Can you be alone?
It is the supreme form of bliss where you are in presence of the self or the ultimate reality , where you have dropped the chatter of the mind. This is supreme recognition of the truth of nature.
But most people are afraid of being alone. They fear they would go insane.They want to go somewhere , do something like talk something over , listen to music something which would "keep them engaged".
You are afriad of being alone. why ?Because your mind is full of shattering thoughts and when you are alone it only increases the no of desperation in you. You are afraid of yourself more that the outside world actually. Second is you always want to be engaged. Why ?. This is the familiar way of ego to catch your attention. So it puts the fear in you , dont be idle. Do something. Do something and think!!!.
Being silent and doing nothing is inherently difficult. One of the measures of your spiritual progress can be how comfortable when you are alone. Alone in the presence of the self without any mind's discomforting thoughts. The stillness of being and peace reverberating in you.
The more you are in self awareness, the better is your capability of being alone. So consider meditation to guide you in this process. As you become used to this stillness you are befriending your self and moving away from your false self.
All of us know these moments of stillness from time to time but we never notice it because of the lack of awareness to catch it.
Once you become familiar with the bliss there is of these moment of alone ness, you wont ever go to the outside world for happiness. Desires will never allure you into the world. Also as you start seeing the world as it is in the moment of stillness, your acceptance becomes so natural.
The self is one which sees the seeing, perceives the perceiving hears the hearing. The objects are mere appearances in its infinite field of permanence. The whole content of all the experiences is just in the being ness.
Be alone to become what you are really. It may seem paradoxical that being alone can do anything, as the world appears to be so huge and varied and you are so small in comparison and being alone gives you the truth. But that is how it is. The whole world is embedded in you, so in order to know it you have to come back to yourself. Krishna revealed the whole cosmos in his mouth to yasoda. That was not the indication that some supreme being is mighty powerful or anything as commonly people believe. It shows that in order to know the universe , know yourself(open yourself). When he revealed it again to Arjuna he said remember i and you are one and the same. But if you have to see it, you should never waver from your quest of the self in nascent simplicity.
In moments of alone ness , you can see that problems become not only trivial, but also solutions appear in you naturally. It is a meta solution in that it transcends and solves the problems at the same time.
Sometimes people complain that they feel lonely. Distinguish it from being alone.What does feeling lonely mean?. You think you want company and sharing helps you to alleviate problems and increases the happiness in you. Again this is a clever trick of the ego for self preservation. In doing so it proves to you how limited you are. It says look my dear, you cant take this life alone. You need to find someone to share and then only you can overcome your limitations.
So feeling lonely is a way of the ego, while being alone is understanding the peace of the self. The self never makes you feel little , it on the other hand shows you how peaceful you are. How universal you are and what is more your true nature of being.
In being alone, you can also learn to practice the sense of being in the moment. As the stillness envelopes you, you are just aware of this moment. All the pure sensations coming to your being in perfect harmony.
It is the supreme form of bliss where you are in presence of the self or the ultimate reality , where you have dropped the chatter of the mind. This is supreme recognition of the truth of nature.
But most people are afraid of being alone. They fear they would go insane.They want to go somewhere , do something like talk something over , listen to music something which would "keep them engaged".
You are afriad of being alone. why ?Because your mind is full of shattering thoughts and when you are alone it only increases the no of desperation in you. You are afraid of yourself more that the outside world actually. Second is you always want to be engaged. Why ?. This is the familiar way of ego to catch your attention. So it puts the fear in you , dont be idle. Do something. Do something and think!!!.
Being silent and doing nothing is inherently difficult. One of the measures of your spiritual progress can be how comfortable when you are alone. Alone in the presence of the self without any mind's discomforting thoughts. The stillness of being and peace reverberating in you.
The more you are in self awareness, the better is your capability of being alone. So consider meditation to guide you in this process. As you become used to this stillness you are befriending your self and moving away from your false self.
All of us know these moments of stillness from time to time but we never notice it because of the lack of awareness to catch it.
Once you become familiar with the bliss there is of these moment of alone ness, you wont ever go to the outside world for happiness. Desires will never allure you into the world. Also as you start seeing the world as it is in the moment of stillness, your acceptance becomes so natural.
The self is one which sees the seeing, perceives the perceiving hears the hearing. The objects are mere appearances in its infinite field of permanence. The whole content of all the experiences is just in the being ness.
Be alone to become what you are really. It may seem paradoxical that being alone can do anything, as the world appears to be so huge and varied and you are so small in comparison and being alone gives you the truth. But that is how it is. The whole world is embedded in you, so in order to know it you have to come back to yourself. Krishna revealed the whole cosmos in his mouth to yasoda. That was not the indication that some supreme being is mighty powerful or anything as commonly people believe. It shows that in order to know the universe , know yourself(open yourself). When he revealed it again to Arjuna he said remember i and you are one and the same. But if you have to see it, you should never waver from your quest of the self in nascent simplicity.
In moments of alone ness , you can see that problems become not only trivial, but also solutions appear in you naturally. It is a meta solution in that it transcends and solves the problems at the same time.
Sometimes people complain that they feel lonely. Distinguish it from being alone.What does feeling lonely mean?. You think you want company and sharing helps you to alleviate problems and increases the happiness in you. Again this is a clever trick of the ego for self preservation. In doing so it proves to you how limited you are. It says look my dear, you cant take this life alone. You need to find someone to share and then only you can overcome your limitations.
So feeling lonely is a way of the ego, while being alone is understanding the peace of the self. The self never makes you feel little , it on the other hand shows you how peaceful you are. How universal you are and what is more your true nature of being.
In being alone, you can also learn to practice the sense of being in the moment. As the stillness envelopes you, you are just aware of this moment. All the pure sensations coming to your being in perfect harmony.
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