Shree: Focus

 

Shree: Focus

The mobile device has many applications. The applications that you do not need are required to be deleted, so you remain focused on selected applications. Focus therefore has two components – selection of one object and discarding the rest.

In the same way, the mind may be considered as a set of variables (applications) – identify with one variable – it will open up a world of its own and take you to other variables and the cycle keeps on continuing. This is fluidity of thought – changeability; interdependence; vibrations. Overall, this distracts us from appropriate living that makes us realize Godliness in ourselves.

The efficiency of the mind can be increased by concentrating or focusing on only the main variables and discarding the rest. The next step is to focus on just one variable and keep on doing it till the variable itself dissolves. This is called as stillness of vibrations and realizing God.

Why is this important? Variables mean change and our identification with mind and body. Secondly variables induce fear and separation. We do not seem to think straight and simple. We hide behind ego and we defend and evaluate everything. We run from ourselves or from vibrations. All this is detrimental. We may not know what is right for us unless we start to focus on God.

God and divinity is always there even if we do not know it or cannot sense it – since God is beyond all senses or visible manifestation or movement. In order that we sense God’s presence, we should become the One. This is philosophy.

In our daily basis we ought to hear, only listen and observe. This approach is different from intellect. Listening, observing, empathy, love and stillness are number one qualities in modern life. This approach of values is far beyond forms and forces and perhaps even vibrations. Many times in the thick of things and change and planning and ego, we do not even acknowledge time or space or people or situations with all their vibrations – be they pain or messiness or chaos or happiness. That is not done.

We should develop the ability of becoming calm and taking everything as it comes. Things create; things happen; things come and go and we should remain still. We are not any of this noise. What we are; we are. What we have; we have. What will come, will go. What happens; happens. What changes, would change.

There is not a moment where existence is not there. It is there in the form of motion or non motion. Perhaps it is not even a matter of “or” – but a matter of focus; a matter of being.

Hari Om.