The chemistry of love

 Dr Sudhansu Dash

Love is always enough unto itself. When love is not ordinary not a biological instinct, it is not a part of the ego. When it is not a purpose to dominate the other, it is just a pure joy of being happy and rejoicing in the being of the other for no reason at all. An awareness will follow this pure love like a shadow following the body. Furthermore it is that one need not be worried about the awareness whether it follows or not as it is natural but to follow.

There are only two ways if love ,either  one is aware of it so that love follows as a shadow or one becomes so loving that awareness comes o its own accord. No botheration is needed because if one side is sincerely there, the other side cannot escape, It is bound to come.

There are two people who cannot love because their upbringings, their culture, their society have so killed their very capacity to love that their hearts have become stones. The fact is that this society is not running by love but cunningness under the veil. To succeed in this world one does not need love, but a heart and a sharp mind .In fact one does not need a heart at all. The whole society is managed in such a way that every child start losing the heart, and his energy starts moving directly towards the head, the heart is ignored. Even if one falls I love, one has to find reasons to have fallen in love. When one falls in love, one is just to satisfy the idiots around him that one is not a fool as it has been calculated in every way and then the step is taken.

Nobody hears the heart and the mind is chattering, so continuously chattering that even if the heart sometimes says something, but it never reaches suit cannot reach. Slowly and slowly the heart stops saying anything. Not heard again and again, ignored again and again, it falls silent.

The head runs the show I the society, otherwise, we would have lived totally in a different world-more loving, no hate, no war. The heart will ever give support to any destructive method to be evolved. The heart will ever be in service of death. It is life-it overflows for life, it always beats for life.

Because of the whole conditioning of the society, the method of awareness has to be chosen. Otherwise love is the most short cut way, the most natural-so easy that it is possible even for a small child. It needs no training, no effort because we are born with the quality of it, if it is not corrupted by others.

One will be surprised t o know that the English word ‘love ‘comes from a very ugly root in Sanskrit. It comes from ‘lobh’ means greed. And as far ordinary love is concerned, it is a kind of greed. That’s why there are people who love money, people who love houses, who loves this, who loves that. Even if their love for a man or a woman is greed; as they want to possesses everything beautiful. it is a power trip. Hence one will find lovers fighting to possess the other. Now love is a question of who has power, who is more dominant, whose voice is heard.

There is a continuous fight for domination. Love cannot exist in such circumstances. The man is fighting in this world for all kinds of ambition. The woman is fighting the man because she is afraid if her husband having affairs with other women. She is jealous, suspicious and wants to be sure that her man is in her contrail. In the house there is a fighting for domination of one upon the other. Then who is going to love? Where the flower of love would blossom?

The power of love will blossom when one has the capacity to be alone. The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical It is an existential truth. Only those people who are capable of being alone are capable to love of sharing, of going into the deepest part of the other person without possessing the other, without being dependent upon the other, reducing the other into a thing, without being addicted to the other. They give the other an absolute freedom because they know the other wants to live as happy as they are. Here the happiness cannot be taken away by the other because it is not given by the other. Hear love is not a need, it is a luxury. They both enjoy a sharing, a pouring into the other and create a harmony. Here there is no ego, no effort to dominate. Here one is humble , trying not to be a somebody but ready to be a nobody.

The Beauty of ‘Not-Knowing’

Dr Sudhansu Dash

We all seek answer to our questions in different ways, but the fact is that there is no answer. So the search ends in futility leading to utter frustration. This is the only reason why one is suffering a spiritual dissatisfaction in mind. The existence is hopelessly merciless not to answer any question. There is not at all ‘an answer’ but there is ‘the answer ‘and the answer is not at all of the mind. That answer cannot be of the mind. Mind is a multiplicity. Mind has answers and answers but not ‘the answer’. That answer is a state of no –mind. That is not verbal. One can know it but one cannot reduce it to knowledge. One can know it but one cannot say it. It is a light that simply illuminates one’s interiority. It is not an answer to ay particular question .It is the end of all questioning. it refers to no question at all. It simply dissolves all questions and a state is left without any question. That is ‘the answer’. Unless that is known, nothing is known. Hence one may feel that one knows the answer, still questions will go on coming up and tortures. The questions are bound to arise because the root is not cut yet so new leaves will sprout.

