Be plain and simple to be identical with
Nature.
I would like to say that we have to understand by the word 'Nature'
the nature of the Highest or the Ultimate. In
Indian thought Nature is usually translated as
Prakriti, the original matrix out of which
everything has come into being. This may be said
to be God or His will or His Kshobha or even His
Maya or power (Sakti). In a sense once the
Kshobha has occurred it begins to move or stir
and the oneness becomes manyness and flows in
all directions. At the beginning there is close
oneness being maintained with each one of the
many. Each particle of the many is full with the
power of the Central Being and as such could be
said to be One Many, or a manyness that is with
oneness (visishtaikya), or a oneness which is
many (visishta). But as the many begin to
radiate or fall into the directions creating the
several planes like the Parabrahmanda, Brahmanda,
Pindas and Andas etc. they lose contact with the
Oneness or the Centre and even fail to resemble
that primary condition. This is due to creation
of private fields consequent on the process of
flow that gives rise to knots or Granthis. The
pull exerted by the particular movements, which
almost become gross particles or individuals,
tightens the knots and the connection with the
source is almost lost though not entirely since
it cannot happen. It is only a conceptual
fiction to hold that there are absolutely
individuated particles or souls for at no time
can they even exist without the central power
sustaining them. However, our present condition
is very much like that of a lifeless stone that
does not reveal the living force which animates
all. They could be stirred into being and made
living when it is turned inward to its own
centre.
But the Master describes with an illustration
taken from life how one manages to get into more
and more complications through desire. This is
such a common experience that it also is the
subject matter of most cinema films which in
turn lure others into the same complications
both within and without. The dangers of drama
and cinema do not lie in the subject-matter or
story, but in the subordinate rousing up of
unnatural desires, desires which take one away
from the central purpose. It is a peculiar
weakness of the modern man that he thinks he can
realize the ideal of living untouched by the
forces of desire even when in the midst of all
temptations even like Suka. However, Vairagya is
necessary for becoming like the Centre or the
Goal. The beginning is ever simple. It is
uncomplicated or plain. If one should seek
oneness with the Centre one should become simple
and plain even like That. The only way of living
like a lotus leaf untouched by the water
Padmapatraiva Ambhasa is to reach the centre,
and then experience the world, for then one does
not lose oneself by hypnotic self-suggestions
that are governed by desires.
It may be asked how, if twists and inversions
happen when there is the flow of spiritual
energy from above, there can be the simple and
plain kind of living? This is possible when the
knots are loosened and without preventing the
free flow of the Highest Consciousness in Its
own manner through all the knots. Even the
so-called inversions would lose the typical
distortions which happen when there is loss of
continuous flow due to desires and deviations.
The continuity of the Supreme Consciousness
being maintained one feels the peace and
fulfillment all through the planes of the
Parabrahmanda, Brahmanda, Pinda and Anda too.
This is living according to Nature, identical
with Nature and this is plain uncomplicated,
unarrested and uninterrupted simplicity.
Our true Nature is Divine, and we should live
according to the true nature of the Divine. |
