What if you die while living? Not all deaths are bad. What about the death of ego while living? In our scriptures, it is called samadhi, or death of all reactions of the ego; we find this world, its every earthly activity worthwhile, or at least not worth reacting to.
For example, imagine an insult bestowed upon you by someone else. You would usually react with anger or resentment, or you may not even react (in rare cases). What if we compare those words with insult with the noise of a car passing down the road. It is not the same but both are sounds. One sound has a meaning for us, the other doesn’t. Why does an attack on self feel so lethal? I hear people complaining about ‘he said that’, ‘she said that’, and are deeply affected.
Awakening is not even letting go of hurts. It is not even letting in such harmless events, which are so temporary in nature. One who has understood the nature of society and world, understands that these events outside are of no significance and do not called for any hormonal reactions.
We often wear a mask for ourselves also, not just the society. We fool ourselves with our own characteristics. We use the mind to create thoughts that flatter us, put us on a moral high, and often mask the inferiority complex with a superiority complex. One who is awakened, living in solitude, away from the play of this world, remains unaffected. He sees this world as a Shakespearean play, and he is just the audience. This ‘play’ is called ‘Leela’ in our scriptures. When we separate consciousness from the self (ego), we can see the cosmic or as I like to call it comic play of the world.
Death, as we know it, is going to arrive someday, despite the entire anti-ageing movement that is playing on our fear of vanity or lack of it. This temporary journey on a minor planet in an ordinary galaxy is not as big as we make of it. Life has no purpose, at least not defined by nature. All purposes are man made, plastic. Or like Camus said it – The life has no purpose; we have to make our own purposes.
So in my world… It is said… Don’t ever REACT. Rather you RESPOND.
A response can be timed, planned and worded to be befitting. Not necessarily to crush the ego of the humiliator but mostly to settle them and also convey the POV, with humility and poise.
Best one so far. U aura-farmed so hard writing this!!!