Written Voice

Let us imagine a big drum of water - and a set of twenty bottles in different sizes. Now pour the water into each of this twenty bottles - some round some tall, some square, some short etc. Add different colour to each water - red, blue, green, yellow, violet, black and then put the cap. N0w everything looks so different. But do you think the basic property of water is changed ? Do the waters in all these bottles really have the option to think themselves as different from each other in their basic constitution ? NO ! never under any circumstances can each one be different from each other. The outer shape, colour and size does not make them different in their internal constitution. And when you leave them open in the sun for long they will all evaporate leaving behind the coloring residue and the bottle and the shape.

Human beings at birth and also at sleep and death are all equal. Only at the conscious phase of our life we think that we are different - but how does it occurs. To understand the true self - you need to break the illusion or the image of self. We are all born naked - like a portion from the big drum of water - we start growing - the outer world starts pouring in colour in the form of knowledge - our family tells us - this is good and this is bad, this is desired, this is not desired. Books tell us - this is a barbarian, this is a hero, this is terror, this is liberation, this is freedom, this is your country, this is your neighbour, this is your enemy, this is what they did, this is what we should do. Society tells us - this is a good behaviour, this is in bad taste, this is how we should dress, this is vulgar, this is success, this is glamour, this is love, this is happiness, this is pleasure, this is peace, this is in, this is out, this is a local hero - defines the rewards and success. The church or the religious teaching tells us - this is moral, this is immoral, this is evil, this is good, this is bad, defines the rewards - this life or afterlife. Similarly Movies, Television, Media, Books also play an active role in defining our goal and the desired image in which we want to exist. Each one of these plants the seeds of fear either directly or indirectly in our subconscious mind and also the level of aspirations. In effect it helps to shape the bottles in which we will grow for the rest of our life.

Many a times I have come across different thoughts and view on meditation - people coming out with methods, ways, guidance - what not - sit cross-legged, lotus position, switch off lights, burn an incense stick, put on this trance music - and so on… We have invented so many different forms of escape that the whole purpose and meaning of Meditation is lost. If we are making an effort, if we are deliberately trying to concentrate, or going by some authority - then obviously we are sacrificing the freedom of mind and simply following something to reach nowhere.

Meditation is observation - to be aware - as such it does not require any cross-legged or lotus sitting or any incense or any music or a dark room or a candle or any absence or any presence…(how

We normally have a tendency, rather not a tendency but we think that we live in the past, present and also future - we look before and after while living in the present. But is that true ? Human beings as of now have always lived in the Past - the past being his memory.

Even when we are living in the present we try and analyze everything with reference to the past and when we plan or think about the future we use past as a background for all our projections. We are here we want to be there - we always think with the past in mind. Even when we try to understand something new we try to refer it to past theories, facts, formula and then try to put meaning to the new experience. And this is where we become blind to new ideas, concepts, theories etc. Its requires complete shutting off the Past to invent a new use of an electro-magnetism as in a

Our current existence is caught between two worlds - the inner and the outer. The outer world - which we created,- is a world of hatred, misery, greed, envy, brutality - a violent world and the resulting society in which we live. A world where every nation is building their arsenal of arms by either manufacturing or simply buying - where the big ones sell while the poor nations buy - we formed this world - and our ways - our thinking is only to be held responsible for this - you and me.

And the inner world or the self is now getting shaped by the same outer world we developed - responding to it , reacting to it every moment , every second . We want our kids to be great human being - appreciating nature, loving people helping the needy - but no the outer world does not permits us to do so - we are forced them to push in the same technological race - the same race for being a superior human being instead of a good human being ! All our desires, our aspirations our ambitions are being constantly shaped by this outer world - how we dress, what we speak, what we do everything. And both this worlds are related and constantly flows from one to the other.

The other day we were discussing a great topic - what is history - arts or science at blogcatalog only. Some people do think that we all need to know our history. I expressed my views that whatever it is - we should deal very carefully with History - that it should not be included at school level along with a few more subjects. History - should be treated as a research subject and always studied under professional supervision.

Coz history changes a man - A kid will play with any other kid as along as they don’t know history - a kid is always a kid - he is not an Arab kid or a Israeli kid or a Hindu kid or a Russian kid or a Black Kid or a Chinese kid - it is we who make them as such and change their perspective to life.

Only questioning can purify the mind… questioning which is not a product of our thought process…

Nearly all the religions are based on books some one and some several…but none of them allows you to question or doubt… if you question the entire religious world in the west, east and all places crumbles down in one day… ( I will write more on this later) but questioning, doubting something purifies our mind and can only give us the most clear and bright picture of everything.