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Friday, May 15, 2009
The hidden world
It's such a waste really, this whole business of living, so superfluous, so meaningless. This hankering after worldly things, for material pleasures, this running away from so-called pain. So completely are we hypnotised, so inextricable is our conditioning, so vicious is its grip on our psyche that we do not even think to look for anything else. For a different reality, for a more luminous possibility, for a truth so bright, for a self that is infinitely bigger than what we think it to be. For a vastness that contains everything, everything that we seek - love, peace, bliss. No, we do not seek these, we go only for the shiny glass pieces mistaking them for real gems while all the time it waits, in silence, in patience, for a shifting of our awareness. We get glimpses of this world, of this ineffable joy in brief, fleeting moments that we seek to grasp but pass too quickly. And so it waits, for us to shake off our hypnotic sleep and wake to reality, to truly live, to be truly ourselves…
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I too sometimes think that we often drift in life like particles in Brownian motion which we learn in Chemistry, constantly moving zigzag and bombarding each other. A sort of ennui, aimlessness and restlessness creeps in slowly and the din outside only intensifies our frustration. Where are we going? Our whole purpose is to seek the essence of life, capture a luminous moment and turn it into eternity. Are we succeeding in it? I doubt. We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss without seeing light. Is the goal of life death? Then we surrender from the start. I believe, each of us should struggle , struggle well and embrace this life with t full vehemence and turn our ephemerality into eternity. Let us harness the power of universe whirling within us and embark on a mission to turn this mud into light, one brief lightning flash
ReplyDeleteDear Allahdeen, the futility in clinging on is true yet the fact remains that all is as is. We are not going to wake up one fine moment and find ourselves anywhere else. All that exists, is and is not. To be attached is misery, indeed, yet not to accept it all is misery too. We find it meaningful and meaningless depending on our state of mind at the moment of thought which is defined by our limited physical and mental capabilities. Hope lies not in banishment of the current state but in rising above it. The only way to realise that is to rise above our narrowed existence as defined by our bodily existence and its mundane perceptions and, to realise that we are indeed infinitely deeper, infinitely wider, infinitely bigger than what we perceive of ourselves ordinarily. And infinity cannot get bogged down by finite perceptions, feelings and emotions. Hope is underlined by belief and faith in one’s ability to rise above it all and not in anticipation of a more acceptable state, more amenable to one’s limitations or talents. Lets hope for manifestation of our real strength and awareness rather than a different worldly state.
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