Identity = illusion : No Separate Individuality.

Hello Everyone,

Today's Blog will turn your entire perception of reality upside down ( in a positive way). How? Please try to relate.

Everytime you feel hopeless or depressed or anxious or sad, your mind tends to do anything that lets you forget that thought. In simple words, you either chat with your friends, listen to music, have a walk or whatever. In short, you try to avoid that thought. You try to distance yourself from your messed up brain and messed up body and its messed up past.

Why do we do that? Can we infer something from that? Leave this here.

Neurologists classify sleep in two categories. First REM sleep or Rapid Eye Movement Sleep where you actually dream all sorts of things. Second one is 'Deep Sleep' or that sleep where there is AB-SO-LUTE blankness!

It is the sleep where you kind of take a break from your entire identity, your entire life, its aims, desires, miseries, failures and all that stuff. It is a state where you're completely blank right? You do not even know that you're in that state. Still you be in that state for 7-8 long hours unmoved. However, when you try to meditate, when you try to stop your thoughts, The moment you meditate all the vilest thoughts come to your mind, suddenly your whole body starts itching or paining.

Now. Why the hell in deep sleep you forget everything? Why you even forget that you are 'you'? Think about this guys. You even dont feel time. You do not even feel your body. You do not even get entangled into thoughts. Sleep is a thing that literally is the most common phenomenon everyone experiences but never actually thinks about that period of absolute blankness between!

Let's come to our initial problem now. Why does our mind tend to listen to music or chat with friends and etc etc to forget our pain? Do you all follow my dear readers?

Yes. It is our false attachment towards this body and its thoughts ( mind ) that allows all sorts of pointless miseries to peep in and disturb us. Do you feel any misery in blank sleep? Do you have any identity with this world there? Even with yourself? Who are you? In sleep we are absolutely peaceful isnt it? Why?

That is because in deep sleep we unattach ourselves from this body and this mind. For a moment we distance our awareness from this body and mind from which originates all our sorrows..!

Even while listening to music and all that, our essential attempt is just to, again, distance ourselves from the peculiarities of this life of ours, all the burdens and miseries which is essentially not ours.

Realise this, my friend. This is the secret of non-attachment and renunciation. The conclusion is right here. Just as behind all the movies in theatres there is a blank white screen, which reflects back every colour, which is an eternal witness of every movie presented on it, and which is the same blank white screen throughout all the movies, whether it be action movie, romantic one or any other. Just as that plain white screen is untouched by the movies projected on it, your essential nature is completely untouched by all the actions and dramas running in your life.

This is the core principal of Vedanta. Yes ofcourse, if you did not understood it, its okay. Think of me, who is fool enough to present this eternal doctrine of immortal consciousness via this tiny little blog.

All our forefathers had this core doctrine running in their veins all the time,

"Identity is an illusion. I am NOT my body. I am NOT my mind or its thoughts."

And that is the reason they were so brave, selfless and loving.

Give them infinite blows. They will not even flinch. Why? Because they did not resist anything. They knew that there is none to resist. There is no identity. The concept of identity is self created by us. We name everything. We define everything. We rule out everything. It is our mind that is incapable of controlling its pace, and goes here and there messing about!

What causes misery?

The memory of this ever-changing life.

What causes fear?

Fancy imaginations of future.

Thus, my friend,

When this identity itself is removed,

When the body idea and the mind idea vanishes, all the illusory fears and miseries melt.

If you want to make this philosophy your reality, just grasp it, reason upon it and then meditate upon it until it tingles into your very bones.

I would like to end our today's quest with an extract from Swami Vivekananda's Poem :-

The Song of The Sanyassin.

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"Who sows must reap," they say, "and cause must bring

The sure effect; good, good; bad, bad; and none

Escape the law. But whoso wears a form must wear the chain."  Too true. But far beyond

Both Name and Form is Ātman, ever free.

Know thou art that, Sanyassin Bold! Say-

"Om tat sat!" 

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There is but One - The Free - The knower - Self!

Without a name, without a form or stain.

In Him is Māya dreaming all this dream.

The witness, He appears as nature, soul.

Know thou art that, Sanyassin Bold! Say -

"Om tat sat!"

Thanks,

Daksh Parekh.