Shree: Do

 

011122: Shree: Do

work, act and exist. this is the only reality. all things of isness, vibrations, thoughts and actions or forms are real. we have the capacity to make anything real since it is a property of existence. we call it "Darshan" in marathi. everything is Darshan and the cause of Darshan is the One absolute unconditional existence. existence has all these properties - of motion and non motion. it can be "felt" as motion or as non motion. existence is already there. and what we imagine is an indication of that reality, else we would not have thought neither have been present.

there is no need to worry since all is again, a darshan - we invite such tendencies and create such situations. these change of course, since our invitation has not become steady at the moment. so the centre is always there - the movement is only apparent.

to become the centre, we need to trust, take efforts, be patient, endure, practice, be persistent and not be afraid and at times just do unconditional work or action. people say things but they need not be taken personally at all. there is nothing personal in motion - we have made it personal, so it exists - else it is not there. i attract certain vibrations and hence relationships, change, nature, tendencies are felt or are made visible. look inward. and trust.

Hari Om.

Shree: Spiritual quest

 

 

281022: Shree: Spiritual quest

In continuation of last article, the cycle of action that we usually generate rests on ego-expectations and our belief in a separate identity that has got nothing to do with consciousness or universal connect or empathy or feelings. If one looks at history of “progress” (seen materialistically - which is a problem) there is one inquiry that a human being has tried to address – who am I?

As long as we do not realize that our core is consciousness, we cannot understand desires or vibrations and these continue to generate actions from us. From this position, our actions stem from defending the ego and control over changing scenarios with which we have identified. Hence action for us involves some purpose; some conditions; some expectations; some perception of changing situations and so on. This creates its own cycle of engagement and we continue to try hard for gaining some peace but it evades us – all because of misplaced assumptions. Then we “invent” systems, organize things, micro plan many things, discover countless variables, sequence them, manage them, coordinate them, multitask things, and hasten the pace and what not!

I hope we realize and face the courage to undertake the path of undoing all the damage we have inflicted upon us. It is an internal transformation that is important to happen, not what happens externally – since external reality is a reflection of internal state of existence or vibrations.

Is life a materialistic or egoistic question or is it a spiritual one? This is for us to realize.

Hari Om.

Shree: Mindscapes

 

221022: Shree: Mindscapes

Happy Diwali to You Shree!

Today morning I was talking with aai and following things were discussed

Approaches of philosophy, psychology, phenomenology and modern studies differ about what can be accepted, what is acceptance, diversity, empathy and wholesomeness.

Modern attitude very severely wants to find variables in the equation, form relationships of interdependence and seek control - it is unable to accept change so readily and goes after constructing ideas of perfection, security, and control. It wants no change since change is seen as a problem (and that means “we” too become a problem of tendencies or feelings, or thoughts or body- everything becomes a liability of sorts!). So any change of situation or people or age, or gender or relationship is a problem to be solved – let us fix it! Why has this approach become so ingrained in our mind? Why are we running and quickening and shortening time and perfecting something and multitasking things?

Other fields tell us that all the variety of life is our own making and is a part of the whole truth. We are as much present in the young kid (since we too were kids some time) and we are as much in the elders since we too will grow old. Kids or elders are a relative term seen from the present perspective of our age and gender and they exhibit a kind of a tendency that expresses that age and gender. Why be bothered? Developed societies consider elders as a liability (what else can they do anyway), and that means all human beings or life forms are reduced to some mechanical numbers meant to produce some worthwhile product for economics’ benefit. And this stance says a lot about attitudes of the mind and how it sees the environment or the idea of existence. I can say the same thing of any other colour or a form or climate or culture or history where there is classification, evaluation, judgment and an equation or preference and rejection and what or how it leads one to some constructed idea of super security or super perfection.

Other fields say that tendencies are natural and they lead to so many natural diversities that judging them is equivalent to judging yourself or judging manifestation or motion. Hence all are equal (divine in fact) and there is no such thing as indigenous verses urbanite and so on or preindustrial verses post industrial and so on. This comparison assumes that 10 parameters from time  zone x plus 15 parameters from time zone y and other 18 parameters from time zone z will create a perfect scenario for us.

The point is plucking something from any other time zone is not possible since everything is a wholesome affair and hence summation of all preferred parameters (seen from a distorted perception of present) does not lead anywhere or leads to disappointment to say the least.

Delight or peace is a matter of rediscovery in every context and not of repeating some tested method or a product or a process.

Finally modern attitudes can only catch hold of the visible reality for evaluation and planning. There are other faculty dimensions that acknowledge and have felt the invisible and which inform the visible world but cannot be controlled so they only require acceptance. When can modern mind learn this or am I expecting too much in this question?!

