श्री

 

श्री,

 नामस्मरणाचा अर्थ पूर्णपणे कळणार नाही, म्हणून त्यातील संकल्पनेला विस्तार व्हायला वाव आहे. मन वस्तूला चिकटत. वस्तूचा अर्थ किंव्हा विस्तार मनाच्या स्थितीशी निगडित आहे. वस्तू खूप विस्तारलेली जाणवते जेव्हा स्वतःच मन सूक्ष्म होत. विस्तार म्हणजे सर्वांशी आणि सर्व स्तरांशी संबंध जाणवणे आणि सर्वांचा उगम भगवंतापाशी आहे हे पटणे. स्वतःचा कर्तेपणा मग गळून पडणे, कारण स्वच्या पलीकडे खूप साऱ्या शक्तींचा वावर असतो. त्यांचं अस्तित्व जाणवणे म्हणजे स्वतःच्या वृत्ती शांत करणे.

 ह्यावरून असे कळेल की वृत्ती आणि तिच्या निर्मितीमुळे आपलं लक्ष किंव्हा जाणीव फक्त वस्तुवरच केंद्रित राहते. फक्त वस्तू - म्हणजे बदल, परावलंबन, दूरचा संबंध, अहं वृत्ती, गती, देहबुद्धी, मर्यादित विचार चक्र वगैरे - अशी मनस्थिती. ह्या मनस्थितीत जर आपण विचारांकडे, उगमाकडे आणि स्वतःकडे त्याच नजरेने बघितलं तर प्रवास पूर्ण व्हायला वेळ लागेल. 

 आपण वस्तू आहोत का? आपला संबंध दुसऱ्याशी नसतो का? आणि अश्या प्रकारे संबंध असतो का, की त्याने अहं भक्कम होईल?!!...हे झाले संकुचित विचार. मार्ग शोधण्यालाही मर्यादा येतील, जर आपण त्याकडे पळवाट म्हणून बघितलं तर. भोगाच प्रबोधन, त्याचा उगम आपल्याला ह्या संकुचित मनस्थितीत कळत नाही, पण त्याने त्रासून का जाणे? त्रासाकडे वस्तू म्हणून बघायचं की पलीकडून झालेली क्रिया म्हणून बघायचं? आणि निर्णय देखील कुठल्या पार्श्वभूमीवर करायचा? ह्यात निर्णय म्हणजे वाढती जाणीव होत राहणे असा आहे, फक्त बौद्धिक नाही. साहजिकच की सध्याच्या मनस्थितीत चक्राचा स्वभाव असा आहे की तो त्रास देतो/ निर्माण करतो. 

 ह्याचा अर्थ की चक्राकडे बघण्याची दृष्टी बदलायला हवी.

 हरि ओम.

Shree: The Mind

 

Shree: The Mind

Mind works or behaves or exists in a phenomenon, so it “thinks or creates” in a particular way. This may be said as a loop of thoughts. Currently the mind senses or catches only fragments, disparate objects, separateness and establishes causal relations among these. Individual sense of identity or individual existence creates this thought of separateness and therefore systems, coordination and management to control such fractures. So it is engaged in the created loop of fragmentation and achieving control over the sense of increasing pace of fragments. Point is that the mind is astute in creating loops and remaining engaged in the riddles that the loop has created. It tries to find a complete picture, but the mind analyses and so fragments and as it fragments it establishes relations. So going beyond this behavior is important – we call it healing, slowing down, comprehensive understanding or realization, empathy, feelings, organic flow, peaceful non judgmental, acceptance, non evaluation, discussion, discovery and so on.

To be in this environment, starting from trust is necessary – that there is always hope and the capacity to remain calm regardless of any perceivable circumstance. We need saving from our own selves as far as the fragmented mind is concerned.

Unseen forces make the mind, which is temporary, relative, dependent, changing, insular. A mind or a thought is “created” the moment a situation of separateness gets born in the whole picture. To be born or to be created is a phenomenon and consciousness has this potential of being born as many, many, many things.

Also the start or the origin of any phenomenon cannot be ascertained for certain – it is understood only with respect to one’s mind. Neither the thing “out there” or the “mind within” is true – both are relative and the products of the same phenomenon, coming from the same Source (or the same process). In that sense, presence of mind is eternal. In that sense, impressions always exist beyond the mind, within the mind and even after the mind has dissolved – impressions change states and they take on another form and reappear as something else somewhere and this catching of impressions and resending them back is what the mind keeps doing in loops.

We can only go inwards to realize this behavior and make ourselves calm.

Hari Om.

Shree: Mind

Shree: Mind

Mind is a phenomenon in itself linked with many other things and since it is lined with states, invisible entities, it behaves in a particular way. All things of phenomenon are governed by Invisible Entity we refer as consciousness. Since it is there, all things come into formation.  So the Thing that creates forms is consciousness and “not the form itself”!...

This means, among other things, to “surrender” to consciousness or give the things back to Creative forces or to “render services” for the Primary Cause.

Now the mind is a peculiar thing. Mind creates thoughts through vibrations. And vibrations change, so there are several continuous sequences of thoughts determined by what nature has the mind made of (or how it chooses to think or create or relate or perceive or conceive). This is important since observation, comparison, conclusion and testimony  - the role of each – will depend on that. Anything that is seen or felt, will be observed (in a deployed lens), compared (with something else), concluded (after analysis that again is coloured) and confirmed (by a favoured testimony)!. This means the mind, may be engaged in defending itself and ensuring its own beliefs. Is it wrong? Now that is the question the mind should ask itself. The question itself can take the mind to greater heights and finally, as the Seers suggest, transcend itself. So doubt and introspection has its own place in the scheme of things that exist. However no one thing is alone, so wherever there is doubt, there are other host of vibrations also present.

So it then can be considered as a matter of choice of what thoughts or sequences one considers important to be engaged with. This is as far as the sense of individuality is held. In all of this of course, it is expected that the Sole cause of any of our positions should not be forgotten, which is consciousness.

Why should things be incomplete? Do we really need an answer to this question?! This is also a capacity of the mind to accept the given scenario of becoming and remaining at peace and not trying to fix things always!

Hari Om.

Shree: Keep going!

Shree: Keep going!

Modernity and its intent on many things has caused some inner rupture with empathy or the feeling of connect. Modernity is a construct of human forces. By feeling what seems to be happening, people look for a bridging answer, something to heal. Architecturally, that may mean “travel” to villages, seeing indigenous cultures or such world views and to feel or search for the fundamental experience that becomes universal, or to some people, an inward journey through such processes of travel. A journey may be regarded as this – wandering, aimless, sometimes certain and at other times completely uncertain. The clouds of certainty and uncertainty come and go, except for the sky that will always be there. One can’t hold onto anything (and perhaps it seems, need not), for the concept of God is to “keep going” and with this movement realize the Godliness in the self.

Hari Om.

श्री: बुद्धीचा वापर

 श्री: बुद्धीचा वापर

सगळ भगवंताने दिलं आहे, म्हणून मूळ बुद्धीच्या पलीकडे असणार. म्हणजे बुद्धीचा वापर करणे आहे, त्यात गुंतून राहणे नाही. कुठलीही गोष्ट पूर्ण नसते, कारण ती शांतीतून उदयास झाली असते. म्हणजे सर्व गोष्टी, वृत्ती शांतीत विलीन होऊ शकतात. म्हणून गोष्टींच्या निर्मिती बद्दल विचार करत राहणे म्हणजे त्यात गुंतून राहणे, कारण सर्व गोष्टी चक्रात, एकमेकात असतात आणि "निर्माण" क्रियेतून झाल्या असतात. 

हे जर कळलं तर बुद्धीच्या मागे आपण पडणार नाही. अर्धवट सत्य ते आणत राहत किंव्हा जाणिवेचा तात्पुरता रंग देत राहत हे कळेल. 

