Our senses are evolved as an extension of our body-mind. Body and mind are not two things. Body-mind is in fact one thing. Our body has its own mind and our mind is in fact evolved as the sense of time. Senses were desired by man. They are extensions of the body-mind.
Whole life man keeps on overfeeding senses. Senses that give him pleasures. He keeps racing after the senses. What are senses? Senses in fact are tools. They are nothing but tools. Like you are going in a car. A car becomes a tool that is an arrangement to travel faster. It becomes an extension of your body to travel faster. You cannot travel 100 miles, 200 miles, 500 miles but a car travels that distance in a matter of hours. Car lends an extension to your body to travel faster. Senses lend extension to your body.
Your body-mind has limitations and senses are evolved to lend extension to your body-mind. In fact, in the beginning, senses were not needed. But for growth of body-mind, senses grew. This world is racing fast and growing. Senses are racing fast and growing. Man has learnt to see long distances and has learnt to make sense of the world around him. Man has learnt to hear the slightest of the sound and learnt to speak and listen in complex languages. Man has learnt to evolve senses beyond sensory perception.
The world that is racing fast, together with that man is racing fast. Man has created a society around him to live. He is caught up in the complexities of the systems that he is yet to understand that systems are merely a tool. An artificial tool created by man. The man continues to perceive that the artificiality of the system is the truth of life. Society is an artificial system and it is not the truth, it is an artificiality in which we continue to live. In which we continue to get ourselves mired. Society has a utility nothing beyond it. Society has defined laws, rules, ethics and it makes one follow. But society has its own limits. Even if you have followed the rules of society it does not make you meet who you are. If if you followed the ethics or commandments set by religion like ten commandments, but they will make you moral or if you didn’t immoral. But it does not make you amoral. Beyond that.
Like we have a great history of philosophies that continue to define things. At best they can be called theorists. Philosophies have created logical thoughts. The dilemma is that gripped into this artificiality man thinks that this artificiality is the life and man has to live—the real life of artificiality.
Life is not artificial. Life is like rivers that are gushing and flowing in the joy of life. Life is birds flying in the joy of life.
That which is existence, that existence is absolute. In absoluteness existence exists. Upanishads say that which is absolute births the absolute. Man is born in that absoluteness. One who is birthed into this world is born from absoluteness and he is to attain that absoluteness in his life. He is born to strive for what he is already is. That is the joke of life at which Buddha laughs.
Man is going to be what he already is born with because the man never becomes one who he already set to be but he always wants to be what he is not.
Life is simple. A seed grows into the tree and the tree grows into seeds. Man thinks that he is going to be something. He is not going to be someone. Man is destined to be what he is set to be but his mind does not accept that absoluteness. Because mind too is an artificiality. And artificiality is the absence of absoluteness.
Mind is the gross artificiality of knowledge that makes man think thoughts of being. Without being in the being. If you ask a man who is he. He would read out the whole history of knowledge of existentialism but he would not know who is he. Because to know who is he has to be. And the mind is not to be. Mind mires one into the artificiality of knowledge.
Man has covered himself with a robe of artificiality in the mind. He has identified himself with that robe. Senses make perception. The one who is deep-seeded within us at the seat of our being is absolute. That is the one you is beyond perception. Because perception that senses make is created in the mind.
To go beyond your senses is when you drown into that absolute into its absoluteness. That is what we are that is what we have become that which is our journey is leading us to be who we are. Senses, systems, society are temporary utilities.
Being is knowing that which is you and knowing that which is you is to be that which is the absolute being.
That which is your mind is your not being when you are not is your mind. A mind does not experience but doubts the experience. A mind simply collects data about experiences. When you have not experienced something and you get to know about it. An experiencer does not doubt his experience but a mind who is a non-experiencer doubts an experience.
So begin to doubt your doubt to release the grip of the mind. Mind is the absence of your being. All logical thoughts, definitions arise because you were not and your mind makes a proxy of your being in the real world that Hindus call maya. When you are present in your presence then the mind does not work. Being in the beingness of your being if someone says something, shastras (scriptures) are birthed.
When you are in the mind you are the ego. Life is not the journey of the ego because the ego is not. Neither life is a journey in society. Which again is an ego. Life exists in the absoluteness and being in the absoluteness of your being.
The author is a spiritual teacher. He can be contacted at arunavlokitta@gmail.com.