Hari Om.

Shree: perception

 

Shree: perception

the problem with perception is our tendency to cling to what vibrations or motion or mind or body says to us or informs our perception of existence. yes it is existence and it is a default "already" mode of being. the ego distorts our understanding by creating noise of motion which we think is the only changing reality. reality is perceived and by that way i am saying that it changes, it is fluid, is interdependent and is constructed. all this summarily means that it is only the One medium seen as "many" forms or forces on account of a state of existence.

give everything to the Lord - return it and become empty of any tendency. as existence, what "remains" after giving everything - is God Himself, so why worry? why cling, why attach, why worry, why expect, why plan and why the hell compartmentalize anything? do you not trust Him, who is the basis of all creation and even you? trust means realizing the role of Being without any conditions or formations or motions or manifestations. Shree only is.

one may analyze - say the idea of compartments (or the construct of compartments). compartment is a comparative term constructed by ego and compared, evaluated, debated based on our identification with vibrations or our mind and body. by being engaged in "maintaining any compartments" and how they respond or relate to the notion of me and other, we still remain engaged and hyper and anxious about ever evolving changes. we may choose to dismiss anything - but that  too is a relative response and that too leads to compartments. we may do anything as an act, but as long as it is coming from a position of individual existence, we are still endorsing separation and fear. is this required?

thus, it becomes important to dilute vibrations and make then steady in an experience which transcends everything. we should transcend ourselves as vibrations and hence give "everything" of us to the Lord. by doing this, we do not die at all - but become eternal and the One! hence the word purpose has limitations since it comes from individual perception of the mind. we know about transcendence but it comes from grace or trust - something beyond our own strengths or our own perceptions.

we wish to be prepared. against what i do not know and that too against whom and where and when and why. this constant defense exhausts us and changes are something that happen  - as an aspect of temporariness and that conveys nothing about staticness or any need to do anything. yet we keep engaging and expecting some control and generate some worry and some fear. this may be inevitable. it is also inevitable that we are floored by our own perceptions and wrap us in a cocoon of defense and make it so tight that we do not hear or listen anything different. we harbour and hold on and even accentuate our tendencies and that is what is exactly to be given or even surrendered or sacrificed.

Hari Om.

Shree: On architecture

 

Shree: On architecture

Shree, I was reading an article on authenticity or the feeling of being authentic. the search for this inquiry itself indicates a disconnect with the process of making and conceiving existence. and this has happened by a variety of reasons - from pace of time to processes of doing, industrialization, modernism and so on. each movement seems to have fractured us more in the mindscape and the communication itself has become complex enough to initiate any action. well, the truth is that thought, communication and action should be aligned towards a common goal of delight and existence. and even if this goal is stated, any action seems like a patch work of recreating a lost meaning or a lost experience. past is past and this means that the present has its specific issues which cannot be addressed by "copying" any product or process of the past since the conception, process and product are closely linked to one another and is highly contextual in terms of space and time. we may duplicate a product but that does not ensure duplication of feelings.  as much as we experience disconnect - our products also come from that stand point. philosophically therefore it is said that vibrations make a reality and not the other way round. so if vibrations change, perceptions change, meanings change and therefore responses and space-time-architecture changes. all architecture or anything of manifestation is a product of existence or of the mindscape.

therefore the inquiry is what sort of mindscape may become beneficial or appropriate to be considered? the answer is not static again as a product. the answer needs discovery of values. values again is a loaded term and probably at a fundamental core, value may mean universality; connect; empathy; love; longer good and somewhere in between those lines. what we say too, we generate a value. we are always doing it.

and therefore, formal approach to architecture (and being deterministic) does not work and even damages the environment. one visualizes architecture through forms, but i would consider visualizing values or experiences and how they lead to an idea of movement in space and time and therefore architecture subsequently that play out this visualization. when people say and talk and instantaneously conceive some sort of a space or a box or double heights or steps or anything, i am almost taken aback since it bespeaks the superficial manner in which designers seem to assume certain effects of their compositions on human behaviour. is human behaviour so predictable by formal analysis and its conceptions? or how does this process actually take place? do scale and proportion have static spatial identities or are they constructed notions in the mind and hence relative? is space geometrical out there or is it experiential in the mind - the region where it first gets constructed?

if i ask this question very sincerely to me, then i realize that the entire mindscape of existence comes into play to decide on an experience (fundamentally existing at the subconscious layers of mankind) and the design may begin to respond to these tendencies - then i see movement happening and then forms. it is a difficult process but it leads perhaps to a fresh manifestation and not a dated one or a copied one. and if this process were to be followed, then how should the other even evaluate it? then the question is - should this process even be evaluated?!