वृत्ती शांत करणे हा हेतू आहे. म्हणून बुद्धीची शक्ती त्यासाठी वापरणे. म्हणजे दृश्याचा कुठल्याही घडामोडींना बौद्धिक उत्तरं न शोधणे आणि त्यावरून उगाचच स्वतःला दोषी ठरवणे किंव्हा चिंतेत राहणे हे सर्व प्रकार बंद करणे. 

तिसरी गोष्ट अशी की प्रतिक्रिया विचारपूर्वक शांत मनाने देणे. ही सवय करता येते. दुसऱ्या व्यक्तीला राग आला किंव्हा त्रास झाला तर बौद्धिक विचार करून योग्य ते कार्य करणे. राग किंव्हा त्रास हे जिवाचं लक्षण आहे. विचार करून शांततेत कार्य करणे हे विवेक शक्तीच लक्षण आहे. 

हरि ओम.

श्री

 श्री,

भगवंताला स्वतःला अनेकात बघायचं असतं, म्हणून अनेक वृत्ती आणि आकार निर्मितीला येतात. शक्ती अशी आहे की त्यात द्वैत निर्माण करण्याची कला आहे आणि त्यातून परत एकात येण्याचं प्रबोधन आहे. म्हणजे द्वैत आल की अतृपत्तपणा उदयास आला,  शोध सुरू झाला आणि शेवट विलिनता मध्ये झालं. द्वैत ही भावना आहे. तसच अद्वैत ही समाधानाची भावना आहे. दोन्ही गोष्टी जाणिवेतून होत राहतात. म्हणून दोन्ही गोष्टी दैवी संपत्तीतून आलेल्या आहेत, त्यात स्वतःच सरमिसळ करण्याची गरज कुठे?!..

वेगळा झालो की आकार दिसून येतात, संकल्पना उदयास पावतात आणि तात्पुरतेपणा आला. ही सर्व क्रिया घडते भगवांतकडून. आपण वेगळेपणाने जगाकडे बघतो. बाहेर आणणे ही खुमखुमी वाहत असते आतून. आणि ती खुमखुमी जग दाखवते. बाहेर येताना ती भगवंताहून "वेगळी" होते - म्हणजे वृत्ती, प्राण आणि आकार उदयास येतात (सर्व स्थिती). शक्तीच सत्य रूप बदलत आणि त्याला रंग येतात.  

उर्ध्वगत होणे म्हणजे वरील क्रिया स्थिर करणे. वेगळेपणा ओलांडून भाव हा सत्याचा होतो - अद्वैत. म्हणजे सर्व ठिकाणी एकच अस्तीत्व आहे, ते सांगायला सुद्धा मी राहत नाही!

हरि ओम.

Shree

Shree

The beauty or peacefulness of journey is guided from within, not embedded in anything external. Modernity worries a lot about change, control, specifics, evaluations, explicitness, arrivals, exits, purposefulness and so on. Modernity is a worrisome attitude, if taken in the spirit of thought.

Many times, in design, we are worried about how people will use something, got to some place, what will they see and what kind of space would materialize and what will happen to the spaces which are imagined and later on are used by people? We have to outgrow this worry. And perhaps this worry stems from being too deterministic about everything and designing in some sort of a vacuum unrelated to life. From this we have production cycles, multipleness of events, simultaneity of presences – utter nonsense.

Design should come or rise from trust – let life unfold, which means that everything will be in its place and complete the picture. Do we work with trust or not? Many times collaboration seems like some competition to outwit the other and built on suspicion. The product so formed endorses the same vibration – that of suspicion! How will life ever thrive in its place?! This is what we do not accept or realize – that at a far more subtle level, behind the scenes, the vibrations finally inform the perception of the product in the environment. Then why cling onto suspicion?

Hari Om.

Shree

 

Shree

To be extremely occupied with “work” is a sort of being engaged with expectations, separations, judgments, evaluations, assumptions, proofs, aggressions and so on. This is imagination that gets one engaged in some pursuit. This same imagination plays out in any time and the intent of creating anything, if it lies herein, then one may not discover or become peaceful. All is a mist – be it information or explanation or thinking or action (in one perspective). The problem with people is that they seem to be unaware of (or perhaps unable to reach the capacity of) their tendency getting expressed through some phenomenal developments of Divine Action. So they run, search, speak, talk, discuss with the sole idea that the subtleness can be controlled or brought out or twisted or something. There is only one answer to this – realizing the relation of states of awareness from within to outside. Let us accept we don’t know why we fear. We don’t know  - it means that we can’t understand what grips us and informs our perception or what controls us or what compels us to act and why and how and where and when etc. it is funny that the intellect wants answers to these questions and since it can’t get it in its own language, it creates “fear”. So fear becomes “conditional thought” – it is created on account of not understanding or feeling the truth or becoming the truth itself. Fear gets “created”  - this means it need not be there in absolute sense. It is created based on the awareness that the human form has about itself. Fear is a complex emotion and subtle too and can connect to many situations, objects, forms, times, scales and so on. it is true with anything – even silence or anything one does can connect with anything else. So who owns fear? This is same as saying how did the human form arise? So anything is the phenomenon is not owned by anyone else – not even fear or anything or even conditions.

If one understands this, then one can become “free” of the impacts of creation. Being free means to know that one need not own anything to define oneself – one’s existence is not based on these attributes (of fear or love or work or brain or heart or body or anything else). I am not bound by these things. So ownership comes into play only when one assumes some “limited role” in existence!

But this needs learning and patience. Transformations may not happen overnight, since that is how it is, as the nature of what we are dealing with. There is no need of explaining anything to anyone – everyone knows what is the problem, even if they may not admit it or verbalize it. And the problem again, is “not personal”! If one accepts this, then one’s relation to others takes on a certain dimension of deeper connection – beyond conditions.

Hari Om.

 

 

Shree: Place

 Shree: Place

Undifferentiation in some people comes in various ways – if we consider our own consciousness that functions in some cultures.

Gods (spirits), ancestors, traditions and people are continuous. The space that is experienced (the physical or the one that one perceives) is informed by cosmic and ancestral relations – those overlap and even actively interact to generate meaning to the “now” of our lives. Hence territory, movement in the landscape,  architecture ande elements all symbolize/ represent/ suggest a way in which spirits, ancestors and people relate or called upon. From this, one makes out that there are billion ways in which such an “invocation” can materialize. The change within any form and the larger environment is 9or may be) generally referred as spirits and the underworld/ beneath the territory is generally referred for ancestors (is it because everything goes to dust or resurfaces later on or emerges or perhaps the decayed things get buried and so on?)….

There are collective markers of imagination, then the ancestral, then the traditional, then the social, then the more familial then the more specific. This plays out in the geometrical plan, section, layout and a general territory that may extend to any unlimited dimension of space in any direction. Therefore, what is “seen” is calling of all such forces into the visible spectrum of movement and scale and proportions.

There is a great learning here – one of a continuity in several realms of existence. Is it abstract (i.e. imagined but not real?) I think, is the question even valid at all?! To label it as a human construct also betrays a fundamental need or action of a human being – to create a place, here.

Hari Om.

श्री: प्रवास

 श्री: प्रवास

प्रवास. कधी, कुठे, कसं घडतं राहील, तो योजिला आहे. खूप सूक्ष्म आणि गूढ पद्धतीतून हालचाली होत असतील आणि आपल्या जगाची स्थिती त्यातून निर्माण होत असावी. 

परिवर्तन होईल, कारण तो नियम आहे. ज्याला आपण चिंतेत राहतो किंव्हा विषय मांडतो, तो ह्या करिता असतो की त्यातून अनंत हालचाली कळून यावेत. तो विषय असण्याच प्रबोधन आहे. जेव्हा कोडी सुटायचे असतील, तेव्हा सुटतील, ह्या जन्मात किंव्हा नंतरच्या किंव्हा वेगळ्या स्तरावर. त्यावर श्रद्धा ठेवावी. अस्तीत्व अनेक स्तरावरच असतं आणि संबंधित राहत. तो संबंध कसा असतो, त्याच आकलन व्हायला सैय्यम ठेवायला लागतो. 

