God is a great concept man has found to cope with life (1 of 6)

Good morning friends.  In this world, there is no great as God.  God is a great concept of man to cope up with life.  God handles each and everyone of us in His way.  We sometimes feel bad as we think that God is forgetting us.  It’s not true.  I just remember one quotes and I seriously believe in it … “Let not have fear to face the life, as Lord God is just around to walk with us, to guide us where we least expected.”    The article I read is a good thing to read and I would like to share it with you.

What does spirituality mean to you?

It is a deep inner quest, which somehow connects with my concerns for life, my concerns about society, the conditions in which I was born.

Also, as you can see a certain kind of ugliness around and certain imbalances, you try to find answers.

You do it without an agenda, without it being part of your job. You do it as your own inner journey. You do it to connect to human beings. You may do it on a very small local scale and then expand it to a universal one.

You may find a common thread in this quest. Underlying its whole description is love, universal love. A love that makes you want to see everything in its pure form. You want to negate all the ugliness around. That is what I feel spirituality is all about.It manifests itself in a lot of finer human expressions. Art is avery important factor in it. It can express your very base feelings and desires. It can also be the ultimate expression of spirituality through poetry, music, painting, cinema.

So it is all about finding your own way to understand spirituality, your own way to express it.

Precisely, how did you find your own way?

I don’t have any great claims of being spiritual. But I feel it is a very important factor in human life. And it should be celebrated as the one strong way to peace.

At least I can see and recognize those people who have reached it. That quality, every human being has – to recognize spirituality in its pure form. The only ones who don’t have it are those who have a very strong intellect and a very strong ego. They can’t see spirituality, they always run it down. They use their intellect to survive, to cut people down, to move forward and all sorts of other things.

It is the human race’s tragedy: this ambitious mind trying to find a place of superiority for itself. That is a real danger to the human race. But we are in it, we can’t avoid it, we have to suffer through it.

Working mind and the thinking mind (2)

Is going into who you are a horizontal activity?

Asking the question, “Who wants to know?” is the working mind. Arising of the question is vertical, the involvement of the thinking mind is horizontal. The working mind is not horizontal. The working mind is the present moment. So in the present moment the working mind asks the question “Who wants to know?” and if the thinking mind doesn’t come in try to answer the question, then the “who” disappears.

There are two aspects. One is the monkey mind ^ the thinking mind which asks questions, provides answers, and asks further questions of those answers and goes on and on. Then another aspect, the working mind, is only focused with doing what needs to be done at the moment in the circumstances. It is not concerned, not even with whether the work that is being done is necessary or not. Nor is it concerned with the consequences. It is only focused on doing the job that is being done, and it is not concerned with “who” is doing the job.

It is the thinking mind that says, “I’m doing this work, and ‘i’ must find out what the consequences are going to be.” So the thinking mind always thinks about the consequences in the future. The working mind is not concerned with the future.

The “one” who is concerned with the consequences of the future is the thinking mind, the ego. In the working mind there is no individual, no ego. So in the working mind if there is no individual doing the work, then “who” is to worry about the consequences? In the working mind there is no individual worker ^ the work is just being done.

The individual “doer” is the thinking mind wanting to know: After the work is done, what is going to happen to me? The “me” is the thinking mind, ego. The ego is the identification with the name and form as an individual with the sense of doership whatever happens to this body “i” am doing it, and “i” am the one who is going to suffer the consequences. – The Times of India

Satsang: Ramesh S Balsekar

Working mind and the thinking mind (1)

Good morning friends.  Thinking mind may consider as a hard thing and as an easy thing.  It depends to a person when he can have a hard time to think or an easy time think.  It will depend on the situation of life or incident should he wanted to think.  But working the mind is surely be difficult.  Even if we want to think things easily, if our mind didn’t work properly we can’t do a rightful things.

How to differentiate between ego and mind?

You can’t. They are the same. The thinking mind and the ego are the same. In the ordinary body-mind organism mind can be both working mind and thinking mind. In the case of the sage it is only the working mind.

Is the body-mind organism like the programme in a data machine that produces thinking?

The thinking happens according to the way the body-mind organism has been programmed. Why does a thought occur? It occurs because that is supposed to produce an output. So the equation E = mc2 was there all the time, but only that body-mind organism named Einstein was programmed to receive the equation, that got that thought.

The term “body-mind organism” means body and, in the case of an ordinary person, both the working mind and the thinking kind, but only the working mind in the case of the sage.

The wanting to know is the individual sense of doership. Ramana Maharshi repeatedly said, “If the question arises, find out who wants to know.” If you really go into “who wants to know”, the “who” will disappear because there is truly no “who”.

The arising of the question is not in your control, or whether you take delivery of that question and get yourself horizontally involved. It is a vertical happening. Getting involved in that question is a horizontal involvement. So the horizontal involvement is avoided with this question: “Who wants to know?”  - The Times of India

Satsang: Ramesh S Balsekar

Enjoy the present by shedding ego -1

Good Morning Friends, I was reading following article and it was so nice, I like to share with you all. Not easy for all to understand I think but it’s really easy to follow once we understand it.

 

An average person always thinks he is above average. The perception of ‘easy and difficult’ is the result of one’s state of being. The self with arrogance is ego.

 

Swatting a fly is ‘difficult’ for some, while killing thousands is ‘easy’ for others like terrorists. Dropping the ego is easy when we realise that we are less than a dot in this vast cosmos. It is foolish to live with the illusion that we are the centre of the cosmos. Dropping ego becomes difficult when we have this illusion.

 

In any circle there is a centre and a circumference. If the centre of your life is hope then you will experience deficiency. If the centre of your life is enjoying the moment, living in the moment, being total in the moment… then hope will be a circumference… then it is not a problem.

 

Let kitchen items be in the kitchen and bathroom items be in the bathroom. If they are placed elsewhere, then there is a problem. There is no problem with ‘hope’ as such, as long as it is in the circumference and not in the centre. Be alive to the present.

 

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