Hari Om.

Becoming

 

181022: Shree: Becoming

worry is unnecessary and depends on visible state of existence. things appear to change; we identify with the change; we change as vibrations; we expect defense and control; we therefore worry. by identifying with variables and their relationships and complexities - that further increases expectations on controlling those and with it also a realization that things are out of control anyway! so what are we actually doing and where ought to our energies be focused?

is it also a matter of question? question is a human tendency so it will be created of course and the search for an answer is also inevitable. searching is becoming the answer and when one knows the answer it is in the act of realization; not of expression by words.

Hari Om.

Shree: Seed

 

171022: Shree: Seed

Every day we feel different and that is ok. Comparison with other tendencies is not required since any tendency or any point in motion remains changing or incomplete. In what manner has a person arrived at a particular point need not be debated or even argued, since it is essentially unique to that person and incomplete as well and distorted by you. By incomplete we mean that it changes; it is never the same and it only gives a part of the story and hence cannot be relied on and gives a feeling of impermanence. To exist and think in this state means to encounter this feeling. The feeling of change is very deep  rooted starting from vibrations (as desires or potentials) and leading all the way to forces and then forms- all of these are states of existence and what we “see” out there includes perception and response (and therefore the meaning or constructs of it).

How things happen is a mystery no matter what one perceives. We should only thank the Potential that does this – we have no independent say in this. Existence is One (in absolute terms) or many, but highly interdependent. It is the same medium. Hence one is never separate from anything and one’s actions have repercussions right up to cosmic level. Thus what we think, how we think has effects. Philosophically, the nature of comparison or planning says a lot about the nature of vibrations that create situations for us. We keep on comparing and planning because the “seed” of desires exist in our minds. If this seed is replaced by the “seed” of God, then we would become the One.

Hari Om.

Shree: Giving

 

161022: Shree: Giving

I think existence is about understanding the mindscape. This brings several issues at hand from linear to organic perspectives; intellectual to feelings; thoughts to actions; historical to contemporary to futuristic; collective to the individual; fragmented to wholesomeness; go getter to transcendental.

This discussion becomes valid on account of what we are as human beings or what we become as existence. Thus we see people with all tendencies, different priorities; different attitudes responding to situations that we then decide to engage with.

Existence is the same for all and it has come from the same divine, invisible, infinite source. Variety breeds conditions; makes us perceive motion and situations; makes us compelled to define control; makes us go after things; makes us loud and fragmented in our energies. This is a state of existence –one may become aware perhaps eventually; one may decide to do something about it; one may develop perseverance to become steady; one may become the One.

We cannot avoid what is in store for us and what changes we have to encounter. The question is not even about avoidance or of perfect play – it is more a matter of acceptance and being unconditional and realizing that all is coming from Divine presence. It is only about giving love unconditionally.

Hari Om.

Shree: Difference

 

151022: Shree: Difference

There is a very strong connection between invisible One and the visible many- states of perceptions. The difference in states causes electricity to be created and to flow from one point within the conduit to light a bulb. The bulb is the visible object; the electric current is the force and positive and negative poles are states of vibrations that create this force. The intensity of flow and light emitted depends on the difference between the poles/ states. Hence as the difference nullifies, so does the current and so does the light. Therefore all motion that we experience and perceive (being born is also one of them) is a result of the difference in the states of existences - the Absolute and the relative. Is the bulb a reality or is electricity the cause or is it the difference that creates the current? The bulb comes into the picture to receive the current which is created by difference in states. As a sequence, all is interrelated and it is a mistake to think that the bulb (the manifestation of form) is the only reality. What reality we “see” is only the outermost part of existence and hence it represents a form of existence (visible). By seeing this form, can we become aware of the Invisible dimension of Being?

In other words we are extremely “hard wired” to manifestation and under a very powerful outward generating force. Why such a phenomenon? We do not know but asking this question takes us closer to the One.

Being hard wired also means to cling fiercely to some construct or a situation or a person or a context or “something” that seems to define and condition our perception. Some people keep on talking about the same subject even if it becomes detrimental to continue to cling on. And why criticize them? We do the same thing! We are so hard wired to conditioned egoistical thinking that we take on several lives without even realizing what the problem is! So it takes effort to loosen the hold of motion on us or of any perception or of any thought or of any change. This means to minimize the gap between God and me and to eventually dissolve myself.

Hari Om.

Shree: God and me

 

151022: Shree: God and me

God and human perception are states of existence - one is Absolute and Infinite and Blissful and unconditional and the other is changing, relative, separate, conditional.