The root is cut when one disconnects oneself from the mind. When one becomes so aware ,so watchful to see the mind as a separate entity from oneself , when all identities  with the mind are dropped , when one is a watcher of the mind, just  a pure witness, but not getting identified with anything , either good or bad, sinner or saint , this or that . in that witnessing all questions dissolves, the mind melts , evaporates ad one left as a pure being, just a pure existence. Utterly in this moment , there is no past , no future and hence no present either Unless that state arises , one will feel many times that one knows the answer , but each answer will create only new questions. One can read, one can think, but one will get more and more in  trap of the mind, more and more identified. Slip out of the mind. Hence ,there is not an answer but the answer. It is a state of utter silence; no thought .It is the state of no-mind. Hence the truth comes of its own accord. One need not go anywhere. It comes .One need not even seek and search as how can one seek and search out of ignorance? In ignorance whatever one does, will be more an ignorance. Out of ignorance wherever one goes one will go astray. Out of ignorance how ca one find clarity? Out of confusion one will be more and more confused I search of clarity. To be silent is to have the answer. To be silent is to be without question and the root is cut and no leaf will arise. When one says that one knows the answer, that is only an illusion and the mind is very clever in creating new illusions. The mind is very deceptive for it deceives one in knowledge too. It ca even make one believe that one is enlightened already. The only enemy is the mind and one is to be very much aware of it. There is no other enemy. The enemy is not somebody outside .It is one’s own mind that goes on tempting, cheating ad deceiving in creating new illusions .By watching the mind questions will disappear ,It does not mean that one knows the answer , o the contrary one has no question. One’s whole being has become the answer.

Thousands of universities exist, thousands of scriptures exist but has any given the answer? What they give are simply information that  one can get anywhere .One can be knowledgeable anywhere. Here but the purpose is but to make one unlearned what so ever one has learned, to make one innocent so that one would shift for a state of not-knowing. So that one has no answer, so that one is just like a small child mirroring reality Perception is there but not cloudy with knowledge. No dust on the mirror and one reflects which is ad out of that reflection, whatever action arises is virtue.

THE ALCHEMY OF MEDITATION

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

Researchers over the past few years suggest that certain states of consciousness brought about by meditation techniques appear  to evoke specific brain power patterns. These states  are now being created  by electronic stimulation in the brain or can be learned by bio feedback techniques .The traditional meditative state of sitting silently but quietly alert is composed of bilatrral,synchronous altra‘waves&.deeper mediation has bilateral ‘theta ‘ waves. A state called lucid awareness has the bilateral synchronous ‘alfa’and ‘theta ‘waves of deep meditation and the ‘beta’ waves of normal thought process. Lucid meditation can be learned through biofeedback technique, using modern equipments. But is there any technique beyond the technological techniques?

