Relationship
Much of human life is
wasted as in Zen it is says, We eat,
excrete, sleep, and get up ; that is our World. All we have to thereafter is
die. We question of our rights than about our duties. We want to know about others more than what desire to know ourselves.
The question more about what one knows and seldom inquires of Wisdom one shoud
have.
There is much
difference between questioning and inquiry. Questioning is all about the
external world, while Wisdom is all about internal World. Therefore we know of
relationship in family, in community, in society, in comity of nations but
rarely one has inquired about relationship transcending family, community,
society, the comity of nations. Rarely have one realizes that true relationship
is emotional, which one experiences when one inquires and transcends the
physical relationship.
Therefore one should
inquire the true nature of the physical relationship to reach out to the true
emotional relationship. Inquiry will reveal that physical relation begins with
birth in a physical body and ends with decay, destruction and death of the
body. With birth in a physical form
one and the others acquire physical relationship between one another as father,
mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncles and aunts, friends and foes.
With decay, destruction and death of the body physical relationship between one
another as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncles and aunts,
friends and foes ceases. With decay, destruction and death of the body the ‘Person’ ceases thereafter to recognize
his earlier physical relationships with others between one another as father,
mother, son, daughter, brother, sister,
uncles and aunts, friends and foes.
If one cultivate emotional relationship with the
essence that exists within the forms
of one and another, then With decay, destruction and death of the physical body
relationship with the essence will
not cease since the essence within
form is eternal unlike the form which
is momentary, transient and impermanent. Then even if the forms change the
essence within will experience it existence but also emotional relationship
within essences in other forms. That is what Krishna when he said to Arjuna
that he knows all the forms in which he is the essence has inhabited while Arjuna does not know.
Briahd Aranyaka Upanishad
attributes the creation of the physical form to the creatures whereas the
essence posited within those forms to the Supreme
Being. Isha Upanishad says that the one who being consciously
aware sees that the essence within his form is same as the essence in others, and
that all beings on that account have become with the essence within his form them he neither
feels revulsion nor has he any delusion or sorrow. Then as Krishna
pointed out since neither the essence in others was ever not nor would ever
cease to be, the one would cease to be attached to physical relationship with
forms as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncles and aunts,
friends and foes, concentrating on the emotional relationship of the essence
within all the other forms.
Then the question about
what one knows would not arise the Wisdom of one should attain having been
experienced. The question about one’s roght would not arise being sympathetic
to the duties which one owes to the others. Human life would not be wasted in
eating, excreting, sleeping and getting, experiencing every moment in life as
the essence abides in the forms or the essences ceases to find the form
decaying, deteriorated or destroyed. This much is enough. let us leave for tose
who inquire to reflect and ruminate on what has been spoken.
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