because
we think that life is tough. There is cut-throat competition. We
have to struggle hard to live. To earn money requires hard labour.
Such assertions by the intelligentsia seep into the minds of the
common man. He is perplexed.
Life
is celebration. It is not a game of struggle. If you consider it
a struggle, you are tied to struggle~achievement~struggle sequence.
One is never out of it.
Whatever
we may do, life will find ways to celebrate. Drug addiction is a
celebration in response to stressful life.
Eulogizing
role models (in any field) has a depressive effect on others. It
never inspires. Every body has a right to celebrate without being
a role model. Drug addiction is a celebration without being important,
without being a role model.
Only
the actual work done by the role models should be explained to the
public.
Once
we understand that life is celebration in love and joy, drugs lose
their meaning. Life itself becomes enchanting.
To
come out of the cocoon of stressful life, you have to reject the
satisfaction, the importance of being successful, important. Then
life becomes action, action in joy. You get release through all
your routine activities. The need for drugs simply drops.
There
may be others to whom life is not a struggle, are driven to drugs
just to have fun, to have a 'kick'. Life is otherwise dullness for
them. They are unable to have release through their daily activities.
'Kick'
is the reality. 'Kick' gives a release from the fetters of 'me'.
Can
we not obtain this 'kick' through our daily routine activities;
can it not permeate our being?
Unless
we understand this, we will always be running to have a 'kick' through
drugs, drinks, power, sex, money or even through
religious activities.
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10.
Misery of others
A child
watching the trail of destruction left by Gujarat Earthquake queried
his mother. The normal answers could be:
(a) some
scientific explanation,
(b) some religious explanation,
(c) or just a refusal to reply saying that such earthquakes are
not possible in this area.
Now this
mother instead replied that earthquakes sometimes do come and that
such a natural thing can happen here also.
With such
an answer, child's mind becomes unagitated. He does not see earthquake
as something not related to him. Now to such a mind, you can give
scientific or religious explanation; it will find the 'truth'.
Inquiry can always be with a settled mind; otherwise it is just
a passing curiosity.
Tragedy struck the Asian (Tsunami earthquake) shores. Every body
who had listened and seen was shocked and bewildered, reacting in
whatever ways his mind was inclined.
There were those:
Who ignored it considering it a natural aberration;
Who considered the destruction as our scientific incapacity to monitor;
Who offered help to the tragedy stricken;
Who considered it as an act of punishment by God;
Who wanted to gather as much news as possible and show through media;
Who wanted to take off (loot) any thing that had not been washed
away;
Who were organizing to provide help on mass scale;
Who were feeling guilty that they were unable to offer help;
Who were feeling guilty that they were enjoying their normal life,
while others were suffering;
Who were feeling safe that such tragedies were not possible in their
areas, it was related to only those unfortunate;
And so on.
Through all our reactions, we were trying to satisfy ourselves,
finding an outlet to our fear of death and deprivation.
When we become aware that we are deriving satisfaction (blocking
ourselves) in any manner by looking at the fact of tragedy, we feel
immense energy within us to deal with the fact in an appropriate
manner. We feel one with the tragedy stricken. We feel as we have
been washed away. We feel the pain and agony of deprivation.
When we are psychologically satisfying ourselves in any manner by
looking at the fact of tragedy, we are avoiding the jerk of agony
and deprivation, which the moment wants to give us. Be one with
the fact and see the wonder.
Death reveals
its secret to you, the individual, the human being.
Then
what to do?
Just see what is happening not only outside but inside you also.
When some untoward happening is there, we cover up our fear as it
can happen to us also; we start complaining, gratified in telling
the details of the incident.
You cannot erase your fears, whatever you may do. You will have
to have the jerk of the fear as a human being as if the incident
happened to you. This jerk frees you from the fear and connects
you to the unbound energy.
When you cover up your fear by any means (even by making yourself
more secure), you sow the seed of fresh happening to wake you up.
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