It is a very complex question to be answered. One of the most fundamental thing about meditation is that no technique leads to meditation. All the age old so-called techniques may be there or the scientific but are the same as meditation is concerned. The fact is that meditation is not the by product of any technique. Meditation happens beyond mind as no technique can go beyond mind. There is a great misunderstanding in the scientific circle. The basis of misunderstanding is that  when a person is in a state of meditation, it creates certain waves in the mind but these waves will not create meditation and this is the misunderstanding. By creating  the waves  one can see the happenings in the mind but not the happenings inside. There are sophisticated scientific instruments to judge as to what kind of waves are there in the sleeping,dreaming and in meditation. By creating waves one cannot create the situations because these waves are only symptoms and indications. So one should not be under illusion that there is no technique to meditation; scientific or otherwise. Meditation is simply an understanding. It is not a question of sitting silently, not a question of chanting a mantra, no biofeedback at all. It is a question of understanding the subtle workings  of the mind. As one understands the workings of the mind, a great awareness arises in which one is not of the mind. The awareness arises in one’s Being. So mind is only a mechanism and when the awareness arises it is bound to create a certain energy pattern around it. Meditation is not a question of cause and effect .The waves in the mind are not the cause of meditation, on the contrary they are the effects . But from the effect one can not move towards the cause. It is  possible that by biofeedback one can create certain pattern of the mind, that can give one the feelings of peace, silence and serenity. Because one does not know what meditation is ,one may be misled by it in believing that this is meditation, but not. When the moment the biofeedback technique is  stopped the waves disappear and all silence, peace and serenity  disappear. The procedure of this technique is not going to change anything in the being and one remains the same.

Meditation transforms one to higher levels of consciousness. It changes one’s reaction into responses to such an extent that a person’s anger in the same situation shall change him into a compassionate one and loving one .Meditation is a state of being arrived through understanding. It needs intelligence, not

technique .There is no technique that can give one intelligence otherwise all the idiots would have been changed into geniuses

For centuries the so-called gurus have been cheating the humanity, but in future instead of gurus ,the guru machines will cheat humanity. Certainly in chanting the mantras cantinously,one creates energy field of a certain wave length ,but man remains the same because it is only the surface. A pebble thrown to silent water creates ripples on the surface and moves on the whole surface but waves never touch the depth of the lake. The depth is completely unaware of what is happening on the surface what are seen on the surface are quite illusory. One thinks that the ripples are moving, but the truth is that nothing are moving. Putting a small flower on the water after throwing the pebble, one can be surprised to  see  that the flower is not moving but in the same place. the waves are not moving actually but the water is going up and down on the same place creating an illusion of the movement. The depth of the lake is completely unaware of the waves . So meditation by any technique is never going to change the depth of the character.

One cannot deceive a meditator  because the meditator  can see that these patterns  appear in the mind, may be peace, silence ,tranquility or serenity. No technique can deceive the meditator because no technique can give him the understanding of the workings  of the mind.

Understanding arises by becoming a mirror, a mirror of all that goes on in the mind. A meditator has to be just a mirror and to be just a mirror means just to be aware of all the cunning ways of the mind so that the mind is put aside. The mind is no longer between the Being and Existence and the door is opened.

Lecturer in English

Shreedhar Swamy College of Education &Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha INDIA

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THE   NON-LINGUISTIC    VISION   OF   REALITY

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

For about five thousand years man has been philosophizing about each and every thing: about the beginning, about the middle and end of everything but a single question has not yet been solved. Philosophy has proved itself to be most futile of efforts, still man continues ,knowing perfectly well that it never delivers anything but ever goes on promising. It is quite strange as to why does man continue with this effort.

The answer to this is that it is quite easy to philosophize, requiring no sincere involvement, as it is not a commitment. One can sit and go on thinking and does not require that one should change the thinking so as to see the reality. Philosophy escapes there where courage is needed: an adventurous courage. To know the truth, one is to move the greatest adventure there is. Who knows: one may be lost and never come back or come back utterly changed and who knows whether it will be for good or not.

The journey is unknown, so unknown that one cannot even plan it. One is to take a jump into the unknown blindfolded in a dark night, with no map, without knowing where one is going and for what one is going for in this existential quest. Even once, if one has got the taste of life, one will forget all nonsense of character, virtue, respectability etc. One can continue to live in a respectable way if one has not yet connected with life.

Life is a radical phenomenon and the taste comes instantly .Once one tastes it one is transformed. The taste transforms, but a seeing –mind is needed to taste that joy –a mind that is not burdened with all these nonsense languages of philosophies, mind which is open.

