There is only one step

There is only one step to wake up, to enlightenment, to awakening, to love, and whatever you call it. There is no gradual process, step by step, ladders, path, or destination to arrive at. There is only one single step. Just wake up, and all is finished. Before waking up, all is a dream. Your practices, your progress, your path, these all are just inside dreams. In dreams, we dream of waking up.

But once that realisation dawns upon us, once the first step has been taken, all is finished. Some may take that first step in 1 year, in 10, in a century, or whatever. It is a totally random happening. The realisation is a random happening. We mistakenly take the time interval till that realisation as progress or steps. It is not. The guy sitting on the bench might take his leave after 1 hour, after 2 hours, or just 5 minutes later. It is random. It is not like the guy has been accumulating the energy to stand up by sitting there for 1 hour.

So the spiritual or so-and-so practices you do are nothing but dreams. It leads you nowhere. There is no gradual progress in spirituality. It is just one single step, the realisations. Before that, the practices and meditation or methods and so on are just play inside dreams, nothing but illusory play, the same as other illusions.

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What is divine self?

People say that everything in this universe is in constant movement and change, but divine self is unchanged and immovable. What is divine self? The divine self comes into being once the divisions create by mind or ego falls, when the little petty individual self falls. Then there is love, there is no more any division. The fish, the countless drops become one☝️whole ocean. Many people can see this, but they still divide the ocean by saying waves. The ocean has no waves, the wave itself is an ocean. So, in whole, the ocean never moved. Similarly the whole universe as one, never changed or moved. Simply because change and movement all came under it. When I am whole space, what space is left for me to move? But inside me there are many movements. So the divine self is oneness, the only one. So, don’t consider this unchanged and immovable thing literally, it is an unconscious thing, the totality of existence. Don’t try to see the totality of existence, because mind is a bucket capable of holding only 5 litres of water. While totality is infinite litres of water, an endless vast river. It is simply nonsense and foolishness to do so. Let the bucket destroy naturally with the immense pressure exerted by this bast endless river, so that now there is only totality of existence.

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Interconnectedness

Imagine a tree falling just after a guy passes by or before he comes under it, and so he is prevented from getting hurt. Probably in his timeline, in his past, there were some events that caused the delay of him coming under the tree by a few seconds, or fast forwarding of a few seconds, so he didn’t get hurt. Now the guy cannot curse his past. His present is the result of his past. Each and every, even the most minute, even the most painful or unfortunate events has led him to skip getting hurt. Because his wife gave his tiffin a few seconds delayed, or he woke up a little late than usual, or so and so, has caused this present situation of him.

And he woke up late because his boss gave him more work. His boss gave him more work. His boss gave him more work because his workmate was on leave. His workmate was on leave because of his workmate’s cousin’s marriage. The cousin couples are getting married because they fell in love with each other and got into a relationship. They fell in love because they met. They met because they were in the same college. The guy’s friends joined that particular college because of his best friend. His best friend got into the college because of his dad. His dad admitted him into the college because his dad heard good things from his friend. His friend told him good things because his son graduated from that college.

This goes on and on and on, connecting each and every event, each and every individual, the whole universe. This is why we say, this whole universe is one grand movement, one flow, because all are connected and in essence one☝️. This is what we call the net of fate, from which arises karma, so and so.

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A Love that never hurts

There are two kinds of love in the level of conscious mind; the love of ego and the love of self-realized ego. The love of ego is very common and it is what the majority of us do in the name of love. This love is based on conditions, and so it can also be called trade and exchange. There are always causes, reasons, and conditions raised from selfishness for this kind of love. This love is not universal and applies only to those who meet the criteria, the conditions self has applied.

A mother loves her child, but she won’t love if this criterion is not fulfilled. If she could love without criteria, then she would love everyone. But she loves her child only, and perhaps she might have some care or some feelings for others as well, but it is not on par with that of her own child. This is the condition her selfishness or self has placed; the child must be her own. This applies to others as well, those operating from ego.

Because of this, we have anger issues, we have conflicts, we get hurt, we get jealous, we get violent, and so on. You might say that it is natural and common. As I mentioned earlier, the majority of us operate from ego, and our love is the love of ego, so to be angry, to be hurt, to be jealous seems natural to us. This love is purely a chase of dopamine, the pleasure, and avoidance of pain, or displeasure. When you keep providing me with dopamine and pleasure, our relationship will go smoothly. But the moment you give me displeasure and disturbance, I will not feel love.

