Thursday, August 22, 2019

Practical Glossary Of Life And World

Death
Death is fiction . A person who has any experience of death cannot tell us the same . Those who can say anything have not tasted it and those who have tasted it cannot say anything about it as they're no more.

Miracles
It is some action , work , event etc which we don't understand with our logical mind . Thus millions of miracles are happening every moment inside and outside us . We are in the habit of calling miracle only those phenomena which is either new or sudden and grab our attention . Rest of the hundreds of wonderful phenomena go unnoticed everyday .

Success
If you have a narrow definition of it , you are a success. Those with larger views and aims are destined to be failures. Thus failure is good . It shows that you have a larger goal .

Murti puja
We build machines to enhance our pre existing faculties . Our desire to walk faster invented bicycles and aeroplane . These machines are turning smaller and smaller and more energetic.
These deities are energy forms created for specific purposes . They are like energy machines built to accomplish some particular type of work . Some of them like kul daivas carry the genetic information and work for some special type of families . A whole science is behind that .

Joyfulness and Worldly Affairs
When we are joyful, we work hard , reach out , open and  expand . So we should take charge of our joy . Don't let other people, places, events or things decide your joy . Happiness is a necessity , as is peace .

Pain and Suffering
Physical pain is real but suffering is inner . It's in our hand that we can take it only as a pain or multiply it in mind and suffer .

 Human Experience and Its Source
All the human experience has its source within , not without . We are responsible for our joy or misery .

Memory and Imagination: Past and Future
Humans are not suffering their past or their future . In fact they suffer their own fantastic memory and vivid sense of imagination. Truly speaking , past and future don't exist .

 Intelligence and Intellect
Intelligence is the ability to learn and understand and deal with the difficult problems . It is built by gaining information and knowledge from external agencies, from schools and universities, teachers and textbooks .
 The intellect is developed through your individual effort by exercising the faculty of questioning, thinking and reasoning. Not accepting anything that does not admit logic or reason. 
But logical thinking is based on memory and sense based learning . Intellect should not be overemphasized . It should be used with  instinct and intuition in an appropriate manner  . Out of these two Instinct is of physical nature whereas intuition is of spiritual nature . Actually they are not opposed to logic as is generally thought by people , but they are a fast way of reaching a conclusion by skipping many intermediate steps of logic . They work on those data and experiences which are stored in our subconscious .

 Faith and Religion
When someone stops thinking for himself and depends on others he says that he believes it or he has faith in it . Either you know or don't know . Where does belief come from . Faith and religion have put obstacles in the path of true seekers .

Who am I?
I am not my legs , arms ,hearts , lungs ,brain or other physical limbs or organs because even in their absence or not functioning  , the bodies are made alive through transplantation etc . Also their physical existence in a dead body is seen to be of no use if life is gone . It means I am something beyond my body . Manas is controlled by buddhi and buddhi is inactive during sleep so I am neither manas nor buddhi . I am atman , if anything to be named , Atman , the life energy . In its original form , without the touch of memory and maya , I am sat ( True ) , chit ( conscious) and anand ( bliss)

 Goal and Purpose of Life
Realization of our true self , liberation from maya and false perceptions of self and world and the dualities . 

Full expansion of their own self is an intrinsic dharma of all life forms and it also forms a key goal . But it's natural and neither driven by an envious competition nor some super ambition fanned bu an inflated ego . As a mango tree doesn't desire to grow as an oak tree so should a human being should enhance his ability to live his life with more profoundness and entirety.