Solving The Complex Problems Of Life
Satsang: Swami Sukhabodhananda
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Without truly understanding the ways of our mind how it works and operates one cannot justly resolve the complex problems of living. This wise understanding one learns by observing the book of life and not by reading books, scriptures or quoting therefrom. If one's centre is complex, then even basic issues will be seen in a complicated way.If your centre is pure, even complex situations of life can be easily understood and handled. If your centre is not smitten by greed and not lost in addictive pleasure modes, then the world becomes a delightful field to explore and live. But if your centre is bullied by greed, then, you do not see the world, but the world will be polluted by your greed.
Why is one's centre complicated?
No one has thought of this deeply . Are you just lost in fulfilling the illusion created by a greedy centre? Do we have the time to think or is our time lost in fulfilling what we have thought or assumed to have thought?
Why have human beings become complicated? Somewhere along the line, we have stopped looking at ourselves, is it not? We have assumed that we have looked at ourselves just because we have concluded on what we want. What we have thought is the extension of what we want and what we want is a product of some hypnotic state we are in.
To observe your centre involves your being free to observe without likes or dislikes. If you are caught in what you like and dislike, then your thinking gets muddled up with likes and dislikes and hence the observations gets polluted. To be free from likes and dislikes and from wants and then see, involves a different quality of observation. Like how a scientist should be free when he observes and not get lost in what he wants through his observation.
How can one be free from likes and dislikes?
These questions arise because we have already programmed and loaded ourselves with the conclusion that it is natural to live with likes and dislikes. Look at this deeply. I want this or don't want this, or i like this or don't like this is a movement of thought. Without thought, no likes and dislikes can emerge.
The mistake one makes is ikes and dislikes as one's core seeing likes and dislikes as one's core centre. One gets defined by thought, which means one gets defined by the content of one's thought. If one's thought has likes or dislikes as its content, then one gets identified with it and hence the movement of thought is the movement of oneself. This is the error in one's living.
Thought, with its likes and dislikes resides in an inner space and this space is beyond thought. In sleep, there are no thoughts, but still, you exist. So one's centre is not thoughts.The centre is pure, empty, space.Understanding this is easy, but it may appear to be extremely difficult. This is because one is heavily programmed with what one knows and does not know. Also, one does not allow true knowing to take place. Learn to discover this truth.
Why is one's centre complicated?
No one has thought of this deeply . Are you just lost in fulfilling the illusion created by a greedy centre? Do we have the time to think or is our time lost in fulfilling what we have thought or assumed to have thought?
Why have human beings become complicated? Somewhere along the line, we have stopped looking at ourselves, is it not? We have assumed that we have looked at ourselves just because we have concluded on what we want. What we have thought is the extension of what we want and what we want is a product of some hypnotic state we are in.
To observe your centre involves your being free to observe without likes or dislikes. If you are caught in what you like and dislike, then your thinking gets muddled up with likes and dislikes and hence the observations gets polluted. To be free from likes and dislikes and from wants and then see, involves a different quality of observation. Like how a scientist should be free when he observes and not get lost in what he wants through his observation.
How can one be free from likes and dislikes?
These questions arise because we have already programmed and loaded ourselves with the conclusion that it is natural to live with likes and dislikes. Look at this deeply. I want this or don't want this, or i like this or don't like this is a movement of thought. Without thought, no likes and dislikes can emerge.
The mistake one makes is ikes and dislikes as one's core seeing likes and dislikes as one's core centre. One gets defined by thought, which means one gets defined by the content of one's thought. If one's thought has likes or dislikes as its content, then one gets identified with it and hence the movement of thought is the movement of oneself. This is the error in one's living.
Thought, with its likes and dislikes resides in an inner space and this space is beyond thought. In sleep, there are no thoughts, but still, you exist. So one's centre is not thoughts.The centre is pure, empty, space.Understanding this is easy, but it may appear to be extremely difficult. This is because one is heavily programmed with what one knows and does not know. Also, one does not allow true knowing to take place. Learn to discover this truth.
