Thursday, April 16, 2009

Real and Unreal

Life is a ceaseless enquiry into the how, why, when, where, what and who of existence. All the knowledge of the world giving functional utility has no real importance for existence. Consciousness is real player of this world but it has no expression except when it plays with matter. All the creatures in the world are souls with body and not bodies with soul in them. It is said that consciousness is non-physical, yet it is behind every activity and life. Everything eminates from it and all cease as lamp without fuel without the consciousness.
Unreal in the world is created but the real is always there and can only be discovered and invented. If there is sensual desire for pleasure, cause of bondage and impurity is there. Satisfaction of sensual desire leaves fear of diseases, satisfaction of pride leaves fear of humiliation and similarly beauty has fear of decay. This never allows pure action and goodness to come in. If this desire is wiped out, pure action comes in and is automatically practiced. First phase is to limit the desires with humility and second is to make the contentment more important to soul in comparison to grandeur and material wealth.
Life is not sustained by desire but by destiny. Our self remains the same whether the desires are satisfied or not. Desire when strong defeats its own pursuits and blindness of its rage rushes upon destruction. Desire kills fountain of health and exhausts every spring of joy. Sun should not decline in the morning. It is said that one can satiate the desires and renounce them. It can be beyond control to satiate desires but since we usually do what is not doable and really required, it can be managed. We can stop it gradually removing attention and de-prioritizing them. We don’t run our life, we make decisions only to feel and prove that we control life, but it is not true. Who controls our decision making process?
In fact the mind made personalized sense of our consciousness is conditioned by past experience which is deeper than thought and knowledge. Thinking mind is a powerful tool but we should not allow it to take over. The barriers of conceptual thoughts are to be removed.

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