Continuum

[This is my first piece in Writers.Com] All of us have a life to live! This writer may inadvertently be complicating matters. But patient reader that you are, dear reader, you would realise as you go on, that I am seeking to simplify our living by asking you to meditate with me a single thought. THERE IS NOTHING TO DO. Well, its that simple. We are free. Free to do or not to do, with no doing impinging on our freedom. Dear reader, I believe that all our problems are in effect experienced by us by the restlessness of our mind. If we can get our mind to be restful, hey presto, all our problems shall vanish. So the question of all question is, how do we make our mind restful. I would like to share a technique with you. All you have to do, to make your mind restful, is to talk to yourself. Well, not just in bits and pieces, which we do anyway, filled up, mostly, with fantasies. No, we have to seek, without any effort, to simply keep talking to ourself without a break. The most amazing thing is that whenever we are at it, this talking to ourself (silently, of course) we right away touch the ultimate. It is not that you talk and talk for ages and then you get some results. The moment you start talking to yourself till the moment there is a break, even if it was only a minute, you have actually touched eternity. You will before long realise that there is nothing else to do except talk to yourself (can anything be easier and more effortless?) that you seek to talk without there ever being a break. I have called this process CONTINUUM. The key points to note are that we should speak using impeccable language. The language should be calm and soothing. You will realise too, before long, that CONTINUUM helps you to become detached. You know that you can simply be a witness to all that is going on and be in a grandstand watching the spectacle of life. And greatest of all, your life starts becoming spontaneous. I end here not because I do not have more to write but because I think my dear reader should soak in what I have written (if he finds it sensible, of course) and favour me with a feedback. Then, we can continue.

Monism and Islam

Dear Sir, I read your article "Pantheistic Monism and Naturalism" in "Islam on-line" and think it is very logical and well written. I have the following query. Please favour me with an answer. If Islam teaches that the Creator and his Creation are separate and a Muslim worships Allah, knowing Allah to be absolutely separate from him, then is the Muslim not in practice worshiping an idol? For is not that which is separate from oneself an idol - beheld to be something outside of oneself? Only our own ultimate self we are not able to behold because there is no seer and seen dichotomy. When we reach that stage the worshiper becomes the worshiped. All duality ends. Does not idol worship end only when we reach this stage or awaken to this stage? Awaiting to hear from you. Regards K. Venugopal Mumbai

All the world's one family

[This is a what I intended to paste as a blog comment to a person who wrote rather idealistically about everyone going beyond their limited circles and holding hands as members of one single family and all that. This comment could not be pasted there so I am pasting it here.]

I am with you absolutely in the spirit of what you say. But aren't all of us different? For such an idealistic situation as you wish for to occur, all of us must be of the same temperament. Do you envisage everyone in the world simultaneously becoming alike right away? Till such a situation comes to a pass, if ever it does, we have to hold on to our individual cherished ideals without, of course, seeking to force it upon anyone while at the same time recognizing the right of others to hold on to their cherished ideals. In other words, living and letting live. What must be fought against are transgressions of sacred spaces of every individual and community.