WHY DO WE DO ANYTHING AT ALL ???

WHY  DO  WE  DO  ANYTHING  AT  ALL ???

(Including going to temple,Guru, Master, etc. reading scriptures and all)


I have tried to explain the above in the following lines.

1. After landing on earth from unknown through womb we start learning (basically sense organs in conjunction with neurons are trained to function in a synchronized way which is called conditioning).

2. Further alongwith conditioning we start learning on our own too by way of imitation.

3. We come to know various concepts including the basic concept "I". These concepts have utility values but are not true in themselves--means AS SUCH they have no existence of their own.

4. This gives rise to a sense of memory/mind/thoughts....etc. etc. This mind cannot exist without body, but body can very well exist without this mind.(People in comatose, deep sleep state are examples of existence of body without mind.)

5. This mind functions (movement of thoughts) only if a target/goal is given to the body-mind structure as this instrument has been trained on this pattern only.

6. For a normal life to lead both the instruments i.e. body and mind must function in harmony with each other.........may not be fully harmonised.

7. Target/goal---means lack of that targeted thing. If one already have something he/she will not make that a target. How this lack is created is a different issue. Many factors are involved, but the central factor is conditioning.

8. Body----When the body is lacking in something we name it disease. In order to fill that (lack) we do many things including going to doctors. This (removing the sense of lacking) makes sense as without body(by grace/virtue of which we are known in this world, but unfortunately we have given more importance to the mind than the body------in fact both are equally important......but base remains the body). All animals do this.

8. Mind----- A concept ...nomenclature given to the interpretation of impulses reaching brain..........interpreted by the brain cells as per conditioning/training received as mentioned above in point no. 1. Hence, impulses produced due to various factors (known and unknown) do have their existence AS SUCH (EEG), but the thoughts don't have their existence AS SUCH. Hence, the mind also does not has its existence AS SUCH.

9. When the basic needs (mainly food) of a person get secured, the attention (consciousness) shifts to the brain in stead of basic body demands. Attention is nothing but an expression of energy only which is produced by the body. This attention (not related to basic needs) is in fact spare/excess as the person does not know how to spend that. Hence, the excessive movement of thoughts (mind) comes into the picture and this excess energy gets consumed. And due to imitating/compulsive behaviour due to conditioning creates a sense of needs other than the basic ones and makes the person move towards indulging in other activities including the so called religion/spirituality as others are also engaged in.

10. This unconscious desire of spending this excess energy (about which we are not aware) gives rise to a sense of feeling as if we are lacking something. Sexual activity more than required for procreation is also included in this (lacking feeling). In order to fulfill this sense of lacking we go on accumulating various goods. Not only that we go on accumulating the so called various knowledge (information) without being aware why we are doing.....just trying to fulfill the sense of lacking. And one day while engaged in these activities, the body comes to a stage when it is unable to sustain the life in this form---death. But no one wants to die. Hence, in order to have a sense of continuity even after death of body somehow the idea of immortality was conceptualised and in order to give this concept a solid base many concepts like God, Soul, Atma, Parmatman, etc were devised. With the passage of time first came the idea of religion then spirituality.

11. Hence, the reason behind going to religions and spirituality is nothing but to get rid of a sense of non-fulfillment (feeling of lacking something). In a sense this is a disease of mind only which we try to "solve/get rid of" by going to temple, Baba, Guru, Masters, etc. I am not saying going to them is wrong, but I have just tried to analyse the the reason behind all these drama (Leela).

ARE YOU REALLY AWARE WHAT IS HAPPENING INSIDE YOU AT THOUGHT LEVEL ????????

ARE YOU REALLY AWARE WHAT IS HAPPENING INSIDE YOU AT THOUGHT LEVEL ???????? 

PERHAPS - NO


LET ME TRY TO EXPLAIN



In the waking state as well as in dreaming state,

right from the morning to the night,

you are trying "to get rid of/to fulfill/to get yourself free from" the so called your thoughts/desires (spiritual thoughts/desires included) which go on appearing into our mind continuously.


However this function(phenomenon) is happening inside us without we being aware of it i.e. without our knowledge.



If somehow you become aware of the above fact

by verifying on your own

after the thoughts or actions have passed away,

then perhaps the so called spiritual linguistic gymnastic is not needed at all,

because the whole purpose of all these are to get free from the grips of thoughts

and

in fact you are already engaged in this process albeit without being aware of such functioning going on unhindered.


""JUST VERIFY ON YOUR OWN""---- From morning to just before going to sleep.



Take simple examples to understand this factual position.

