Maya And Leela: Utility In Life’s Futility by Santosh Jha (christmas read aloud .txt) 📖

are usually intuitive. Therefore, we also somehow unconsciously decide the eventualities of what could have been, had we listened to and acted according to a ‘conscious’ choice. One choice instantly shapes the eventualities of other choice and for this to happen, you do not need any medium of communication as both are entangled such a way that both in finality are in total singularity of mind-mechanism.

There is a famous quote of a very great man, which reflects this entanglement. He said, “there is virtually no doing that you would not consider undoing and the vice-versa; and even regret doing or undoing after it is past you but still, the momentary pride and utility of the doing and undoing almost always makes it happen or unhappen… and this is the obscure joy of life and living choices…”

Then, what comes of all this? That the joy of obscurity is in the ubiquitous emotion that though there is a déjà vu about it but still, there is little control over it. Let alone there being any occasion to be judgmental about its finality and fruition! Alternatively, are we only half of our actual potential as the other half is always in the realm of obscurity with a feeling of still being at the door of it?

What ‘intuitive’ self does or undoes, opens up the dimensions of what ‘consciousness’ could do or undo and the vice-versa. Life and living choices always seem to be half opportunity and half potential or half success half failure or half joy half regret. Is it? Should we take this? Oh! What then is the fruition of this philosophizing?

Yes, you are absolutely right, philosophizing is a huge support system for humanity. It must put you in good stead, not leave you confused and chaotic. What we eventually philosophize is, ‘entanglement’ and ‘communication’ are two hugely beneficial concepts and ideas in our lives and we can truly enjoy its randomization but we need to understand it.

First, almost all things we consider important for us, are in varying degrees of ‘entanglement’ with each other and each one dimension automatically affects other. Secondly, most entanglements have communication linkages and they speak in a language we either do not understand or happily ignore. There is a systemic causality, which surrounds as and communicates with a purpose. We often fail to pick them up.

Blaming it on the fast speed of life and innumerous pressures on us is no solution. We all have to develop the art of understanding this ‘entanglement’ in all walks of our lives, especially that between ‘consciousness’ and ‘intuitiveness’. In addition, we have to be emotionally as well as intelligently at it to listen to and understand the communication going on between the entangled entities. That shall help us in making much more informed and well-poised life and living choices.

Such is the arrangement of this universe and everything around us that we are in all and everything around and far away from us are in varying degrees of the state of ‘entanglement’ and the ‘communication’ between all these are in the air.

Doing, undoing, joying and regretting are part of the life-play. However, maximizing joys and minimizing regrets is our core business and our core competence. We are human after all…! Understanding the multi-dimensionality of the world around us and accepting the multi-dimensionality of knowledge makes us achieve that. We can do it… we must…!

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The God Within

Since time immemorial, inquisitive people with questions in their hearts spent huge amount of time and energy to find what is good, ideal and desirable for all humans and for all times to come.

So much has been written and more than that remains to be realized through unwritten traditions and wisdom ingrained in the original nature. Through the ages and in different stages of human knowledge and civilizations, to some great people were revealed the ‘unknowable’, that is the ultimate wisdom that cannot be known but only be realized.

However, for the benefit of humanity to come, they created some ‘Beej Gyaan’ (seed words) which is just a word or a set of words written in some mantra format. These are important metaphors and symbols for humanity to decipher and understand. All such seed words reveal ‘one thing’. Wisdom is singular and that is why the notion of God is also singular.

One such all-encompassing and ultimate seed word is: sat-chit-anand (sachidanand).

The three parts of the seed word means :

sat = absolute existence

chit = absolute consciousness

anand = absolute bliss….

The corresponding word for ‘absolute’ in sanskrit is ‘mool’. We can say it means absolute but as it is; the words that humanity has designed cannot fully explain the deepest of meanings.

The word ‘mool’ has following wider meanings: absolute, intrinsic, innate, natural, zero, etc. The seed word reveals: sat-chit-anand is the intrinsic nature, innate positioning, natural mechanism and transcendental purpose. Sat-chit-anand is a being’s original and innate positioning. It is the absolute and ultimate arriving.

The modern and very contemporary scientific ideas of psycho-synthesis and psycho-energetics also say the same thing. In very simple words, it is your own ‘common sense’.

The core idea of it is that, sat-chit-anand being the ‘mool’ idea, it is already and well there in all living being, one does not have to create it, or find it, or teach it or learn it or propagate it. The ultimate goodness and wellness is within us.

We just have to have it. Common sense is just there to be revealed and realized. All beings have this within them. It is so simple to sound true. For, we all have the mind training to accept goodness as something very complex and beyond our easy endeavors.

