Shree: Inward Journey

 

170422: Shree

Sometimes I think why should I be engaged in philosophical discourse and reading and writing and acting accordingly – does it have a direct connect and so on. And why do I doubt things? What is a doubt? The answer takes time to be realized. It is a matter of trust – to acknowledge the presence of consciousness; to know what are we dealing with as a construct of reality and what is the idea of control and what seem to be vibrations, invisible existence and visible + changing existence and why are we so attached to visible manifestation? To involve oneself in such questions is to directly alter states of existences, despite whatever the urges or compulsions. In fact one of the output of philosophical experience is to loosen the grip (and hypnotism) of manifestation or imagination that is self created.

We generally wait to know the external data (a situation) to conceive a response. It is a top to down approach and an assumption that unless the entire situation is not known, the proposed response may not be accurate or perfect enough. Thus the definition of perfection depends on knowing all variables of the situation and then predicting the output of a response on these variables. This is a disastrous situation created by the mind, since manifestation is all interconnected and has no beginning and end – but a continuous cycles of causes and effects.

How can the mind (which is changing because of vibrations) know a changing situation to envision a response that is supposed to be static? And how can one expect situation to be known and why should our worth be dependent on this knowing? I may or may not a situation – I would always know a part of the truth – which is imagined. And I am also an incomplete being. So why be bothered about it? The assumption itself has severe limitations. It is as if saying that a child should cry or laugh at 9:05 am then take 10 steps for 5 minutes, then open a green book on page 11 and read 5 sentences, then eat an egg in 3 minutes, then sip water and then cry for 10 minutes and so on. Or to say that a tree should only grow 10 m tall and bend at 3 degrees and give 100 fruits in one year by consuming 100 gallons of water. This is how our behavior is towards existence – filled with expectations, predictions, evaluations, judgments and always engrossed in solving the riddle.

Madness to live in such a way, to keep running and to be so fast that one does not really know the signpost or the intent behind anything. There is no external solution to quieting the mind - if at all; the multitasking myth has made it more worse.

The approach is to go inward and let go off the pull of the senses or the compulsion of manifestation. One still exists despite letting go off our mind or vibrations. This is 100 percent true. And by letting go off vibrations what is realized is consciousness beyond all manifestations.

An inward approach can start from anything in any space and in any time and age. This means that the inward journey is one’s undertaking and is not related to external urges. Secondly, there is recognition of an internal world that takes one to consciousness – the outer form is manifestation. Since it does not depend on space and time, there need not be any reference of outside or a physical space and time structure – but of eternal forces of creations and what these mean. Hence the start of this journey is based on a decision or a tendency (and NOT by considering existing external situation). This maybe a grounded approach or a bottom to top approach. While starting from the bottom, the perception is different than the perception as it materializes on the top.

Perhaps therefore, there is a certain mystery to what poems, novels, music, art make you feel – they take you back into an inward journey. Similarly can be the impact of architecture, why not?

Hari Om.