Time Pass

Our life goes through its motions of work and home and the busyness takes our time toll to an extent that we mostly moan about how busy we are and have no time for this ‘finding ourselves” stuff. And yet time flies, situations change and when the mind is no longer that much busy we are lost  with what to do with too much time at hand. Invariably we are drawn to finding about ”that” which is  beyond  our comprehension , but we are drawn to it very casually, as a time pass activity and not as this desire to want to know that which is beyond the external simulation.   And because we through our conditioned thinking feel that we really are fine with not knowing as long as we are generally drawn to the goodness of life and as long as we have no complaint with how life circumstances are in the present moment there is no need to contemplate on anything that may be beyond senses.  

However it is seldom that one has not experienced sadness that is sometimes not understandable or even if not that then someone’s death makes some wonder about the transient phase of life but again the moment goes by, other things of life take over and we forget to be reminded again with another incident. Sometimes the boredom takes its toll too. And yet we are happy to be the way we are, happy to live in misery of transient world because that misery becomes not a misery as we are with it – and we have adjusted to it. Most of us would deny that we are not happy and yet most of us would shiver at the prospect of our external world changing. When the coordinates change   - with death of someone that you have lived with for ages , with a disease, with loss of power or love then we ask – only then we ask what is life? Why are things the way they are? What is the purpose? And in that too we just never pursue whole heatedly as we are happy to be unhappy in relative world and not happy to search for meanings.

 To be able to have that power that is beyond all transient we have to change. Not make life  time pass  state with lack of purpose , but purposefully  wanting  to know  ultimate truth – after knowing which there is nothing left to be known, TO know that , one must want to know.  Want is an important word.   And to want one must be able to see the facades of transient world.  We fit in work, home, Facebook, music,  movie and socializing and eating and we have no time to seriously contemplate that which will take us beyond the transient phase of life- that is your own self – That Thou Art . You!  To know thyself one has to be the detached observer most of the time. That is all that one need to do. It is an art that can only be perfected by being a constant watcher. Make that as your time pass.  

Australian Diary

Mind is such a cause hunter. It needs to have view point and then it strengthens that aspect by only paying attention to any news or data that will strengthen that aspect.

In my past 3 weeks of experience in Sydney and Melbourne when I have been lost many a times with sometimes my cell phone not working and sometime not finding the platform to catch train from in Sydney which is so vast and spread out that the only way to travel is trains and buses - I found help from everywhere. From a Chinese woman on a bus stop to Eastwood station who not only went a step further from not just guiding me through how to get ticket but took the train in which I was to go to help me further. To a white man who went out of the way to show me where to punch my opal card from for further tickets. To a bus driver who was ind enough to divert a bit of his route to take me to a college that I had to visit, to an Indian man on a station who when I asked a question about the train ended up striking a conversation with me - and his name - "Raj naam tu suna hoga" broke all ice.
These are  some of my personal experiences.

But then I have many a times read and listened to comments of Indians about westerners that are extremely judgmental and biased. Many of us who  are so very spiritual seem to dislike westerners a lot. I had an experience on facebook with a person who seems to be very spiritual and who spits venom when one talks about westerners. How does this work? How can some spiritualists - the so called enlightened people be so biased when every one is same at the level so spirit? It must mean that their identity is only with the mind and body - as if they were identified with spirit they would not think that way.  Yes there may be personal issues when one is discussing but to have a common view of all westerners being "bad" is not conducive to spiritual minds I would say.  It must also mean that the ones who identify themselves with their mind so much only strengthen their bias by only paying attention the news that makes them be ore inclined to hate.

 (Australia has been in news sometimes for the murder of Indian students. Media has spread all kind of malicious news, and not emphasized that most Indian murders were done by Indians themselves)

To end it - I have had some super experiences in Australia. Amazing people. Very welcoming. Then it must be how you are - so the world - so the people and so the experiences.