One does not fear anything and does not change and does not vibrate or manifest into a force or a form – the other does exactly the opposite.

One is non judgmental and full of love whereas the other is in doubt, assertive or aggressive or defensive and always in the mode of planning.

One does not expect anything, the other expects everything.

One is complete whereas the other senses incompleteness and harbors to become complete.

Although above observations can be said in comparative modes, they are also about becoming and dissolving these apparent differences. Separateness of any kind (born from the force of perception or vibration) is an illusion. Things are NOT separate as distinct forms. They are only perceived to be so (as a dream).

Then the inquiry turns towards answering what seems absolute or permanent? The answer is - That which manifests always changes. That which is seen as space and time always changes. That which becomes visible or tangible always remains temporary. That which manifests is always perceived as many and separated.

That which does none of the above – becomes permanent and intangible and invisible to the senses and becomes the One.

At our level of perception, training of mind is required. I am not the doer and I am not the perceiver. I am nothing. I do not know anything. I am none of the conditions compelling me to respond. I need not say anything neither do anything nor justify anything. My existence is not subjected to motion. Motion means conditions and expectations and to dissolve this means to flow against the apparent tide. Words are a way of releasing stress and sometimes also to cling to some vibration. When vibration dies away, there is no need to say anything. By vibrations, we perceive signals and respond in that manner.

It is not the situation that is real; it is our vibrations that construct a reality of people and relationships.

Hari Om.

 

Shree: to exist

 

131022: Shree: to exist

variables in consciousness do not change. consciousness means no change and change or dependence or many or incompleteness is a feeling of motion. we have become so and hence we see forms or a state of existence called "forms".

change is inevitable and this will happen - situations, vibrations, desires, relationships, people, response, perception and so on. be aware of this nature of change. we need not take things personally and neither control it. despite being aware, we still need to trust all events which happen beyond our understanding and what only exists is the One seen in different states by 'us' as vibrations.

effort is there, acceptance is there, love is there and transcendence is there. this is the process that none can avoid. we can consider our human birth as a gift since we have the capacity to become. we can also consider  ourselves as tendencies as gifts and hence we see the world in unique ways. seeing means to exist and is not just a function of the eyes. we exist. seeing means to see, to be informed by body, by mind, to senses and all aspects of existence. we see visible forms as a thin spec of reality and there are so many other layers to feel.

and hence all is a construct of perception and we have the potential to feel things wholly. now the assumption is that unless this understanding of wholeness is  there, decision of synthesis cannot happen effectively. yes and no. the decision need not stop but one knows that there is always a potential of improvement.

Hari Om.

Shree: Delight and Being

 

Shree: Delight and Being

quantum does not indicate the effect or importance or impact of quality. i sometimes feel that scale, proportions are as much about feelings as they are about physical measures. or perhaps measurement means the nature of perception and hence depending on the nature of perception, the measurement or ideas of scale and proportion (nearness or farness) change or are expressed. therefore even if things are sequenced rationally and linearly, they are interpreted or perceived in different ways by the mind. the same approach or system may not work if thought from feelings. hence fast or slow become relative terms and not solely dependent on logical analysis. this subjectivity of existence is to be acknowledged. Doing things fast may mean slow from perspective of feelings and doing things slow may involve intense feelings - so there is no direct connect from logical perspective.

what one therefore is asking here is empathy for diversity and acceptance of the same and heightened tolerance.

this separation of quantum from quality is seen in thoughts, feelings, actions, relationships, situations and so on. my guess is that heightened need for logical or rational processes may lead to heightened need for privacy and more anxiety perhaps. individualism is a logical idea and more this spirit is endorsed, more is the separation of self required.

when one talks about being slow, be non judgmental, feel - one is indicating a return to qualitative aspects of existence.

and therefore, modern idea of life has endorsed logical or rational attitudes at the cost of qualitative and compassionate tendencies. i become too deterministic, too self absorbed, too  isolated, too much individually driven, too much demanding and competing at the cost of every human feelings i can also express. this is a problem. in developed nations, people assume that they are required to be in complete control of every damn thing of life including their minds, but explicitness does not guarantee steadiness and health of feelings, which nevertheless informs our perception. why can't we acknowledge this? hence systems and tasks and productions do not necessarily assure a good healthy mind and body. guilt and shame are indicators that logical mind does not have answers to many fundamental issues and these feelings are also important to be vented and not suppressed under the carpet.

there is also a problem of assuming that we can solve all issues no matter how grave they might look to us. issues of existence, tendencies, vibrations, empathy, intangibleness are beyond logical explanations. consider meaning of existence. why things happen in what ways and where and when and how are things - one cannot explain and one has to only accept and trust. Silence is required and it is not necessary to fill everything with noise or words or explanations. it is not even a matter of comparison or taking positions. it is not even a matter of coming to a conclusion and working your way through it. i exist and i will vibrate and be in motion. this means perception and forms and change and interdependence. it also means incompleteness and potential of becoming. so it is ok to feel all this change and it is actually natural to feel so.

