VAGDEVI SPIRITUAL PROCESS [#15053] TOWARDS PERFECT HARMLESSNESS; “VAYAMKAR”

Our mythological literature is replete with stories where some saintly persons tried to realize perfect harmlessness in their lives. One such story is about a saint who walked awkwardly with his eyes glued to the ground underneath lest a small ant or some such small creature is trampled under his foot. We can learn many things from such saints. For example, we can be careful in causing least possible harm to natural landscape with rivers, mountains and forests with all the inhabitants thereof while planning a town to live in. In fact, we have started doing it after learning a few critical lessons as to how causing harm to the natural environment is detrimental to our life. Today, we take pride in projecting ourselves as ‘saviours’ of nature and natural environment. I have no hesitation in saying that at times we often act very ‘unnaturally’ in this respect.

A tree grows as the nature permits it to grow. It accommodates with its neighbourhood only as much as its natural growth permits it to do so, not more; not with any thought of duty or harmlessness. The duty or harmlessness of a growing tree comes to it naturally.  According to the ancient Indian philosophy; the man would do well to live according to the well known cycles of the nature.

Our ancient Indian scriptures repeatedly use the word Ahamkar [Aham(I)+ kar(ness); I am-ness]. This is considered to be the root cause of all that is violent about life. I do not know why a word like Vayamkar [Vayam(we) +kar(ness); we are-ness] has not been coined which, perhaps, is the essence of the natural cycles of life. We know, the nature protects, maintains and nurtures all that exist in this universe. Does Ahamkar comes to us naturally and not Vayamkar? Do we have to walk awkwardly to protect the small creatures on the ground or stop all actions as each of them could be the cause of some violence and consequent pain? I am not competent to answer these questions the way they should be answered. Geeta has done it; but, maybe, a lot of unlearning is required on our part to realize the essence of ‘natural existence’, ‘universal consciousness’, ‘the God’s consciousness’ and freedom from ‘Ahamkar’.

Mr. Arun Goel responded to my blog titled as “Vagdevi Spiritual Process [#15046]; Serving the Universe” as under;

The ego that is attached to the thought of our
Universal existence is a Healthy Ego. This is healthy perception. I would want to contemplate on this..

The above referred response from Mr. Goel prompted me to write more on the issue. I thank Mr. Goel.

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”.]