Simple Rules

Little boy asked his father
what does this World around mean?
Seeing his child’s quizzical expression
the father got very keen

He started to explain all the mess
Hard facts little child could not digest

Boy said, “This seems a little too much”
“Can’t there be a simple rule?”
The father said, “It aint that cool!”
It’s a mystery to all of us
Even to them who created the fuss
It seems that the creators have forgotten their identity
What it is vs. what it could be; such a pity!

Darkness

Darkness all around in all means and all the time,
when nights override mornings, evenings and energetic sun shines
I feel lost in this world which otherwise seems simple for all
when should I believe in the body and when should I encompass my soul

I cease to believe in all rituals, words and bibles
Understanding symbols, sounds and man made fables
All which is explained is confusing and misleading
The paths leading everywhere seem endless and never ending

This feeling of being lost is dangerous and driving me crazy
I find no time or thought to keep me engrossed; it’s all so hazy

Please spill some light over this veil of darkness
Explain me the mysteries and reasons for this be wilderness
Is there no one who can answer my questions and save me
One who can guide me to consciousness and find my identity

Inquiry

Dear Living Beings,

This message is for all of us. All who breathe, all who feel, all who need food, sleep, shelter and security. All of us who survive on this planet called Earth, which is a small part of this galaxy, which is again part of the Universe where millions of other galaxies and many trillions of similar planets exist, all of us who are born and are told that we would be dead sooner or later. There is enough evidence around to prove these basic facts, isn’t it?

First of all my question is do we know who we are. Do we know what are we here for? Do we know what the purpose of our life is? Do we know what are we supposed to do? One thing one want to make clear is that this is not again a philosophical business. This is truth and we all know it. Most of us agree that life is all about money, food, sex, shelter and security. Are we aware that there is more to life than craving for money, desires and competition?  Do we ever try to find out more from life? Yes there are many people living here who are doing more than the four basic requirements mentioned before. But is it enough? We have great musicians, fighters, artists, sportsmen, speakers and many more of such great gems who dazzle our world. Yes, they are the crown. But is it enough? Can’t we move further? Does life end here? 

We all know what business goes around in the world. We are confined with our desires, our mind. We do what we are taught and we do not ever dare to think more than that, because of fear; fear of losing our identity, or fear from powerful people governing this world. We all know that we are going to die, because we have seen it going that way with other people. That is something which creates agony within us. Then there is fear of emotions, we are humans. We have feelings and emotions. We cry, we laugh, we love, we hate, and we do all what is not mechanical. We agree that emotions are one important aspect where we could be distinguished from machines, robots and computers. I did not say trees, animals and birds because they too have emotions. They do feel anger, hatred, love and attachment too, although they are not human beings. They feel the love, they feel the agony. 

We are all living a mundane life no better than trees, animals and birds. It is actually worse. I can prove it is worse. Then we have mind, the desires and thoughts. Mind is something what rules most part of our lives, we human beings have multiple minds. Mind is nothing but ego, the self. It is what creates thoughts, it is what creates desires, it is energy behind all our sins and achievements. Yes, achievements too. Mind is a blind jockey which keeps whipping us all the time and creates desires and then provides energy to fulfil them. I said blind because it is biased. It cannot differentiate between truth and erroneous. It makes us keep running in this blind race where nobody wins. People seem to win or loose, but actually nothing is ever lost or won. 

It is here, survives eternally. Remember wise people have said, “Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed, but can only be converted from one form to another”. We seem to own a lot of things. We own our house, our cars, our machines, our clothes, don’t we? What is going to happen to all these possessions of yours when you die or when you don’t exist? Somebody else will take over them. It becomes the property of somebody else. He is ruling it now; temporary dictatorship. When he dies, somebody else will take care. The cycle goes on and on, endlessly. The things survive, eternally, in one form or the other. Physical attributes change. They say, it all existed as a gigantic mass of energy. They there was the biggest collision in the history of Earth – Big Bang. That created universe, galaxies, stars and planets. Energy always exists. It can never be destroyed. You can climb the biggest mountains, swim through the Atlantic, conquer the stars, or dig out the deepest mines, it’s all the same. Physical aspects are different, energy is always present. 

