The path of enlightenment

There are many paths. But the destination is same. This is in layman's term - when you need a path. A milestone. A journey...A voyage. However, someone can simply transcend it. At the end, to transcend is the only way. Transcend to the extent that nothing is left to transcend. Look at the history. How it originated. Moment by moment the future is converted into the past. I've lived moment by moment. Second by second. First second goes...I see it...then second second goes I witness and then third second goes I witness it and it continues indefinitely....This is the point of knowledge. An observation. An acute observation. To you it might appear as an stupidity. It has to appear like a stupidity. That's how the society has evolved. The society is least worry about the evolution of human consciousness. To society, future is the most important. We all work for better future. Don't' we? We do. All our endeavor leads towards the making of a better future. A better place. That's the reason we have so many stories, so many dreams starts with "One Day". Society has only shown us a dream. Our happiness lies into the future which doesn't exist. Remember this present was future in the past and if we are not happy now that means the dream in the past was wrong. That makes this very present moment wrong because present moment was the future in the past. That further means that every moment is something wrong. So the assumption that happiness lies the future itself is a bullshit concept. But when you say happiness lies in the present moment. It makes absolute sense. This is what is the final reality. And present moment happens by itself. It's a pure flow. There is no scope of contamination in the present moment. Because, it's continuously changing. The moment you try to contaminate it, it becomes history. And history is dead. Absolutely dead. There is absolutely no way out to change the history. No scientist can do that. However time exists in multi-dimensional form. It can be changed in some other dimension. Possible. But makes no difference to reality. And if you go even more deep...all problem simply disappears. So very fundamentally, problems do not exist. However, it does exist at the non-fundamental level. Buddha's first statement was - "there are problems". Actually he is referring to the problems at the non-fundamental level of existence. Secondly he says - "there are reason behind problems". Again he is referring to non-fundamental reasons. The moment you know the root. All problems vanish. This is what he is trying to say. He took 6 years to understand this. But, then he understood that, that was momentarily. Suppose you are going from Bangalore to kolkata. It makes 2.5 hours to reach Kolkata. But the moment you landing kolkata will be momentarily. That will be instantaneous. In a second it will happen. However, it took 2.5 hours of time to reach kolkata. But you landed at Kolkata at very particular instant. That instant is important. This is what happened with Buddha on his day of enlightenment. If you do what Buddha did just before his enlightenment. You will be enlightened too. Because, that's when he is landing into the infinite. That's the reason I say - At the transition, simply transcend. If you copy Buddha for 6 years. You may not achieve his level. But of you just copy what he did on his day of enlightenment - there is high chance of achieving good spiritual status. And above all it has to be simple. Truth has to be simple and beautiful. And easy also. Of course on the cost of evolved consciousness. Nature has a plan. It goes by it's plan. Don't interfere nature's plan. In Gee ta Krishna says - "Work but don't worry about fruit". Now this is great statement. Perhaps one of the best every observed by humanity. what it means essentially is that nature is Infinite. That's why you don't worry. Only finite things would cause worry. So, moment you start realizing your surrounding as part of that infinite you would be free from Karma and that's when you don't worry about it. You have to be free from Karma. Then only you cannot worry about it. And you can be free if it is not your Karma. So if you assume that it's Karma of nature - you needn't to worry. And actually that's how it is. Nature has evolved in such a manner that it will do Karma for it's survival. Karma has never stopped. But that is the demand of nature. That's the very fundamental nature of the nature. You have nothing to do in that. Karma just happen because of fundamental property of the nature. You as a free soul have no stake in that. So what do you do in this case. As Krishna says - Don't worry about fruit. How can you don't worry about fruit - Just observe. Just witness. That is the fundamental philosophy of Karma.

Married

It has been long, really long since I wrote last blog. The news to share is that I am married :) I got married to Arundhati on 6th May 2009 at Jamshedpur. We knew each other for more than 3 years. We got engaged on 10 December 2009. There are so many things to write down. I don't know where to start and where to end...Baarat departed from Muzaffarpur to Jamshedpur. We had all the fun all along the way. Met with so many relatives. Staying 7 days on her home was real-real-real fun. Especially in a ritual called Dhakan chori. In that they hide Dhakan somewhere and I had to search them. Thanks to so many Saalis and Saasu ma to help me out some couple of times :-) At muzaffarpur she had to listen some abusive language as a part of ritual which she didn't like at all. Stayed 4 days at Muzaffarpur. Then our journey started towards moutains, forests, hills....darjeeling and Gangtok. Gangtok was better than Darjeeling, played with snow. And most important spent time together :) Then went to KGP also to refresh my memories. Then finally way back to bangalore... Will write more sometime later

Ego

I want to scribble on Ego for sometime. I forgot the definition of Ego taught in psychology class. What I undetstand Ego is as follows...

