Illumination and Distributive Approach

Illumination and Distributive Approach

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Today is the 6th August, the day for which I have got my berth reserved in the train Avadh-Asaam Express to go to home to meet my family and other nears & dears at Delhi. In morning, I got up at about 6 AM, went outside for having brisk morning walk. Remained there for about one hour, came back and took bath. Now I am sitting in chair before table writing this dairy. But whatever I have described is purely mechanical details of life. But these detailing are also necessary so that at least record remains available with you when recalled. On TV in Drawing room, Mr. Asharam Bapu, modern saint is speaking something about yoga and seven chakras (cycles) in the human body. By having control over them, one can gain pure bliss in life by remaining free from the bondage of mental illusion & world's sorrows. Perhaps this is the stage leading to the fully conscious state of mind described as one-point attention (एकाग्रचित्त) in Patanjali's  'Yogadarshanam'.  I want to practice this book in my life because until you have certain rules, principles, practices, habits in the life, a feeling of fullness cannot be attained. The general state of mind should be happy - not of fool's happiness but a wise man's equal resemblance in all situations. 

Although you should not take the world's ills taken for granted and irremovable, you need to be steadfast in your actions. You should not be subdued by others' slight provocations. In morning, I was thinking about Jesus Christ who even pardoned those who had crucified him saying, "God, you forgive them because they do not know what they are doing". This shows how the great persons have such feelings even for others' ignorance. The real action, I think, shall be to remove the ignorance from the minds of people but before that I am required to purify self from inside. My own life is full of inner conflicts, sorrows, stimulating over slight provocations, not very good if not bad feelings for others and remaining in pensive mood at times. So what is required is to keep my mind clean all the times as even the slight layer of dirt will pollute it. Constant dredging is required if I want to run the system efficiently. 

You are reading management nowadays, so try to apply its principles and skills over you and your surroundings. It does not matter whether you are mere a laboratory for experiments but certainly experiments are necessary so as to avail the best conditions. You can see the reactions of stimulants over others, deduct from there and apply over you, if needed. World is very vast and you cannot start ab-initio. Certainly you need others' help for external knowledge. You need to pick the best from available, collect the extract or say nectar (अमृत), and keep it with you. This is the essence of all the existing knowledge, and try to use that for general good of the society. In fact your life should be like a lamp or deepak to illuminate others but before that you need be illuminated also. The great persons have always aspired for this illumination and have spent their whole lives to attain that. 

To become like Buddha, you will have to make sacrifices, meditations, bear sufferings of whether hardships, public agonies and departure from dear ones. But when you have made the whole world as your home, there is nothing exclusive. You are living for the common cause, Intellect then becomes the common property, and there is no binding of rules of Intellectual Property Rights. Then you are living for the general humanity. You do not charge for small gifts rather you feel indebted to the world for giving a place here, and showering its blessings. 

Whatever are you today is because of the existing resources of the world only. You are not a producing man rather a consuming fellow, and world's obligations are more over you than yours over it. And even if you think that world has not given you anything, it is always better to give than to receive. So there should be a 'distributive' approach. The Mother Nature containing Sun, earth, moon, wind, trees, rivers, etc. is always there to exhaust itself for the general but you see there is replenishment. When the tree sheds its leaves, new ones start erupting from it. River, quenching thirst of many in its way, constantly go on flowing because there is a system of regeneration may be by rainfall, melting of snow from mountains, lakes or so. 

So the message is if you take care of others, others shall respond positively. But for doing well, you should aspire nothing in exchange. That is the principle to remain happy. What point I want to describe is that you cannot become Buddha in one day but it takes years' planning, practice, meditation to gain that recognition. Way is certainly difficult but rewards are huge. Buddha has become eternal entity for the coming years. His meditative happy face goes on inspiring lot of mortal ones like us. You can also become Gandhi but for that require preservance, intelligence, aims chosen, his sensitivities towards public sufferings, clarity of mind, principles of life, etc. like virtues. Moreover he did not gain recognition in one day but took years for achieving that position.

Pawan Kumar,

7th April, 2014 Time 00:24 Midnight 

( From my Shillong dairy 6th August'1999 Time 8:30 AM)