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Reaching the Creator

(A true spiritual article)

By : Arvind Bhagwath

Introduction:

If you are really curious, you might have questions like the ones below:

Why do we take birth and why do we die? Why do we struggle to achieve something? Why there is struggle for existence in all the living beings?
Why do we struggle to be recognized or accepted as a valuable individual or member in a group?
Why do we feel pleasure and pain?
Why do we love and why do we hate? Who brings the desire or revulsion in us?
Why do we cry and why do we laugh? Also, why do we sleep, eat, respire, reproduce?
Why do we feel disturbed when someone dislikes us?
Why do we dream to achieve a goal?
What makes us to bring an unsecured and unsatisfied feeling even after achieving something that we wanted?
And someone might have questions like - what is life? Is there a creator? What is the meaning and purpose of life?
Is God really present, if God is really present, why sometimes bad happens to good ones?
What is good and what is bad?

And questions continues…………………………………

To answer the above or any questions that you may have, understanding and functioning of our own Mind is necessary and once we understand our own mind, self realization becomes easier and we understand the truth, we overcome the wrong belief that we have developed in our mind and later we can understand the GOD and the force of nature acting on us. Understanding God s very simple, since our mind is complex, we are not able to understand who is the GOD. Hence, I request the readers to read the article many times, think yourself closing your eyes ("Who are you"), Why have you taken birth in this world of dualities. What is the purpose of life. What is your goal. What is truth.

Every animal you can think of -- mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians -- all have brains. But the human brain is unique. It gives us the power to think, plan, speak, imagine.

When I speak about Mind, I wish to first say that Mind is different from Brain. Mind co-ordinates with the organ brain to perform various tasks.

Mind is the most powerful thing in the world. Almost all our agonies and pains are due to feelings (emotions) in our mind. An uncontrolled mind also gets constantly torn apart by various emotions, viz. likes, dislikes, love, hatred, jealousy, revenge, anger, grief, pride, fear etc. It is the mind which sees, hears, smells etc through respective sense organs and through the mechanism of the brain.

Note that nothing in this universe can affect or frighten you, unless your mind allows itself to be affected. Such is the power of mind.

But emotions disturb the balanced state of mind. In medical terminology, the same thing is explained in the form of balance between two components of autonomous nervous system, namely sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system.

As we have studied during our college days that Brain is an organ of human body which performs an incredible number of tasks:

It controls body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing.
It accepts a flood of information about the world around you from your various senses (eyes, ears, nose, etc.).
It handles physical motion when walking, talking, standing or sitting.
It lets you think, dream, reason and experience emotions.

Brain is designed in such a way that it always tries to maintain the balance between these two components of nervous system. It is this reactions between positive and negative emotions in brain that trigger pulses and secrete hormones accordingly which in turn helps for your body movements and functioning of body organs. In chemical term for example - reactions between positive and negative ions generate electricity used to run electric/electronic appliance.

Similarly potential difference between emotions generated in Brain helps to generate pulses in Brain and every organ in human body require pulses for its functioning. If there is no emotions, there is no pulses or power and your body is dead. It is the mind which feels the pleasure or pains of the body and not the body. If the mind is disconnected from the body, body will feel no pain.

It is by virtue of brain, which tries to maintain this balance automatically. You can experience this mechanism in brain in day today life at every moment. When there are negative emotions around you, brain automatically generates positive emotions, so that a balance is maintained.

Simple example: Consider if you are suffering from financial problems with lots financial issues concerning you, it is by virtue of your Mind (organ-brain) which automatically develops the positive emotions within and makes you feel happy by some sort of in-built mechanism. To generate the positive emotions, it may make you day dream - like wining a lottery, you establishing a big organization, you making lots of money, you buying a big house/car, you becoming a hero in a movie, a big business man and so on. But the positive emotions generated in your Brain is not the reality, this is generated to maintain the balance to the triggered negative emotions. The balance scientifically is necessary to run your body to generate the pulses required for various body functioning mentioned above under tasks performed by brain.

In whatever condition, you will not be able to escape from this automatic balance in your mind. Brain automatically maintains the balance to whatever triggered negative or positive emotions. You will feel pleasure or pain in this process due to the emotions generated and once the process of balancing is completed, you generate other emotions and the process continues till you die. On the whole process of balancing, the reactions between emotions, brain provides power to the body organs to act, utilizing the energy cells in your body.

Just close your eyes, take a deep breath and think the questions that you have and again think - WHY is this? What is the purpose of life? What is the purpose of life, not only for you, but for all the living beings around you.

