Acceptance

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Namaste, all

 

AT the very outset may I say I am trying to learn only.

 

Accepting a situation is acknowledging the situation. It does not necessarily

mean there is approval or disapproval of the situation, or indifference to the

situation. It is not ignoring a situation. Approval or disapproval causes

emotion. AT the same time, when one is indifferent to a situation, there is no

emotion. The situations themselves are not capable of causing in one any

approval, disapproval of or indifference to a situation. When I accept a

situation, I acknowledge it as an Order of God, or whatever one may call it, say

Nature, because every situation is an effect and for any effect there is a

cause. An effect comes from a cause is a is a natural order.

 

“The experiential moment” depends a lot on one’s approving a situation or

disapproving a situation, or his indifference to a situation. It has nothing to

do with accepting, i.e. acknowledging the situation as it is, because one cannot

but accept/acknowledge that situation. However, one’s approving or disapproving,

or indifference depends on one’s emotional maturity. It all depends on how one

has a structure/mental frame about everything, and this structure has one’s

likes and dislikes as its foundation. To my understanding, this structure is

always subjective, as it is built on one’s likes and dislikes, and based on this

structure, one is unable to look at things, as they are i.e. to accept or

acknowledge the situations as they are. At first acknowledgement of a situation

takes place, and following that only approving/ disapproving/ indifference takes

place of/to the situation.

 

One’s reaction to a situation depends on the wisdom one exercise when one

approves or does not approve of a situation, or when one is indifferent to a

situation. One’s “mental frame or structure” is cultivated in one in the way one

is brought up, in the society one is brought up, in the religion one is brought

up, in the teaching one is exposed to, etc. Here, one’s likes and dislikes for

“pleasurable” and “preferable” must come into play. IMO, “preferables” are those

when one goes for them, and when one reaches them, it not only brings

satisfaction to him, but at the same time without causing any disharmony to

anyone, i.e. not only human beings, but all creation, as against that

“pleasurables” when one reaches them lead to agitation though positive, they

cannot last long. This is because, the ability to give pleasure by such

pleasureables depends on one’s mood, and again on one’s capacity to experience

such pleasurables, which slowly diminishes as one gets old, i.e. the capacity to

experience the pleasurables diminishes as time passes. That is why one cannot

always derive same “joy” from a particular thing, and also it need not give joy

to all. That is why one always engages in looking for pleasurables, as they

cannot help him to achieve or attain what he is really looking for. That is not

the case with the preferable ones.

 

With regard to “present” we cannot say it is reality, though it confronts

everyone and looks like reality. Giving reality itself means accepting the

“present” i.e. acknowledging the “present”. That is one thing, but approving it

or disapproving it is entirely a different thing, as such approval/ disapproval/

indifference differs from person to person, and again for the same person from

time to time. If it is real that cannot be the case, although it looks like

real. It is just a passing show.

 

IMHO, what every one can approve is a situation where one is with that

situation, i.e. one does not expect the situation to be different for him to

approve or disapprove. I think all our pursuits are towards such a situation, a

situation where one can always abide with no agitation. Vedanta, Advaita

particularly, however unfolds that such a situation cannot be found outside, nor

can one work for such a situation, as one is already in that situation, and one

only has to recognize it. It asks one to destroy his “mental frame or

structure” and look at everything afresh with the wisdom that comes from the

Teaching of the Upanishads.

 

<<human scientific curiosity and technological progress is a valueless

illusion>>

 

They are not valueless, but they have only limited value, because, are they not

capable of helping me to “get” what I am really looking for.

 

Warm Regards