A woman got extremely jealous
of her husband's praise of another woman's beauty. The jealousy came out as a
force so strong the anger beyond her grasp and she lashed out at him for
having a roving eye. The same evening her husband watching a TV programme of a
young woman who had become a sage of a sort was singing praises of how amazing
this woman is with her depth of spirituality, how learned and how well read.
The wife had absolutely had no problem. Infact she nodded her head in agreement
as she too enjoyed this nun/sage's TV programme.
Is it
not a surprise that the nature of being possessive stops at the body, emotional
and thought level? Likewise
the suffering too stops at body level? So who loves and who suffers and
who is insecure?
Let
us take Love : A spiritual love for another's way of being is not
looked up as jealousy
"
I love you spiritually" is not looked up with raised eyebrows- in fact
welcomed.
"I
love you at body level" brings lust and emotions come out in a
different paradigm all together. The spirit knows love beyond
attachment as self in me is self in all.
Let
us take Anger : Anger a negative emotional response - a body mind
phenomenon . Anger for another stems out of attachment and memory and ego. By
its very nature anger is a low frequency emotion. The body is insecure, the
emotional mind is insecure and fear is the culprit of all aspects of all kinds
of misery. From the realms of spirit where is anger? what is anger?
Ask your spirit and it would be silent.
Who
is insecure?
From
the realms of spirit there is no suffering as the spirit has no attachment, nor
any desires, either any need for control not any need for freedom. It is
forever free. It does not operate from the center of ego and it does not
care for another's ego gratification. For the spirit there is nothing to hog
for, nothing to fight for, there is no war neither peace, there is no good nor
bad, the spirit has been a witness from the time the mind brought about the
existence of space and time.
Who
suffers?
The
body, and the mind for the sake of control and for fear of unknown.
Who
is unaffected?
The
Spirit.
My
"face" before I was born as this body and mind was not bonded by any
attachments of body mind and time
Who
was I
Before
I was this body?
Who
was I related to
Before
I was this mind?
I AM
I am
the origin of all,
And
from Me everything evolve
I am
the Self abiding in
The
heart of all beings; I am
The
beginning, the middle, and
Also
the end of all beings
There
is nothing that I am NOT
So
Be
centered, be with the spirit, constantly inquire about the self - the self that
is YOU! A scientific inquiry of what I am not will lead you to WHAT YOU ARE. That
WHO you ARE never suffers. The impermanent suffers
You have written this through mind but actually going beyond it.Leaving the concerns, attachments and feelings of body and mind is not easy but not so difficult also. Once on this path of unraveling the truth.....you always get with revelations , new wisdom and new ways. It is more a journey back to source where everything is pristine , unadulterated and original
ReplyDeleteSo what to do...while in this world, do everything it does..taking actions and making reactions, having relationships. having physical possessions...be all normal there ..but at back of mind..rather in your whole self...keep this feeling of detachment, ..keep this feeling of oneness...keep this feeling impermanence of body...keep this acceptance...and you will not suffer the sufferings...but there is downside..you will also not feel the pleasures and highs ..but yes there will a permanent ally of yours..that is BLISS
Rakesh
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thsi statement of yours: Once on this path of unraveling the truth.....you always get with revelations , new wisdom and new ways...........
yes you would get new wisdom dawn on you provided you are living with an intent to know and an intent where that which is causing you pain is not the focus- the focus is the pain itself. Easier said than done ..
At the back of your mind- be the witness..to everything...be in the process of that attention to be able to watch how an external creates an internal turmoil and trauma
What you wrote is just outstanding...Through our mind we make everything complex and difficult. When truth is staring at us , we tend close our eyes, close our mind and go after what is not truth..what is temporary..
ReplyDeleteSo , let the spirit shine through you all the time...let all the people feel the presence of your spirit...when they are with you...or even in your absence
When truth is staring at us we get emotionally bogged down. The emotional aspect is so strong that the mind loses all its ability to think and pays attention to the dukh...
DeleteI made my own rosary and the joy I got when making it was so amazing....i wihs and bless my own self to be able to travel the beads of that rosary with his name on every grip of mine as i play with the beads.
Making access to your spirit...the journey goes through many obstacles ..that is of physical body with all its wants and needs ..its sensory organs..then most shrewd player that is of mind..who is very slippery player..you make one move and it takes two moves..and mind's subsidiaries..that is of ego, intellect ..they very big players ..very much know the art of keeping you away from accessing...
ReplyDeleteBut art of living lies in relentless pursuit of it..you may or may not reach ..but , you will definitely enjoy the journey
one can only make access to the spirit through pain.
DeleteWhen I read in Gita and when I read Osho that everything is perfect as it is and I belive in it and yet when we write our own script we bring to our own selves characters that will down size us and take away form us our own temporary pleasures and make us want to change.
The subtle body otherwise will stay the same and how may lives to make a slightest change in us? many many
Beautiful....Bus...
ReplyDeleteThank you Raj
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