In those moments, in the moments of hurt, of anger, of jealousy, we don’t feel love for the person like we used to, no matter how close we are. Have you ever inquired why we get hurt or angry or jealous? Isn’t it because we lack acceptance and letting go? And we also believe that in love there should be letting go and acceptance, but the lack of this causes angriness, hurts, jealousy, and so on. No man in the world, no matter who, can ever hurt anyone psychologically. You can never hurt me psychologically. It is me myself, self-hurting myself from the actions you did.

After all, everything is inherently meaningless. Give curse words to a newborn baby, he will not be hurt by those words. Show some disrespectful signs or symbols, he will not care, rather he might find it funny and laugh. For him, everything is meaningless. He is unaware of the meanings we have invented. The meanings are invented by the mind. We interpret our experiences and give meaning or significance to them, and from those self-imposed meanings, we are hurt or so on. So it is me myself, self-hurting.

Now there is also another kind of love; the love of self-realized ego. When the ego realizes that nothing and no one can hurt him, cheat him, deceive him, anger him, make him feel jealous or insecure, and rather it is he himself doing these to himself, he is now a self-realized ego. Now this self-realized ego has the quality of letting go and acceptance. Now who can hurt him or anger him? Who can cheat him or make him feel jealous? No one can. He no longer minds, rather accepts and lets it go.

Doesn’t it sound like an extraordinary thing for you that a man can remain unhurt, remain unangered, remain from being jealous and so on? This phenomenon is rare and seemingly difficult to bring for us. Only when realizations after realizations keep dawning upon our self-made thick walls of conditioning, capable of breaking it, can lead us to that kind of love which never hurts.

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We came out of this world

Stephen Hawking said that the universe and laws of physics seem to have been specifically designed for us because if any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist. He is correct poetically, but if we were to take his words literally, he seems to miss something. This world is not designed for us, but we are designed for this world for the world existed before us. He missed the fundamental point that we came out of this world, not into this world. It is not like us, the bodies and minds, existed before the creation of the world, so that the god has designed this world for our specific requirements. This world is not a party hall to be organized or planned. This world is a random happening, so we are.

We just randomly exist. We are the products of randomness, meaningless, and purposeless. We came out of this world through evolution, so it is obvious that it supports our survival perfectly. We are, as the world is. But looking from this human mind, it seems that this world is perfectly designed for us, which would not be incorrect to say poetically and symbolically. But remember that we are not outsiders that came into this world, but we are the world itself. 

We had dinosaurs and mammoths and so on, which were as the world was earlier. Now we also have bacteria capable of digesting the plastic pollutants, which is, they are as the world is now. The perishing of dinosaurs and so on evidently supports that the world is not perfect for everyone as the world is in constant movement, the time is constantly moving. Time is nothing but the movement of energy, which causes growth and change. So those incapable of adapting perish.

This world, as it exists, is shaped by the fundamental laws of physics—the forces and constants that govern the movement of energy and matter. The stability of gravity, the precision of atomic interactions, the vast yet delicate balance of cosmic processes—these are not conditions crafted for us but the very framework within which everything, including us, arises. These physical laws do not dictate life; they simply create the conditions where life can emerge and evolve. Our perception that this universe feels “just right” for us is not a sign of its intentional design, but a reflection of the fact that we are its natural outcome. Just as water takes the shape of its container, life adapts to the constraints and possibilities of the world it arises from. Physics, in its apparent perfection, simply supports the randomness of existence by setting the stage for it to play out endlessly and unpredictably.

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How to be happy?

December 4, 2024

What is happiness? How to be happy? What prevents happiness? Happiness is simply a state of being, a state of you, of the ego, of the mind, of the conscious part of the brain, in which it is in harmony. Harmony with what? What is harmony? In my sense, in this context, harmony is the alignment, synchronisation, or the movement of the mind with truth or actuality.

