Cause and effect relationship.

Cause and effect relationship.

The life of a sansari is bound by the mindset of a cause-and-effect relationship.

We always look for a reason before doing something, so that we can explain to others, “Why I did that.”

Whenever someone does something, we always ask, “Why do you do that?”

We even follow dharma gurus to gain something from them.

There is nothing to gain in life but to discover from life.

Even when one meditates, he does it to get peace, find God, etc.

This cause-and-effect-based life is mind-driven, a life locked up in time, cause followed by effect. (and time is only a concept).

With this, you can live in Sansar, but that is not spirituality.

If you can perceive bondage in such life, you WILL find freedom.

Spiritual life is where the mind and time end, and spontaneity arises.

Connecting with consciousness brings clarity to life, just as a lost traveler finds the proper path only by climbing a hill.

After connecting with consciousness, whatever you do will be from your own inner joy, not a borrowed joy.

Following others for happiness is like playing with an adopted child; no matter how much you try, it will not be the same as the joy of playing with your own child.

The most profound and also most subtle essence of the whole universe is spontaneity.

Why do the stars twinkle?
Why are butterflies so beautiful?
Why do the birds sing?

Only a scientist (a product of a mind-driven society) will try to find answers to such questions and lose this beautiful message of the universe.

We follow others to gain something; we are locked up in bondage, duality.

But the subtle message of wholeness, Advait, of the universe is hidden in you.

You can only find it in you, nowhere else.

Life is a beautiful rose sprinkled with a unique fragrance of spontaneity; don’t die without taking a moment to smell it.

In the vast expanse of awareness, infinite events occur all the time, due to the interactions of energies (E=MC2).

Each event is an independent entity, a unique product of these interactions, and is never to be repeated. ( because the nature of awareness is infinite, so all its products also will be infinite; a mango tree produces only mangoes, not bananas ).

Man’s problem is unique and self-created.

He tries to stitch these events together to establish some kind of continuity, which in reality does not exist.

For this, he needs a concept, an imagination, and that imagination is the Ego.

He thinks this is his smartness, but it’s not.

Every second brings changes to our body, ( and to the whole universe ), and yet we keep attaching the same identity – “This body is me” to it, from birth till death.

This leads to thinking that “I was born, and I am going to die.”

But the reality is, one who dies is not the same as one who took birth.

“The lamp that we shut off in the morning is not the same lamp that we ignited the night before.”

– Buddha

(Millions of molecules of oil get burned up and disappear into vast nothingness overnight. The original flame is no more; flame is a constantly changing entity.)

Understanding our whole life as an ongoing process is wisdom and a relief from suffering.

To believe in a fixed identity in this process ( Ego ) is foolishness, a cause of suffering.

Our mind, our intelligence, even our intellect (supposed wisdom) are only incidental byproducts of our ignorance, needed to keep our self-created trap ( Ego ), alive.

But, in reality, there IS something that binds all these events.

What is it?

If you observe a pen, who is really observing the pen?

You would easily say, “I am observing the pen.

But there is something else also present ( other than “you “ ) right there and then while “you” think “you” are observing the pen.

And that is your consciousness.

What if you were unconscious at the time, when the pen is being shown to you, would you be able to say the same thing?

No.

So, who is the real observer?

The consciousness in you.

At a very subtle level, consciousness is the ultimate perceiver.

Extrapolating such a simple event on a large scale would mean that the real and the only witness, the real observer of whatever is happening in the universe and wherever it is happening, is the consciousness.

Consciousness is everywhere, all the time, and it binds the whole universe and its infinite events happening anywhere, every second. ( Kan kan mei, kshan kshan mei hei bhagwan).

And without it, no perceiving will happen, anywhere, anytime.

The whole of Sansar will lose its purpose.

And yet, despite this fact, when the pen is being observed, your mind makes you believe that “you” saw the pen.

Who is that “you”? Where did that come from?

There is no “you”.

The ego is the fictitious creation of your mind. It’s only a belief.

The consciousness perceives everything, and that’s why it is called consciousness, because it is the seat of all consciousness, anywhere and everywhere.

The human body may appear conscious, but it does so in the borrowed light of consciousness.

Everything that is happening in the universe is just happening, without any doer.

(Dreams just happen every night; you don’t create them.)

Similarly, the whole of sansar is just a happening and fleeting, not the ultimate reality.

The reality is only ONE – the consciousness.