Lockdown and 'Us'

A lot is being said about current Lockdown. I would refrain myself from talking about details. However, there’s one area that needs to be touched upon – which is the psychological space.

I think that the :Lockdown has forced us to consider – the turmoil that happens in our minds and the compulsion to react to the internal turmoil. It is of course difficult to separate our sense of wellbeing with the turmoil that seems to have gripped everyone, but that’s the point we need to learn.

The question is – why is the turmoil getting created in us and why are we letting circumstances affect our inner peace? A related question is therefore, what is peace and how is it attained and how are current circumstances not letting us experience this peaceful state of mind? These are complex questions, however, it is a must to entertain them or allow themselves to seep in deeply in our consciousness.

I am not offering you any answers, as I am also on a path of self exploration. In fact no one answers anything in life! However, we have a hint from the seers who have said something about the experience of super consciousness or the state of mind that is beyond physical space and tangible time. This state is state is present in each of us, in every scale of existence from the atom to cosmos. This physical state of space/void – force – object and the feeling of consciousness – force/ thoughts – body is again present everywhere.

From space or consciousness, everything manifests – be it some kind of force and then an object. The nature of force will decide the characteristics of the object and if it can sustain creation or if it needs to be dissolved. Creating or dissolving something is an act of Force, which itself requires ‘space’ to exist. Other word for Force may be called as ‘tendency’ (to manifest) and whatever we try to do, this tendency cannot be stopped – it is the urge of creation!

What we identify with our ‘ego’ or ‘mind’ and the power of intellect and feelings and all sorts of thoughts that come along with it – is a Force. Mind compels us to act and the signals of perception and conception contribute to it. This means that the bottom line is what do you choose to think? How should you think? These questions will transform the nature for Force for you – it will transform the imagination of life that you create for yourself. Effectively, the tendency to attach oneself or identify with our thoughts and environment needs evolution/ transformation.

Who is this ‘you’ that one is talking about? And should you really run from post to post to solve the situation or rectify anything? Is there a problem, in the first place? So, what are our tendencies that we seem to generate perpetually? Do these tendencies require any control of the environment? And even if the environment is controlled, will it control the tendencies?

These require constant monitoring and practice. The problem or the challenge is to consider everything as having an effect on you and this entire construct of ‘you’ and therefore everything else. This exercise keeps on going. Actually, probably we haven’t understood ourselves completely as phenomenon of the world. We are a phenomenon – just as a plant or a stone, except we may have different tendencies. However, we are expressed as phenomenon. Any phenomenon starts with space, has a force and projects as an object…and it keeps changing. We exist in thoughts/ mind. So, we can modify ourselves and we can also get a touch of super conscious state.

All ideas of incompleteness, anchoring, fragmentation, comprehensiveness, compulsions of any kind, desires, anxieties, turmoil – mean the same – Force. We are dealing with Force. Let’s not forget that. And let us then, work our way to compassion and nourishment.