I am writing all this to trigger an inquiry within you, within me. Let us all inquire. Let us learn to inquire. Inquiring is not just probing or getting answers to your routine questions. Inquiring is deeper. Inquiring is more subtle. Inquire means to explore, to find out, to dig deeper; to find more meaning to all of this. 

Can we begin with the ground level? Can we again start with a zero? Why zero because all of your intellectual oceans, hills and valleys are made up of virtual sand, which blows away even with the smallest jerk of wind and which is an effort of the society at large, for their own benefits. Society has created your mind or rather nurtured it. They have taught you what was needed for you to serve them. They can’t teach you more. Don’t expect miracles from them. You will have to work on it yourselves. Your perverted and crippled mind is the gift or rather by product of the education provided to you by the society. A crowd can never be intelligent. Intellect, freedom and bliss are individual’s aspects. An individual can be happy, or sad, or intelligent or idiot, or free or enslaved; crowd can never be. Society is a crowd. 

Remember nobody will do a favour. They cannot, they have their own self. They have to feed their desires; they do need their bread and butter. As long as you are helpful to them in one or the other means, they will help you. Lets us reclaim this fake business. You only can find answers to your questions. Nobody else can. I am a human being. I am weak, I have fear of death and I have desires. I have feelings. I am not god. I am a simple man like you all or rather weak. I am not able to understand all this matter. 

Gods are the nothing but our desires aggregated in larger masses. We create gods when we want. We ask them to fulfil our desires. We visit churches, temples and mosques only when we have something to ask for, but that is human nature. We are born with a self, an ego, a mind which makes you run all the time. You are not able to take a halt. Stop for a second and think. What if you fulfil all your desires of power, money, luxury, lust? Won’t more of them arise when earlier ones have been accomplished? Does this business ever stop? It never stops. We continue to crave for desires. We go on and on. We never stop, because, if we stop for a second, we might start thinking what is all this nonsense. God has become a business. Temples and churches are biggest of shopping malls where gaining, loosing, negotiating and all that business goes on. We buy gods in rupees and dollars, if not, then in golds and silvers. We promise him to pay if he fulfils what we want. Is this the god we pray, is this the god we trust? 

Motion keeps us afresh with our desires and senses. That’s why we keep running all the time. You know that stagnant water becomes useless. Mind is the same. If you stop for minute, you tend to think, what the hell is going on? And mind stops to work. Mind moves every inch to make you run again, in this endless world of thoughts, desires and needs. 

I am not against the mind; I am neither against desires, nor materialistic demands. I am an inquirer. I want to inquire, I want to find out. I have all these possessions. I love, I cry, I feel for other people, I have fear of death. I am not against this world. I cannot be. This is the only place we have, this is the only time we have got and this is the only life you are gifted. Let us all inquire, inquire within you, inquire the nature, inquire the trees, and inquire the world around, what is missing. Despite of all what we have there is something important missing, something substantial. We miss happiness and we miss freedom. We miss ourselves. We do not want to be machines, do we? Then let us all explore all the seen and the unseen. Let us find more out of it and then this all will start making sense. Even if you die within your process of exploration and inquiry, trust me, you would not go to hell, if there exists one! 

~Student of life, an Inquirer

Why can’t you enjoy Completeness of Life and Otherwise?

Most of what you have or you do not have in life is circumscribed by the following questions:

1.       What are your habits?

2.       What do you like?

3.       What you do not like?

4.       What do you want to learn but currently don’t know?

5.       What are your duties?

These questions play an important role in contracting or dilating your life’s horizons. Ideally Life should be free by all means but hardly that is the case. Mostly you find it detained, entangled, dull, full of misery and perverted.

Finding answers to above questions and working on them will help you to live life to the fullest and to go beyond; to reach the ultimate heavens, unlimited energies and extreme heights. Below is a more categorized form of questions above, marked with examples:

1.       Dependencies and weaknesses

• Habits
• Things you like

2.       Fears and Phobias

• Things you don’t like
• Things you don’t know

3.       Duties and Obligations

• Society
• Rituals, Traditions and Practices
• Religion

Let’s consider an example to simplify it further. Say, I want to live my life to the fullest. I want to enjoy and utilize every single moment. I want to go everywhere, enjoy everything. What stops me from doing so?

