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.
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