Existence is about delight and being. And for this, any path, any pace, any work, any thought, any action, any situation is accepted since delight and pure being do not depend on situations (or can still be found underneath anything).

Hari Om.

Shree: Inspiration

 

121022: Shree: Inspiration

thinking of God is a way of becoming the One and changing our perception to blissful state or silence. we think because we are in motion. all we see is perception or the making of something from vibrations that change, have temporary value, remain interdependent and compel us to respond or act. we are full of knowledge, which we haven't realized. for us, knowledge seems to take place in motion and the purpose of this knowledge seems to do summation of discrete parts till the whole picture is realized. this process will not end and give any satisfaction since variables are created and keep changing, so the parts also keep changing since our perception changes them - like the cat shown in quantum mechanics!

now the inquiry therefore becomes who are we; what is existence and how can we become blissful?

this inquiry is independent of motion and since it is independent, it will reveal this answer by becoming the One.

in the world of motion, it seems that perception and response happens in three ways - linear (logical and by connecting the dots - prediction); lateral or organic (feelings and other non logical dimensions) and inspiration (transcendence). we use all the three mediums and i would put culture, history, psychology, art, phenomenology more in lateral fields and philosophy in transcendental science.

inspiration and to experience delight is the fundamental core of life - then comes the mood or feelings and then comes the intellect or logic. however we may reframe to indicate certain hierarchy in this structure since we are desperate to apply any indicated sequence to reach transcendental level. inspiration means efforts taken unconditionally, realizing presence of divinity and silence and patience.

one ought not to forget this.

Hari Om.

Shree: matter of life and death

 

111022: Shree: matter of life and death

one is about how things are perceived. perception starts from vibrations and then thoughts and then forms. all these contribute into perception. there is no separation - it is just one medium seen as many - this is the effect of perception on us - that we think we are different and there are many forms that one is required to manage or deal with. then there is an issue of change, its rate, interdependence and variables and control - summarily our illusion of ego. ego itself can be regarded as an illusion. that being said, it is about trying and learning and not of taking any guilt by this illusion. the point is are we answerable to illusion and should we take self blame for being in illusion? i do not think our worth should be linked for an answer to this question. i am in illusion or i am illusion or i am perceiving or simply i perceive life and death and it is affecting my thoughts. accept this phenomenon as it is. by accepting one can then analyse and hope to detach from this effect and change this effect to going beyond or becoming the One.

i think it is very hard for us to come out of the trap of responsibility and response or action. give everything to God. make God as the focus and make Him the essence of everything. this again is an attempt - one has to trust the ability of transforming. we are already in a state of existence called as mind and body - which is what we are focusing on - so we have already become this state!

the inquiry is - do we wish to change this nature of state to tranquility or non conditional idea or of Silence or of the One? can this question be made the focus, irrespective of anything that apparently befalls us time and again? is it really a matter of conditions? is it really a matter of response? is it really a matter of space and time and change? is it really a matter of life and death?

Hari Om.

Shree: philosophy

 

101022: Shree: philosophy

God and me are one and the same - i have forgotten this connection or relationship. God is there in absolute sense and thus i exist, else i am nonexistent and notional. the effort is to minimize this gap - and this can only happen if i let go off myself (or my ego or my attachment or clinging or identification with motion or vibrations or perceptions or differentiation). letting of everything and only to exist unconditionally is the feeling of God or the Absolute or the One or Silence.

in our daily living, we exist or vibrate with some inquiry (of incompleteness) in mind and we then create situations accordingly. creation and perception  - an act of synthesis - are interrelated.

the awakening to relevant questions are required, else we keep engaging ourselves with questions that do not mean much but just create a lot of noise and drain us from our energies. awakening perhaps happens with time. another question that has bothered me for long is - how can one communicate philosophical attitude and understanding to people and how can that become a matter of discussion and revelation? philosophy necessarily means to transcend motion (or to consider motion as a distortion) and almost everyone seems to endorse the reverse! this means the philosophical journey becomes a personal undertaking to take us to universal existence of the One. this also means to renounce all comparisons and tendencies and embrace the Truth. i think that philosophy is an invisible core that cannot be demonstrated but only indicated symbolically as thoughts or actions or expressions or processes or products.

this means that people should be able to read and understand and create symbols, else life is completely mundane.

in our daily perception, we know that thinking and planning and defending and analysis does not yield stability or peace - as things are bound to change. we also do not know how forces create a situation. we also do not know the Will of God. we also have not seen Him. this evidently throws us to the "winds" and we long for some solid permanent anchor.

the anchor is only in becoming God. leave the motion and take on Silence. in all this "Trust" is extremely important no matter what thoughts come, what compulsions seem to occur, what challenges seem to be in store. writing about this is no guarantee of what thoughts will be formed in future in my mind. i can only hope that the sight of God is not lost and i become the One eventually.

