Ignorance is suffering🔗

06 December, 2010

Let me define ignorance.

Any thought you conceived, but did not take to its logical conclusion, is ignorance.

If you just leave it there, it only remains as ignorance. But if you start making decisions based on that ignorance, it becomes suffering. You are stuck with an intellectual perversion, and using that perverted conclusion as a strategy for your further actions!

Ignorance is the root cause of suffering.

I have seen people forming the strategies of their life without plugging the holes in their logical thinking, and getting caught, stuck. When they are stuck, they become angry towards whatever and whoever is in front of them. Their anger does not really follow a logical route.

Any thought which you start is your child. The moment a thought happens in you, you are pregnant. See that it grows and grows. Cherish it, nourish it properly and take it to its logical conclusion. Means - grow it, deliver it, and after delivering it, see that it grows and becomes a mature adult. Or stop the very conceiving process by unclutching. If you have already conceived, see that it is cherished, nourished, grows, delivered and becomes a mature individual.

Life is simple management. If you know clearly the strategy for your future, life just flows. Don't be stuck halfway. A stuck thought is equivalent to an aborted child. If you bring an aborted child to the feet of the Master, like how Parikshit was brought to Krishna, the child can be revived by his touch. The possibility is there. It means, your perverted intellect can reach its logical conclusion, which is restful awareness. But if you try to take that aborted child and throw it on the Master, then you are in danger. It can never hit the Master, but it will come back to you with more danger and power.

Intellectual perversion is the most dangerous poison, most dangerous suffering; the worst way of committing suicide. Please understand, the worst way of committing suicide is intellectual perversion. The ignorance which you are carrying inside is not an ordinary poison. So look into it very clearly. Work on it very strongly. Anything which is not complete in you, don't allow it. Either burn it by unclutching from it, or take it to its logical conclusion, which is restful awareness. Don't leave it in between, because it can torture you, and that is the worst way of committing suicide.

Understand, ignorance is the cause of identification of consciousness as matter and matter as consciousness. It is responsible for all sufferings you have in your life.

Look as the past as it is

06 January, 2011

When you constantly look at your past with the idea of planning your future based on it, you don't look at the past as it is.

When you project your future onto your past, you cannot remember the past as it happened. You will remember it as per the strategy plan you have for the future. Man always wants his past to be in tune with the way in which he wants to present his future! So you will try to alter or rewrite your history.

For example, you may think that your beloved is the most important person in your life, and you have never loved anyone or anything as much as you love her. But if you look into your past, you will see that when you were a baby, you loved your teddy-bear with the same intensity! You missed your toys or your candy or your nanny with the same intensity. After growing up, you have dropped those attachments because they are no longer useful for your life or future. But when you look back at your past, you measure it with your current desires. You project the future into the past and remember only what you want, in the way you want to remember it! So you don't remember the whole past exactly as it happened.

But I tell you, you can experiment. See a child playing with a toy, or enjoying a candy, or doing something very joyfully? Try to snatch that away and see how he gasps for the breath. He struggles for breath while crying or while he is missing that candy. See the intensity or the length of the breath in that child, and see when somebody is struggling for love in life - you will see the intensity of both will be the same, or the child will have more intensity.

When you project the future into the past, you won't have the clear understanding needed to make the right decision about your future. You are stuck.

Look at the past as it is and see: how much fulfillment did you have after achieving the deep cravings you had? You are not remembering the real cravings you had. You are remembering the superficial cravings you had as the strong cravings in your life. When you understand all the cravings you had and the fulfillment you experienced without projecting the future into the past, you will just know you are a*shutosha*; easily pleased.

If I can just teach this one science to the kids, I will have millions of enlightened beings. If I can teach this one science to the youth and adults, I will have at least a few million enlightened sannyasis.

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