Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Thoughts on Life
Everyone surviving needs clarity ! Am surprised why not much has been written about this simple fact of life. If I look around, religion has been created to provide clarity to an inquisitive mind, all of education is to make sense of the world around us, the expensive exploration of space while millions perish in hunger is only to provide more clarity about the world we live in.
Not convinced, try this test on yourself, name one initiative of mankind that does not strive to provide clarity or help in ensuring survival. Or for that matter leave mankind and start with yourself, what is the most important question you have for your own life. I can bet you its about clarity either on your self, the people around you or the world you live in.
The most important aspect of this eternal search is communication. As without that your search is your alone and that is akin to reinventing the wheel and making a spaceship in one life all by yourself.
This stress on communication in ourculture then becomes very clear, the vedas say that the word is the lord and I used to wonder, out of all things why is the 'word the lord'. Till I realised that no man or woman can rest in peace till s/he finds an answer to the confusion that surrounds them, which we all call 'Life'.
The saint is happy and content not because he has found God, in fact the saint has the least to do with the concept of God for s/he realises that this hunt for clarity is futile and what is probably in control is to relinquish this hunt once and for all and accept things the way they are. This acceptance then leads to abundance as then you are no longer running around in circles but sitting at one place looking at everything the way it is and realising the truth. That everything 'is'.
One man who did it best was Buddha, but nothing stops anyone from realising this simple fact of life that no man or woman ever knew where s/he has come from and where s/he will go, and the biggest reality is not what you will find some day but what is today around you within you every second and everywhere which is you !
Aham Bramhasmi I Am Brahman (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad of the Yajur Veda) Tat Tvam Asi That You Are (That is You) (Chandogya Upanishad of the Sama Veda) may then start appearing to provide some clarity.
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