आपण खूप साऱ्या स्तरावरून झालो आहोत, जोडले गेलो आहोत, म्हणून शांत राहावं. शांत ह्यासाठी की वेळ आल्यावर गोष्टी समजतात - ह्यावर, ह्या संकल्पनेवर श्रद्धा वाढवावी. आपल्याकडे काय आहे आणि काय नाही, त्यातून स्वतःच मोजमाप करू नये. त्यावरून मोजमाप ठरतं नाही. 

एखादी गोष्ट, चिंतेचा विषय असेल, तर ती सोडवण्याचा अट्टाहास धरू नये. ती तशी राहू द्यावी. गुंता आपोआप सुटेल, कारण गुंता मनात असतो. म्हणून अस्थिर गोष्टींकडे चिंतेच्या भावनेत बघू नये - ते आपलच अस्तित्वाचं प्रतिबिंब आहे, म्हणून शांत राहावं. 

शांत हा मोठ्ठा अर्थ आहे. पुर्ण सार त्यात आहे. सर्व वेगळेपणा, जो आपल्याला वाटतो आणि जो आपण स्थिर करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतो - तसं करू नये. बळजबरी काही उपयोगी नाही. काहीही वाटलं, तरी ते शांततेत विलीन होईल - ते कधी, कुठे, कसं...ह्यावर विचार न करणे. 

प्रवास हा अनंत काळाचा आहे. सैय्यम ठेवा.

हरि ओम.

श्री

श्री,

आपली वृत्ती अशी असते की "मला ही गोष्ट पाहिजे", त्यामुळे गोष्टी अनुभवास येतात. पण प्रकरण तिथे संबत नाही. एका गोष्टीतून अनेक गोष्टी पर्यंत आपली मजल पोचते आणि त्याचा ठाम पत्ता ही स्वतःला लागत नाही. म्हणजे असंख्य गोष्टी वेगळ्या नसतात....त्या एकाच अतृप्त वासनेतून उद्भवलेल्या असतात. "गोष्ट हवी आहे" हे अतृप्ततेच लक्षण आहे आणि कितीही केलं आणि कितीही ताट भरलेलं पुढे वाढलं तरीही भूक कमी होत नाही...उलट ती वाढून सगळ्यांना भस्म करू शकते. म्हणून त्या अर्थाने कश्यात आपण गुंतत आहोत, हे बघणे गरजेचं आहे. त्याला "विषय" असे सांगितलं आहे. विषय एकच असतो - तात्पुरत्या स्थितीतील वासना किंव्हा अतृप्तपणाची जाणीव. त्या विषयातून आपण असंख्य जन्माच्या फेरीत गुंतून राहतो. काल, आज, उद्या, इथे, तिथे, मागे, पुढे...स्वस्थ बसून नाम घेता येत नाही. ही आपली मनस्थिती. 

म्हणून काहीही मागू नये, कारण त्याने आपलं हीत अजिबात नाही. मगायचच झालं तर दिलेल्या परिस्थितीत समाधानी असणे ही वृत्ती मागावी. सर्व काही देव आपल्याला देतो. आपण असमाधानी वृत्तीला धरून राहतो मग तो ते पुरवतो! 

समाधानी राहण्यासाठी प्रयत्न करायला लागतात जीवाला. त्यासाठी गुरूंकडे बघावे आणि ते जे सांगतील ते आचरणात आणण्याचा प्रयत्न करावे. त्याने समाधान वृत्ती निर्माण होईल.

हरि ओम.

श्री

 श्री,

एखादी वस्तू "अनुभवणे" किंव्हा ती दृश्यात बघणे किंव्हा तिची जाणीव होणे किंव्हा ती अस्तित्वात असणे हे साऱ्या गोष्टी एक आहेत आणि त्यावरून आपली मनाची स्थिती कळते -

वस्तू अनेक प्रकारच्या आपल्या  वृत्तीतून, विचारातून झाली असते, म्हणून अमुक एका विचार मधून वस्तू दिसणे असं होत नाही. 

तिचा उगम कधी झाला आणि तिच्या बरोबर आपला कसा संबंध राहतो, ह्यात सतत बदल असतात. मूळ दृश्यात सापडत नाही, म्हणून त्यावरून संबंध सतत बदलत राहतात.

मग असं असताना "आपण perfect असायला हवे" हे अपेक्षा करणे कितपत योग्य आहे?! 

वृत्ती चंचल असल्यामुळे एकातून अनेक, असे खूप सारे संबंध असतात (जाळ) जे साऱ्या दिशेने आणि साऱ्या स्तरावर पसरतात. भगवंताची किमया आहे, त्याचा परिणाम म्हणजे स्वतःला आपण स्वतंत्र समजतो!! स्वतंत्र संकल्पना हा भ्रम आहे, सत्य नाही. म्हणजे आपली प्रत्येक कृतीला भगवंताचा पाठिंबा आहे आणि प्रत्येक कृती करतांना असंख्य अदृश्य स्तरावरचे आणि दृश्य स्तरावरचे वृत्ती सामावलेले असतात. 

आता भगवंताचा पाठिंबा म्हणल्यावर, सर्व काही स्वतःच्या विचाराच्या संबंधात आलेलं आहे. म्हणून त्यावरून आपण एकटे नसतो, सर्व काही आपण बरोबर घेऊन जात राहतो. आणि दुसरं म्हणजे एकच सत्य अनेकात वावरतांना भासून येतं. 

वरील जाणिवांना एकच क्रिया आहे - श्रद्धा.

हरि ओम.

Shree: symbol

 Shree: symbol 

Any object, situation, phenomenon, person is a symbol or a representation or an expression of a force of existence. The existence of anything depends on or is based on consciousness. Hence something will come to existence and then dissolve – as a behavior of vibrations, which also get formed in consciousness. So all changes, movements are coming from Divine forces. These forces will remain, in the sense that they were always becoming or getting created in consciousness. Forces mean connections or eruptions or relations of dependence. It has to be kept at a very generic level of explanation since beyond that it becomes typical of one’s life. The point is that consciousness is flowing with billions of potentials to connect, and lead to a form of expression. We will be doing ourselves a whole lot of disservice if we choose to ignore this reality of becoming.

At times I don’t understand what is there “not to trust”?! the mind can play any game and form any set of rules and systems to generate a momentum and some stupid idea of evaluation. It chooses to do so precisely because of its own nature of considering itself separated from consciousness and this separation has no end, no satisfaction and is a drag on itself if it wants to evolve. Mind is a tool created by God, so let us respect that undertaking. It is not a tool meant to work independently exerting its own existence! I may be intelligent, but that does not necessarily make me mature or conscious of presence of God. This is a problem, because I do not know what I am losing out in this imagination. Tools will always be changing and have a sense of incompleteness – that does not mean they need to “get fixed”. Non fixation and becoming are the two principles of manifestation, so why expect manifestation to give a permanent sense of security and try to fix a changing reality? This dilemma and the subsequent search/ struggle reveals consciousness.

Hari Om. 

श्री

 श्री,

गोष्टी कुठल्या प्रकारे होणे आणि परिवर्तन होत अदृश्य होणे आणि परत उगम पावणे हे भगवंताच्या इच्छेने होत. 

हे जाणवायला सैय्यम हवा, इतका की एकरूप होऊन बदल जाणवणार नाही. 

आपल्या मनात कृती केल्यावर परिणामाचा अट्टाहास असतो. त्याने गोष्टी तश्या होत नाही कारण आकलनाच्या पलीकडे बऱ्याच गोष्टी कृतिवर परिणाम करत आकार घडवतात, जे जीवाच्या हातातच नाही किंव्हा लक्षात येत नाही किंव्हा त्याकडे ध्यान जात नाही किंव्हा ते विचार चक्राच्या सीमेच्या आत नसतं! म्हणून होण्यावर आपण दोष देत राहतो आणि राग राग करतो...म्हणून जे होत त्यावर अनाकलनीय शक्तींवर श्रद्धा ठेवावी कारण त्यां शक्तींना  दैवी स्वरूप असतं, जीवाच्या पलीकडचं. दैवी स्वरूप म्हणजे कायम असणे, कमीतकमी बदल, अति सूक्ष्म आणि सर्वव्यापी.

