How Man's Quest for Something Not Man-Made

 How Man's Quest for Something Not Man-Made

To figure out what is everlasting, the undying, your psyche should be liberated from time - time being custom, the gathered information and experience of the past. It's anything but an issue of what you accept or question; that is youthful, completely adolescent, and it has nothing to do with the matter. Yet, the psyche that is decisive, that truly needs to find out, will give up, absolutely, the egotistical exercises of disconnection, and will subsequently happen upon a state wherein it is totally alone. It is just in the condition of complete aloneness that there can be the perception of excellence, of that which is everlasting.

To see whether there is such an incredible concept as the everlasting, one needs to comprehend what time is. Time is a most exceptional thing. I'm not discussing ordered time, time by the watch, which is both self-evident and vital. I'm discussing time as a mental coherence. Is it conceivable to live without that coherence? What gives progression, certainly, is thought. If one ponders something continually, it has progressed. In the event that one glances at an image of one's significant other consistently, one gives it a congruity. Is it conceivable to live in this world without giving progression in real life, so one comes to each activity anew? That is, might I at any point bite the dust to each activity over the course of the day so the psyche never aggregates and is in this manner never debased by the past, yet is in every case new, new, honest? I say something like this is conceivable: one can live along these lines. Yet, that doesn't mean it is genuine for you. You need to make sense of it.

All things considered, man has been looking for this thing for such a long time, from exceptionally old times as of recently. He needs to find something which isn't man-made. However coordinated religion has no significance for any shrewd man, by and by the coordinated religions have consistently expressed that there is something past; and man has consistently looked for that something, since he is everlastingly in distress, in wretchedness, in disarray, hopelessly. Being generally in a condition of transiency, he needs to track down something extremely durable, something that will endure, persevere and have a progression, and thusly his looking for has forever been inside the field of time.

Yet, as one can notice, there isn't anything super durable. Our connections, our positions, everything is temporary. In light of our colossal anxiety toward this fleetingness, we are continuously looking for something long-lasting, which we call the undying, the timeless, or what you will. Yet, this quest for the extremely durable, the everlasting, and the timeless is just a response, and hence it isn't substantial. It is just when the psyche is liberated from this craving to be sure that it can start to see whether there is such an amazing concept as the everlasting, something past space, past time, past the scholar, and the thing which he is contemplating or looking for. To notice and see this requires all-out consideration and the malleable nature of discipline which emerges from that consideration. In such consideration there is no interruption, there is no strain, there is no development in a specific course; in light of the fact that each such development, each thought process, is the consequence of impact, both of the past or of the present. In that condition of easy consideration there comes an uncommon feeling of opportunity. At that time, being absolutely unfilled, calm, actually, is the psyche fit for finding what is everlasting.

D.G.Shastri

Condensed from On God, Courtesy: KFI