Pranam
THE LIFE THE LIVING AND THE TRUE CONSCIOUSNESS
The Vedic solution always goes to the essential cause. What is the
essential cause of everythingI It is consciousness.
If we deal properly with consciousness, then we can substantially and
realistically deal with the problems of this world. Otherwise, we are just
doing patch work. The underlying cause of all the pollution in the
world is polluted
consciousness.
In the *Bhagavad Gita*, Krishna explains from the perspective of the divine
that there are eight material elements:
earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence, and ego. Beyond this,
there is a superior energy, the jiva, the source of consciousness which is
the very foundational, sustaining force of creation. Consciousness is the
sustaining force of creation. The reason for the ecological pollution is
very simple, the pollution of consciousness — our minds are highly polluted
with toxic greed.
It can never be satisfied. In the *Srimad Bhagavatam*, Prahlada
explains that if you are hungry, you eat some food and you are satisfied.
If you are thirsty, you drink some liquid and you are satisfied. If you are
angry, you let it out or someone chastises you and you get the reaction to
it, so your anger is subdued. But greed, even if you conquer, control and
become the proprietor of everything in the whole universe, your greed will
never be satisfied; it’s insatiable. It burns like fire — the more fuel you
put in the harder it burns. AND THE GREED OUT OF IGNORANCE RENDERS THE
BENEFITS TO ALL, BENEFITS TO NONE!!!
The Vedic solution is to learn how to be content and satisfied with
simple things. Due to ignorance (or avidya), we try to find happiness in
things, in stuff, but the soul is part of God.The soul, the heart need
love. The only thing that can satisfy us is to love and be loved. Even in a
very worldly sense, if you have everything else but if you don’t have
someone to love and you are not loved by people there can be no real
satisfaction because things cannot touch the heart.
Sensual pleasures, mental pleasures do not touch the heart and
satisfaction is not the thing of the mind, it’s not the thing of the
flesh, it’s the thing of the heart. Our nature is to love God and in loving
God we see every living being as part of God, we naturally love every
living being. That brings contentment. Relationships bring satisfaction but
unfortunately we become so obsessed that we try to find that satisfaction by
accumulation and experiential interactions with things that we don’t have
healthy, satisfying relationships. We don’t take responsibility for our
relationships because we think that they are not very important. And in
these so called developed countries, we find massive divorce rates,
emotional trauma, and depression. WhyI People have EVERY thing. But
responsibilities, family values, relationships are compromised. And
therefore their hearts are empty, their bank accounts may be overflowing
but their hearts are empty. Their prestige and their fame may be
skyrocketing without meaningful, deep loving relationships. Nothing can
fill that kind of emptiness. We become greedy, we become lusty and when
that lust is not satisfied, we become angry. If we get what we want, we
become arrogant and if we don’t get what we want, we become envious and
depressed. These are all just symptoms of a very sick and empty state of
consciousness. In today’s world, the people who are the sickest, who are
quick to hurt other people in order to get ahead, are considered great
heroes.
But the Vedic solution is something very different. And that is to
find substantial satisfaction within ‘simple living and high thinking.’
Whether you are living in a beautiful palace or in a straw hut or in a
cave, if you are satisfied within, you will be happy. But if you are not
satisfied within, you are really going to get bored in that cave. You are
really going to be depressed about the straw hut and as far as the palace
you are going to be in is concerned, there will be complete anxiety about
everybody else who wants the palace and all the things that are going wrong
in your palace and all the problems with the mortgage for the palace and
everything going on inside. There can be no satisfaction.No matter what you
achieve. And if you are happy within yourself you are happy no matter what.
If you can’t be satisfied with little, you can’t be satisfied with a lot
and that is an eternal principle.
So, Bhagavad Gita is not teaching poverty but at the same time it is
teaching poverty. Poverty, but understood in a different way. We see
Mahabharata, Srimad Bhagavatam, so many scriptures. Many of the great
saints we read about are kings and queens, they have royal wealth but they
are self-realized. They are perfect yogis because they don’t consider their
wealth to be their own, they consider everything to be the property of God
and they care for it and utilize it not only for their own well-being but
for their families and for the world’s well-being. They are not greedy,
they are generous and compassionate. So, we find kings and we find sadhus
who just sleep on the banks of rivers. They both have the same wealth
within. THERE AROSE A QUESTION : IF ALL ARE EQUAL WHO IS THE KING?; THE
ANSWER WAS HE IS THE KING WHO CONIDERS ALL ARE EQUAL.
Unless our consciousness returns to its original nature we will not be
satisfied and farther humanity goes away from the essence of who we are. We
have been endowed with a magnificent, incredibly creative brain by God. But
the more we become entangled in the polluted consciousness, the more
dangerous we become to our planet. Instead of using our consciousness to
create a civilisation in harmony with our essence, we might instead end up
using the immense power of our brain to destroy our planet.
*"Aakashath Pathitham Thoyam Yatha Gachathi Sagaram Sarvadeva Namaskaram
Keshavam Prathi Gachathi" "As the water that falls down in rain from
anywhere in the sky finally reaches the Ocean, the worship of any divine
aspect ultimately reaches the Supreme Being." Is it happening really in
real life? if yes, why confusion and conflicts arguments and debates
quarrels and fights What is needed more; what is the missing essential;
What is the level at this great vachan was said by shankara can this be
understood by all only by reading, repeating imbibing No it was said by one
who realized that truth of i ,who lived real i who lived aham as kevaloham
So what is to be done do what sadhana shankara did realize i then only
possible to know full import of sankara, the full import of It. If not ,
the enigma of i can never get reconciled Think more more, go beyond think
then questions remain no more*
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