जे जीव आहे, ते तत्पूर्त आहे, बदलणार आहे, परावलंबन होणार आहे. त्यातून कितीही संबंध वाढवण्याचा प्रयत्न केला तरीही तत्पूर्तेपणं कमी होत नाही कारण आपण त्याच चौकटीत (स्तरावर) राहतो.  

भगवंतावर निष्ठा ठेवा, म्हणजे त्याच्याशी संबंध वाढवा. त्यातून समाधानाचा मार्ग आणि क्रिया कळूंन येईल. संबंधाचा मार्ग म्हणजे श्रद्धेचा भाव प्रकट करणे. 

हरि ओम.

श्री

 श्री,

सध्याच्या महाविद्यालयात असं दिसून येतं की सगळेजण संगणकाला चिकटून असतात. म्हणजे श्वास आपण कसा घेतो (विचारही करण्याची गरज नसते) किंव्हा तोंडाने खातो कसे - हे कश्या गोष्टी "नैसर्गिक" समजतो (म्हणजे प्रश्न विचारण्याची गरज नाही त्या कृतींना किंव्हा निर्माण होण्याचीही नाही!), तसच काहीस संगणकाचा वावरण्याबद्दल झालं आहे!!

का वापरावा माहीत नाही, कश्या साठी माहीत नाही, काय त्यातून मिळणार आहे...माहीत नाही! म्हणजे प्रश्न विचारू नका, फक्त स्वतःचे सीट गरम करून संगणक "on" करा, keyboard वरील बटण दाबत रहा, emails ची bullet train च्या गतीहून अधिक देवाण घेवाण करत रहा आणि असा आव आणत रहा की "do not dare to disturb me!"....

म्हणजे एखादा समोरचा दगडही वितळून संगणक वापरायला लागेल. मला बघायचच आहे की देवाची मूर्ती मध्ये भक्तीमुळे डोळ्यात पाणी आले असे उल्लेख आहे. आता अश्या प्रकारच्या मूर्तीला संगणक समोर ठेवलं तर काय होईल? तो देव संगणक वापरेल की डोळ्यात पाणी येईल?!!

प्रश्न दिसतो तसा सोप्पं नाही. एक तर समोर काहीच नाही असे आपण दर्शवत राहतो आणि पूर्ण जग संगणकात आहे असा आव आपण आणतो! काय म्हणावं ह्या वृत्तीला?!!..

संगणक का असर बहुत घातक है भाई! उससे सब लोग एक छापखाने की तरह होने की संभावना है!!

हरि ओम.

श्री

 श्री,

द्वैत ही अस्तित्वाची स्थिती आहे. अस्तीत्व बऱ्याच स्थितीत "जाणवत" - त्यात द्वैताच्याही बऱ्याच स्थिती आहेत. 

एकच अस्तीत्व आहे, त्यापासून "वेगळे होणे/ वाटणे/ जाणीव असणे" म्हणजे द्वैत किंव्हा जीव. बऱ्याच क्रिया मधून "वेगळेपणा उद्भवतो" , त्यात वृत्ती, प्राण, मन, शरीर, दृश्य, आकार, परिस्थिती, बदल ह्या गोष्टींची _निर्मिती_ असते (किंव्हा तात्पुरते येतात/ दिसतात आणि जातात). ह्या द्वैताचा "उगम" म्हणजे आतील वृत्तीची चलबिचल/ निर्मिती/ होणे. त्यामुळे "मी" , "जग" आणि "भगवंत" ह्या संकल्पना जाणवतात. 

जिथे आपण सध्या आहोत, तिथून आपला संबंध जगाशी आणि भगवंताशी ठरतो. पण हा झाला मांडण्यासाठी फक्त विचार, किंव्हा शब्दांची जुळवाजुळव. ह्या अखंड क्रियेतून भावात परिवर्तन होत राहत आणि त्या प्रमाणे जाणीव घडतात आणि आपण अस्तीत्व अनुभवतो. इतक्या घट्टपणे मनात गोष्टी असतात. 

साठवण्यानी गोष्टींचं समाधान उद्भवत नाही. किंव्हा वासना तृप्त करून घेण्यातही समाधान लाभत नाही. दृश्याचा स्वभाव (म्हणजे अहं वृत्तीचा स्वभाव) असा आहे की कपाटात गच्च वस्तू भरले की समाधान मिळेल. वस्तू मिळवणे किंव्हा वासना तृप्त करणे हे गुंतण्यात राहण्याचे लक्षण आहे. एक वस्तू मिळवण्यासाठी अनेक प्रयास करायला लागतात आणि त्यातून दुसऱ्या वस्तूच बीज त्यातच असतं! वासनाची तीच तऱ्हा आहे.

म्हणून मार्ग असा हवा की कुठलीही वस्तू किंव्हा वासना नसतांना सुद्धा आपण आनंदी आहोत, शांत आहोत. काहीही निर्माण होत नसतांना देखील आपण पूर्ण आहोत.

हे भगवतस्वरुप झाल्याशिवाय जाणवणार नाही.

हरि ओम.

Shree: Public

 

 

Shree: Public

In our college, no one seems to discuss anything when one works “at his/her desk”. The personal space actually was meant to be an extension of the public space but NOT compartmentalized or kept disconnected from the public space such as disconnected from corridirs, terraces, stairs, studios, walkways and so on. Anyway that is how it is.

However some of the more fruitful converations happened when I was walking on the stairs or standing on the corridor and a chance conversation with a fellow faculty member was struck on topics ranging from relations, challenges in life, old age homes, competitions, students’ attitudes and so on. This means that these concerns probably get voiced out in public spaces or where no one seems to be pressurized about evaluations or judgments!

And then I realized that because the purpose is so much concentrated in private areas that the public dimension is rendered “purposeless”; then it is also “possible” to view this purposeless space as something where “anything is allowed to take place without any judgment or evaluation!”.

Rather than shunning public spaces, it may be quite possible to be in a public space and just do anything  - it may be the greatest flexible space one has inherited, who knows?!

This philosophically means, that any space or activity where the feeling of evaluation is not present essentially takes on a public/ universal dimension!

Hari Om.

Shree

Shree

Issues come to the self in a unique way and that is ok – one will be prompted to take action. Action is inevitable, it can’t be avoided at any cost. Action or becoming or taking a form is the nature of Being and hence by taking a form, differentiation, connection, movement, change will occur. And in this creation, perception will take place and the forces will inform the manner of our thoughts and those thoughts will materialize into something.

This is a behavior, but this induces a profound sense of compulsion of feelings and action. Reminding oneself about the process may assist to tame this impact on our mind. One need not feel guilty about this happening neither should one expect anything from this happening (as if that it should go away). Inheritance will happen and hence we are here – else we would be something else (some other form of becoming). All is by God – including who I am, what I feel, what I do, what am I and so on. and this I makes me see other “forms” as bodies having some thoughts and feelings and some awareness of existence. Thoughts are not a point (as an object) and neither they have an origin or an end as a process. This means that objects are created by the state of thoughts and that also mean a particular process of coming from consciousness to forces to body. If this gets altered to subtle states, then the cycle or the pattern of thoughts would change and so would be the self imposed demands about “I”.

What is created in any way, comes back to you in other form  - meaning what is created by the vibrations attracts some other vibrations implying some situations or people or circumstances. Vibrations are extremely subtle and may generate billions of form and hence the form is not the truth – but the vibrations behind the form are something much more fundamental to understand.

