ennar’s blog

In Moving Images We See What Is Not 

What is vision ? We are able to see objects and other externalities because of our visual perceptive apparatus that has the attribute called as persistence of vision. A motion picture is made up of a series of still pictures. When each of these still pictures is followed by another in less than a sixth of a second, the brain interprets the sequence as a continuum. And so we see the sequence of images as a motion picture without realisisng that we think we see is just an illusion, a perception.

The continuum is implied. The continuum is enabled by a programme of the neurological apparatus. And we are actually deceived by “virtual reality”. Each individual and his constituents are all the while in a state of change. Even the skeletal system that we believe to be hard and which forms the infrastructure of the body is constantly being remodeled. Absorption and reformation of the bones are a continuous process. So, when we all are constantly being reformed as it were, the perception of our own continuity is mere hallucination.

Change is the only certainity. We all are constantly changing and so is the environment. So any perceived continuity or seeming constancy is just an illusion of our perception. If we wake up to the fact that every aspect of existence is in a constant flux, then the question that automatically arises is “what is unchangeable, permanent and eternal ?”

The constancy is in the perceiver; it is in the act of observing. All creation is comprised of three distinct entities ; the perceiver, the perceived and the act of perception. All the manifestations of the same universal consciousness. Saint Dhyaneshwara refers to this trilogy as ‘triputi’. The perceived is all the while in a state of flux and change. So the perceiver is the only constant in this apparent variable equation of creation. What is perceived all the while is changing.

Quantum physics expounds that if the observer does not observe as an event, then it never happened. Out of the infinite possibilites, when the observer observes an event, then all the other waves of possible events are quashed. Till the observer observes, all events are in a state of being possible. All perception is centered on awareness. To any observer, the universe exists only till the observer exists. Once the observer ceases to exist, then from his perspective, the universe also ceases to exist.

When ancient scriptures comment on the illusory nature of all creation, they are alluding to the impermanence and deception created by sensory perception. The continuum of existence is only a mirage. We are not the same entity at two discrete points in time. We as well as the environment are continuously changing and any continuity is just an illusion of the perspective apparatus. In deep sleep, there is period of non-perception of the outer world. On waking, this world reappears and the show goes on. Despite non-perception of the external world there does remain a certain am-ness, that is aware and says that i slept well. That awareness is the witness and the unchangeable and permanent entity, the immortal Atman.

In death, that personalised awareness again becomes im-personal awareness. In the state of realisation, the trilogy of perceived, perceiver and the act of perception merges into unity, into the paramatman.

this is an email forward…….  A Father’s letter to his Son.

Dear Son,I want you to prepare yourself to live in an uncertain world the way I show you. Understand the following as early as possible.

Life is precious.And equally fragile.So every day is a gift.                    Get up early once in a while just to watch the sun rise. Stare at it intently and burn it in your memory. Be aware of every passing second. Look around you. There’s a thin stalk of plant finding its place under the sun in a crevice on the wall near the pavement.

Appreciate mother’s cooking. Praise it to heavens…. make it a habbit to eat together as a family. No, make it a rule. Fall in love with books. Words will transport you to worlds far away. It will also keep you informed and prepared.

Follow your heart. The mind can waver but the heart seldom does. Respect your conscience. It’s like a post-it note from God.

When you grow up, seek a job you love. As you enter the world of careers and cocktails, you will get sucked into a vortex called rat race. Don’t be overwhelmed. We’re all human. But have the courage to step out of it. Nothing will be lost. Some illusions will shatter. Good riddance.

Money. It’s important.But it has it’s place. Don’t make the mistake of putting it right on top.

Find your love. Hold it dearly. Be a good husband.A patient father.Give your children space to make their mistakes.But hold them when they fall.

Speak up when you have to.Whether we like it or not, we’re living in a democracy. Sure it has its pitfalls.But don’t forget the positives too.The real fight in a democracy is between remembering and forgetting. Go and vote. It’s your chance to give shape to the kind of society you want to live in.

Be alert. But try not to live in a state of fear. If you were to get caught in a situation similar to what happened in mumbai on 26/11 and should we lose you, then you will have left us with enough memories for the remaining years. That will only happen if you start living every day like it is the last day of your life. Don’t have regrets. They defeat the very purpose of life. 

• Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
• Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on,with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
• The most decisive actions of our life are most often unconsidered.
• To accomplish great things,we must not only act,but also dream; not only plan,but also believe.
• Dreams pass into the reality of action.From the action stems the dream again ; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
• Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
• May all your troubles last as long as your new year resolutions.

             QUOTABLE  QUOTES

• Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
• Everything has a cause and for everything there is an effect.
• The will is not free…. it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect — but there is something behind the will which is free.
• The consequences of our actions take hold of us quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have ‘improved’
• Even the absolute universality of the law of casuality does not necessarily limit a person’s freedom,because the law of casuality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future,but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.
• Work done with selfish motives is inferior by far to selfless services or karma yoga. (”Therefore be a karma yogi,O Arjuna” said Krishna, “those who seek to enjoy the fruits of their work are verily unhappy because one has no control over the results.”)

                       S E L F         H E L P  

.

Self help is the best of all helps,but it need noIn this world of phenomena there is no such things as perfect institutions since there are no perfect individuals.We have to accept things as they are.Both strong and weak points are to be found everywhere,and we have to choose that institution which has more good than bad and can help us also to improve ourselvest be egocentric.Let your mind be your “Guru”.This means that it should be pure enough to come in contact with the Guru of all gurus,dwelling within us.This is the best advice i can give.Do not weaken yourself by thinking that you are good for nothing.Instead of depending too much on any outside help,pray fervently to the Guru within for Light and guidance.

Learn to feel happy seeing others happy.

All of us have our weaknesses and strong points,put both together,and as you look at them,you will find that good overweighs evil which, however, is to be removed in gradual stages.

When you feel depressed looking at your weaknesses,look back and notice what a great change has come over you in the course of the last few years.Let this fill you with hopes,and encourage you to try,try and try again.Knowing that the divine power is behind you, you should learn to draw upon this Power through your earnest striving and prayer.I am sure that in due course you will find yourself spiritually transformed,more than you can dream of now.

Our ideal is so high that the more we proceed towards it,the more we find that there is yet so much to achieve.This is very good because it keeps us going and enables us to have a little taste of the divine joy as we continue to do our prayer and meditation.

• It is a miracle that curosity survives formal education
• If your heart acuires strength,you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
• The world is but a canvas to the imagination
• An invasion of armies can be resisted,but not an idea whose time has come.
• There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
• courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
• Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and the pupil are located in the same individual.
• The persons who lose their conscience have nothing left worth keeping.

• Immature love says : ” I love youbecause I need you.” Mature love says : ” I need you because I love You.”
• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
• It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to avoid an arrow shot from behind.
• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
• In the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules.
• Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then,even if you receive disturbing news,it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.
• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
• Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives since they have not discovered any continuous employment for man’s nobler faculties.

• People living deeply have no fear of death.
• God talks incessantly. But, as it turns out, mankind is deaf.
• Everything is possible for the person who believes.
• Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.
• That is happiness ; to be dissolved into something completely great.
• Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
• Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
• The especial genius of women is believed to be electrical in movement, intutive in function, spiritual in tendency.

IN  THE  BHAGAVAD  GITA  IT  STATED   6.1-2   ……     He who performs his duty without depending on the fruits of his actions — he is a sanyasi and a yogi, not he who is without fire and without activity …. No one becomes a yogi who has not renounced thoughts, scheming or planning.

Human responsibility is the absolute law of God, and unless you fulfil it you have no way to get into heaven. The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will — his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

How can we ever contemplate God if we have not learnt to detach the mind from the world, and to remove worldliness from our mind ? How can we learn to detach the mind from the world ? The two attributes — detaching the mind from the world and attaching it to God — are but two ends of the same stick. Where such synthesis does not prevail, there is hypocrisy, pride and conflict. Where it does, there is sincerity, humility and harmony — whatever be the outward appearance.

• Trees are meant to be the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
• The mere sense of living is joy enough.
• What you are aware of you are in control of; What you are not aware of is in control of you.
• It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people.
• When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear.
• Why give the ego more power by resisting and opposing it ?
• The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the strength within you that survives all the hurt.
• The game is not about becoming somebody.It’s about becoming nobody.
• There are no accidents… there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood.