Detachment or ‘Vairagya’ is not absence of
concern about what is happening around us. Some self-proclaimed ‘life coaches’ suggest
that one must live the life to the fullest by enjoying the God given gifts of
our body, mind and intellect; and not bothering much about what goes around us.
They suggest Yoga for the physical and mental health and intellectual pursuits
for the sake of enjoying the gift of superior intellect we are born with. They
cleverly avoid any discussion about necessary human efforts, individual as well
as collective, to maintain and sustain life.
A
man’s limitation that he cannot write his own destiny is not a spiritual gift;
it is merely a worldly occurrence with an extremely high probability, which may
be termed as an immediate or practical truth. Concealed behind the aforesaid occurrence
of extremely high probability has been yet another immediate or practical truth
with a reasonable probability is the collective human ability of supporting
life in this universe. The nature, which has no option but to follow the cycles
of changes according to some laws that is difficult to comprehend, exists with
us (the ones with many options) as a teacher. It (the nature) constantly reminds
us of our abilities that can enable us to experience the bliss of ultimate
happiness, the ‘Anand’ of our spiritual existence.
Our
problem is that we either get bogged down by the thought of our inabilities or
get inflated with the dreams of our superior abilities. It is because we,
individually, separate us from what exists or does not exist. In one moment we
become sad about the meaninglessness of life and, in another, we become ‘Brahma’
and find a seat next to the Almighty. Perhaps, no other living being has that
kind of a concept, if it has any. The constant reminder from our teacher, the
nature, would serve us well in viewing ourselves as one of the many, each as
important and as meaningful as any other.
What
we have in mind while a teacher is telling about the secrets of truth is us.
The end result is, we neither know about the truth, nor about us. If we know
the truth, we would know who we are; or if we know about ourselves, we would
know what the truth is.
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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