All is by God – so all things will change (and they should). Thinking in causal terms is an extremely limited way of perceiving reality. Be inspired as a fundamental being. Then the relations won’t be causal (or limited to ego) but far more profound. The purpose of making causal connections should not come from ego (justification, defense, competition, argument etc.) but only of discovering.

Be patient.

Hari Om.

Shree

 

Shree

Only God’s existence and its various states exist. In its various states, separation and connections occur and memory happens and hence the awareness of pure absolute Oneness is”forgotten” or “concealed” by other kinds of created experiences. The changes that are felt, relations, connections, transformations, evolutions and movements of coming (forming and changing) and going (dissolving) are eternal and are referred as “vibrations” in consciousness. Not a single particle of phenomenon is absolute (hence created) and this process of creations happens eternally. Whatever we think, feel, do, connect, act, perceive, project, plan, express keeps happening forever, as if it is inevitable and will continue to happen.

Whatever situations, people, incidences, thoughts one encounters, are “continuously created” and whatever one has inherited and one is becoming is also inherited as momentum. Some are toddlers, some become young, some come of age and some become old and finally dissolve – reappearing again in a cycle of creation. The struggle, so to perceive, is created by memory – sense of self and its relation with consciousness. This is also a part of human evolution, so it cannot be skipped at all. The pain is inevitable but there is the strength of choice to decode the pain. Choice is our strength, a fundamental one.

Hari Om.

 

Shree

In the craze of micro control of everything, technology ends up controlling internal vibrations and that becomes suffocating. When technology fails or there is a glitch, the space or vacuum so felt may become unbearable to experience and all pent up forces may get released at supersonic speed. This is the irony that modernity gives us – absolute control leads to uncontrollable urges waiting to be released out whenever they get a chance. This is dangerous.

“tempering of the mind” is required, but the way to do so is not by external control but by inner realization. For this, none of the changes, diversity or challenges ought to be neutralized or even suppressed or squashed – they are the learning blocks of tempering the mind and making it steady. Unpleasant experiences will force one to think and act in proper ways. If unpleasant experiences are removed, as is the effort undertaken by some developed nations, then we are headed for an extremely weakened society!

Hari Om.

Shree

 Shree

Expression of the self does not mean to articulate in terms of thoughts. Thought is a phenomenon created by God, it is not something that you undertake measurement of production! Thought is not something that will assure satisfaction through measurement and evaluation! If this is known, then thoughts are “allowed” to connect, be created and shared and evolve into some form and the route to assess the inner state is also felt.

In today’s times generally people think that expression of thoughts is important part of defining who one is or what one is. But this cycle does not conclude in satisfaction because there is an expectation of a constant flow of articulation to happen and justification to happen and evaluation to take place. This is a huge burden and hence even if there are no thoughts, there need not be any worry to produce them. Thoughts generally mean engagement and if they become continuous then one’s mind is never “at rest/ peace”. This is a problem of our times.

Now what should generate peace? Let things be as they are and let the inner world of non communication and non articulation be as it is. To force everything int thoughts is extremely burdensome and so there will be many, many things beyond thoughts (or which form thoughts) and our perception itself may get informed by many things beyond the domain of thoughts – deep feelings as an example.

Life is mysterious because it is essentially beyond the knowledge measured by thoughts. True knowledge is truth – an existence of Being that “creates” us (or a mind) and hence to become calm is to become that knowledge. We may not be able to say many things of existence but all of that is entirely ok and natural. Whoever said that things (all of them) need to be expressed in clear terms is plainly mistaken. Let there be room for space.

Hari Om.

श्री

श्री,

आपल्याला एक शक्ती दिली आहे अस्तित्वाने ज्यावरून आपण विचार, भावना आणि कार्य निर्माण करत राहू शकू. निर्माण करणे हा अस्तित्वाचा गुण धर्म आहे आणि त्यातूनच सर्व काही होत राहत - आपण देखील. ते अनंत काळ होत राहील. 

म्हणजे शक्तीला अनुसरून कार्य करायला पाहिजे, मग ज्याच्याकडे कुठलीही गुणधर्माची शक्ती असेल ती वापरावी. आता ही शक्ती मला का दिली, असं विचरण्यापेक्षा, ती कशी वापरावी, ते ओळखणे महत्वाचं आहे. Never doubt what we have inherited, why we are here, what we are becoming and where we are going....for that is God's thinking, the origin of which only He knows. 

माणसाला वाटतं की बदल ताब्यात हवे, सुरक्षितता हवी, म्हणून घरदार, मुलबाळ, नातीगोती, स्वभाव, कृती, वस्तू ह्यांचा आधार घेत राहतो. ह्यासाठी शक्ती खर्च करून शेवटी असमाधान अनुभवतो! कारण अस्तित्वाचा हेतू काय आहे, हे नीट कळलेलं नसतं. असो, त्याला काही हरकत नाही. आपण अस्पष्टतेतच सुरुवात केली आहे, असे स्वच्छ मनाने स्वीकारावे. 

नंतर प्रवास योग्य कसा होईल, ते पाहावे. उचित गोष्ट त्वरित कधीच होत नाही, कारण त्याच्या आड बऱ्याच गोष्टी उफाळून येत राहतात. हे ही होणार. अस्वस्थता वाटेल, चिंता राहील, त्रास होईल....सर्व होऊ द्यावे. कारण त्यातून प्रवास कसा घडवला पाहिजे हे उमगत जाईल. 

श्रद्धा प्रकट करा.

हरि ओम.

श्री

 श्री,

जाणीव आणि विचार ह्या मध्ये फरक आहे. जाणीव ही अस्तित्वाच्या शक्तितुंन येते, जीची सुरुवात भगवंत आहे आणि शेवट म्हणजे तात्पुरते आकार). ह्या परिवर्तन क्रियेत कधीतरी "मानवी विचार" तैय्यार होतात. विचारांच्या बळावर एक स्थिती दिसते, सत्य त्याच्या पलीकडे आहे. म्हणून विचार करून पूर्ण सत्य हाती लागतं नाही आणि ते साहजिकच आहे. त्यांनी त्रासून जायचं कारण नाही. 

विचार "नंतर" झाले आहेत, हे स्वीकारलं, तर  सर्व उत्तर, बदल, क्रिया, हेतूच उगम, शक्तींचा वावर आणि समावेश, हे "स्वीकारणे" आलं  बिना शंका घेता. म्हणजे अस्तित्वाची प्रक्रिया काय आहे आणि परिणाम काय आहे, ते माहीत नाही, पण ती होते हे नक्की. 

विचार किंव्हा कुठलीही स्थिती ही एक चक्र आहे - एकच मध्यामाच रूप आहे म्हणून गुंतलेलं आणि अनंत काळ चालून आलेलं आहे. 

प्रतिभा ही विचारांच्या पलीकडे असते, जीच्यातून विवेक येतो. आपण प्रतिभेने वागावं. दृश्य आणि आकार विविध जरी भासले, तरी त्याची प्रतिभा एकच सत्य आहे. म्हणून वेगळेपणा ही स्थिती आहे, सत्य नाही. आणि सत्य जर जाणून घ्यायचं असेल तर ते एकच आहे, ज्यामधून अनेक रूपं निर्माण होत राहतात. जसे ते निर्माण होतात त्यात विघटन क्रिया होते, आणि त्याच वेळेस गुंता किंव्हा त्यातील संबंध तैय्यार होतो. म्हणून आपण कितीही "घसरलो" तरीही इतर स्तरांशी संबंध कायम राहतो आणि त्या बळावर आपण भगवंता पर्यंत पोहोचू शकतो. त्याचा संबंध आपल्या जाणीवेशी निश्चित आहे, तो काय आहे हे प्रत्येकाने तपासून घेणे. 

रस्ता चालतांना काही शेकडो मैलावरची गर्दी आपल्या स्थानावर परिणाम पाडते आणि आपल्याला हळू किंव्हा वेग बदलायला लावते. आपली नजर कुठे सुरुवात होते ह्याकडे नसेलही, पण त्याने परिणाम आपल्या स्थानावर होण्याचं थांबत नाही. 

