We, the people.

Fundamentally, we the people are of two types: those who are life ward and those who are death ward. People who are life ward find life worth living. They are not troubled with so called basic questions of life. They are able to respond to demands of everyday situations because inherently they are endowed with the great jewel of life called “motivation”. People who are death ward find life a burden which must be carried. They delay & often complicate their responses to life situations…. Uncontrollably make wrong choices etc.…. Actually these are the people who have been wronged by life & consequently they want to rebel & revenge.  But being unable to find the real culprit they have an unconscious desire to punish --- either to those around or themselves.  

I have also seen people changing from one position to the other. People who were always death ward, when change to a life ward position become extremely enthusiastic, teachers, spiritualist etc. on the other hand people who were originally life ward ….. Full of everything that constitutes this world & the life …. When they change to other position that of death ….. are a tragedy. Only a few then can dare to explore the truth … the rest are shaken and confused. We have seen such examples around us and often we find it difficult to understand what really went wrong …

You become life ward when you are on the right side of life….that is when you are born & grow up  things fall in place the way they normally do … as a child we are given certain amount of libido or joy-de-vivre .. and in the course of our life it remains intact if not increased.

On the other hand when you grow up meeting one disappointment after another your libido is displaced. You either find the whole thing a big big bullshit or become cynical and trapped in a perpetual feeling of listlessness. In the Urdu language there is a lovely word for this position or state --- Afsurdagi. Vohi daireena bimari vohi afsurdagi dil ki .. said Iqbal the great poet … I can’t quite resist myself from uttering the complete couplet ;;;;

Vohi daireena bimari , hai afsurdagi dil ki,

ilaaz bhi iska vohi aab-e-nishat hai saaqui.

Nahin hai Iqubal na ummid apni kashta-e-veeran se,

 Zara si nam ho to ye mitti badi zarkhej hai saaqui.

Translated roughly it will mean something like this ….It’s the same old disease of being listless & feeling disheartened. O Saaqui! Its cure also rests with this water of life. Iqbaal is not hope less even if he is bestowed with an unfertile piece of land. For, if this land is slightly moist & wet it will bear much fertility.

When we do not feel like doing what we have said or wished, we are choosing death. When we keep ourselves withdrawn from the position of eminence, we choose death.  When we do not value ourselves, our wishes & our choices, we choose death.

When we welcome life’s demands & live up to them, we choose life. When we keep our words at all costs, we choose life. When we see & accept this life and this world the way it is, we choose life. Believe me it’s all a matter of simple conscious choice which we can always make. Right here & right now.

Life’s structure is made in such a manner that the type of choice you make now plods you to situations where you will make further choices of a similar nature again. That is if you keep withdrawn or have a receding attitude … life will bring you more & more such situations in which you will be avoided, not given your valid due & things like that and then you will keep cursing …. Why only me

On the other hand  when you choose & demand what is due to you from life , know your inner desires & stand up for them, more & more situations are brought for you wherein you can take a stand & demand for you what you want & of course what you deserve…. The structure is made like that ,,,, the life doesn’t listen to your logic ,,, it simple readjusts … repeat “readjusts” itself to the choices you make.

I exhort my dear fellow living beings who have gone into the trap of death.. to make … the first choice of coming out & begin at once demanding from life what is due to you.

On the other hand the fortunate(?) ones who are full of life are cautioned forthwith that the death is an essential part .. Which you can never part with ,,, as such it is wise to be equanimous when it comes in whatever form, because we don’t die only when we really do physically but there are situations quite deathlike in life ….even when we are full blown alive..

J Krishnamurthy - Freedom from the known.

J Krishnamurthy came in my spiritual life at a later stage. Contemporary of OSHO, JK was equally enlightened (Equally enlightened ! what a joke ) , but as was said he was an Arhat instead of a Bodhisatwa.. Arhat, the one who knows better but not advised to propound because he doesn’t have that facility of communication called ease. Bodhisatwa, on the other hand, can make people understand the message in their own language. It is said Osho was a Bodhisatwa whereas J Krishnamurthy was an Arhat.

Twice or thrice earlier I came across JK’s writings but they were dry & far flung. Osho was much easier & engaging. These two cotemporaries --- enlightened without doubt --- never saw each other face to face.

Anyway, recently I happened to read “Freedom from the known” by J Krishnamurthy.  A concise, pithy & stinging 130 pager can shake you inside out. Provided you read it twice or thrice. JK’s writing has to be gone through twice at least by any sincere seeker to get the real crux.  That’s what I feel .

The three most important messages given by J Krishnamurthy in this volume are :

1.       There is nothing to seek :

The whole stress, tension, confusion & lack of peace is movement from what “is”. Once you are able to see that there exists nothing, absolutely nothing, than what “is”, the turbulence ceases.  When we seek, it simply means we want to become something different than what or how we are. And invariably it is gong to be in future, not now. This non acceptance sort is what creates movement of mind & world.

If we stop seeking, we come home.

2.       There is nothing to fear :

JK opines that Fear has its origin in the memories created by a bad past or it is due to a probable future. Both are non existent at the moment. Hence, Right now there is hardly anything to fear. 

3.       Die to the past totally :

This is really a tough demand. Past exists nowhere except in our mind and in our memories. But, Can we get over the memory? Can we psychologically die to everything that is past now? This is really tough. But JK says, it is only a question of seeing & enhanced awareness. You can be free of your past once you are able to see that it doesn’t exist now. It’s gone in the nothingness. This is so simple that we miss it completely. It’s gone forever.  So why worry or try to relive it?

All that we know cannot conjure up the truth. The truth, says JK, is beyond what we know.  Do you see this?   

Whatever we have known & experienced is but past. The truth is ever new.  The now.  Do you see this? The truth is tremendous amount of awareness & one’s availability to the present. To what “is”!