The title of this post would have suggested by now, that this is not about social media or marketing. Yes, its not. This one is under the life experiences and learning’s which I share.
A confession – for the first time in public!
This is probably for the first time in public, that I am sharing this. There is this strange presence of a floating figure inside me, which makes me be in a situation, be present to everything which is happening around me and still see myself standing at a distance and seeing the entire action unfolding in front of me, as if I am an audience and never a part of the situation.
A confusion!
Over the last many years I have lived, just like everyone else, I have taken decisions, calls, many of which worked out for the great, some for the good and the others, well, I learnt great deals from them (people call them failures). But still the confusion remains, is this the right thing I am doing?
Though overtime I have also realized there is nothing called ‘right OR ‘wrong’. Its all actually a perceptive notion made by the human mind. Interestingly, the human mind makes itself suffer by making things wrong OR right. It just somehow makes its own meanings to things and then creates a ghost called ego, which makes the human take drastic steps to keep the meaning up-right.
Who am I?
I am thankful to the clear vast sky above, yes, I am sane still. I have learnt from the vast, endless sky along with the Bhagvad Gita (a Hindu scripture), the answer to the question, who am I?
The reality is, I am nothing but an ‘awareness’ which is a complex combination of biological processes. There are many things that form ‘me’. I am actually existing, only till the time, I am conscious about it.
To make things simpler: when we fall un-conscious, there is nothing that we feel/ experience. The human hence is the exact opposite of this state. The conscious. The human actually is the ‘conscious’.
The reality of life – But I get hurt!
Yes, as a human I get hurt. I do have emotions, I do feel pain, I do smile, I eat, I fight, I love.
An Activity for everyone reading this post, for the next minute: replace the ‘I’ in the above line, with your conscious. You feel the pain when you make yourself conscious about it. You love, when you are conscious about it.
The moment you realize that its NOT ‘you’ but your ‘Conscious’ which you are dealing with ultimately, you get the powerful insight, which makes you realize, no-one can actually hurt you. No-one can actually harm you. You can powerfully change the play of ‘existence’ of that ‘conscious’ by making your ‘conscious’ stronger than the one, which might hurt you in any manner. Here the expression ‘stronger’ means, you can make the other person (conscious) cease to exist for yourself (conscious), by just being present to the thought always, that all that you are dealing with is another ‘Conscious’.
So what is the human then - if its the conscious?
The body is another form given to conscious. Its like the car body which conceals the engine. There are deep descriptions of the soul OR the aatman in Hinduism. A powerful extension to the aatman is ‘Aadhyatma’. Aadhyatma is the understanding of the inner self, the soul.
Once you learn to keep the ‘Aadhyatma’ growing, while keeping yourself ‘aware’ always of the fact that you are nothing but a conscious, you will learn one of the most powerful expressions of human life: ‘detachment’. You will be able to clearly establish a distinction between the ‘aatman’ and the ‘body’.
This distinction is the understanding of: Nothing
Nothingness is the ultimate state to be in. You can be with millions of dollars in your bank and still be in the state of nothingness. Once you are clearly able to create this distinction, you start experiencing some interesting things, which I am experiencing now-adays:
- There is no-one out there to hurt me/ harm me and I strongly believe it
- My body can be taken, but not my conscious
- I still need to do everything I am to do in my lifetime, take birth, study, get married, have a family, die, but my conscious remains and that is what I need to build in my lifetime, because everything else I do/ have, will finish/ cease to exist for me, the moment I end.
- I am limitless, there is no definition that can define me, I am a ‘conscious’.
But where is Nothing?
That’s the entire point. Life ends with nothing. There is only the conscious which remains.
Lessons learnt?
There is so much more to life than doing the usual things we do. For a start, I would like to mention two expressions, hatred and forgiveness. Both the emotions have been talked about greatly in the Bhagvad Gita and the Mahabharata. I am trying in my personal life, to move my ‘living’ conscious towards forgiveness. At times the confusions cloud the mind, but when you close your eyes and tell yourself, that you are only ‘your conscious’, well, then you go the extra mile to make your conscious rise higher than anything else around.
Can you implement this in business?
Well yes! Treat your business as a life, which remains for you till your very existence and ceases to exist for you the moment you do. Now if you treat your business as your ‘conscious’ then you will constantly move towards improving it. For your employees, your customers, stakeholders and the ecosystem around.
forgiving is very difficult.I cannot forgive at all so tell me what should i do.
Good one Bro. Nice read. A little loaded but well explained.
Thanks VB for the comment
Krishna, for the start, well the conversation between Krishna and Arjuna, delivers much insights to life and it goes good across ages and times.
I understand forgiving is very difficult. Infact, its near to impossible for many people. But let me give you a question to ponder upon: “what are you holding onto”, when you are saying forgiving is very difficult!
Ultimately you are saying that you won’t want to raise your conscious, till the time you are alive to learn an activity, which is “forgiving”. Which effectively brings another part to fore, which is your “not that ready to learn” take in life.
If you are someone who is open to learning in life, well, then, all that it will take for you to forgive, is to “Learn to forgive”. Forgiving is an art which takes time to master, but how you can simply start is by accepting the fact that you are someone who wants to learn in life and till the time you are alive, you would want to raise your conscious to the level of making it learn the art of forgiving.
So don’t make it heavy for yourself, by forcing yourself to forgive someone/ something. Just raise your conscious, to the level of learning a new art!!