Where Do We Go?
JIRARA
© JIRARA, August 2020
On Matrubharti.
Disclaimers: All the ones from my previous stories apply exactly here also.
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Once we are here on this Earth, we want to move around, and at times we don't know where to go?, i.e. which path to take?
There are numerous paths. We should select one that suits best to our mental make up, and our health. This path is to make some progress in our life in order that we are more happy, and we can attain our chosen goals.
Mainly there are two paths: 1. Forward, 2. Backwad.
Both can be considered as progressive paths.
1. The forward is based on the nature, since we see that it is always progressive, it continues to evolve, and it doesn't stop from being active.
This path is challenging anyway. We need to evolve, and cannot afford to be passive. We need to solve the problems that we face by using our cognitive, emotional, and spiritual intelligences.
Also, we need to be continually adaptive to changing environment, and our own desires. If we follow the nature with keen observations, and apply our intelligence to understand it and learn procedures from it, and come out with new solutions to our problems, then we would be largely successful. This means we should learn various ways how the nature has made hundreds of designs, and adopt these in our own life. There is tremendous intelligence in the nature, and we can adopt lot from it to solve our own problems. Two most successful examples are: our flying machines (from birds, and fishes), and radio communications (from bats that live on acoustic signals, by ranging to/fro from the obstacles).
We can then live a happy life.
2. The backward path is of dissolution. It points to a situation to become nothing. This would lead us to the concept of nothingness, naught, 'shunya'. Here, some religionic procedures can help, but we should be careful, that we don't become mechanical. Hence, it is better to follow the path of proven and profound philosophy. Two such beautiful paths are of: true and real Hinduism (not the contrived one propagated by short-sighted, half educated, shellfish and greedy bigots), and the other one is Bhudhhism.
The idea is to follow the law of karma and ghyana, and occasionally the path of hathyoga, and bhakti, the latter two only for strengthening our body and mind. One should not again become mechanical here.
The main Idea is that we are a small speck in this vast Universe, and there is no point of showing off that we are too big or too great, since the entire cosmos is infinite times bigger than us.
The point is to be humble like a true and genuine saints who don't have any desire, or vasanas, who don't take any thing but have immense love to give to all.
To become 'shunya', that is becoming nothing, with no bondages, like a black hole, and still can give infinite amount of light and energy to the entire Universe.
It is unfortunate that Hinduism as a philosophy is mixed with hindu religion, although both are as such related. It is easy and feasible to follow the philosophy without rituals of the hinduism. The philosophy shows the path of life, rather than living. As a result the hinduism as a philosophy is in my opinion a way of life, and it is universal, and any human being can follow, and by doing this you don't become a hindu, but you become a good human being.
In final analysis, we can choose one or the other paths. And still lead a very successful life on this Earth wherein we can enjoy our life with lots of happiness, real joy, and peace for our own life, for even the shortest time that we are here.
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