Face

How often do you see your face?

Wrinkled and bony, but still

Why do you call it grace?  

Breed

Man is the only breed
In the universe
Who goes senile
In his wit, his wisdom,
His hair, his teeth,
Eyes and ears 
(Except his greed)
As time runs forward.
The only breed which breeds
On greed to reach his creed!

El Dorado

A place of great wealth and prosperity (but imagined) is El Dorado. Mind circles around the concept of El Dorado. It craves for prosperity even while howling in misfortunes. And it acts in repetitions; repeating the same disturbing dilemma you created.  Dilemma is that you crave for that which you know is not going to come your way ever.  Rich crave for peace amidst luxury and poor for richness amidst penury. Yet, ‘El Dorado’—the romanticizing idiot called mind invites.  

The deserting concept on which the term El Dorado is built is that it is just imaginary. It is nothing but a series of images which you could never make yourself. They are as faked as any other images; but appear to be so real that you may feel like owning them forever. It is like gathering the precious moments from the rolling coinage of time and keeping them solid and intact in your pocket. ‘El Dorado’ – the despotic mind still desires.

But El Dorado is unreal just like this world is unreal.  

    

Death, be the birth of life

Man’s life begins where it ends.

Before that it was just ticking of time; and he while trying to be an escapist from his own life begins to forecast his ‘virtual’ end. He was living a corpse’s life, always decayed in his mind and body. Always, he relayed his hopes on a ‘decent death’, some sort of a ‘peaceful death’ sans pain and suffering. 

In fact, death is life’s declaration of its fulfillment; a fulfillment which is an innate wish once a life sprouts in this universe.  Life has its depths on its death. Without a death to boast life is futile. Without a death to direct life cannot be introduced to the concept of ‘time’. Beauty of life lies on its mystic veils which hide death from birth.  Man’s life ends where it begins. Life has an end in birth.

Life is constrained in birth and liberated in death, say masters. 

That, You, I and Sky

Sky is nothing but a space for occupying things. 

There is universal sky as well as individual sky. The universal sky is the one that occupies everything in this universe. And the individual sky is one that occupies everything that comes under an individual’s universe. Naturally, it is limited as his/her sight, sound, space and time is limited. He or she could see only to that extent his/her eye sight can perceive things. He or she could hear only within the audible range. He or she moves around within the limited time and space. 

And, significantly, according to Vedanta there are, not one, but four different skies for an individual. They are ‘Bhutaakash’, ‘Chittaakash’, ‘Chidaakaash’ and ‘Mahaakash’. 

First one is the sky you could perceive when you are awake. Second one is that when you will be closing your eyes or in a mild sleep or in a dream. When you are awaken and active on daily routines you are seeing things different from when your eyelids are closed or if you are in a mild sleep or in a sweet or horror dream. As eyes opened you are seeing the objects of the earth. It is an earthly sight. But when you will be closing your eyes you are seeing the objects that are there in your mind’s sky. It is a mind-made or rather a dreamy sight. Both are inarguably different. 

Thirdly, there is a sky of which you are not aware and is something you are experiencing when you are in a deep sleep. During a deep sleep you are not aware of your physical body or mind or even about your existence. But when you open eyes after a deep sleep you may have or would have felt a ‘great’ feeling of rejuvenation or refreshment. This ‘bliss’ came from your consciousness’s direct contact with that ‘internal’ sky, which was unaffected by your body-mind-ego complex. Because during a deep sleep you are not thinking about your body, you are not infatuated about your mind and you are not at all egoistic. But since you are living even in your deep sleep your consciousness is intact and it is sucking the milk of rejuvenation from the ‘real’ sky of universality. Here the individual sky is meeting the universal sky, uninterrupted and undisturbed. 

And, of all the greatest, the fourth sky comes into being when an individual in a live (waken) state could perceive the universal sky. Alive state, dream state and deep sleep state are primary states of a being, but the fourth state during which you are both alive and having a ‘bliss’ that you experienced during the deep sleep is the real state of divine ecstasy or Samadhi.       

Be in bliss even when you are waken, say the Masters. 

Of cells…

Water we drink feeds the individual soul. Food we eat feeds the physical body. Where as the mind that we imagined feeds mind itself!