Dependencies and weaknesses: Habits – Good or Bad

I am an addict of drinking tea. I cannot start my mornings without a cup of tea. This confines my enjoyment in places and times when I don’t get tea. Habits or behaviors limit your life. They could be good or bad. They might spoil or enrich your life in materialistic terms but they make it dormant. Similar pattern applies with all the other habits.

Dependencies and weaknesses: Likings

I am a naturalistic person. I am fond of mountains, trees, snow, birds and all that is natural. This constitutes one of my weaknesses and is a limitation. This diverts my interest more towards nature and its substitutes. It is a condition, a restriction, put on my life. If given a choice of visiting a friend or going on a forest trip on some weekend, I would definitely prefer the latter, because I have a liking towards it.

Fears and Phobias: Things you don’t like

I personally don’t like getting injected and get disturbed by mere a sight of blood. I do not enjoy visiting doctors and hospitals. This is a fear and demarcates my life. Similarly, you might have different phobias which restrict you from living a perfect life.

Fears and Phobias: Things you don’t know

I cannot swim. Hence naturally I would not feel fortunate if somebody pushes me into the water. Ignorance is the cause. Although it is not a phobia but due to ignorance, it behaves like one and restricts me from enjoying the depths of lakes and splashes of pools.

Duties and Obligations

I am currently single and stay with my parents. If I want to go anywhere or start a new practice, it is beneficial although not a mandate to let other dependent or concerned people know about it or confirm their approval. In some cases an approval might be needed but in others, it could only be information for them. Whatever is the case; it is also a shortcoming factor. I am not saying anything against your parents, relatives, friends, partners but I am trying to say that your duties and obligations do play a role in encaging your life. Family is the start, but bigger barriers are religion, society, all the rituals and practices you are supposed to follow.

I hope you might have had an idea by now how Dependencies, Fears and Duties hinder your journey to the ultimate being. How they play most important role in handicapping and perverting completeness of your life.

Inadequacies of life

Let us all together investigate into Life. I feel very incomplete over here. Nothing seems to be permanent and lasting. Everything comes to an end finally. All goals and ambitions are illusions. I am going through a state of mind where you don’t see any meaning in any custom, ritual, tradition, action or process. This all seems a play. We are all playing around wasting our time. It seems that somebody has hypnotized us for years and we are just doing what is directed. We have become conditioned for years by our lands, people around us, our epics and legendaries and nature. I feel many questions troubling my mind day and night to be answered. I am trying to find somebody who can answer these questions for me. I am putting in lots of my efforts to understand and solve them. They might seem simple questions but are related to life in full terms. Some of them go like this:
Who am I?
What I am here for?
Why does life end?
If ending of life is certain, why are people so engrossed in so many activities out here?
Who is driving this world?
Why is he doing so?
How should we live?
What is the result of death, i.e. what happens after death?
What is enlightenment?
How does an enlightened person live?
What changes happen in his mindset?
Can somebody show me the real purpose of life or real way of living?
Can anybody be immortal?
If somebody does not like this life, is there any way to choose some other life or to go back to the origin?
What is the reason that we are given a life of a human being and not an animal?
What is the significance of the non living things against living beings?

And the list goes on and on. These are only few of what are going in my mind. I am trying to find answers for all of them. I am an investigator, a researcher, an analyst. I am a disbeliever of all the books, legends, stories, theories, principles, philosophers, saints, gods, rules and traditions. I don’t find any meaning in this big mesh of emotions, rat-races, wars, pleasures, struggles, fights and all. We are all running around for different materialistic targets. Some of us are crazy for money, some of us are fascinated about fame, everybody is imprisoned in some or the other way.