In the morning after waking up, a thought of "having a cup of tea" appears in you and you express that thought by asking somebody “whether tea is ready” or if you are alone you go and prepare tea on your own.

If the answer come “yes” or after preparing the tea the thought (having a cup of tea) gets annihilated.

If answer comes “no” or you don't get any of the ingredients then another thought appears and expressed as “what is the problem” or "where is that ingredient".

It again gets annihilated by another answer or by finding.


A series of thoughts continuously go on appearing and you go on trying to fulfill them in order to get yourself free from those thoughts.


If you can somehow verify in a systematic manner a great secret of life will be revealed and you will be amazed of implications of this finding/discovery.

I HAVE BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD

I HAVE BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD



HAVE YOU EVER BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD ??? 


YES, ALWAYS AS THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TOO.



WHEN DO YOU COME TO KNOW ABOUT HAPPENING OF MISUNDERSTANDING ?


THIS IS NOT A SUDDEN PHENOMENON BUT RECOGNISED/REALISED SUDDENLY.

THE SEED OF MISUNDERSTANDING GETS SOWN UNKNOWINGLY FROM THE MOMENT YOU COME IN THE CONTACT WITH THE PERSON CONCERNED.

BUT SPROUTING AND FLUTING TAKE TIME.

YOU COME TO KNOW/RECOGNISE/REALISE ONLY WHEN MISUNDERSTANDING CROSSES THE THRESHOLD LIMIT FROM THE SUDDEN OUTBURST FROM THE PERSON CONCERNED.



CAN IT BE AVOIDED ??

PERHAPS YES.


HOW ??



IF THE PERSON CONCERNED FEELS EVEN SLIGHTEST PINCH/HURT DUE TO YOUR WORDS (AS THEY ARE VERY POOR COMMUNICATOR OF MEANING/MESSAGE) OR ACTIONS,

HE/SHE SHOULD IMMEDIATELY EXPRESS TO YOU.

AND AT THAT POINT OF TIME ITSELF THAT MATTER CAN BE RESOLVED VERY EASILY (EVEN MATTER MIGHT GET FINISHED AUTOMATICALLY) AS THE SEED OF MISUNDERSTANDING WILL NOT GET NOURISHMENT FOR FURTHER GROWTH AND YOU WILL HAVE THE STRONG UNBREAKABLE BONDING WITH HIM/HER.



BUT WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN ??


BECAUSE "PERHAPS YOU ARE BEYOND UNDERSTANDING".



NORMALLY NO ONE TRIES TO UNDERSTAND YOU IN NORMAL COURSE CONSCIOUSLY BUT STILL MISUNDERSTANDING HAPPENS.

WHEN SOMEBODY TRIES TO UNDERSTAND YOU CONSCIOUSLY AND IF THE MISUNDERSTANDING HAPPENS THEN IT MAKES SENSE.

BUT DOES IT NOT LOOK AWKWARD THAT WITHOUT EVEN TRYING TO UNDERSTAND CONSCIOUSLY BY OTHER FELLOW, YOU ARE MISUNDERSTOOD ???


BUT WHAT IS MISUNDERSTANDING ?


IN MY OPINION

"WHEN THE NATURAL CONNECTIVITY WITH OTHERS (EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED WITH ALL OTHER THINGS OR LIFE FORMS)

COMES TO THE SURFACE

OR

GETS REVEALED

TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT THE EXISTENCE OF ILLUSORY EGO (PERSONALITY / INDIVIDUALITY) IS FELT QUESTIONABLE

AND

THIS RESULTS INTO A SENSE/FEELING OF MISUNDERSTANDING.


[ HERE THE WORD YOU INCLUDES EVERYONE ]



WHAT DO YOU SAY ?????????????????



[ I HAVE BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD BY ONE OF MY FB FRIENDS RECENTLY.

THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME I HAVE BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD.

THE REVERSE MAY ALSO BE TRUE i.e. MISUNDERSTANDING MAY BE ON MY PART.

BUT THIS RECENT ONE LED ME TO ANALYSE "WHY" THIS HAPPENS. ]


I HAVE BEEN FINDING MYSELF MISUNDERSTOOD BY MY MANY REAL LIFE FRIENDS FROM A LONG TIME AND BY FB FRIENDS FROM LAST ONE YEAR WHEN I STARTED FB JOURNEY.

THIS MISUNDERSTANDING LED TO UN-FRIENDING, BLOCKING, GETTING DELETED FROM THE GROUPS ETC.

I THINK MOST OF YOU HAVE ALSO GONE THROUGH THIS ORDEAL.


ON THIS WHOLE DRAMA I CAN DO NOTHING BUT LAUGH.............................

