Confusion in Spirituality

 

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Confusion in Spirituality

When we embark on the spiritual path, it is very important that the spiritual aspirant is not trying to reach some particular ‘place’, because the moment we want to get to something particular, the mind will immediately start creating that place. We will create our own private heaven.

The spiritual process is not about giving up one level of hallucination and moving into another level. This is about giving up hallucination altogether and being able to live with reality just the way it is, because the effort is about truth.

Truth means something that is existential, not what we make up in our ever-fertile mind. One may see a God or a devil in the mind – both do not matter. What we see is a question of culture and what we are exposed to; it is a question of whether we are an optimist or pessimist – when we see people, whether we see God or devil in them. It has nothing to do with reality. The reality is, we are here right now and we don’t know what the hell we are here for, where the hell we came from and where we will go. That is the reality of life. 

Learning to live with reality is the most important thing. We don’t have to do anything else. If we stop distorting things in our mind and just see everything the way it is, moksha is just one step away. We don’t have to do anything. Just time will do it. Time will mature us and take us into another place.

We just have to ensure that we don’t make up anything – either positive or negative. We don’t create a God or a devil, heaven or hell, good or bad – we just accept things the way they are, that’s it. At certain times, for the purpose of activity, we may have to recognise these things. But the rest of the time, we can just look at things as they are. 

If we see things as they are, we will see life is not just in this form or that form. It is exploding across the universe. The cosmos is a living cosmos. This is what we will see if we stop identifying, “This is life, this is not life, this is animate, this is inanimate, this is man, this is woman.” Simply look at everything the way it is. 

Once we identify ourselves with a global mass, life is different. Is it beautiful? No. Is it ugly? No. How is it? Like life, as it should be! It is just as it should be, not this way or that way. Everything is as it should be. It is only our mind that keeps distorting everything. As we stop our distortions and simply look at everything the way it is, we will see there is an explosion of life.

Modern physicists say that the universe is ever-expanding – what they mean is there is nothing conclusive about anything. So, there is no ‘this is it.’ It is a never-ending process of absorption. Suppose there is a ‘this is it.’ What will we do after that? We must understand, if we arrive at a station called reality, there is no such thing as ‘this is it.’

Conclusions happen only in our mind, never in existence. Conclusion is the nature of the mind. It wants to close one chapter and say, ‘I got it.’ But life is a limitless happening. That’s what is beautiful about life.