We are a bunch of mad men fighting about who or what the
great Lord really is, fighting about who or what that supreme experience is all
about, fighting about who is higher in the rat race to spiritual enlightenment.
Isn’t it sad that such a sacred path to attainment can go so horribly wrong
when we decide to pump in our ego and intellect and greed into it!
It has made me stop and think. I have blogged and blogged
for years, I have sat and worshipped for a duration of time (nothing to be
proud of really) and I have gone back to the texts to verify the conservative
way whether I am doing it right. I realized just how far away we have gone from
it.
I have been at this for a while, spent most of my time on it
and if you ask me who the great Lord Shiva really is, I still draw a blank. I
have enough theory but when it comes to practise I am doing something wrong
which is not helping and I don’t know what it is. But yes, the only thing I
really learned over a period of time is just how much I fell in love with him -
The Perfect One. The only one to whom I managed to surrender myself doubtlessly.
This run is costing me good, it’s keeping the vigour alive,
its keeping the mind active, its keeping me sane in a mad world. But am
dejected, a little tired but the perseverance will continue. HE will come, he
will reveal and I will not settle for second best.
In this mad world everyone has an impression, everyone has
an opinion, but no one has the luck or the grace. It’s so sickeningly human to
fight ruthlessly despite knowing clearly within our half-baked understanding
that we are just a useless mass of flesh if we don’t get this right! What’s the
point in fighting over a bunch of opinions, end of the day its wasted sound
waves that could be used better, its wasted energy that has no decent outcome
and its wasted emotion that could been spent better of holding on to faith -
Bhakti. Yours verses mine, seriously
does it help?
Everyone, you and I have potential, we are built that way
naturally, and we just need to tap our own resources. We have learned well to
steal the natural resources from this earth, now let’s apply the same greed on
ourselves. I am not your enemy and if we do this together we can achieve the
higher realm. They say spiritualism is a lonely path. I agree to some degree
but then we can go our separate ways when we are confident that we have found
the right path. Meanwhile, let’s help each other spiritually.
Love the Lord, read about Him, understand Him, and try to
realize Him. He is just a breath away and all we need to do is feel that
freedom. That freedom beyond ordered society, that freedom beyond rules, that
freedom of the inner self, that freedom towards enlightenment.
Here are a few thoughts from the Shiva Purana that I really
thought relevant for us today.
Mental sin is wiped off by meditation
Verbal sin is wiped off by japa
Physical sin/karma is wiped off by emaciation
Sins committed by wealth can be removed by daanam
Sprinkling of water over the head suppresses the idea of committing
sins/karma
- Shiva Purana
And its so true. When we meditate we arrest the wavering mind. When we do japa we condition the tongue to speak only sacred syllables, it forgets everything else. When we moderate the food intake, the body is light and manageable, we feel positive energy within us. When we learn the joy of giving, we kill our greed. And when we think of the Lord for those two precious minutes we forget to do the wrong deed!
