Interesting article

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Hello Group,

Wish you all a very Happy New Year. I came across an

inetersting article, very much in the line of thinking

of this organisation and wanted to share it. I hope

Gordon will not mind my sending this out to the list.

have pasted it below.And , GK, thankyou for your

regular e-zines that always come like a godsent in

troubled times( thanks to the mercury retrograde!)

putting things so much in perspective!!!…have even

taken printouts of it.

 

Sat Nam!

Preeti

 

Universal vision

 

Transcending the Here and Now

 

By Sadhguru jaggi Vasudev

 

Human experiences are commonly a cacophony of voices,

thoughts and emotions. Most of us are in this state of

confusion, where the mind is captivated by wrong

perceptions of reality. This is why pain and suffering

are integral to our lives, in spite of the material

conveniences and facilities that science and

technology have provided us with. The noise that human

beings make – in the form of negative thoughts and

emotions – is the evidence of the absolute mess they

have made of themselves and their lives.

 

Part of this confusion arises from the fact that most

people go through their lives without understanding

what they really want. Even if they do know, they

neither have the will nor the vision to create lives

of their choice and so settle for whatever is easily

attainable and within their reach. At any given moment

in life, if you go by past experience, or if you trust

your mind to decide what is possible and what is not,

then you will end up settling for mediocrity.

 

We are always trying to create our life based on the

reality that exists around us at that particular

moment. Where we want to go tomorrow need not be

connected with where we are right now.

 

Our highest goal in life need not have anything to do

with our present situation. If we enslave our vision

to the current situation, then we are once again

settling for what is attainable, what is easy, what we

think is possible. What is possible and what is not is

not bound to our thinking. But we do need to have a

vision with which to seek the highest aim.

 

If man has a vision of what he wishes to do with

himself and the world around him, it is not beyond

man’s capacity to create it. It may happen in this

lifetime, or it may take a couple of lifetimes, but

what is wished for will definitely happen. This is

because we will seek our vision every moment of our

life. Then, the highest things in life will fall at

our feet. It is only because man is a bundle of

confusions and spends most of the time seeking what he

doesn’t want that things he really wants never comes

to him. This lack of vision and will is fundamentally

because of a distorted understanding of reality.

 

You must seek constantly that which you know to be the

highest. It doesn’t matter whether it is going to

happen or not, simply living with the vision is an

elevating experience and a joyous process in itself.

Whether your vision is going to materialize to

tomorrow or in a hundred years is not the point. You

have a vision and you are not concerned about whether

it is possible or not possible, whether it is easy or

difficult, whether it is attainable or not.

Ultimately, you become detached to the result. You

have a vision to which you give your life. This is one

of the easiest ways to attain the highest goal of

human life. The entire Bhagwat Gita is about this – to

simply give yourself to what you want without caring

about the outcome.

 

Vision is an important way of transcending limitations

that exist within and without. If one wants to live

without a vision, or without being burdened by will,

then one must be egoless. Only such a person can live

simply. Only he need not have a vision. He does not

have to have a will for anything, that is, if he is

absolutely childlike. If it is not so, then it is

important that man lives with a vision.

 

There are many examples of the importance of vision in

Indian culture. We have all heard of stories of how if

certain sages and saints willed something, the gods

had to do their bidding. If a devotee sits with

complete will and vision and entreats Shiva to come to

him, the Lord has no choice but to obey. This shows

that if you have a clear vision of what you want, and

if you are set on it, what seems impossible today may

manifest on its own in your life tomorrow. It falls at

your feet without much ado. But if you constantly

question and think in terms of whether what you want

is attainable or not, then the confusion that you

create in your mind and in the word around you is

compounded.

 

It is time to create a vision within ourselves as to

what we really care for and want in our lives. And if

you look deep enough, your vision will be the

universal vision. Think what is the highest you can

seek and simply create your vision. Whether anything

else happens or doesn’t happen is not the point.

Simply seeking what you understand as the highest with

undivided attention is a way of knowing life here and

beyond.

 

Let us resolve to make this a millennium of

meditativeness.

(The author is founder of Isha Foundation, Dhyanalinga

Multi Relegious Temple, Velliangiri Foothills,

Coimbatore)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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