Whenever, you identify yourself with something. That identity will be ego, will cause ego. For example, I am an engineer. But essentially, I am not an engineer. Essentially, I am I. Just an existence, a being. But we keep on identifying. Whole life we identify our self with what we are not. This is where ego pops up. And sometimes ego is very subtle. If someone is polite, you can say he doesn't have ego. But that's not always right. Even a polite people can have ego. They have ego of politeness. A good person can have ego of goodness. I have seen such people. And sometimes, their ego of politness is even greater than ego of someone's rusty nature. At even more abstract level, you can say ego is negative truth. Negativity of truth is ego. Wherever there is no truth, ego persists. Because only false identity remains in that case.

बुद्धत्व

अगर हमें बुद्धत्व न मिले तो ये समझाना की सारा जीवन व्यर्थ हुआ। हमने बहोत काम किया और अगर आत्मज्ञान न मिले तो फिर सारा जीवन व्यर्थ है। मिलने की बात तो तब जब हमने ये मान लिया की हमने सत्य को खो दिया है। ऐसा हो सकता है की हमने सत्य को कभी खोया ही न हो और बेकार मे ढूंढ रहे हों। ये ज्ञान की बात है। प्रायोगिक रूम पे तुम सत्य को खोजो। जंगल मे खोजो, मन्दिर मे खोजो...जहाँ मन वहां खोजो। बद्ध भी खोजे थे जंगल मे। जंगल मे ऐसा क्या है? की सारे ब्रह्मज्ञानी जंगल भाग गए। सत्य का जंगल से कुछ भी लेना देना नही है। अगर जंगल जाने से ही सत्य मिले तो फिर जंगल ही सत्य है। सत्य राजमहलों मे भी मिल सकता था। अगर पात्रता है तो राजमहलों मे भी मिलेगा। तो फिर बुद्ध जंगल क्यों भाग गए ? वो वही जाने।

पर अति पारमार्थिक ज्ञान यही कहता है की खूजने की जरुरत नही है। पर इसे तुम सैद्धान्तिकअ मत ले लेना। सिद्धांत कोई बहोत अच्छी चीज नही है। थोरा बहोत सिद्धांतवादी होना ठीक है। जादा सिद्धांतवादी मत बनना। नही तो फिर सिद्धांत मे ही फेस रह जाओगे। हमें सत्य मिला ही हुआ है यह कोई सिद्धांत नही है। यह तुम्हारी प्रतीति होनी चाहिए। आश्चर्य है की हवाओं का एक झोका बहे और हमें ज्ञान न मिले । आश्चर्य है की कोयल की गूँज हमारे काने मे गूंजे और और हमें सत्य न मिले। आश्चर्य है की हम हरे भरे लहलहाते खेल खलिहानों को देखे और हमें ज्ञान न मिले। आश्चर्य है की पक्षियों की चहचहाहट हम सुने दे और हमें ज्ञान ने मिले। एक पत्ता काफ़ी हो सकता है सत्य को पाने के लिए। तुम एक पत्ते को सिर्फ़ एक पत्ता मत समझ लेना। उसमे सारा रहस्य छिपा है। वो पत्ता कहाँ से आया? अगर तुम उस पत्ते को भी पकर लो तो वो तुम्हे सत्य तक पहुँचा सकता है। पर इसके ज्ञान चाहिए। परिपक्वा चैतन्य चाहिए। जो बुद्ध के पास था। जो जीसस के पास था। हमारे पास नही है यह हमारी मान्यता है, सत्य नही है।

