Questions vs Answers

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We had finished that fine deal of the meal that day. It was one of the costliest meal in that restaurant, vegetarian though. Had a good food after a long time in my life. I use to think man often run after money for this one basic thing isn't it? Nature has splendid of matters in herself which we just have to pick and enjoy. Food is such as augmentation. But now it is packed in foil covers, A/C restaurants where it is considered healthy. And I am one among that silly humans who enjoys that tasty meal baked inside that packed roof. Our argument about the Dignity and Discipline continued as we entered the auto-rickshaw back to where I am put up.

He: So you are saying that an alert mind will not do something wrong and you call that dignity?

Me: It is not my statement sir. If you put yourself the question, deep inside into your mind, you will get the answer for it. One thing you make sure, the alertness what I am talking is not the mental and physical alertness, like a thief who hangs on with a burglar. I am talking about the whole conscious alertness. Mental, Physical and Astral.

He: Okay sir, I understand. So one with this total conscious alertness will not do anything wrong you are saying, right?

Me: Again, its not my saying. And what do you call as right and wrong sir? Is it your statement of something as right and wrong or somebody else's?

He: We have a very common norms in our society, right?

Me: The very common and generalized do's and dont's?

He: Yes, exactly. We have to run our life by them only. Isn't it? As you say if I am so alert and do something as I said, I will be okay. But what the society will call me?

Me: You have the answer, I think so.

He: Yes, I will be called the wrong doer in the society. I am doing something which this society calls a mistake or wrong anything.

Me: Okay. So you are alert like a thief to a burglar. You want to do something which your total conscious mind says you have the right to do. But there is a burglar set in the society. The table of Do's and Dont's. You sneak into your activity like a thief, but you know there is a burglar set. You are so careful that no one should be alarmed else you would get caught. Now which one you want to do, your intended activity or a good image to the society.

He: Obviously both are important.

Me: Okay, look at that girl there. She is texting to someone. Youngsters are texting often nowadays. The innovations and gadgets. Okay now, she is texting. It can be her boy friend. Because she is somewhere out. May not be her boyfriend. Let us keep, that is her boy friend. She knows very well that she ought not do, because her parents will defy her. But still she does. This way she can keep both of the relations healthier and happier.

You know. This kind of matter is happening everywhere in the society. In all areas of life. In all nature of life. Even in a situation like what you said. Now we are mere actors and we know that we are acting. I said we know the answer, but still there is a kind of emptiness. The mind seeks answers. But in reality the mind is not actually seeking answers, instead it seeks questions. We know most of the answers in our life. Especially if we are so aware. But we want to fill in the questions for the answers. Life is uptilt here.

He: How could that ever be sir?

Me: Ask yourself. How could that ever be? Put the question deep inside. Be blank. Don't have any answer and put your question. Because this question “How could ever that be?” is already having answer inside your mind. Isn't it? Am I right? If not, then you won't ask that question.

We often tend to follow some norms. Society's norms, religious norms, government norms , x norms, y norms....A kind of control. This control is just controlling your upper layer of mind. Am I right? But deep inside, your desire is so villaneous. You seek pleasure outside though you get it inside. You are getting divisive by religion, state, nation etc., you forget the whole human nature.

Now being cowherded by someone with robes or some one talking in front of a public mic you are forced to move in one direction. You are forced. The answers you have with you is not actually yours. It is formulated by someone else called the society and that formulation mostly is completely absurd. The norms of the society makes you a mere actor and nothing more. You are not actually seeking the “truth”. If then, you will never ask a question which has already an answer in your mind.

He: I never thought it that way sir. But one has to live one among the society no sir.

Me: As actors only. We cannot live truly among the society. There are thousands waiting to bully upon you. The people or the society who calls you a wrongdoer, blasphemer etc., will be wrong doers actually. The truth is pricking them first. Aren't you seeing in reality the person “Jesus Christ” was called Blasphemer, a wrongdoer. Now he is being worshipped all over the world. He was in the highest state of awareness in what he was doing. All what you can do is live with highest state of awareness, in which whatever you do will be harmless to the society even as christ's activity. It was of no harm to anybody. Instead it was an act of sacrifice. Are you in that much highest state of awareness?

He: How will I ever know it sir?

Me: How do I know. All what we have is now. Now I am talking this. I don't know about the next moment. I can plan for the next moment. All that I can do is plan only. But think about it, if you are aware this moment, then you are living at this moment. Life is spinning at an interesting momentum sir. The secret of the next moment is the beauty of Life sir. However you put your question to it. Life “NOW” is the hardest truth and when you are aware of it, you are in that highest state of awareness.