GOD at the center of everything.

                      As everyone knows and listens everyday that everyone of us has to die some day. Thus it is but obvious that life originates in something and again dissolves into something. So life comes from 'something'. Thus there must be something which is bigger than life. This 'something' is beyond life.
                       Thus original source of life must be beyond life. It just comes out of it and just goes back, just as the wave raises itself and then falls down into the ocean. Here also ocean remains beyond the waves. Wave is the momentary disturbance. It comes and dies. But the ocean remains unaffected.
                         Same is for the life. Life is just a wave. Existence is beyond life. Existence is always there, very steady, calm, unaffected. It gives rise to many lives but itself always remains the same, constant. So the one who begins to too involved, attached with life, looses existential source of life. Life is just a periphery. existence is the center.
                           We have called this existence GOD. Saying that GOD exists is wrong. In fact GOD is existence. Man exists, trees exist or may not. But GOD cannot be conceived as not existing.  GOD is existence, GOD is 'IS-NESS". GOD means "IS"! That IS-NESS is beyond the life.
                           Life is just the wave on this ocean of IS-NESS. Waves are different outside the ocean. Some are higher, taller while some are not. Some die earlier while few lasts longer. But IN the ocean they are same..just water.
                           Same is here. All we are simply same with centers of ours coinciding at the one and only EXISTENCE i.e. GOD!
                            So this oneness between all is to be understood though it is very delicate to understand!

Pleasure and Pain !

                        Pleasure and pain, these two things have completely surrounded the human life. Everyone experiences both of these things. Pleasure, happiness is what everyone needs. One always runs behind happiness.

                       But is it possible to eliminate the pains from pleasure? Is such isolation possible? Unfortunate for many, but the answer is firm no. These two are the poles of same phenomenon. It is just like positive and negative poles of electricity. North and south pole of a magnet cannot be isolated. This is same game. You cannot run away from pains, sufferings. No, you have to accept them!

                        In fact, being happy or sad for anything, is whole about your mind. It is just the projection of the mind. One can be happy in certain situation while, at the same time, other may not. So what is this miracle, magic? This is the magic of mind.

                        Such feelings are not the qualities of a person, situation. If they were, then everyone would have same feelings for the same. So here comes the role of mind. All these feelings, happiness or sorrow, are just the projection of one's mind towards the particular situation or person.

                         A person falls in love. Is it because the face, he is loving is beautiful? In fact it is because, the mind of person projects, pours the beauty to the face. So same person can be both, soothing or annoying to different people. This projection changes from time to time. The person to whom you say"I cannot live without you", may become the obstruction in your life after some incident. So that person is same, just your projection, interpretation varies.

                          So you are the master. You can handle the situation. If you decide to be happy in very difficult situation, you can be. This complete game is controlled by you then. Just projection is to be changed. For this, transcend the things which is possible only after becoming one , after completely dissolving in the situation. So become one with everything and simultaneously don't get attached to anything!      

Being Oneself.

To be oneself is the greatest achievement that can ever a human being have.Somewhere there lies some basic mistake in our total approach towards life where achieving something is promoted as the goal of life.I wonder why there should be some achievement or some goal in our life?Cannot we remain happy as we are?

There was a man, who took retirement at the age of 80, from the politics. He struggled a lot but couldn't be any minister. He had two son, of which one was in politics and very clever while other was not that much. The former one became minister at very early age of his life. The man was very proud of his minister son and he was not that much caring for his other son. 

To be very frank, the man was looking at his son as the extension of his own will. So he was loving the minister in the son and not him. This is very fatal. Society loves someone of you, within you, from you but very few love 'you'! So this approach of all make everyone very competitive, always aiming for something, always want something. No one is happy with whatever he has, whatever he is.   

Trees are happy the way they are.I am not saying that we must stop our progress or leave everything and just sit.We also should try to do something….to raise our awareness, consciousness.To be totally in tune with life is I think the greatest achievement.

Have we ever thought that in the process of running behind achievement or some goal we are losing the very totality of life?For me, rather than running behind any future achievement,to be able to enjoy present without any worry is the real achievement. Because today we are never in one situation at a time. We think of tomorrow's worries while enjoying todays joy.

So it should be very clear that just becoming is not a big deal. One should enjoy the real bliss of life. If one just go on fetching the water by the container with hole, then at the top the container will be empty totally. So in this rat race of life, the real bliss is lost. Have the feel of it, enjoy it. It is the only authentic achievement.

Transperant Life.

              Our college boasts of many groups like 'Philosophy group', 'Debating group' and the list is endless. All these groups are really helpful for the overall development of all we students. 

               There are nearly 30 to 40 members in each group. To handle the group, a secretary is elected. Group members nominate candidates for the post and college faculty panel decides one of them for the secretary post. From last two years I am witnessing unnecessary politics for the post.

                But today I came across a very soothing experience. For the post of debating group secretary, me and one of my friend, both we were interested. All other members were expecting a huge quarrel between us. But we both of us showed very maturity and told that anyone of us will be fine for us.

                 I think this is the real politics! When anyone has real affinity for people and wish to work for them, for goodness of group, then it comes from inner mind known as 'atindriy' or 'atiman'. For such wishes, there will be the tint of attachment rather than feeling of selfishness. All the world I think today needs this type of politics. 

                  In fact life is a politics. But it must be like this. There must be very openness, transparency. Because, if there is no transparency, one cannot see beyond.  Three is no scope for improvement. So transparency is the very basic need. So life is nothing but transcending all things to transparent!!

                 

Indivisible Individuality.

                           There was a very huge and royal palace. There were so many slaves in the palace. But their master had gone out once for something. 
                            Unfortunately, he had been out for such a long time that slaves completely forgotten, that there was a master. Now, whenever someone passes by the palace...and it is such a beautiful palace that everyone wants to enquire   to whom it belongs. So any slave who happens to be on the door says" It belongs to me. I am the master". 
                           But another time, the same person passes by ; someone else is on the door , and he asks, " To whom does this palace belongs?" The slave on the door that time answers "It belongs to me. I am the master".
                         So the whole city is confused,"Who is the master?". Everyone says "I am the master"- every slave.
                         Man is just like a palace where there are so many slaves but the master - "self"; has gone out. Such is the condition of man. Every slave..every thought that passes by you becomes master for certain duration. Again some other thought attacks & conquers and becomes master! The real master is either asleep or gone for a long journey and has not come back and it has been so long...
                         This whole is totally 'crowd'... crowd of thoughts and nothing else. Thoughts are just like the waves on ocean. These waves are not the ocean as they come and die. The real, authentic ocean is still, very stable with not even a single disturbance. It is below these waves. So the "self" is not the thoughts...it is something more resourceful! 
                         Everyone calls himself as 'individual'! But meaning of this word-individual is 'indivisible'..very integrated!! But we exist in divisions. We are just a divided crowd and to unify it purification of mind is needed..