Yourself - An iIlusion

Imagine you have become a very minute organism and you are sitting on one of the millions pores that exist on human skin, you are looking outside the body through the pore and inside you see blood flowing through veins which appears like big pipes connecting the whole human parts inside and everything appears like big factory.

You can feel the air coming in the pore and getting mixed with  what is inside, wherever it finds space it goes in. At level of atoms and molecules it is going and getting mixed...so whether you will think of such entity as some external to human body or part of it ? What is external is actually external or it is just one being...One life and everything connected but only human senses which are incapable of going to minute level gives us illusion of you being separate entity?

Biggest Ignorance of Human Life

When there is cut or wound on our body we feel pain but at same time we know that this is temporary and its is just matter of days or hours it will be over. This realization helps us to get over that trouble with ease because you know the temporary nature of it.

In our life, we face issue challenges everyday and we easily get frustrated/angry/sad/egoistic at small issues but if we have realization about temporary nature of life then we can pass through everything with ease but most humans live like they are going to be here forever and thus make this journey very difficult.

Not realizing the temporary nature of life is the biggest ignorance in which most humans live their whole life. Realizing this fact is actually one of the initial step that one takes towards the spiritual path.

Soul - The King

Body is like Kingdom and its true ruler is the soul. As in Mahabharata, Pandavas(Soul) were actual ruler of Hastinapur(body) but the kauravas (5 senses) took over the Kingdom with the help of blind Dhritarashtra ( intellect ). Throughout one's life this Mahabharata is going inside each one of us. Fight of good and bad to own this kingdom. Soul gives birth to all good qualities like Love, peace, happiness etc. and 5 senses gives birth to anger, greed, lust, jealousy, lethargic etc. 

Five senses is already having the advantage because they can fool the blind king (intellect) by looking at outside world and convincing the intellect to follow or run behind materialistic pleasures. But soul with only help of true wisdom ( Krishna ) can again regain the kingdom back. This realization to intellect comes only when it gets tired of chasing the materialistic pleasures one after another and don't get anything out of it, then finally it starts searching for the ultimate truth. This is point where one turns into true seeker ( Arjuna ).

Most humans don't get this realization during many cycles of birth and death and as a result are gets stuck in cycle but others who attains the stage of Arjuna ( true seeker of ultimate truth ) gets liberated.

Controlling Negative Thoughts

When Negative thoughts/fears come to mind then you find difficult to stop them. You can temporarily put your mind to focus on something else by watching movie or listening to loud music but this has temporary effect, for sometime u will be able to put these unwanted thoughts under carpet but later they will again appear and with more intensity because instead of facing them first time you escaped from them by putting your mind to something else. 

What happens if you try to run away from a fight, this will make your enemy feel stronger and you appear weaker. Same way this action of yours actually in a way resulted in making you feel weaker than your enemy. Escaping may make sense if you are sure that you will not face the enemy again..lol..but here that is not the case they will again appear if not when you are awake but when u sleep they will find their way to stand again. This is default behavior of mind if it is not polished with knowledge of wisdom.

Actually you can't control your mind from the level of mind so next time you see that some fear or negative thoughts come up in your mind just acknowledge it that I am getting such fear or negative thoughts. Be with them let them come don't stop. Just observe what is coming and don't let your intellect make any judgement to it. If you keep doing it you will see such unwanted garbage will dissolve very fast. So just observe and be with them. In mind, whatever you resist will persist and in the end make yourself aware that I am human and it is okay to get such fears or thoughts , nobody on this earth is spared from not having bad thoughts but how we treat or react to such feelings is what differentiates us. Some are god gifted and others can learn. People who don't seek to know suffer whole life.

So Called 'Common Sense'

What is common sense?

Something which is common to our senses. Sense of touch, taste, hear, seeing, smell.

In any normal human being dictionary the whole life can be defined within the understanding of these senses. Events/actions which repeat themselves within the understanding of these senses becomes common sense to our mind and someone who doesn't seems accepting or behaving as per common senses is termed foolish.

Lets examine some common senses which are kind of guidelines to our day to day life. Common sense say that sun rise in east and sets in west but sun is always there neither it rises nor it sets and day brings light in form of sunshine and we can see outside world but to owl night brings light so what is light when sun was there or when sun was not there, ...for owl it is there in night but for human it is there during day, when we touch surface we say it is hot or cold but actually it is decided which way heat will flow, we see plants green, sky blue but for dog world is black and white there is nothing like colors for dog, chilly is very tough to eat for most humans but ask parrot it will be sweet for him, we can only hear if sound is above some decibel but ask mosquito what he can hear, what is silence for us can be very noisy for a mosquito, leave out smell becoz even in humans it is undecided to some extent which is good and which one is bad.

Question here if we are equipped with some defined interfaces and framework then is it worth to go beyond and try to seek 'Divine Consciousness' on which you can't apply logic because human senses are not capable of it ( at least the five we talked about), many humans will term that foolish or Should I say that keep on believing in our limited senses will be foolish.

Seems like both ways will lead to some kind of foolishness in one way or another so its just matter of what kind of foolish you want to be ......lol