A child
touches a hot pan accidentally and gains an experience. A mechanic presses a
lever and commences an operation that is performed after pressing the lever,
only to find that the lever had failed to operate; he gains an experience. A
teacher finds that his students have forgotten everything that he taught them
two days before; he gains an experience. We all gain several experiences in our
day to day life through our interactions with the external world. Do we, at any
time ‘observe’ how our ‘inside’ is reacting to what we experience in the
outside world; or, we ‘observe’ how our actions are influenced by what is ‘inside’
us?
Although, the interactions of our ‘internal system that
governs us’ and the external world occur too close to us but, we are hardly
aware of it. Do we think that it is not needed or we do not think about it at
all? Are we so busy with the external world that we do not have any time to
develop at least some understanding of the decisive and governing part of our being?
Perhaps, a stone does not have a decisive and governing part of its being, but
we do have something living within us.
What we call experiencing is not merely experiencing the
external world with our ‘physical self’. By ‘physical self’ I mean the sensory,
mental, intellectual and egoistic part of our being that is attached to the
physical world. We must try to know a little more about what else is there
inside us that is beyond the ‘physical self’. Our experiencing must penetrate
deeper within us. We should have an intention to do it and give some time to
doing it.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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