See, the mind with all its ideas and images lives in its own self-made petty world or reality, which is illusory in nature. It enjoys being there and so clings to that illusory world. But the world being illusory sooner or later gets struck by the hammer of truth and actuality, which shakes, disturbs, or destroys the world. As the mind was attached to the world, this sudden disturbance and destruction breeds suffering because the mind doesn’t like this new unpleasant feeling. As the mind holds memories, it wants the repetition of the pleasant times it once had. It seeks to avoid and escape from this turmoil it is in, and so there is conflict, struggle, and efforts which is the whole suffering.

In simple, the mind cannot accept the present, doesn’t let go of the past, and seeks the hopeful future with its desires. This creates unhappiness and disharmony. I refer to the great quality of letting go and acceptance as neverminding, which the mind lacks. The mind minds to what has happened, and to what is yet to happen.

So what is truth and actuality? It is so plain and simple that the very word “truth” and “actuality” alone are enough for anyone to understand what it means. But since one is so complex, it hardly notices and understands the simple and subtle things. Okay, but what is truth and actuality? It is nothing except this very moment, this present moment, this now. Whatever it is, in this very present moment, is truth and actuality.

We are in the present, but we are not present. This is absolutely fine as the mind cannot be totally present. It is a reaction machine, which reacts to the happening, sensed by the sensations. The mind is like a computer; it requires some time, however subtle, to process and display the result. It cannot keep receiving and instantly displaying the result without taking the processing time. So, the mind lacks the ability to be truly present. So what’s the problem?

The problem is, the mind has been heavily conditioned. The mind, after physical birth, starts receiving its conditioning. The unnatural upbringing, the unnatural education system, the unnatural society —which in fact are products of nature— has heavily conditioned our mind. It has snatched from us the great quality of neverminding. The mind has been conditioned to seek, desire, compete, and so on. In this race, we are caught.

We are so busy with our daily mechanical life. There is so much fear of being left behind, of not being enough, and so on. The fear is so much that the people are just running and running and running. Working and working and working like a machine, a robot, to live a stable and happy life, which perhaps the poor man would never be able to. There is such a busy machinery life that there is literally no time for neverminding. In fact, these things, these philosophical things, these wonderful things, are considered as the lazy man’s talk, boring topics, and a waste of time.

Such heavily conditioned we are. When we were children, everything piqued our interest. A simple peek-a-boo made us laugh so much. A simple walk in the park was a grand adventure, where each pebble and flower held a secret world only we could see. But as we grew, these things gradually became boring or a waste of time. It is because of how busy we became, how machinery we became through the conditioning. But it is fine; everything is perfect and as it should be.

But if one wishes to end suffering, slow down, my friend. Stop, take a pause, and look around. See what you have already missed and realise what you could miss this very instant if you keep up your never-ending race leading to nowhere. But there is barely time for the pause. If I don’t work hard now, how will I enjoy later, right?

See? We have been so conditioned to seek a hopeful and promising future. The religion tells you if you do this, you will enjoy a good life after death. The schools tell you if you work hard, you will lead a successful life. The parents are telling you, the husband, the wife, he, she, this, and that are telling you.

And even if such a future really comes, till then you would have been so heavily conditioned that now, the present, no matter how beautiful it is, no matter it was once your dream, no longer excites you. It would have become your habit to chase the future. Perhaps this is why desires have no end. They have this nicotine quality, which makes them habitual and addictive. So the fulfilment of one desire is not enough anymore. And so, the accomplishment of the dream you have, the so-called “successful life” you want, would no longer excite you or make you happy.

If one wishes to end his suffering, realisations after realisations must dawn upon him as such that it shakes or destroys the heavy walls of conditioning he is confined into. This is the job of life. Life hammers you; the very suffering of yours has the great potential to end all of your sufferings. It is life reminding you again and again, shaking you in the hope that you would wake up. The suffering is capable of triggering realisations after realisations. One or two realisations cannot do anything because of the heavy and thick walls of conditioning, realisations after realisations must dawn upon. This is a rare and random phenomenon.

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You

You,

a home,

for the homeless me,

countless drops,

for the boundless sea,

a sprouting seed,

for the huge huge tree,

a sparking spark,

for the flame to be,

a guiding star,

for the lost to see,

a tender touch,

for the aching me,

the only truth,

for this wandering "me",

the only truth,

for this wandering "me".

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