तसच आपला जीवनाची स्थिती आणि प्रवास एकच शुध्द अस्तित्वाच्या शक्तितुन येत राहतो आणि त्या अस्तित्वाचा परिणाम आपल्या जीवनावर पडतो/ उमटतो, हे ध्यानात राहू दे. 

आपण द्वैतात का झालो, काय घेऊन आलो आहे, आणि कसे संबंध जोडले गेले आहेत, हे विचार करू शकू पण त्याने भगवंताच दर्शन होईल असे नाही - त्याला श्रद्धा ही जोड लागते. संबंध नकळत होतात आणि ते खूप सूक्ष्म रूपातून झाले असतात, म्हणून कधी तरी त्रास, चिंता, दुःख हे होणार, त्याला कुणी थांबवू शकतं नाही - किंव्हा थांबवूही नये जर तसा अस्तित्वाचा नियम असला तर...

हरि ओम.

श्री

 श्री,

आपल्याला एक शक्ती दिली आहे अस्तित्वाने ज्यावरून आपण विचार, भावना आणि कार्य निर्माण करत राहू शकू. निर्माण करणे हा अस्तित्वाचा गुण धर्म आहे आणि त्यातूनच सर्व काही होत राहत - आपण देखील. ते अनंत काळ होत राहील. 

म्हणजे शक्तीला अनुसरून कार्य करायला पाहिजे, मग ज्याच्याकडे कुठलीही गुणधर्माची शक्ती असेल ती वापरावी. आता ही शक्ती मला का दिली, असं विचरण्यापेक्षा, ती कशी वापरावी, ते ओळखणे महत्वाचं आहे. Never doubt what we have inherited, why we are here, what we are becoming and where we are going....for that is God's thinking, the origin of which only He knows. 

माणसाला वाटतं की बदल ताब्यात हवे, सुरक्षितता हवी, म्हणून घरदार, मुलबाळ, नातीगोती, स्वभाव, कृती, वस्तू ह्यांचा आधार घेत राहतो. ह्यासाठी शक्ती खर्च करून शेवटी असमाधान अनुभवतो! कारण अस्तित्वाचा हेतू काय आहे, हे नीट कळलेलं नसतं. असो, त्याला काही हरकत नाही. आपण अस्पष्टतेतच सुरुवात केली आहे, असे स्वच्छ मनाने स्वीकारावे. 

नंतर प्रवास योग्य कसा होईल, ते पाहावे. उचित गोष्ट त्वरित कधीच होत नाही, कारण त्याच्या आड बऱ्याच गोष्टी उफाळून येत राहतात. हे ही होणार. अस्वस्थता वाटेल, चिंता राहील, त्रास होईल....सर्व होऊ द्यावे. कारण त्यातून प्रवास कसा घडवला पाहिजे हे उमगत जाईल. 

श्रद्धा प्रकट करा.

हरि ओम.

Shree

 

Shree

Expression of the self does not mean to articulate in terms of thoughts. Thought is a phenomenon created by God, it is not something that you undertake measurement of production! Thought is not something that will assure satisfaction through measurement and evaluation! If this is known, then thoughts are “allowed” to connect, be created and shared and evolve into some form and the route to assess the inner state is also felt.

In today’s times generally people think that expression of thoughts is important part of defining who one is or what one is. But this cycle does not conclude in satisfaction because there is an expectation of a constant flow of articulation to happen and justification to happen and evaluation to take place. This is a huge burden and hence even if there are no thoughts, there need not be any worry to produce them. Thoughts generally mean engagement and if they become continuous then one’s mind is never “at rest/ peace”. This is a problem of our times.

Now what should generate peace? Let things be as they are and let the inner world of non communication and non articulation be as it is. To force everything int thoughts is extremely burdensome and so there will be many, many things beyond thoughts (or which form thoughts) and our perception itself may get informed by many things beyond the domain of thoughts – deep feelings as an example.

Life is mysterious because it is essentially beyond the knowledge measured by thoughts. True knowledge is truth – an existence of Being that “creates” us (or a mind) and hence to become calm is to become that knowledge. We may not be able to say many things of existence but all of that is entirely ok and natural. Whoever said that things (all of them) need to be expressed in clear terms is plainly mistaken. Let there be room for space.

Hari Om.

 

 

Shree: Three Levels

 

Shree

 

Mind operates at some levels: (interpreted from The Search for a Form…By Eliel Saarinen)

Subconsciously mind can only directly feel the flow of creation happening from internal world to external world and it knows that the internal world informs external world. The external world “therefore” becomes an “extension” of the internal world. We think that the “form” of external world is different, BUT such an operating subconscious mind does not consider external world separated (or as a separate form) from internal world – both are so intimately tied. When any object is seen, or an activity done, it is done with the inherent intent of internal world’s behavior. For such attitude, the external world cannot exist independently of the internal world’s existence. Tribal architecture, primitive or indigenous architecture talks of such expressions. I think that the issues that we face and articulate have no place in this mode of “thinking”  - indeed the word “thinking” takes on a dimension spanning inner and outer worlds and hence may have all components from myth, traditions, ancestors, spirits, social relations, humans, other life forms, environment, spirits, to livelihood. That is what “makes” something tangible for them – be it an element or a façade or a space or a movement between or through spaces.

In conscious working of the mind, it is aware of this relation and perhaps starts to refine this relation wherein principles of aesthetics seem to get contemplated, discussed, debated and expressed. Herein the emphasis is on refinement of the Invisible Order and whatever it takes to do it – ought to be done. The emphasis continues on shared world views or shared values yet a kind of sophistication, hierarchy also seems to govern this process. Medieval cities or pre modern architecture was said to express this attitude towards architecture.

In self conscious workings of the mind, the mind does action for the sake of doing action! The burden of “external expression at whatever cost and articulation” is higher than the voice of inner world (which is independent of any conditions). The level of sophistication is extremely high to the point of total disconnect with the inner world of thoughts and feelings. The issue of complexity, style, critique, verbosity, power, social constructs and so on are used as tools for understanding the creative process. Space and form may get to  much verbalized at the cost o getting divorced from contextual understanding of the place. Commercial interests may take a higher preference than social preferences or even sacred preferences. We may find environment getting plundered for satisfying self interests and the rate of change and the intensity or the scope of action may leave a very large ‘carbon footprint’.

As the mind moves from one form of working to another, it finds the other form quite alien or hard to comprehend – yet in reality it is the same mind that has operated in the three levels. Today at times, we find ourselves moving from subconscious working to self conscious working (linear progression – if that is the idea of origin) or we may also find all three forms of mind working in our contemporary world.

A difficult question is  - it is not a choice of the three ways of working that is to be ‘selected’ for obtaining ‘best/ favorable results!’ – since choice and selection are also seen from self conscious perspectives, so can become short sighted. Then perhaps it is about discovering or unfolding.

 

Hari Om.

Shree: falling for the bait!

Shree: falling for the bait!

I don’t think so that the ego can be safeguarded – it cannot, as it is formed by conditions set by vibrations. Although vibrations and its effects on form can be described as a “process” of transformation of Being into a phenomenon, it is all about awareness and hence “creates engagement or attachment” along the way. Therefore there is a feel of being separate from the rest and to maintain that position at whatever cost of change or dependence one becomes aware off. If one sees at it (perhaps when one is in a different somber mood), what is happening is only some kind of “imagination”.

So imagination is a process of existence – some action and some memory and some awareness and some experience will get created along the way. The cause is not ‘me’ however, (or the constructed me) but the absolute Truth. Hence pressures, changes, demands of any kind are to be taken in the spirit of existence and not in absolute terms of “to do it whatever it takes”.

There will be times when I will feel the urge to talk of disconnect happening in our lives at psychological, environmental, systems, technology, imagination, progress, speed, pace of change and everything that crteates this feel.   A simple instruction like “turn off the lights and fans and water when not in use” talks of our disconnect with public space, public resources, public experience and no one really bothers to change unless there an economic pinch attached to defaulting action.

