From the common perspective life seems to be an interplay between persons. Relations come in, various incidents happen, experiences are perceived and so on. It seems to be riddled with problems, dichotomy of thinking which leads to fights , sometimes love, sometime misunderstandings and so on. If you look at the root of all the problems in life it comes from a process of personification of some entity . Duality means thinking that you are separate from all beings and objects. It is so much taken for granted that we have ceased to question it. Me and the rest of the world. Me and my son, me and my mother and so on. See how it depends on me as a person.
Once this has started in your mind, thoughts come about in plenty and leads to expectations about the other person and so on.
How to overcome this problem?.
We create workarounds by abiding in ethical rules, and belief systems. This eases the problem somewhat in some , but mostly following ethics is subjective. So all may not obey the same set of rules, hence the fight.
Before we discuss the situations in life ,let us define some ideas. A subject is something that studies some object. The object is an insentient entity while the subject is considered as sentient.
Let us look at this from the non dual or advaita perspective. If you look at the root of this problem you can see that the person is at the crux of the crisis. How does this happen?. There is only an infinite undivided awareness which is the absolute reality itself. This is an Impersonal consciousness and there is only one undivided entity . Vedanta calls it the Brahman. Now when it occurs inside a body mind system it gets modified into a personal consciousness or ego.The ego thinks itself as the subject and it perceiving something.So it thinks I am perceiving something, instead of saying an object called body-mind system is perceiving it.
Now look at an experience. One person is talking to another . What really happening is this .
The body through its sense organs is functioning and the mind which is another object is thinking certain thoughts and the other person is hearing the sounds etc. If you look at closely there are only objects. There are no persons here at all. You look at the ears . They are objects. You look at the brain it is an object. So two objects are interacting. But the impersonal consciousness is illumining the body mind system enabling sentience. So the only subject here is the single undivided consciousness.
However our mind thinks me the subject interacting with another subject,
In reality there is only one subject and that is the brahman .
The one and only brahman is causing these objects called organisms to function in this talking.
So we can say there are only objects in the entire universe with the brahman the one and only subject illumining the sentient beings. Instead of this reality we have assumed that each and every one of us are subjects or persons and the rest of the world as distinct from us.
Now let us analyze an experience in life. Why do we feel angry about something?. Are we ever angry at an object like a car?. No. We are only angry at people. Now where is the person here. There are only objects here. The one and only subject is the brahman which is the same everywhere. So when we are angry at a so called person, are we shouting at an object illumined by the brahman which is also illumining us?.
Since truly there is only one subject which in all of us is the same, which is the only sentient reality , is there any sense in shouting at another person?. The same brahman which has enabled the object called you , is the cause of the anger causing object that you see in front of you.
Are we getting angry at ourselves?.
The divisive thinking vanishes once you understand the fact that we are all manifestations of a single undivided brahman or atman and what you see as distinct are nothing but objects called bodies and minds.
So understand this simple principle. There is only a single cosmic I. All things etc that you see in life are just objects which are manifestations of the single I and interactions just happen spontaneously. If you appreciate this , there are no issues. We are actually free from any person-hood, but thinking makes us believe we are distinct from the rest. Whatever you see around you , it is the brahman working through the objects.
Once this has started in your mind, thoughts come about in plenty and leads to expectations about the other person and so on.
How to overcome this problem?.
We create workarounds by abiding in ethical rules, and belief systems. This eases the problem somewhat in some , but mostly following ethics is subjective. So all may not obey the same set of rules, hence the fight.
Before we discuss the situations in life ,let us define some ideas. A subject is something that studies some object. The object is an insentient entity while the subject is considered as sentient.
Let us look at this from the non dual or advaita perspective. If you look at the root of this problem you can see that the person is at the crux of the crisis. How does this happen?. There is only an infinite undivided awareness which is the absolute reality itself. This is an Impersonal consciousness and there is only one undivided entity . Vedanta calls it the Brahman. Now when it occurs inside a body mind system it gets modified into a personal consciousness or ego.The ego thinks itself as the subject and it perceiving something.So it thinks I am perceiving something, instead of saying an object called body-mind system is perceiving it.
Now look at an experience. One person is talking to another . What really happening is this .
The body through its sense organs is functioning and the mind which is another object is thinking certain thoughts and the other person is hearing the sounds etc. If you look at closely there are only objects. There are no persons here at all. You look at the ears . They are objects. You look at the brain it is an object. So two objects are interacting. But the impersonal consciousness is illumining the body mind system enabling sentience. So the only subject here is the single undivided consciousness.
However our mind thinks me the subject interacting with another subject,
In reality there is only one subject and that is the brahman .
The one and only brahman is causing these objects called organisms to function in this talking.
So we can say there are only objects in the entire universe with the brahman the one and only subject illumining the sentient beings. Instead of this reality we have assumed that each and every one of us are subjects or persons and the rest of the world as distinct from us.
Now let us analyze an experience in life. Why do we feel angry about something?. Are we ever angry at an object like a car?. No. We are only angry at people. Now where is the person here. There are only objects here. The one and only subject is the brahman which is the same everywhere. So when we are angry at a so called person, are we shouting at an object illumined by the brahman which is also illumining us?.
Since truly there is only one subject which in all of us is the same, which is the only sentient reality , is there any sense in shouting at another person?. The same brahman which has enabled the object called you , is the cause of the anger causing object that you see in front of you.
Are we getting angry at ourselves?.
The divisive thinking vanishes once you understand the fact that we are all manifestations of a single undivided brahman or atman and what you see as distinct are nothing but objects called bodies and minds.
So understand this simple principle. There is only a single cosmic I. All things etc that you see in life are just objects which are manifestations of the single I and interactions just happen spontaneously. If you appreciate this , there are no issues. We are actually free from any person-hood, but thinking makes us believe we are distinct from the rest. Whatever you see around you , it is the brahman working through the objects.
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