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH...............

OUR TRUE DESIRE OR WHAT LIFE WANTS

OUR TRUE DESIRE OR WHAT LIFE WANTS 


Perhaps the basic unconscious desire of every human being is to forget oneself i.e. extinguishing/annihilating "oneself/one's thoughts" as one is nothing but a bundle of thoughts. 

In a sense coming to the emptiness which is our true nature.


This can be inferred from our various mental and physical activities.


Let me try to explain.


Everyone is engaged in fulfilling his/her desires in waking as well as dreaming state.

In deep sleep state one is not even aware about oneself i.e. the state of complete forgetfulness, as the movement of thoughts which is necessary for being aware, comes to naught.

The same (complete forgetfulness) thing happens in the moment when a desire gets fulfilled (when the movement of thought related to desire comes to naught due to getting fulfilled), but this does not get grasped by the mind as this happens for a fraction of second as there is a chain of desires standing in que for getting fulfilled.

And in this fraction of second we feel a sense of fulfillment/contentment.

This sense of fulfillment/contentment is nothing but "absence of movement of thoughts" or "emptiness" which basically all of us unconsciously desire.

WHAT THE HELL WE ARE DOING ????

WHAT THE HELL WE ARE DOING ????


What I or perhaps all of us have observed that

when the word "ENLIGHTENMENT" comes for the discussion

many of us say or give opinion with "authority(as if fully known)" that

"there is no enlightenment, we have just forgotten to remember, we are already enlightened, etc."

making the whole discussion ridiculous or uncalled for or irrelevant.


Everyone of us tries to impress upon others that he/she knows what is being discussed.



[I don't know whether I am correct or not on this point, but to me it appears to be correct.]



But at the same time

1. we go on discussing topics related to the so called spirituality central theme of which is "enlightenment"

2. We go on quoting sayings/wisdom of various so called Masters of either yesteryear or contemporary ones whose complete focus is on enlightenment only.



Our this approach/behaviour puts a big question mark i.e.


"WHAT THE HELL WE ARE DOING ?"



CAN'T WE SEE THIS CONTRADICTION ?



Are we not behaving in a way which is simply showing that we are neurotic having split personalities ?

DO YOU WANT TO LOOSE YOURSELF ?????????

DO YOU WANT TO LOOSE YOURSELF ?????????



I have experienced/observed/analysed or many of us might have too that "one (as understanding---at thought level) is always getting replaced by another other up to certain extent by way of interaction".

But that is not being done purposely/knowingly i.e. we are not aware of this happening.

The replacement i.e. "the merger of understanding" or "two different understandings becoming one", happens unknowingly and later on one realises this , the symptom of which(realisation) is "feeling a sense of loss of oneself" and then one reacts.

If you look into your day to day life this is actually what is happening with you or everybody is engaged in this only over and above of the engagement for fulfilling the basic needs.

Perhaps this is happening because of the unconscious desire to merge with the others/whole, but at the same time the conditioning which gives you the sense of individual identity (feeling/knowledge of separation) does not want it (merger) to happen.

Hence, the conflict between you (EGO-conditioning) and the unconscious desire surfaces suddenly later on when you(ego) find that you have been lost to a certain extent.

And you as a separate illusory identity start blaming other with whom you have merged.

Perhaps at unconsciousness level a feeling of happiness (peace/relaxation) goes on increasing due to getting merged (as that is the eternal desire) while at conscious level when it comes to your notice the reactions happen in various ways generally we label them as negatives.

This happens when you (ego) feel lost i.e. your understanding and others's understanding do not exist as two, but one.


Through music/art etc. or for that matter any activity where other is not a human being we are unconsciously doing the same(trying to merge).

But here conflict of ego does not happen as that can happen only in case of two human beings.



Perhaps even all the sexual activities are also nothing

but

"symptoms of this unconscious desire of getting merged".


That is why if you want to retain your illusory identity---EGO---then remain always alert while interacting with others in any manner to avoid the future pain and blame game.

 — 

NEVER WITHHOLD YOURSELF

NEVER WITHHOLD YOURSELF


Many a times people try and succeed too in withholding their emotions from getting expressed. 

This leads to suppression of emotions which are generally associated with high level of energy.

This suppressed emotions are the root cause of all misery as those emotions go on doing their duty and their effects are always visible (whether you are aware or not) in day to day life in relation to humans or anything else of . Others who are sensitive can very well detect this.

Although in reality all is happening (including withholding)......but so long as we have not known this reality of happening we should try let go the emotions expressed just like children or we should consciously try to express them.

In nature (including our body) nothing is there which ever withholds.