That is why, we all pray our respective Gods to guide us to be good. The fact remains, goodness is just a seed word and very much singular, well within the easy reach of our simple endeavors.

As this seed manifests itself in a complex structure of a giant tree with innumerous branches and uncountable leaves and fruits, we all are led to believe, goodness is very complicated. It is never, it is just a seed.

Plant the seed of this common sense in your mind and let it grow within your mortal being. Then, enjoy the diversity of goodness and be your own God. All rational minds have told us since ages, God is within us. Those attempting to find it outside are doing the mistake of uprooting a giant oak tree from the jungle and planting it in their house garden. Like seed, goodness grows within and it cannot be transplanted. Even if it happens, it would not survive long.

The seed realism of goodness is ‘accommodation’. Acceptance of ‘I’ with compassionate accommodation towards ‘We’, ‘He’ and ‘They’. No doubt, one is designed to believe in ‘I’ as the center of the universe, but then, the ‘I’ needs to be compassionate and affectionate towards the existence of ‘others’ in the periphery.

This is what rational minds have called ‘holism’. The liberty of periphery to be equitably (if not equally) as important as the center and the duty of center to accommodate periphery in the liberty to be what it is. This holism is the only divinity, a singularity of situationalism, the imagery of Gods may be in plurality; divinity is not.

Most rational minds have warned humanity of the ‘dictatorship’ of singularity of elements other than the abovementioned divinity. The dictatorship of all sorts, especially the dictatorship of subjective intelligence, dictatorship of parts; that of either the center or the periphery is anathema as it kills the goodness. Only the dictatorship of holism is allowed; this dictatorship of compassion, accommodation and acceptance is welcome. Divinity alone can be a dictator.

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We All Are Seeds

A very learned man had once said, ‘what I have attained, I wish to give it to people in the form of seed words’. A great maestro of dhrupad classical music was saying, ‘the greats of music, the forefathers have explored and understood music and they gave it to us in seed form’.

All great creations of wisdom since ages have been preserved in ‘seed words’ or ‘seed art’. That is the only way a tree can be preserved for ages. Trees come and are felled by humans but, the wisdom of the tree can be preserved in seeds.

Any good and humble human being will ensure that the seed is sown in the right soil and gets the timely and right doses of sun and water. As this happens, if not the same then a similar tree shall come up even after thousands of years after the seed was created.

In fact, the seed-imagery is the first and most potent metaphor humanity could see and take as foremost way of understanding and preserving the cosmic truth. When there was no language, no culture, not even civilization, humans could see that a seed falls on the ground and soon, it becomes tree. This was the first truth…

A seed however is only a potential, like a human life. However, it cannot find its true potential by itself. The potential is actualized only when it finds the soil. Greats have insisted that most average humans need a good guru (teacher) as the right soil. A guru is just a catalyst as a soil. The soil does not want anything for itself and does not even wish for a seed. Soil makes a seed become a tree because it is the essential nature of soil. It is self-less not by choice but by positioning.

Practically, the family and society work as ‘soil’ for the seed. All seeds shall be fortunate enough to have the right and fertile soil for their growth to become a tree. Actually, it is the fundamental right of every seed. Often, in contemporary times, this soil is reluctant to accept this right of the seed and is prompt to throw the onus on politics and governance. Sad and bad time it is for the seeds of today.

The soil in itself is a huge metaphor. It shows us the true ‘leela’ positioning of consciousness. It shows what the desirable ‘karma’ is in the domain of ‘maya’. Soil turns a seed into a tree and this is not its ‘action’ but positioning. Karma is never an act or action; it is simply a positioning like soil. It is soil’s essential nature; karma is also one’s essential nature to be like soil. Not only family and society, every person should also behave and extend its consciousness as soil for every seed that comes in his or her life.

This however is for common people, the learned have to go different way.

Let us also understand the metaphors of seed and soil in a different perspective. It is truly tragic that most humans never find the soil. This does not happen because, for this to happen, a seed has to first fall from its egoistic position in the sky (treetop) and assimilate in the soil beneath. Secondly, the seed will have to dissolve its being the moment it falls on the soil, as the soil will ensure that what will come up is a tree. Often, the seed in its ego and ignorance is averse to going to the soil. Falling down from its position to accept its own dissolution is a tough call.

The issue has become too complicated now. The seed now complains that soil is no more good and suitable for it and that is why, it is reluctant to handover its dissolution and future growth to this ‘corrupted’ soil. The teachers have also lost credibility as soil. The seed then opts to plan and execute its own growth independent of soil. We have a new jungle where trees have grown above the soil!

The soils have their own sets of accusations for this new breed of seeds. They are prompt to point at that the seeds are growing up to be bad and problematic trees as they do not have toots in the soil.

We all are seeds. We all are dormant potentials. We are all in