None this is the problem with the people, who are attached to philosophies, scriptures, languages or theories. The fact is that their eyes are lost behind curtains layers upon layers. All these curtains are to be removed, then one can have a seeing mind .Right now, whatsoever one has is a non-seeing mind which only pretends and believes that it sees but actually not. It is why Jesus said again and again to see it if one has eyes. He was talking to people who were not blind but why did he insist again and again? The ‘if ‘here is very important because people appear to have eyes and yet they don’t have. This appearance is very dangerous, because they go on believing that they have eyes.

Language is the greatest curtain. Has anybody looked at anything without thoughts coming in ,interfering and interpreting? Has anybody ever seen a flower without language coming in to say that it is a beautiful flower? The moment one says that it is a beautiful flower; the curtain is pulled over the eyes. Language is a judgment and with the judgment comes all prejudices. The whole past comes with the judgment, and whenever the past comes one is removed from the present. Only without a language ,one can only have a seeing mind, vision of the reality. Whenever one is sitting, moving, walking, talking ,one should try again and again to remain with the real –the uninterpreated, the unjudged  real. Slowly and slowly the door will open and a few moments shall start coming to one which are not moments of mind .They are the non-linguistic visions of reality.

Lecturer-in-English

Shreedhar Swamy College of Education and Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha, INDIA

THE   MIRACLE   OF   TRUST

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

Trust is the most poetic experience of life. The basic   necessity for trust is that one should not be burden with beliefs and it is trust that creates miracle not beliefs. It is the source of all miracles. It is the fact that to destroy one’s trust is to destroy the man. A man is brought up in some religion or the other, may be Hindu, and may be a Christian, a Mahammedan or a Jew. All these diseases have the same quality of destroying one’s trust. Because one is brought up in one of these so called religions, one is told a number of words about them, but the fact is that those are words, told to somebody, not one’s experiences. They are false that never tally with one’s understanding, intelligence, or intuition. Still one is to believe them because everybody believes them and not to believe them creates a fear of facing many kinds of troubles in the society.

People find it easy to move with the crowd with a fear that not moving with them would make the crowd quite crude and primitive. The crowd respects people only if they are obedient to it, it its superstitions and it is also an weakness in everybody that they want to be respected. This natural instinct to be respected is therefore exploited. A natural desire to live comfortable is a life easy to be exploited. One who revolts against it , against the superstitions , one is to struggle continuously against the whole society ;with the neighbors , against the teachers, against the priests, even against the family members .One’s life would be a chaos and nobody wants to make life a chaos.

The natural longing of man not to make life chaotic is easily exploited and the best way to exploit one is by giving beliefs that always remain superficial. All beliefs are nothing empty words, and one goes on carrying those empty words the whole life these beliefs are not going to help one’s growth. On the contrary these beliefs remain empty for the whole life, deep down with a settled suspicion .The whole life with a belief and the hands are empty, the heart is empty.

Naturally one is to live in one of the so called religion –may be Hindu, Christian or Mohammedan-but absolutely superficial having no authenticity. The trick behind it is very simple .They people have substituted belief in place of trust.

Trust is something that grows in man not imposed upon .It blossoms, grows, and releases its fragrance but once one has accepted the beliefs as trust; one will never try to find its distinction. When there is the trust, one is a Buddha, not a Buddhist, a Christ but not a Christian. Beliefs make one a Buddhist or a Christian but trust makes one a Buddha or a Christ and when one can be a Buddha then why to be a Buddhist? Being a Buddhist means one is avoiding being a Buddha, avoiding enlightenment. Being a Christian means one is avoiding being a Christ because one is afraid of a crucifixition .One has got an easy way to escape by being a Buddhist or a Christian. If every teacher is honest, every parent is honest, than there will only be Buddhas , there will only be Christs , not Buddhists , not Christians.   No Buddhist can ever get enlightenment, only a Buddha can. So a single insight is needed that is to drop all the borrowed ideas, all borrowed knowledge totally not in installments but instantly. Fear will come out of emptiness but only in that emptiness the great miracle can happen.