We don’t speak the Truth, we don’t feel like sharing, we completely ignore any trash thrown out in public space, we only consume for our progress and so on. This feeling can be scaled up to any extent and some societies openly endorse this tendency with severe effects on the environment. And the whole world is falling for that bait!

Hari Om.

 

श्री

 श्री,

मागे काय झालं आणि कसं झालं आणि पुढे काय होईल, हा प्रश्न स्वतः बद्दल, इतरान बद्दल, परिस्थिती बद्दल आणि स्थळ - काळा बद्दल असतो. म्हणजे असे विचार येणार, वृत्ती उमटणार आणि ते एका प्रकारे अनुभव देत राहणार. 

आपल्याला उगाचच असं वाटतं राहत की असं केलं किंव्हा तसं केलं असतं त्या परिस्थितीत/ वेळेत/ स्थलात तर योग्य ठरलं असतं. ते भ्रामक आहे. आयुष गूढ आहे, आणि ते विचार चक्राच्या पलीकडे त्याचं माहात्म्य आहे. 

म्हणून गोष्टी होणे, बदल दिसणे, गती असणे, अनुभव निर्माण होणे हे विचारांच्या बळावर होण्याच्या व्यतिरिक्त आणखीन कुठल्यातरी शक्तीवर आधारलेलं असावं. विचारांच्या हातात गोष्टी नाही आहेत, हे उघड आहे पण आपण ते मान्य करण्यात हिम्मत आणि नम्रपणा दाखवत नाही. आपल्याला भीती वाटते आणि त्याच कारण कळत नाही, हे मान्य करण्यात कुठला न्यूनपणा आला?! आणि ते झाकण्यात दुसऱ्यांवर डाफरण्यात कुठला शहाणपणा आला?!!..आणि असं होऊन सुद्धा आपण हेतूनवर बळी का पडतो, हे तर आणखीनच गूढ प्रकरण आहे!

असो, जग ह्याला मानत असतील. मग कुणाला सुधराव?! उत्तर उघड आहे - स्वतःला, कारण त्यातून आपण जग निर्माण करतो. आणि त्यातून श्रद्धेचा उगम होत असावा, की ताबा मिळवणे हा अट्टाहास सोडावा, " मी " ही वृत्ती सोडावी/ शांत होऊ द्यावी. 

हरि ओम.

श्री

 श्री,

हेतू किंव्हा वृत्ती थांबवता येत नाही आणि त्याला विचारात आणण्यापेक्षा, "वृत्ती असते", हे मानणे गरजेचं आहे. जे असतं, ते अनंत काळ राहत, म्हणून सर्व गोष्टी असणारच कारण मूळ तत्व अविनाशी आहे. एखादी गोष्ट निर्माण होणे किंव्हा विलीन होणे - हे सर्व कार्य आणि गती आणि गुण - राहणार. त्याचा औंश आपल्यामध्ये ही आहे. म्हणून आत्मा ही संकल्पना, किंव्हा त्याच अस्तित्व आणि वावर राहणार. त्याच्यातून दृश्य जग राहणार, आपल्या मनोरचने प्रमाणे. त्यातच स्थळ आणि काळाच्या संकल्पनांचा वावर असतो. 

There is only one thing to be destined - that of becoming silence. This is a process that can have any number of ingredients in any order and any connections to reveal or become Silence eventually.

Awakening to "effort and action" is required, regardless of requirements and outcomes. _Regardless_ is a key word. It means no matter what conditions get formed, we still need to remember Existence. 

मला वाटतं की निर्मिती आणि विलीन होणे (शांत असणे) हे एकाच नाण्याच्या दोन बाजू आहेत. अस्तीत्व आहे, म्हणून त्यात निर्मिती क्षमता कायम राहते. आणि निर्मिती आहे, म्हणून मूळ स्थिती पर्यंत येऊ पाहणे, हे देखील त्यात आहे. 

फक्त हा प्रवास मानायला हवा. आपण भलेही फेकले गेलो असो, ह्या सगरात, पण त्यात तरून वाट काढत सागर ओलांडू शकतो. कसलीच चिंता करू नये, कारण सर्व गोष्टींचं मूळ भगवंताच्या अस्तित्वामुळे आहे.  

त्याच्या सारखं व्हावं. 

हरि ओम.

श्री,

 श्री,

अध्यात्म हे जाणीवेच शास्त्र असावं. म्हणजे अस्तीत्व ही शुध्द जाणीव आहे. त्यातून जाणिवांचे अनेक स्तर निर्माण होतात आणि ते संबंध, बदल, आकार दर्शवतात (किंव्हा त्याला दृश्य "स्वरूप" मिळतं). थोडक्यात आकार बघितला तर एका जाणीव स्तराच चिन्ह आहे. त्या स्तरावर जाणीव आहे म्हणून आकार दृश्यात येतात किंव्हा त्या जाणिवेचा स्वभाव असा आहे की तो दृश्य दर्शवतो! म्हणजेच की आकार ही वस्तू नसून ती जाणिवेची अवस्था आहे किंव्हा ज्याला "वस्तू" म्हणून मान्य केलं आहे, ती मुळात जाणीव आहे! 

ह्यातून हे सिद्ध होत की सर्व वस्तूंमध्ये/ आकारांमध्ये जाणीवा असतात आणि ते आपल्या मनाशी गुंतलेले असतात. म्हणून आपली कृती आकार निर्माण करते आणि इतर आकरांवर परिणाम पाडते. 

आपल्या जाणीव स्थराला "देहबुद्धी" म्हणतात. हा झाला एक स्वभाव/ स्तर. त्यातून बदल, आकार भासत राहतात आणि सुख, दुःख, त्रास, चिंता आपण भोगतो, कारण त्याचा स्वभाव तो आहे. 

जाणीव जशी सूक्ष्म होते, तसे वेगळे स्तर आणि त्यांचा परिणाम आपण अनुभवतो. शेवटी जाणीव शुध्द झाली, की सत्य प्रकट होत. 

ह्या क्रियेला उर्ध्वगती साकारणे असं म्हणतात. 

हरि ओम.

Shree

Shree,

Information means relation, connections, context, change, causal events, space and time. Nothing gets created or explained outside this language. But language is a tool to explain the process – to become the process, some greater awareness is required about the forces that generate creativity or a phenomenon. And that awareness takes one beyond the behavior of the mind and the language. This is the motto of philosophy – to become the Truth. All else is but a shadow of the Truth (or the Potential of the Truth or vibration or the process of becoming or creation).

Every transformation in the states produces a “sense of perception and a construct of engagement/ belonging/ clinging/ ego/ self”. The process of happening creates memory, awareness and belonging. This means that awareness of existence has to transcend memory or any process of identification.

I am what I am. Unless the book of creation does not unfold for me, what is the point to cling to the props that life gives?  However it is a process that requires trust and full acceptance without any complaints. The existential force itself has this awareness to evolve and transcend – the path for which can be anything but easy. Why should this journey be undertaken? For trust.

Hari Om.

