It's began to shower gently and somehow i felt the heavens, along with God, were blessing this earth. More than pleasure, it is the happiness of innocence which is uplifting. The purity of innocence has its own freedom. In that freedom, there is no burden of the experience but the divine song of life. Are we listening to this song or are we lost in the demands of ego? Can the effort to listen to this divine song be our prayer? Prayer, not demanding, but to cultivate the ability to receive the blessings of existence.
Who one is, is an important question. The great saint, Ramana Maharshi, used to always ask, “Who am I?” To anyone coming to him, he used to use this question, “Who am I?” please inquire.
What we think we are, is not what we are. There are many aspects of our self. There is this body, which is the acting self, there is an emotional self, a thinking self, a functional self and also a fundamental self. Therefore, one has to observe one’s self. When one has the discipline to observe then an observing self emerges. This observing self, observes how we work, how we talk to others, how we talk to ourselves and how we feel. Are we harsh to ourselves and to others in feeling and dealing? There are all aspects of us to be under scrutiny without judgment but as a pure observation.
When the observing self is crystallised, then we observe anger and do not get carried away by anger, observe jealousy and not get carried away by jealousy. When one observes, then there is a non-verbal understanding.
You start seeing the anatomy of anger. The hot thought is anger. As you observe you will find, that the hot thought, is a trigger from a mechanical centre. As you observe you realise that anger is not only thought, it is mechanical and it carries some sadness of the past. That sadness is a result of not learning to be happy in the moment. One is not being happy because one is caught in the concept of having a ‘reason to be happy’ and not learnt to be ‘causelessly happy’.
In daily activities of your life, be it work or home or any relationship, ‘impersonally observe’ – then you will learn not to identify with what you observe. It is then that you get an insight and will observe your inner talking and the wrong inner tastes you have built. You will see how thought is addicted to ‘self-liking’ and thus you will see the anatomy of your psychology and how your psychic life creates inner darkness.
When you observe your children, their body language will convey something which needs your care and attention. If you are lost in your ‘inner identifications’ of your dreams and demands, then you will not observe your children and you may not give the required help. Increase the sharpness of your observation and this will help you in family and work. Don’t negate this as philosophical but see it as new light to dispel the inner darkness created by your psychology.
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