Hari Om.

Shree: Making God visible

 

091022: Shree: Making God visible

All that exists is non motion and intent (for those in motion). Situations and forms are constructs born from vibrations and then intents or thoughts. This means we have the power to think and feel what is beneficial despite the odds of the situation. The situation does not come first (and it does not exist in absolute sense), but our feelings or vibrations do. This is existence- that we are already there and potential of becoming already exists.

In architecture, site or context or situation or requirements or clients do not mean anything. In themselves, they are quite dead. All that matters is existence of perception and that also means what is felt irrespective of context (feeling = values) and this forms a trigger for design or conceiving something or for creation or for making things happen. One of such aspects is delight, learning, connect, peace or comfort and movement and what that means. The designer asks himself or herself that he/she wants this feeling to get generated in any scenario or in any space-time situation for that is what is eternal and context is the medium through which this feeling can materialize. It is to make God visible. In other words, context is what one makes the intangible visible.

Making God visible is through values, thoughts, words, actions, creational intents, comfort, being, delight, unconditional, love, empathy, freeness, organic, connectivity. We are this. We can consider architecture as a medium to make these values visible.

Hari Om.

Shree: Beyond

 

100722: Shree: Beyond

fundamental things

analysis and introspection should not stop despite any distractions or compulsions - it forces one a detached mindscape to look at variables, sequences and realize that all is a construct. analysis helps to understand constructs and modify them for our peace. it also helps in trust and letting go of things which lie beyond. Beyondness is an aspect of Existence that does everything - from being to manifestation; from non motion to motion; from the One to many. this is realized through analysis and trust. another way of realizing this is by unconditional giving.

my mother cried today and this is an output of her physical and mental situation - carried through years of impressions. we are there around yet sometimes feelings become overpowering and one has to let them come out and not say anything about them. this act of witness (from my part) requires patience and consideration and knowing that it is ok to witness this situation for which, logical solutions or analysis at times, is of no help. we need not salvage anything, since to let things out in the open itself constituted salvaging things or offering comfort. if we are able to take this kind of "witnessing" approach, things would probably be healed for us from within. Becoming calm and accepting the way things are is very important, since it will not make you unnecessarily anxious or worried. if i think of ways of salvaging so called the current situation, then i am heading for a mountain of worries through logical solutions. if i do not act, then that too cannot be accepted. then what is the approach? it is a combination of becoming steady + trust + efforts in action.

becoming steady has a very deep meaning. steadiness is by practice. it is knowing the change that happens and to trust God for existence. it is to know that perception is relative and absoluteness is unconditional. it is to become blissful despite everything or anything. it is to realize the presence of God.

 

as i was heading to college today, a continuous line of people were "breaking" the signal. by observing their faces, it was perceived that they probably were not even acknowledging what was the correct course of action and what mistake they were committing and even if they knew, they were not admitting. this is a classic case of existence. it could be said that the Truth is consciousness - we know it but do not wish to acknowledge it. we go on with a herd mentality of ego and we are desperate to protect the ego from dissolution and we fail to admit this mistake. even if we did, we do not acknowledge fear. even if we did acknowledge, we take time to start with a correct approach. even if we started with a correct approach, we take time to accept the change required within us and transformation therefore happens slowly. so much clinging we do!

yet, this might be natural, else why it would have even existed? to exist means to be in some state of existence. now we can remain there or we can become steady - like the One.

Hari Om.

Shree: Nearness

 

Shree: Nearness

Nearness is about silence and acceptance and is not about ego, differentiation, aloofness, noise. nearness is about ambiguity of unknown and what potential it holds and the value of being non judgmental. changes and nearness do not have direct connection. sometimes we may say that as things change slowly, a nearness may develop as against a rapidly changing scenario. this is a connection of "pace" or rapidity of change. but change is added with a dimension of personal expectation or resistance to change or expectation of permanence. change matters only when there is ego, engagement, expectation, defense, judgment and so on. but if change does not hinge onto any of these dimensions of ego, then it will not be perceivable at all. in other words, nearness and blissfulness is felt when one becomes non judgmental and full of accepting attitude. being Infinite, everything is always near and dear and no motion ever causes disturbance or raises any separation. hence it is always fruitful to love unconditionally and accept everything as given by God and do everything for God. going fast, multitasking, shortening physical distances does not mean nearness at all. simultaneity and fast do not mean nearness and intimacy. rather space and time do not have much to do with nearness. it is a matter of perception.

do not expect and do not plan - for these things indicate our resistance to change or resistance to being fully alive. trust God for everything and experience bliss.

