Shackles to break out of

I seem to have sadly driven away some of my faithful readers with the delectable trash I write now. Well friends, what did you expect, daily doses of sublime insights into mine and your lives?

I am not blaming you. I was like that too, had only wanted to read the finest, the very best, the most meaningful, and the mind boggling.

Well I have searched all my life for such a book or such a column. I am yet to find it, when I do so I shall of course let you know.

You certainly understand that I am not talking about holy books, they are of a different genus altogether. Our business is with books and words written by people like you and me. Call them by any name you prefer, call them geniuses or artists or writers or anything.

I have always thought that the real difference between them and us is that they can give expressions to what we feel while we can’t. Some of them come near to my ideal of a great writer, people like Dostoyevsky for example. Certain of the stuff that he wrote had completely destroyed me.

Well even his works would not act as a bible to us if you know what I mean. There are limits to which artistic imagination can reach. Beyond that it is us and us only.

It is left to us to struggle with this macabre thing that we call our life. I have not yet met someone who has made the head and tail of it in a normal way other than a few fanatical souls who go by faith. They believe that they have found the truth by following the words they believe in.

Really finding truth is not that important in a worldly sense. I can easily claim that I have done so in my own way too. But as some shrewd friends have pointed out there could be something pessimistic in it. Such enlightenments have a tendency to deny the world.

I believe that this approach can be improved upon.

What we need is a doctrine which can reconcile our ordinary life with reality or truth perceived by other methods than which people generally know.

Let me tell you, if you are really fired up you can find truth even now, at this moment, and even realize it intellectually. Once you achieve that, living in it becomes easy as hell. You would not need anything at all then. I have found it so.

I realized then that I did not need even the basic necessities of life. It was a conviction which went beyond everything that we know.

Those who follow the crap I dish out regularly and watch the inconsistencies through which I seem to go might not believe it. But the fact is that I have been there and back and have seen life for what it actually is. A pitiable dream.

Yet the dream that we call life can be suffered otherwise too, without trying to know what the life is all about. The only problem is that then we become too much involved with it and start to behave like puppets.

We lose control and become controlled by others, events circumstances and the like. Instead of being masters of our destiny we would be like vassals carrying out instructions that come from all around us.

You all know how true these words are. We are not free to the extent that we would like to be free. Rousseau’s words goes farther than even he intended “Man is born free and yet every where he is in chains”.

Perhaps man is not born free even. The chains were there even before our birth. Heredity genetics and any number of other factors might put is in chains.

Yet we all yearn for freedom. How can we be free with all these chains around us at all times? Well as you can see the only method is to go for truth. I know it is a much used word, truth, but we have nothing to replace it with.

So go for it, it is not such a hard thing to find as you think. The only thing needed is to wipe your mind clean of what you believe yourself to be and see what you really are. Any one can do it if they really want to. Then you can be at peace with yourself and the world.

I had suggested a method to do it elsewhere in my blog. There are no restrictions to it. Do it whenever you please and in whatever condition you are. Do every thing else as you do at present. Do the worst you can to your body and mind but pursue the technique seriously all the time.

It will reform you as sure as the sun is shining above.