 Lecturer in English

Shreedhara Swamy college of Education and Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha,INDIA.

THE   DECONSTRUCTED   CENTRE

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

All human beings live with a hope of their own kind that works as the centre of their purpose of living. The hope may either be spiritual or material. There is not the third kind of hope for any human being. But the question is: where from the hopes come? The most undeniable fact is that hopes come out of the falsity of the being. All hopes are false and to hope is to be in the false. If one is authentic and real there is no need for any hope. When there is no need for any hope then one never thinks about the future about what is going to happen .There the future disappears.

When one is not real, future appears to be most significant and then one starts living in the future. The reality of one’s being therefore is not in the present .It is somewhere in the dreams one makes those dreams look real.

All the false hopes combined together is the Ego. It is not a reality as it is the collectivity of one’s dreams, one’s unrealities which are all false. The essential property of ego is that it cannot exist in the present When one looks at the phenomenon sincerely one can well observe that the ego always exists either in the past or in the future .It is never here and now. It is quite impossible for the ego to live now. Whenever one thinks one certainly thinks of either of the past or of the future. Always past is no more and future is yet to appear So both are not-only the present is and in the there is never found anything like the ego.

It is also a fact that when all hopes are dropped ,the ego is dropped and the man will feel himself dead. Dropping the hopes here does not mean that a new hope of some other kind is created and that is the difficulty. Then the question may come as to why do we live and for what? As the goal has disappeared  with the disappearance of hope  then why to move from one moment to another if there is nowhere to reach? Can we live without hope? There are so many questions coming to the surface.

It is felt that one can not live without hopes because whenever one is hoping ,he appears to be more vital, more alive, more strong but not hoping ,he appears to be more weak ,more depressed, not knowing what to do ,where to go. One feels meaninglessness coming to him. Immediately one creates  a new hope as a substitute of no-hope because one cannot live in a gap. But living without any hope is the real life and for the first time life is authentic.

The ego is false and we are a victim of this false ego. We all are living around the ego and we are seeking more and more egoistical journey .It is nothing but we want it. Somebody through wealth, some through power ,some through prestige, some through status ,some through politics ,some through religion ,some through priesthood and in number of ways. But the result is the same at the end.

All hopes for the future have constructed the ego and because it is false it needs no effort to be dropped .Just seeing the point it disappears. man running scared afraid of his own shadow one stops him and tells him his own foolishness as nobody is following him. Nobody is there except himself. It is only his own shadow. But once one starts running the shadow also runs. The faster one runs, the faster the shadow runs behind the body. Running stopped, shadow stopped .No effort to stop  the shadow is needed ,it is just to see that it is dropped.

All our pleasures and sufferings that we have are but related only to the phenomenon of ego and our whole problem to drop the ego is that we want to preserve the pleasure and to drop the sufferings. It is impossible to drop half of the shadow. Either the whole is to go or the whole clings to us. This is the problem. Whatever one does becomes futile

Dropping the ego always happens in this moment. There is no progressive or gradual process for it .It cannot be because the happening is momentary. One cannot get ready for it, prepared for it because whatever one does as a preparation will strengthen the ego. The gradual process is an effort and every gradual effort strengthens the ego. It is just like a jump discontinuous with the past and only then ego drops.

The ego is of the past ,that we have done,accumulated,all conditionings, desires and the whole past is the ego. The dropping is non gradual, sudden ,a discontinuity .The past is no more ,the future is no more and one is left alone here –now and the ego cannot exist here now. The ego is around us and we are at the centre, egoless.

The child is egoless because the child has no past. Therefore the child is beautiful and fresh. It cannot say ‘I ‘because from where he will bring that ‘I’? The ‘I’ comes gradually when he gets the so-called education ,awards,punishment,appreciation or condemnations. The ‘I’ is gathered. The beautiful child becomes old and ugly not because of old age but because of possessing the accumulated ego ,too much of the whole past.The old man can become beautiful ,even more beautiful than the child when he drops the ego.

There is even a possibility of self deception when one thinks of oneself to be humble like a child .One’s humbleness, one’s humility is just a secret hiding place for the ego and nothing else. To the so called most humble person if one says that somebody is more humble than you  he will feel hurt. So who is hurt? It is none but remaining hidden ego.

So’ what to be done ‘for this problem creates the problem. In fact there is nothing to be done. One only needs clear eyes more perspective eyes more penetrating eyes and a fresh look at the centre of the Being .The ego is dropped .It is no more .The centre of the falsity is deconstructed and the reality of the ‘Being’ appears, which is nothing but a void, a non-being.  

Lecturer in English

Shreedhara Swamy college of Education and Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha,INDIA.

The   authentic man

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

We all generally come across two words: personality and individuality. A close watch to these two words reveals a very startling fact that personality is a false identity and individuality is that what nature has given to us. Personality is given to somebody by the society, not by nature. Ordinarily almost all live as a personality, hence the life is not authentic because an authentic man is one who has come out of his personality. Individuality is existential but personality is social. Personality is false, deceptive and hypocritical man caring personality is not only deceiving others but also deceiving himself.

‘Personality ‘has been derived from the Greek word ‘persona ‘ which means mask and the word ‘sona’means sound..In ancient Greek drama all the actors have a mask so that one cannot find out who the actor is. One can see only the mask and the voice that comes from inside the mask is the actor. The real face is not seen. While watching oneself closely one will certainly find oneself quite surprisingly that one is a borrowed being. All the thoughts are borrowed and even about feelings one may not be certain

.This personality surrounds us from everywhere and our individuality is almost a hidden thing. We never allow it to live because the society never allows it to live in freedom of its own original nature. The society wants us to live in a way it finds useful for it. Personality is safe for the society for the simple reason that it is never rebellious. This personality has become very powerful because the society supports it but there is nobody to support the individuality-which is one’s nature, one’s real power, one’s authentic being, remaining repressed in darkness and the moment one crosses the boundaries of personality , consciousness is one.

An authentic man is a rebellious spirit rebelling against his own personality. It does not know the art of compromising for whatever the cost ,as far as his freedom is concerned. It prefers to die than to be enslaved. By nit being authentic we do the last injustice to ourselves. We have made our being crippled, and go on complain about the miseries if life. the fact is that we have compromised for small comforts from the society at the cost of our original being ,our soul. We have become non-existent. This is the misery, the hell that every man is passing through. there are some vested people with vested interest who utilize and exploit the situation. These people become the leaders in assuring man to bring him an utopia into the world-a world without poverty, without suffering, without exploitation and inequality. All their slogans give man a consolation, although for thousands of years these same kinds of people give the same idea of utopia, but the utopia never comes. It may be perhaps that the very word ‘utopia’ means that what never comes.

The politicians give man the great utopian ideas, the so called religious people give man the great idea of heaven, paradise moksha etc.but if one has an authentic life one does not need these false promises of these hypocrites who have never seen what they say .Quite strange the situation is. When one is authentic in his being, one is so fulfilled that, one is so blissful that one does not need a paradise because no paradise can become in any way an improvement on it.

No utopia can make life richer .One is just to see the strategy of those cunning people who always try to keep man false and to keep man miserable. A miserable man only needs a priest, a politician, a psychoanalyst and all kinds of charlatans because he is in such a misery that he is ready to fall into anybody’s trap, whosoever gives him a hope.

Hope is the greatest business in this world .The priests have been exploiting in giving hope of the next life. The fact is that if it in next life, then why it is not in this life? The logic is that this life must have been the ‘next life ‘of the previous life. The only solution to this miserable life is to drop the false personality and to start living with individuality whatever it may cost. There is no way out.

Lecturer-in-English

Shreedhar Swamy College of Education and Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha, INDIA