Hari Om.

Shree: Knowledge

 

051022: Shree: Knowledge

Focus on God and nothing else – since everything as we perceive, is from God. God is absolute existence of non motion, unconditioned, non changeable, infinite The One, eternal, Potential, Is. Through this medium which we refer as “Him”, the world seems to emerge and change. Hence this includes our own vibrations and perceptions that receive or generate signals of difference. At a deeper level this means engagement or ego or fear. At a phenomenon level, it means desires or vibrations. All objects we see represent a state of vibrations. By slowing down further and going deeper (to slow also means to go deep within), the visible changes to changing invisible states and finally to non changeable absolute invisible state. The point is that change is our own representation and hence if change gets perceived (along with host of other feelings) then we are at a gross state of existence.

The learning is about becoming unconditional and blissful and still. All dimensions of human perception from vibrations to forces to thoughts to feelings to actions should therefore align to go towards becoming the absolute. Absoluteness however is not a product that one can catch separately like an apple- it is becoming absoluteness so that there is no difference between the process, the object and the subject. The perception or vibrations need to dissolve. We become knowledge - rather we represent knowledge of a particular state of Existence. Thus Existence = knowledge. This is already “there”. The only requirement is to realize this.

This also means that there is no “why” to things. We may analyze, but finally trust is important.

Hari Om.

Shree: Remembering God

 

031022: Shree: Remembering God

God is the only reality. this means why things happen in particular ways and where and how and when does not inform our meaning of existence and these questions are there but they need to be dissolved and not addressed always. there are many things that happen for which direct answers are not visible or logically to be found. this is so because the trigger of manifestation is Invisible and Absolute and what we encounter or perceive is the opposite of this reality. hence the kind of thoughts that take place and the situations that get created - but it is only the One, Whose presence creates this phenomenon of the world. since all is an imagination, that is perceived, created, vibrated, transformed, interdependent, changes - there is no such thing as finding the start point  or blaming anything or taking the guilt. yes, we would encounter anger and guilt and both feelings are misplaced. they unnecessarily may cause disorientation (which is also ok), but one has to come "on track" and not let trust go away.

For this, remembering our absolute nature of God is fundamental.

Hari Om.

Shree: Choice

 

020922: Shree: Choice

It is a matter of choice, frankly speaking. I may remain engaged with motion (or as motion) or I can become blissful and absolute. Even this habit of writing comes under that choice. We doing anything from the point of view of separation or vibrations or mind and body continues the action of engagement. Separation itself is to be dissolved. This may look like a task or a purpose, but it may be more than that since blissfulness transcends the planning of intellect-meaning it is not governed by perception. The world we see is made of vibrations that generate forces of different characters finally making some forms. This is a dimension of God and what we consider as being alive or existing is His presence. There is no space or no time that is without God. Rather it is unthinkable to visualize anything that does not consider God in the picture.

This world we perceive changes continuously and the change reflects the connection with innermost vibrations of any interdependent form. By focusing on an object or any phenomenon, the change can be made still to reveal consciousness. Consciousness is to be seen within and the moment it is encountered within, everything else becomes consciousness. So the world transforms as our mind transforms.

This means that our choice of transformation or of becoming is independent of any situation. Just as thoughts enter our mind without any external change in situation (which means that situation is a fabricated concept and can be changed based on our will or what we choose to hold on to), thoughts generate a situation for us.

The awareness of this connection is to be realized so one can hope of transcending this connection and become blissful. All is only a figment of imagination and really mean nothing to address. Become unconditional and give love. In this exercise, there is no absolute start point- there is only a decision to start at some point and not expect anything in return. Eventually transformation should happen.

Hari Om.

Shree: Trust

 

Shree: Trust

In themselves, things are created and they change or transform into something else and the process continues. All Existence is of motion and we may believe of controlling a thing or realizing some sort of permanence but this belief is an illusion. The basic nature of Existence is to change or vibrate, so why do we need to control anything? All things that are visible and which change and which are perceived- represent a state of existence and we are party to this imagination. How things happen is beyond individual logic and both of these terms - logic and individuality are limited ways of perceiving things. They are not wrong, except they are limited. Nothing is an island, for everything is only the One seen or perceived to be many. There is this “I” who perceives because of difference or attachment or vibrations and hence there exists confusion or dilemma. Knowing this, is it a solution to problems of motion? I do not know and perhaps it is best not to ask but only to trust.

