“I have DECIDED to LOVE you !.”

A boy meets a girl and tells her this phrase. “I have DECIDED to LOVE you !.”

What will be the Girl’s reaction? Many of the readers of this can easily sense that this is an absurd phrase. How can love be decided? Love is a feeling beyond any decision…Love cannot be created. Love has to happen. How absurd it is to say that I have determined to love or decide to love. If someone expresses like that, then it is obvious that there is no love and is never going to happen. It can only be pretensions and not real.

If I talk in the context of love, many may agree with me. But what happens if I put the same context on LIFE.

Most of people believe that knowledge is the powerhouse and they can lead life happily if they accumulate knowledge. They believe that the knowledge that they gain through all the books and scriptures will help them to understand life. But it is not going to happen. Life is larger than ocean and exploring life is beyond what has been mentioned in any books or scriptures. All the learning is done ultimately to realize one day that nothing is going to serve the purpose of Unison.

But what the knowledge gained through the scriptures do to an individual is to make him see everything in this world intellectually. He always tries to find out reasons for everything using his knowledge. He always tries to find a purpose in everything including his birth. If he has any doubt, he goes back to the scriptures to find out if anything related to his doubt is available. He has been conditioned so from every corner of his life. He has always been told that “You should be packed with knowledge and then only you will successful”. So right from birth, he has been, he has been put in the stream of learning. Starting from parents, school, books, television….

Everything is feeding him with information. He can be a walking encyclopedia. If you as a parents, he or she will say that “I want my child to be successful and hence happy throughout his life”. If you ask them back “Were you happy throughout your life ?” what will be their honest answer ? So, the child learning to be happy from the people who never known or experienced what real happiness is. Everyone perceives happiness from their own intellectual knowledge and pass on to their younger generation.

As LOVE cannot be measured or experienced by making decisions, and determinations. LIFE also cannot be lived happily with decisions and determinations. If one of your intellectual decision made through your knowledge and past experience makes you feel little happy, then there is always going to be another decision of yours going out of your way. And every individual is pretty aware of this and always has this fear beneath every enjoyment.

Life is happening. A God’s blessing. All one need is to make him as empty as possible and wait to receive the blessing. Then once the Unison happens, his entire life is filled with not just happiness, but with BLISS- a state cannot be imagined and defined by any sort of intellectual efforts.

My experience is very simple. I had been reading so much of spiritual books right from my childhood at one point of time I found I have been only reading and paying no attention to implementation of the same in my life. My ego grew and “All I know” attitude became dominate in me. I used to argue with people and lock them in my arguments to show my power of knowledge. But one day I found myself standing on a big pile of garbage.

That day I decided to practice first what I know and always talk from experiences. That was a very tough call for me. I needed to drop everything I knew, everything I possessed mentally, and finally the feeling of “I Exist” it was really pain.

But, now I am feeling great to be without anything, very simple, just admiring everything around…so happy. I have many challenges, but still I am very happy.

I am just saying that there are many things in nature which can only be experienced and cannot be analysed. But the bookish knowledge created in the so called and cannot be analysed. But the bookish knowledge created in the so called “Scientific brain” tries to analyse everything. By making more analysis, one is feeding ideas and knowledge more into the mind which itself becomes a block for experiencing the truth. The truth is very simple and can be realized only in simplicity. The mind complicates everything and keeps one pondering over so many things. Mind makes a person believe on so many factors.

Attributes like Love, Joy, Ecstasy, and Happiness etc. need to be experienced and not to be analyzed. Why.... the Life itself is like that. Life has to be lived and not spent on analysis. If one keeps himself empty, Nature (can be called God) dawns in him. He establishes a connection with it. He becomes one with it. He is already empty so there is nothing to stop or hinder the unison. Then the realisation happens. Things become clear for him and many secrets unfold. The Mind forcefully makes one to explore, but exploration happens naturally when the Mind is empty.

You are right. Love just happens. In fact all intangibles like love, hate, anger, passion happen but the tangibles like money, fame, position etc have to be earned.

 

Love, hate, anger, passion are expression of feeling/ emotions but the money, fame, position are earned through effort combined with knowledge and intelligence. Thus knowledge and intelligence have their place and importance in mundane affairs. No wonder the modern education lays great stress in acquiring knowledge, as it paves the way for climbing up the ladder of success in a consumerist society.

 

Information classified is knowledge, knowledge processed and assimilated is intelligence, living life intelligently is wisdom. Most of us get stuck at either knowledge stage or intelligence stage.

 

A scientific mind, which is a thinking, rational mind, dissects experience. A creative mind like that of an artist, poet, sculptor etc or a spiritual person synthesizes experience. The scientific mind sees things in parts whereas the A creative mind sees them in whole. Awareness is a whole, integrated vision. It is thinking feelingly.

 

Gathering of knowledge from books, gurus (Master) is necessary but one has to move beyond them, to live and see life with an open, uncluttered mind. Knowledge often shackles us, conditions us unless one knows how to unclasp himself from this bondage.