About teaching and Self knowledge

Our life and Beliefs
Most of us tend to believe that age and maturity makes the philosophical belief of living life complete and that in the midst of your quest for a good life, you almost never come close to understanding this. You’ll find at most times in life that the older generation feels the need for getting close to spiritualism. The feeling that ‘this body is not me,’ and that like noted by Shakespeare, ‘we are merely players.’ It is probably then that you might feel that you have grown wiser, if not a bit more intelligent. We’ve noticed that age generally tends to do that to you. Or at least it has been the trend so far. So what in short is wisdom? A feeling of believing in things that are not apparent, or obvious? Or is it just that there exists a different kind of understanding in you?

For us humans, it is not only important to be intelligent; however, although it may seem to be peripherally so. For being complete in the garb of our individual personalities, it’s essential that we grow on all fronts; physical, mental, spiritual and intellectual. At most times couples don’t agree on various issues, knowing that each is different from the other; also knowing that it is in being imperfect that they are to cross many paths in life. But you’ll still find them arguing over petty issues.

Issues, which they themselves know, are of no great significance and yet they’ve probably been stretching far beyond their limits! So what is the limit or the extent at which an individual can take things in their stride? Do we live by rules that definitely make us tread on this path known as life; or do we stop and ponder where are we heading for, in all aspects, physical, mental spiritual and intellectual? There are various aspects to growing into an intellectually sound personality.

When you intellectually understand, it only leads to a deceptive state of mind. Deceptive, because like truth, the intellect is bland and throws up a kind of logical reasoning in your face. Retorting to logical answers may or may not be accepted? It’s easier said than done, but how far do we get things done in this manner!

Common Meanderings
Let’s understand through an example. Assuming that there is no communication issue between the husband and wife, there are many times that things get out of hand and are grossly misunderstood. The husband immediately throws a tantrum and blurts things like, "I thought you’d understand," with the wife also exclaiming the same. Do we whilst in the midst of such petty meanderings marvel at the Almighty’s scheme of things!

That he created a situation, which keeps the both of, you occupied. Perhaps you are a couple who is at the verge of starting a family and situations like these, if taken in the right spirit can only help you build on your patience level. Yeah god has a strange sense of humor, but then he also told you that one who laughs last laughs best!

Why you say, "this cannot be me!" this is actually because you don't want it to be you! A philosophy like that will just give you some semblance of balance in your life, but it does not liberate you from the deeper karma; the karma that teaches you to look beyond what you have been taught, while opening the gates of self-knowledge! This karma lies within your own self. You only need some amount of time to make yourself believe that it’s lying out there for you to unearth it.

The more you avoid it, the lesser the balance you might find in your day-to-day life. While it may be difficult for a person to apply this philosophy, it’s also important that once you do make an attempt, and follow it through, there might be a time that you’ll probably not require any of the materialistic joys that were so once important to you. You may even face a situation of joylessness. Although this may sound far- fetched to you, but it is true that you may reach a stage of becoming someone who’s reasonably balanced and stable.

Suppression and the art of being lonely
Suppressing oneself does not drive in the feeling of joylessness. People generally believe that being adamant is the way out in most situations. That, "If I don’t want to do it, I won’t do it!" It may then be any thing for that matter! What you are today is the element of suppression. And you are just not allowing yourself to experience life in all its practicality.

Today, in the name of civilization or whatever - etiquette or education – it is a fact that none of the educated people are able to experience any of their emotions completely. They can’t cry fully, they can’t even express happiness completely. For everything, we’ve got etiquettes tagged along our side. This is probably one of the reasons why you find most people either depressed or joyless. A deep sense of frustration thus establishes itself. Notice people with simple mannerisms! They laugh out loud they cry as it the melancholic situation approaches them; in short they live life to the fullest.

They don’t accumulate heaps on them; be it for sorrow or for happiness. The very process of life is this dissolution of karma. For every living moment of your life, if you live it totally, you dissolve enormous amounts of karma. Food for thought!