Defamiliarising the Reality

Dr.Sudhansu Kumar Dash

Unreality is not a great hindrance as the belief in reality. A continuous belief in reality has become a habit in us so we miss the reality. When we think that we miss we search and that is that we have not really missed the reality. The ultimate is not far away, it is not a distance. It is near us, close, closer than we are to ourselves but still we go on missing it for millions of lives. Unless this habit if missing is broken ,the closest remains the most distant and the reality remains as a myth, just a myth, a theory, a doctrine ,a belief, but never an experience.

No belief is going to help one, unless the divine is an experience. On the contrary it hinders one, because just by believing in it one deceives oneself that one has known it. The belief becomes the deception and never an opening for the reality. Belief makes one knowledgeable without knowing it,a feeling of knowledge without any intimate experience of it. If one believes, one stops seeking because one has already taken it for granted. But the search without belief is a different search. One will have to pass through a mutation of dying and reborning until the seed dies. So belief becomes a barrier. It gives a false assurance that one has known-and that is all that one has got. Belief is borrowed thing from others. This creates such a situation that the ignorance will familiarize itself as real.

Sometimes it happens that the closest is so obvious that one can forget it .The nearest is so near that one cannot look at it because to look at something a certain distance is needed, a certain space is needed and the fact is that there is no space between you and the reality. Certainly reality is not an object of any search, it is the very subjectivity. One starts searching for it somewhere it will not be found anywhere.Rightnow one is sitting in it, breathing it, breathing in it and through it. This is to be continuously remembered, constantly remembered because the moment one forgets it the whole search becomes futile one starts looking somewhere. The fact is that the very center of one’s being is the very center of the reality.

Reality does not exist as an object and whatsoever theologicians say, are absolutely wrong. One cannot worship it because it is hidden in the worshipper one cannot pray because it is hidden there from where the prayer arises, one cannot seek it without because it is one’s whiteness. The search here is qualitatively different because this search in a way is a no- search, and this seeking in a way is a no-seeking.

. When one has lost the center and one is bound to believe and follow others. One shall become the part of the crowd any so called religion sect when one is not himself .When you are not yourself, you need some organizations, some cult, and creed to hide yourself under its blanket. Adam committed the sin and man is guilty the sin, Jesus suffers for man and the sin is forgiven. So the whole deal is between Adam and Jesus man is nothing than just being a puppet. The idea is entirely absurd.

This guilt feeling is to be entirely dropped first because one is never a sinner at all. Whatsoever one is  the existence accepts him. It does not mean that there is nothing wrong in man one does not need any transformation. One needs transformation because there are many wrongs but these wrongs are not sins, they are illness and disease. So remaining at the center of one’s own being ,accepting one as it is not condemning , one could defamiliarise the reality .There is no other way.

Lecturer in English

Shreedhara Swamy college of Education and Technology

Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha,INDIA.