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ls workshop) Quest In Reality………69

Student Sir, today all of us are in a very depressing mood.

Shantnu Oh, dear me, what is the cause for depression.

Student Sir, since early morning, we have been on this subject of Reality. After exhaustive discussions, we have come to an impasse – and believe there is no reality. We want to believe, there is reality, but at the moment, we are confused.
Shantnu What do you believe is reality?
Student We were taught to believe, there is Reality and also to discriminate between permanent and transient. The permanent is Reality. But we are not sure anymore.
Shantnu You impasse is mental block-up. It is a very sensitive state of mind. A student who is not sincere in his endeavor and lacks objectivity he is easily led to believe in nihilism. Nothing exists beyond what he has already known! It is a false state of false reality based on incomplete ‘known’ knowledge. He is standing on the brink of his endurance. A little extra effort will take him beyond the impasse, otherwise his fall is imminent – which shall again douse him in the slush of sensual world, he so assiduously had risen himself from. You know, at every step up in the extension of consciousness – when we get rid of unwanted elements and retain only useful data, we become more aware of our ignorance. Each step unfolds ‘new; - reality for us. Step-by-step we are refining our gross-consciousness, by removing unwanted data and each step awakens in us new levels of consciousness, which we mistakenly believed were Reality. Reality never changes. Only our perspectives go through new thought – processes.
All the digression we have been undergoing with the help of the acquired knowledge incidentally is data collection not knowledge. In a vain attempt to realize Reality we have exhausted the store of our scholarship, we suddenly face the state-of-nihilism, which you call an impasse. The state comes when we use wrong tools of worldly scholarship for unveiling the covers of Reality.
Student Does Reality have covers?
Shantnu I had already told you, Reality has no covers. These veils are the mental states we are placed at a given moment. It is not subject to change. Beside other attributes, its one attribute is that of stillness. Though it is still-calm-compose, but its creation-nature, is fast moving. As motion brings on change, so these vast varieties of colorful moving cosmos! Still faster than these are the fleeting thoughts compressed in a human mind. Their speed is faster than the speed of light. We are thus possessed of a tool (mind) that is ever-changing. But it too gets stuck-up at one stage, when because of its power of speed and intelligence; it has bypassed the cosmos and is thus jarred there. But its power of intelligence failed it as if did not keep pace with the speeding mind. Though it is equipped with fathomless depths of comprehension but the data stored in its depths is not sufficient and relevant enough to last its probing powers.
Student Kindly elaborate.
Shantnu Mind can easily envision the cosmos but is not sufficiently equipped with intelligence to comprehend the complete effluence of nature and the intelligence that sustains it.
Student Why is it so, Sir?
Shantnu Because the basis of our intelligence is the worldly knowledge, which is very limited, with that knowledge we can comprehend only a fraction of nature.
Student Sir, how we can increase our power of comprehension?
Shantnu Every thought accompanies three essentials, motion-picture-sound. With the balanced co-ordination of these three, mysteries of nature are unveiled and consequently our power of comprehension increases.
Student But does this help us in the realization of Reality?
Shantnu No. Mind and its faculties help us in understanding our place in nature. It clears our out-vision, which pierces the secrets of nature and we try to keep pace with material changes of the world around us.
Student But if it does not lead us towards Reality – then why should we move in that direction?
Shantnu You want the world to stand-still and stop its evolutionary process! Do you want to go back in the womb and once again become the amoeba, from where you evolved?
Or you want to be in the Stone Age man once again?
My dear, boys, material progress is as essential as the evolution of nature. Being its part, rather its penultimate model, it is a genetic fact plus our nature, to know our place in Nature. That is to acquaint ourselves with the latest mysteries of Nature and as a result man’s progress thereof. With this basic knowledge we understand the limits of our ignorance in each sphere of life so that we could keep pace with the changing nature of the Nature and adjust ourselves accordingly.
Mind is our tool to comprehend nature. By knowing nature, we understand about our selves. And our self, leads us to the Self, which is Reality.
Moreover, it is the worldly knowledge that helps us to comprehend the gross intrusion in our consciousness. Unless we are worldly-wise in every aspect of life, we cannot aspire to be wise, which is the pre-requisite of an earnest seeker.
Knowledge of the material world makes us aware of the duplicate subtle worlds, existing in us.
Tbc…..