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.