Shree: Today’s predicament

Shree: Today’s predicament

There were many exchanges of concerns voiced by faculty members today. Themes that emerge from these are:

The young generation is bombarded by tremendous speed of information explosion with their continuous reliance on online media. This seems to have generated a way of perceiving things – short, unfocussed, wavering, simultaneous, unanchored and so on. Some of the repercussions seem to reflect onto:

Long term commitments. Any long term experience and commitment involves self analysis, introspection, contextual study and practice and loads of work. With time, one condenses the essentials, starts to connect with all phenomena and becomes more efficient. There seems to be a favorable proportion of inputs to analysis to output. If the number of inputs far exceeds this relation, then the belief in sustenance, long term commitments, practice, concentration, analysis  seems to wither away. All relationships to work, to family to partners to climate to culture to memory to feelings etc display this requirement of meaningful and long lasting engagement. The biggest calamity is the construct of “self” that relies on inputs, condensation, abstraction, comparisons, practice or application, learning for it to evolve or expand. Marriage, career, education, health, family, rearing kids, sports, hobby, passion – all are long term experiences. Life itself is “long term” – always bound to change and evolve etc. The meaning of life is ever evolving process. In the newest environment of constant change and accelerated pace of change, how will meaning be formed? If one wishes to have an anchored experience, then how should a current environment offer this – or are we headed for anxiety, stress, fear, stubbornness, distortion, fragmentation, fatigue, anger, resignation? Currently students or youngsters are fearful of career, or getting married or having kids, or even trying anything. And we too make a mistake of brushing their concerns but I think ‘we’ (35 to 55) age group are placed in a unique position to understand the youngster's fears and also the values that we have inherited from our parents. We are required to traverse a changing terrain and only we can do it, since we know at least three kinds of worldviews (and the generated experiences because of the worldviews) – those of our parents, us and the youngsters.

Most people fail to comprehend that as signals become subtle and penetrate within, they inform perceptions at a much intimate level and to access those and work with those requires patience and practice and constant engagement. Philosophically we have already penetrated signals of forms, which have made us perceive differences. If ever we are required to work on “going beyond”, then we will be required to work within ourselves and see to it what are we generating and why? Hence life and all the good things require loads of engagement and practice – at a deep level.

 

Another phenomenon that came to the forefront was the idea of “presence”. I “feel” climate through trees, air, sun, temperature, seasons, skin, clothes, activity patterns, body responses, smells, taste, colours and some other things. These integrate to make me say something about the role of climate as a phenomenon. But for this, all the years of observing, upbringing, sharing, seeing, acting, eating, drinking, smelling, participating, would have condensed or shaped the imagination of climate – and automatically without my complete knowledge. Thus the understanding of climate required such a time space and changing patterns to be digested or perceived by me. If this exposure to time and space and observation is short circuited, what becomes of the perception of climate, in that case?! This short circuiting is a big issue with youngsters and that defines their way of relating to “things” or “phenomena” around them. Are they responsible for this or should we also not take the responsibility to understand what is happening in their world of perception? Philosophically, there is always a “presence” of something. It is we who generate a presence. What sort of presence do you wish to generate? What did real space-time presence mean over virtual space-time presence? This is not a play of words, but is far more intimate question to be decoded. What is real and what is virtual and so on? Are there also other states of imagination? What are the role of those states in our lives?

 

Floating: Too much information packed into a single moment is going to knock you off – you will try to resist it, or ignore it, or play numb or be apathetic or be careless or be aggressive to hear your own voice. This is the resistance the mind is generating in the current environment. It will evolve to protect itself against information overload. Cramming information in academic institutions will not at all work henceforth. And presenting “life as a series of information” is certainly going to put anyone off. We better be aware of this nonsensical habit of stashing information. Hence I don’t want to hear what a moment means – it can mean anything! Let it unfold, as is meant philosophically. Are we giving change to life to unfold to them?

Hari Om.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shree

Shree

Pain is inevitable. It is a unique human experience that is destined for us to evolve into something better. If I would define what is pain or it results from which components then I will name three – position, perception and existence and all of the three work at the same time.

I am made of creation from vibrations to forces to forms – this causes certain perception to be generated – of change, connections, relations, particular, universal, vibrations and so on. The perception is highly malleable across time and space and hence can be made to act so as to transform.

Because I have come here, there are billion issues that seem incomplete, temporary and conditional to attaining peace. Those issues may be about circumstances, people, space, time, rate of change, inner world of vibrations, confusion, dilemma, struggle and so on. That starts to define a position, which again is relative, conditional or situational or contextual and is a part of the creative process. Beyond a certain point, things happen, evolve, change, erupt and the inquiry then begins – what is it that we seek?

As a human existence, above is what has been inherited by us. It has been given for reasons which are quite mysterious to be known. There is only a movement to be encountered – that of change, pace, relations, perception.

Only a movement handed over to us to decode.

Hari Om.

 

Shree: Geometry of Life

In school we learnt something of Eucledean geometry of triangles and other objects and their relations and properties.

Over the period of time, one can say that ALL LIFE happens in geometry. At least architecturally, geometry means relations of things, of people, of inner and outer world, of movement, of materials, of processes, of imagination, of scale and proportions, of feelings, of connections. That makes geometry “alive”. The existential situation is brought to a “form” by the language of geometry.

Students are required to realize that “form” has a purpose, relation, interchange, porosity, texture, character, impact, feeling and comes from the depth of our soul. It is not just out there! It is created/ invented/ given birth. And the fundamental guidance for giving birth is the “love” of connections that one wants to establish among the diversity or complexity that one perceives. Herein “Love” is a feeling of Creation and is beyond a human level of feeling.

Hari Om.

Shree

 

Shree

 

Analysis is unending. But it is required only to understand the vastness of any phenomenon – may be loneliness or any other concept. What one feels may have some relation with the society, social conditions, historical attitudes, aspirations and one’s tendencies. In the craze for production and individuality, there is hardly any common experience that can be shared – hence all experiences become disconnected with the larger perception of existence and that makes the individual experiences also meaningless! This means that an anchored sense of identity should be informed by universal shared experiences and the individual forms. The individual can only exist meaningfully as a function of the whole (in relation to or in comparison with). Therefore one of our thoughts will always be about doubts, struggles, dilemmas, reviews, recall, retrospection, introspection, contemplation and so on. This is required, since it is a sign of relation with the universal cosmos and the more such awareness is; more is the struggle that one is required to face. I am not sure about the idea of inheritance and how and why am I made in this manner and how I will go ahead and what befalls – I am not sure of anything. I only know that I exist, or there is ‘I’ that has come in this world with some relations, conditions, change and perception baggage and aspirations. This will cause some movement of imagination (movement of place and time) and this movement is not just physical but mental (mindscape movement). Since the mindscape moves or changes, a change in space and time is felt.

Therefore what is encountered and seen and watched is the movement. This cant be stopped. It exists – movement exists, so there are vibrations that exist, they come together and rise up to thoughts and they make us perceive forms and then they dissolve or change. This change happens and is in not in ‘the form’s’ control. Change happens and is an eternal process like that of Being’s existence. the Being’s presence causes vibrations and change to occur depending on our relationship (imagination) with the Being.

All forms know an impending death and the incompleteness they have. How can this be fulfilled? Material abundance is no guarantee of peace  - neither is anything of manifestation. What comes, becomes, manifests is going to go one day and will get dissolved and broken into a formless character. The form is as much important as is the formless nature of things. But forming and dissolving is the nature of existence which should be engaged with – or engagement for the same is required. Hence the sorting of our thoughts and remembrance of the nature of existence is required.

As I look back, then there need not be any evaluation in terms of the decisions and situations that have been encountered so far and what has led to what – we should outgrow this cycle of perceiving, adding meaning, responding and so on. Be at peace, for there is no such thing as this or that or here or there or small or big or correct or incorrect or fast or slow or one or many.

A place (and we all know where that is) can represent an extreme concept of individualism, production, competition, pace, fragmentation,  isolation, sophistication and so on. Personally it is difficult for me to encounter such an environment for it seems to disintegrate the essence of what I cherish. But again, there is no right or wrong here – it is a matter of preference.

There is also a place where a high premium on sharing, asking, discussing, organic planning, feelings, cyclic patterns, slowness, relationship, acriticalness is expressed. But individual voices may get squashed or have no place in this environment. Again, it all depends on the temperament of the person to like or dislike such a place.

I chose to give two examples to suggest that things will always be incomplete and we will always ask for something more/ different. We will insist in balancing things out, but the balance can’t be an intellectual pursuit. Balance is realized in any situation and a given situation does not guarantee inner balance.

We only have one guarantee – that of Existence and not of manifestation. So have a reality check on this.

 

Hari Om.