Friday, March 20, 2009
Taking the lonely road…
Every time I travel the spirit of freedom is soaring. A feeling of total abandonment and free will. No questions asked, no answers to give. Alone on a lonely road but not lonely. These break free trips and nature trails have always brought me back to life. It is a feeling of being one among so many and the littleness of the ‘self’ that is so humbling. This realization of my little self is what keeps me going. The reality that life is just a flicker and it is up to me to make it the way I want to. As much as it is liberating, the feeling is empowering as well. I want to wander away into the vastness of nature and find my self, want to lose myself, because in this losing is my finding. Or is there a finding at all? Finding myself for me is not an end, it is a constant journey. In the inevitability of living it’s easy and comfortable to get stuck and sucked into the everyday mindless routine. This ordered living can be so overpowering that people can lose the ability to think beyond food, house, children, money and a living. Living versus existing. Working for a living but barely existing!
Friday, March 6, 2009
the SELF....
That there is a correspondence between a person's spiritual nature and its manifestation in his deportment is a law of nature. The level of one's spiritual evolution can be gauged from how one responds to nature. One can observe that the inspiration one gets from nature is proportional to one's spiritual level.
The spiritually inclined are moved by nature and derive inspiration from which the layman will dismiss as ordinary and will require miracles to prove to him of the existence of a subtler spiritual realm.
It's necessary to question why we need tangible evidence for a supreme principle behind all the phenomena we see. Can't one see this in the functioning of one's own body, over which one does not have any control? isn't awareness of this not enough to become truly spiritual?
It's true and unfortunate that an average person has stopped thinking and just follows the crowd and thereby acts mechanically. Beyond the human personality comprising body, mind and the intellect is the essential 'I', the SELF. The sense of 'I' is there right from childhood to old age but the real 'I' is missed because one does not pause to think and question. It is essential therefore to ask, "Who am I?" This will lead one beyond body, mind and the intellect which is constantly changing, to the 'I' which is constant, the SELF within.
The spiritually inclined are moved by nature and derive inspiration from which the layman will dismiss as ordinary and will require miracles to prove to him of the existence of a subtler spiritual realm.
It's necessary to question why we need tangible evidence for a supreme principle behind all the phenomena we see. Can't one see this in the functioning of one's own body, over which one does not have any control? isn't awareness of this not enough to become truly spiritual?
It's true and unfortunate that an average person has stopped thinking and just follows the crowd and thereby acts mechanically. Beyond the human personality comprising body, mind and the intellect is the essential 'I', the SELF. The sense of 'I' is there right from childhood to old age but the real 'I' is missed because one does not pause to think and question. It is essential therefore to ask, "Who am I?" This will lead one beyond body, mind and the intellect which is constantly changing, to the 'I' which is constant, the SELF within.
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