Let us all disbelieve present theories, rituals and dogmas. Let us think beyond all this. Our thinking is only confined to certain boundaries. Let us break these barriers and go above them. Try to exemplify the theories in your own life. Don’t trust any rules. Awaken your senses to sense and perceive the world in your own way. Think beside the world. Find out the reason of you being here. Analyze the life and find out better ways of living. The worst part is that the life is going to end at certain date and time without asking for your permission. You are a puppet and some magician is holding your string. Try to understand the magician, string and yourself. Try to grab the string in your own hands. Live your own way and style. Trust is always blind. They say, “Don’t blindly trust anybody. Don’t be superstitious.” I will say that trust is always blind. If you could see through you own eyes or if you are capable or experiencing yourself, you don’t need to trust anybody. Trust is utmost necessary but should only be done when really required. It is always partial and blind. Somebody is trying to define a death, i.e. an expiry date for us. This shows somebody is beyond you. Somebody is above you. Try to understand that energy ball and go beyond it. I don’t see any meaning of playing around being a doll in somebody else hands. I don’t find it satisfactory. This is against my self-respect. I would be thankful, if somebody out there is ready and capable of answering my queries and problems. Let us find the volunteers all across the world and set out a mission of finding answers to these questions. All interested people can mail me their contact details and reason to be interested in this kind of mission. Let’s make things better. Let’s make a difference together!

Purpose of life

Has anybody ever given a thought about what is life? Why are you here? I wish we all could know our purpose of being here and serve it fully. Is life about doing good actions, is it about realising love, is it about helping and serving others, is it about finding your real interest and devoting your efforts in that. Everybody might find a different meaning and a purpose of life. Some are might not even aware that life has or does not have a purpose. They don’t find it deserving to think about that. Let me share what I feel about it.

For me, honestly it is very confusing. I don’t see any body who could help me out of this complicated puzzle of life. What to do, what not to do? Some actions result in happiness, but they are not permanent. One thing seems simple and reasonable to understand. Everybody here loves to be happy. No body likes sadness, no body wants fear, troubles. All want to be happy permanently. Experience it yourself. Do you see your face turning pink and smiling when you are happy? Do you really feel energetic and get on your nerves when you are happy. Do you feel like forgetting your enemies and digging out mountains when you are happy? To be happy is our real nature. We are born with that. Happiness gives us life, energy, health.

I feel it very difficult to trust all the saints, philosophers. Everybody seems to be confused themselves. If you go and ask them a few questions, they don’t have an answer. They just say, if you follow what we say, you will lead to the real purpose of life. Some say it’s leading to God. Some say otherwise. No body clears my confusion. I am neither an atheist nor a believer. I don’t see any point in any one of them unless I understand what they are talking about and why. Let’s try to solve this puzzle of life. Any comment and feedback is appreciated. I would be glad to discuss and debate with anyone out there!!

Let’s say if you think there is a god out there which runs this entire world. I have two things to ask. One, who is God? Where is he? If you say he is everywhere, where exactly. Has anybody seen him? Can somebody introduce him to me?  Why is he doing this? What does this world mean to him. Secondly, who are you? Have you realised all what you have. Do you know yourself? Do you have any idea how powerful your mind is?  Do you know what is mind, Where is it? Do you know what all can you do. Do you know who are you and where do you come from. Where are you leading, and where do you need to go? Can somebody out there answer these questions, not just for me but for all humans since most of them are confused. Somebody has to take an initiative. Questions don’t just end here. If I carry on, I have infinite. What are you earning for? Can’t you see when you have that kind of money, you get a lot more responsibilities and problems. Have you ever realised that the thing you have been desperately trying to achieve and pray for, when you get it. What do you get? Do you still feel similar desperation for that? If not, why? If yes, till how long? If you think love is the most important thing in this world, why do keep fighting with your own love. Why do you have to hide things from her? If you don’t, how often you fight. Will she stand the same beautiful woman for you as she used to be when you proposed her. If she is ill with a severe disease, would you still love and care for here? If she starts cursing and abusing you, will you still love her the same way? Ask yourself honestly. Don’t misguide yourself.  This is not the only part of life, you need to think about. Think about all your life. Give everything a due assigned time. Try to find a “WHY” kind of attitude towards everything you are doing. Don’t just do anything for the sake of doing. Life is miserable. It is simple for them who have cracked its puzzle. For you it can be the most complicated puzzle to be solved. So sit down for a while. Think about it. I am here for you anytime. I would be glad to talk about it. Don’t just live and spend your breaths for anything that you don’t even like, that doesn’t even gives you a smile. Do what you like. Do what all you can do. You are born with enormous possibilities that you don’t even have an idea about. So don’t worry it isn’t too late either. Start today. Take the first step. First step is the most important. Don’t hesitate to talk to me or meet me at any point of time. But Start up now. Its high time guys!!