Day and night we are hounded by thoughts to keep fixing something and keep doing something. If not the world, then we end up trying to fix ourselves! What are we going to get by fixing? And why to fix and who is this “we”? किती हा उतावळेपणा?!

The more we analyze, the more variables are formed, the more conditions of peace are created, the more we feel dependent on factors beyond our control, the more anxious we get! Bliss does not mean analysis. Neither does suppression or rejection mean bliss. In negation or in intent – there is an ego (or a conditional purpose) since negation or intent comes from a decision of ego. Hence the words we say or the thoughts we think or whatever is written is perceived by ego and hence has limitations as far as its application is concerned.

Then we start to consider “trust” as a dimension of going beyond and which is greater than analysis. But this cannot be seen as a sequence as connected to analysis or on the top of hierarchical chain of thoughts. And herein lies the approach of philosophy which deals with this one inquiry of Existence- how does trust develop in self?

Hari Om.

Shree: Change

 

010422: Shree: Change

I felt to begin today’s day with writing. Existence can be expressed in many ways – what it is; how it is felt; what it is supposed to mean and so on. One may dwell on these aspects and may choose to brush such inquiry aside, but whatever your state of mind – it is a Higher calling. What makes certain vibrations visible and generate certain thoughts and actions and how those change and perhaps are replaced by something else – is the nature of existence in motion. Only observe the change.

Change means a continuous flow of things or situations formed by vibrations. This means that space and time wait for none or rather space and time means change. If this thought is taken deep inside then we will realize the depth of change that happens within to a point where non motion is realized. In other words, it means at a visible level that the desperation and craze for control or finding out start point or sequences or perfect conditions has limitations and they keep our engagement with motion forever. Honestly speaking, what are we racing against or fighting against and why? Things happen and change; everything changes. We too represent the character of change and hence this is the nature of Existence one needs to acknowledge. Whatever we invent is still in the world of motion and hence conditioned and subjected to change – thus has limitations and does not offer bliss perpetually. Perhaps the point is about survival, and that too is a flawed concept. One must love Existence despite the change that seems to happen or seems to impact us. Love is unconditional and it only exists without seeking any justification or evaluation or any proof. This is the highest state of Existence I feel.

Many times when people say something, we rush to evaluate or control or offer explanation as a defense or plan to avoid impending disaster or are quick to judge – meaning we are not being attentive to listening in an unconditioned manner.

Why to judge anything? A kid is a kid and so is an elder and so is a gender. The various forms undertaken reveal various characters of Existence. If we listen, then we will be able to sense the subtle character of Existence and what triggers what kind of behavior. The intellect rushes to decode the variables of forms in the hope of control. I would suggest that variables may be discovered only to understand the situation that is being encountered (but not for control). In this discovery, something of our own self is also revealed and many other things for which straight forward or logical or visible answers cannot be found (and need not be found). Herein lies the capacity of trust. To realize this Unknown dimension means to become peaceful with Existence. All motion comes from Unknown and hence visibility has a changing character and one may analyze it in terms of variables but nothing more than that. For bliss, one needs to go beyond the visible forces.

Situations confronting old age and degeneration of body and their impact on the mind and thoughts and generation of fear – disturbs me at times (mother and father). Disturbance is because of fear and this needs to be admitted for myself. Fear is because of mind and body which will end someday. Fear is because I cannot stop the change that I perceive around me. Fear is because of my attachment to situations. Fear is because I do not know if I can embrace change or perhaps that I maybe weak. All this is self talk.

Ask yourself what difference does it make if things change without knowing anything in advance? Ask this question sincerely to yourself a billion times till change will hardly matter to you.

I, as existence, am NOT the motion. In other words, I am “free” to love and become blissful irrespective of any visible change or situation. This is a capacity I can develop. When my mother admits fear, when my father becomes anxious, conveys annoyance – the question is am I required to act and take any “control” of change and the bigger question is – is the control really required? They expressing fear is understood by me as “fear” within myself and that disorients me. This may develop understanding of their situation, but does not negate stress for me. It may offer patience, but cannot negate sadness. Thus understanding also perhaps is limited and there is a reason why sometimes, a gap is necessary. What is suggested here is only to listen and yet remain calm amidst this interdependent change.

We visualize control and hence keep remaining engaged with fabricated situations and we keep playing with this fabrication. This is our mind playing tricks with us. Wake up from the dream world of engagement and realize that all is only the One. Wake up from the dream of vibrations and become still.

Hari Om.