Saturday, June 9, 2018

The redemption

Even the most favorable circumstance imaginable leaves behind a sense of mild discomfort. Even if you are the king of the world, with the most beautiful and kind hearted wife and have an adorable family, there persists a lingering feeling of some unnameable emotion. The call of the infinite can never really be shut off completely. And no matter how favorable your circumstances may seem, they will change. And where there is change, there is no permanent satisfaction. No permanent contentment. The emptiness of the infinite never really leaves. But slowly starts to swallow.

Neither marriage, nor career nor good health can redeem. Only the infinite. And that my friend is not negotiable.

Saturday, June 2, 2018

On the choice after death

That which has trapped you is the cultural conditioning, also known as the conditioned mind. Cultural beliefs seem to hold tremendous sway over your happiness and freedom. The thought that you have to study hard to pass exams, secure a job, get married, have kids, raise them, retire and demand care from kids in old age, and finally die. If you are unable to complete one stage, life will be misery. And the need for companionship. Any association with a body is suffering.The system is designed to eventually make you dependent on the system. And when you think that you are dependent on the system, you will do anything to be a part of the system. Any action which would make the system to abandon you is considered taboo. Our survival depends on being part of the system. The system is designed only to ensure its propagation and expansion through time. The greatest threat to the system is self realization or the awareness of truth. It is self denial and self deception that propagates the system. The awareness of truth is destruction of the system. Ignorance of the self allows the system to expand. Comparison with others leads only to frustration. To reveal the truth leads only to being branded as insane.

1. Everyday you wake up early to rush to work.
2. At work, you are doing something only so that a corporation can make money.
3. After work you come home totally exhausted, with a revolving mind, and are too tired and exhausted to do anything further.
4. Not working, you will have to face the ridicule and humiliation.
5. Not marrying, you will have to face ridicule and humiliation.
6. getting married will only increase your worries and demands on your time.
7. We go through life completely oblivious of the fact of our ridiculous situation.
8. Nothing on this earth is really valuable. In fact, suffering is much more intense than joy.
9. Why on earth would anyone choose birth (if a choice exists).
10. Is it really birth that is the problem or the nature of the system or our own gullibility? 
11. Hope is the biggest deceiver.
12. The relative nature of this world leads only to misery.

If there is truly a choice after death, do not choose rebirth. No matter how attractive the system might appear. Do not choose birth.