One is not perfect. We always lack. Jesus, we are told, arrived taking the sins of the world in order to revamp humanity. He accepted the loss of his life simply to put humans on par. Yet as a species, humanoids have failed to take note of that single act and carry on trying to impose itself not only on the world about itself in terms of inanimate and animate but crucially on its own kind through creating barriers. With such barriers, one walks about as if one is perfect and therefore truly becomes proud, and with it arrogance and fault finding on others to such an extent that there is loss of track in being. The point is that one feels that the self is always right. It is always the other. Not only that, all aspects of even negativism is justified including always wanting to have the upper hand.
To be sure, all these are noticeable in terms of not only what we do or engage in the opposite of what the famous son of God stated, in terms of having anger, hatred and violence we are readily at each other’s throat for a yes or a no. And so the point is not to criticise the other rather than looking inwards into oneself and or seek to understand first what is the intention of the other.
There is a running after, trying to be what one is not and indeed a kind of a last ensnarement of materialist culture which is adopted in an effort to keep imposing that self onto the world based on a model of mundaneness. The problem with the latter is that it has its ways, systems and with its problems it lacks the quintessence aspect of apprehending that there is verily a problem in materialism. There is no way that one may try in a piecemeal way to adopt and use the methods of materialism and seek to be that which one is not. The starting point misses that apprehension that one is not perfect. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krsna makes the point clearly to Arjuna that there is no such thing as independent existence in authenticity. To be sure one may always choose one’s path and the price that one pays is precisely being entangled within the norm of the superficial and of being overwhelmed by the modes of material nature which takes its toll on the non reflective as one may notice even if one is a president or a pauper, one is enticed by lust, greed and a feeling of trying to be better than the other rather than seeing that one is immersed into the arena of the contradictions where one misses the boat of initiation which clearly specifies that humanoids like other species lack, and or to forcefully adopt and seek the ways or norms of materialism has its price and the price is heavy in that the individual may adopt ways which belittle any other for the self , nay that false ego and or bodily self with which one identifies oneself with.
The problem of trying to find a cure by adopting ways of the temporal is that it misses the point of being in that all is about patching here, there and everywhere in an effort of seeking a real solution to separatism and its ways. Try and adopt ways and strategies of the temporal and one may only get what is input inside.
What one needs to seek is to explore the non-temporal and see whether there are genuine ways to counteract frivolities of being rather than succumb to its ways. The point of being is to be free from the problems which are created by the genre of the temporal and it is verily incumbent on us to seek that which may not be associated with that which merely leads one towards confusions. Patching here and there simply would not do as what is at stake is the whole modus operandi in that there is a failure of acknowledging that what cometh of that which is from the realm of the crude may lead nowhere as precisely one keep thinking within that model of affixing as per the norm a way which in-itself is part of the problem.
The big problem indeed is that the subject which is the temporarily feels that one is par excellence and that all things needs to revolve around the self and so partake in some ways in that last snare of illusion which tends to make one feels that one is perfect and so others need to succumb to one’s being. In doing so, one develops the way of arrogance in that there is a feeling by the subject that ‘I ‘ is a controller of things about oneself and that all else needs to be subservient. With this being so, all sorts of other frailties creeps in and even where relationships are strained to put it all mildly, the subject always justifies its sense of not reaching out and yet the point of being is precisely to be away from arrogance and adopt a way which always at least acknowledges rather than despise. Yet, this is missing as our comrade feels complete per se in that there is a knowledge of what is to be done and what is not to be done. What is missing is most obvious to an observer. Or let us say knowledge by itself is insufficient. What is required is an applied form where wisdom emerges in that one knows how to apply the ideas of both what to do or what not to do. Or it is never about being as simpleton as the other and others about us are sensitive beings. Just trampling over all others for its own sake due to the fact that one knows is insufficient. In this sense there have been some guidelines on how to be provided elsewhere from the Personality who started Christianity but also by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. All a question for the researcher is to prove and seek a way which is authentic and non exclusive as guidelines are given to all and to be sure problems arise where one fails to apprehend and contend with imposing and in process trying to be what one is not.
The temporal observed…….
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