what is motion?

 

Motion can be understood as a circle, in a symbolic sense. There is no start point or end point to the circle – every point looks just the same and every point leads you to all other points, which are more or less the same as any other point! SO I am no better or worse than anything else that I see or perceive – these are little variations in the grand spectrum of manifestations. This continuous imagination of going to an “end point” where the riddle is to be solved finally or to the “start point” which defines the present state of affairs, is an illusion. If one is not happy with this symbolic term as illusion (since it denotes something as false – and by effect ‘we’ become false too!), then one can choose to replace the same word with ‘desire’. If desire is to be seen from a detached perspective, then one can label it as ‘force’. Thus, the feeling of the circle (unending rounds of thoughts and actions) is created by the impetus to generate thoughts – desire.

Desire or motion or vibration has certain fundamental characteristics – collectively called manifestation. WE don’t know where it begins and where it will end. So we don’t know the origin of any space-time coordinates. It is continuously in motion (change) so we can’t control it’s motion. There is not a single point in space-time that can ever evaluate us or describe us completely or can lead to a perfect judgement about anybody. Thus, what we carry are just impressions of situations that we ourselves have imagined no matter how much awesome or pathetic they may feel to us. Every point, since it changes, is not independent in itself – but also transforms to any other point in space-time. So I can become anybody else – a scoundrel or a Saint. So a point has a potential to be anything in the future, depending on one’s actions or perceptions. I am as much evil as I am good at a given moment. Points appear different if looked at from one of the chosen points. WE are a point in manifestation (human being); HENCE we perceive other forms in peculiar or particular ways. All points exist and by making more of one set of points, the other set of points also gets created automatically. In a nutshell, good and evil exist at the same time and no amount of adding good wipes out evil – in fact it adds more to the evil side too. This will make us realize that good and evil are just two different perspectives and both cause motion. All good will stop the motion all together and the manifestation will be destroyed. The world of motion exists because of this lost equilibrium – one point trying to outwit the other or compete with the other and sometimes the tide favours some of the points, whereas at other times it favours something else. What we believe once may change later and what may have been good before may be unfit to continue later.

All above points mean perception of manifestation. To control manifestation, therefore, is a terribly limited scope – or perhaps we need to change our understanding of what we intend to do about this motion? If we think that we are ‘somebody’ then we can’t differentiate us from manifestation and we are pulled within it – running all the way to catch security or become less fearful but fail many a times. The motion that is also a part of our mind is desire. This creates the apparent presence of ‘many’ (situations or objects or people or life forms) and we respond to these life forms thinking that our life depends on this! If we continue with this assumption, then there is no rest or peace.

Then what gives rest to motion? The dissolving of the motion gives a feeling of rest. This means transforming our mind to see vibrations and a state of consciousness. This is done by withdrawal of the mind from external pull or to direct desires (or burn them) by focussing on Consciousness.

Remember that we have been living in an illusion of body and mind and covering ourselves with some characteristics of nature. This cover needs to be broken, desire needs to be burnt and becoming Consciousness needs to happen. Then one will realize that Consciousness and ‘me’ were not different at all. I was the lower shadow of Consciousness.

Although we get so much entangled in worldly pursuits, remembering the motto of life is important – that we don’t control anything. Whatever it is, is a result of Consciousness. So no credit is ours. One may get situations at some intervals, asking “why” about the same has limited sense. We may plan things, but they need to be planned and executed keeping God at the centre of everything.