Primarily, our subsistence depend on these three types of cells derived out of water, food and mind. But, according to ‘Vedanta’, there are two more types of cells that are really indispensable and are present in humans. They are the cells derived out of knowledge and bliss. And, these two cells are undisputedly absent in animals.

Man is born inquisitive and is grasping knowledge along the way until he die a knowledgeable death. The cells of the knowledge guide him on each twists and turns. And all humans contain this group of cells in degree of their intelligence quotients.

But the supreme cells of bliss is only present in those who understood the life to its core. They are always blissful derived out of the awareness that nothing but only consciousness exists in the whole universe and everything else are its byproducts. And, like mind, the bliss cells are derived out of bliss itself. The only difference is that as mind cells multiply worries multiply where as when bliss cells multiply bliss multiply.

Consciousness is not a function of the brain but is self-functioning, say masters.

Aloofer

Furious mind, an aloofer, seldom travels to the transcendental depths of its own stratums. Since fury knows not the language of softness and conciseness. Its hotness is, in fact, blazing the softest threads of trans-phenomenon that stitches tight the layers of mind. 

Mind is an organ of possession composed of hallucinating layers and in between filled with the fluid of love and compassion. And a blazing mind is, alas, evaporating that fluid. 

Trans means across. Mind needs to Trans the mind itself. It needs to peel off the layers filled of imagination one by one and let the fluid of everlasting joy be filled intact. 

And for that the fury needs to be turned to merry. Merriness is that when mind finds out there is no mind to be heavily carried along the life’s journey as a furious aloofer.   

Be always joyful and teach mind the lessons of joy, say masters.  

Three questions

Always a stream of possession knocks at every mind to flow out as commands of possessiveness to gather all objects of mental pleasure from the external world. 

We need to question, first of all, the authoritative arguments of possession or ownership. Whether we have any right to demand an ownership of externalities? No. 

Secondly, we need to ponder over the question of ‘commanding’ and ‘possessing’. Whether we have any legal right to command an outsider or possess an external object? Discarding the dictatorial sense, the answer is ‘surely not’! 

Finally the question of seeking mental pleasure from an external source would need to be considered. Whether an outbound object is really capable of providing you of an everlasting comfort? It is idiotic to seek pleasure from a fleeting externality in whose changing phenomenon you don’t have a direct role. It changes according to its will and fancies, or faith and fate.      

But still man pins hope on others and variables. 

An absurd view

Writers say life is absurd, for it possesses a symptom of hide-and-seek. Vedanta, relying on its scientific reasons, says life is real for those who think it is real and unreal for those who think it is unreal. In fact, absurdity is a crux of real and unreal. We are unable to wholeheartedly distinguish whether life is real or unreal, thus it becomes absurd. 

Vedanta says further ‘mind is the hindrance’.  Mind acts like a mirror of what our inner self imagine. It reflects out our inner perceptions about life and tries to imprint meanings on external objects in accordance with our self-beliefs. If we are inwardly hypersensitive our externalities will be of hypersensitivity.  If we are emotional we will add that emotional element to every relationship we had and have. It means that our output is in tune with our inner voice. Mind is the origin of doers of all deeds. And as far as mind is active it will continue to fluctuate from real (truth) and unreal (imagination) making the life so called ‘absurdity’.   

Without mind who is living and who is dead? Say Masters.  

Uncertainties

The master says believe in your uncertainties, because the only certainty is that uncertainty.

Life is a flux, a duo flux of hope and despair. The hope becomes an apparent certainty when you will be presented with fortunes and then it turns into an apparent certainty of despair when you will be confronted with misfortunes. When despair arises the hope becomes uncertain. And when hope encircles you the despair vanishes into uncertainty.

Certainty is an ‘El Dorado’ in-between two uncertainties.  

The master is stressing the verb ‘believe’ rather than the uncertain noun ‘certainty’. Believing is the basis of the entire existence. Our lives proceed in beliefs of this fleeting world. We build the nest of stability on the tides of the oceanic time by squeezing the vigor of trust from the process of mental believes. Our beliefs give the strength of stability in this unstable world.

Believing in uncertainty means becoming realistic of what the entire phenomenon of life is all about.