Newton's first law applied to karma

Newton's first law is highly philosophical. Newton's second law is mathematical. Third law is a fact. Newton's first law says if an object is moving, it will continue to move with same velocity in the same direction unless you exert an external force on it. One of the very fine observation Newton did. But, it can be also applied to our daily work with little bit of modification. Suppose you are doing some work. You are doing... That means it will complete surely. Since there is no external factor which can stop it. So whatever is happening that means it happened. It's negation is also true. Not happening means, it didn't happen. Happening means, it happened. Now lets take an example. Suppose I am filling a glass with water. Now when glass is being filled, how can I say that it is filled? It's being filled, but not yet filled. And if I stop the tap glass will be not filled. It appears to be contradicting but actually it's not the case. When the glass is being filled if you don't stop the tap it will fill always. In your mind you are thinking that I may stop the tap. That's the external force. If you exert external force it may not fill. But then reverse will be true. That is you never wanted the glass to fill and it didn't fill. In you mind u were saying will not fill, will not fill, will not fill...and it couldn't fill.So, it's same thing. Whether you want it to fill or not to fill. So, that's why I say - whatever is happening will happen. And since it will happen you can say it happened. So, if something is happening that means it happened. If a dried leaf is falling from the tree that means it fell. It is bound to fall. But an acute observer will treat it has already fallen. That is what happens with humanity. The death of one person represents the death of whole of the humanity. No body could survived everlasting. That is what happened with Buddha. He saw a dead body, he understood. He left. We don't understand anything. Our consciousness is not that ripe as Buddha, as Jesus. But it can be made so just by understanding Newton's law. We were taught Newton's laws several times. But no one taught us the deep meaning of Newton's first law. That's the reason I don't consider our education system as complete education system. We have been taught in a hurry. The teacher was always in hurry to finish the syllabus. Teach them less, but teach them better. Give them time to assimilate the things. Don't just ask them to memorize equations and vomit in exams. Then they will expore. Newton's law is not the final theory of the universe. They will develop more theory. I am in search of a unified general theory of physics which will describe the nature in every possible manner. Frm micro to marco. From low speed to high speed.

The flower and the stone

Which one is more beautiful - the flower or the stone? Flower has a life. Stone doesn't. Flower is beautiful stone is not so. However, stone is stronger than the flower. A wind can take away the flower but not the stone. So definitely, the stone is more stronger than flower. A stone can harm someone. It has no feeling. Flower will never cause any harm. On the contrary it will be the source of happiness, the source of liveliness. I will always suggest to become like flower. Because, the stone has no life whereas flower is full of life, full of beauty, full of fragrance. A stone has no fragrance. There is a hope in the flower. Stone has no hope. A flower has a chance to go to temple on the lord's feet. One someone's hair. There are infinite possibility for the flower. Stone however is dusty, jerky rutty etc.

The Philosophy of Love

Where are we drifting...? It is a journey without any destination. There appears to be no destination. Only journey exists. A travel... a march... a voyage. No voyage ever ended. If journey was started then it has to end. But it appears to be an eternal journey which will never end. If it had to ended then it would have ended. And since it didn't end that means it will never end. So much time has elapsed. Travel in time in the backward direction. Go back in the history. Infinite years of history exist behind us. And infinite years of future is ahead of us. And between this two extremal only present exists. Perhaps, the only thing which ever existed was this very present moment. Present is nothing but the transcended form of past and future. When both past and future are transcended, the present persists. We do so many things. So many things we did. For what? To attain the stability. The moment you do something, you essentially try to nullify the cause of that work. This is tricky. Extremely tricky. The very nature of any kind of work is to nullify it's existence. Because the very core of the existence is void. Therefore, all our activity drifts towards the nullification of the existence. Any task or work tries to nullify it's cause. So, the whole humanity, infact the whole universe drifts towards the void. We may not observe it casually. But when you think calmly you would see it. Let me put few examples to support this fact. When I eat, that means I am nullifying the cause which had forced me to eat. So, after I eat that cause doesn't exist anymore. That was the purpose of eating. By eating I simply nullified the cause which had forced me to eat. It universally applies everywhere. We read so that we don't have to read that again. And this process is done best by love. Because love is an expression of heart. Heart doesn't know any mathematics. Mind knows mathematics. Then it will start calculating. And moment you calculate you cannot nullify the cause. The easiest way to nullify the cause is to transcend it. And nothing can transcend better than love. Therefore love has to be transcendental. Only a pure transcendental love can nullify the cause of existence and merge with truth. Mind cannot transcend. Because, it will be trapped in calculations. So, your love should be of very high order. Like Romeo and Juliet.

The reason why most of love marriage breaks is the absence of pure love. Love marriage will blossom only when they have pure love. Love marriage is a beautiful thing. But make sure you love him/her like anything. You can cross all the boundaries for him/her. In order to get him/her you are ready to even die. That much degree of love is required. You should cross the mountains, rivers, desserts for her. The other parameter of love is the sacrifice with no expected returns. Love her unconditionally. However, it doesn't seem feasible in today's world where everybody knows the language of RoL. Lol.