#Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-4.4 : Swami Krishnananda.

#OPINION : 12/06/2020 : 2192.

#Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-4.

How is it possible for you to exist independently of anything that is outside you? 

The very concept of outside or externality has to be abrogated completely, and transcended. Is it possible? 

Normally, you will feel that such a thing is not possible. 

How is it possible for anyone to be totally alone with nobody else existing on earth? 

The idea of somebody else and something outside you is the limiting factor in which we are all involved in this world. Physically, socially, or from the point of view of natural life we cannot be absolutely alone. Aloneness is impossible in this world. Wherever you go, whatever you are, there is something outside you. There are people everywhere outside you. 

There is the natural world of the five elements outside you. Space and time are there wherever you go. They are external to you. That means to say, in this world of space and time and objects and people, absolute freedom is not possible.

But we never want to be limited in any way whatsoever. If possible, unlimitedness will be our aspiration. If we would like to have wealth, we would like to have unlimited wealth. If we want to live, we would like to live unlimitedly for endless years of duration. 

This is not practicable; we have noticed it. But does it actually exist? If possible, I would like to be the master of the whole sky and all the time process. If possible, I would not like to die at all. Eternally I would like to exist, transcending time, breaking through the process of temporal duration. If possible, I would like to possess the whole sky. 

These ideas arise in the mind of a human being because there is a potential inside us which speaks in this language. We know that practically this is not a workable procedure, but something that is unworkable normally speaking is telling us that it is workable. 

This world tells us we cannot be free, but something inside us says we can be free.

There is something in us which does not belong to this world. All that the world is – space, time, objects, and all people – seeks to limit us in every way from all sides and tells us again and again that we are bound, very much bound indeed, the slave of circumstances and conditions, dependent on events of history and the moods of people and the vagaries of nature. 

We feel like this. We accept it. But still, there is something inside which says that if possible, it would be good to break through all these bondages.

To be continued ...

JAI HIND

JAI BHARATHAM

VANDHE MATHARAM

BHARAT MATHA KI JAI.

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