So question again will be: ---- why are the emotions generated, why do you love or dislike an individual, why do we feel pain and pleasure, why do we dream to achieve a goal, why do we feel disturbed when someone dislikes us. If the brain by virtue maintains the balance, why this balance gets disturbed, who generates this emotions or disturbs the balance. There should be some eternal force that is attracting or rejecting the spirit in you. Bhagvad Gita reveals this ultimate truth for all living beings. It is by virtue of GOD that only man can understand this truth, since only human brain is unique. It gives us the power to think, plan, speak, imagine. We have achieved this sacred human birth after passing from different species from thousands of years of evolution. In this human birth, we can imagine, search the truth for life and act.

The Gita deals with the most sacred metaphysical science. It imparts the knowledge of the Self and answers two universal questions: Who am I, and how can I lead a happy and peaceful life in this world of dualities. Every human being faces dilemmas, big and small, in their everyday life when performing their duties. The main objective of the Gita is to help people struggling in the darkness of ignorance and help them to reach the spiritual shore of liberation while living and working in the society.

The most nine basic needs for any humans as described by mind experts are mentioned below:

v Security

v Adventure

v Freedom

v Exchange

v Power

v Expansion

v Acceptance

v Community

v Expression

Each person would try his best for seeing that they get their own needs met, not something that is fulfilled by another person. People who share the same needs will feel a connection or common bond. These needs develop action in you (Jiva) which has both negative and positive aspects.

Mind experts explain with examples on how these above needs manifests for different people:

Having lots of money in the bank - Security Need

Having a planned savings/retirement program - Security Need

Having a secure job- Security Need

Having a house, home and family - Security Need

Being the center of the office network - Community need

Participating in classes, groups, clubs - Community need

Going to a shopping mall or concert just to be around large groups of people - Community need

Expressing through the Internet (creating web sites, writing newsletters, creating graphic art, stating opinions) - Expression need

Creating art in all forms (painting, jewelry, crafts, interior design, graphic design, furniture design, architecture) - Expression need

Acting in movies, plays or local theaters - Expression need

Being accepted as a valuable member of a family group - Acceptance Need

Being accepted into a club or group - Acceptance Need

Building a company - Expansion need

Building a personal or political empire- Expansion need

Managing a company, a division or a department - Expansion need

Becoming a leader in a civic organization or professional group - Acceptance Need

Any desire that arise in you (Jiva) to perform or fulfill your needs and make you act is the due to the attraction from the Eternal Spirit ---- Bhagvad Gita.

The eternal spirit is the source (God) and you are his part separated from the spirit.

Know that all creatures have evolved from this twofold energy that you have in you and the Supreme Spirit is the source of this energy.

Scientifically, this is true for all objects - Electrons in the atom act with Nucleus as the central force.

Note: All the living beings are made from carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen atoms. But there should be some energy(spirit) to create life using these atoms or molecules to makeup the form that we currently are.

Looking at atomic theory, similar force is faced by the energy (Spirit, soul) in you. In spiritual context, GOD is the nucleus and electrons are the energy parts that has created life in all the living beings. The central force from GOD makes us to act. This is the force from the GOD which makes all the living beings to act, struggle, dream, to move forward.

Scientists believe that cosmic energy showers in about millions years ago might have created life in this earth from big-bang theory. The life has evolved from minute microbes, bacteria, so on to life in water, amphibians, mammals.

Click here for my Article on "Decoding Life"

Once the life is created, we find that, every spirit or life in this earth struggle for there existence. They act, struggle to move forward. The action comes due to the force from the main source of energy as mentioned in the above example.

The force from the GOD always tries attract the energy (soul) in you for unification. The individual soul associating with the six sensory faculties (hearing, touch, sight, taste, smell, and mind) develops attachments and aversions (called as emotions) or some chemicals in scientific term in his mind (organ-Brain) from the sense objects and this make the spirit (Jiva) associated with name, fame, body, power, designation and so on.

Important : To understand the above spiritual science, you can try a simple experiment on Self realization: Just close your eyes for 60 secs and try your best to forget all the attachments and aversions (needs) that you have in your mind. During the process, you feel that you some how get attracted towards one or the other aversions and you will not be able to stabilize the mind at one location.

With your best effort in conscious mind, we feel so many forces acting on mind and just think under normal condition.

With this experiment, you can realize the presence of spirit (I) and i.e. you and the forces acting on them towards different directions (Maya). Due attachments and aversions from the sense objects, the spirit (Jiva) is associated with name, fame, body, power, designation and so on. This delusion is called as Maya DELUSIVE Power. The experience in Maya delusive world, develops needs or desires accordingly. This may be different to different individuals.

The forces of Nature do all works. But due to delusion of ignorance, it makes us to assume that we are the doer

The one who knows the truth about the role of the forces of Nature in getting work done does not become attached to the work. Such a person knows that it is the forces of Nature that get their work done by using our organs as their instruments.

Lord Krishna said: The individual soul (Jiva, energy) in the body of living beings is the integral part of the universal Spirit, or consciousness. The individual soul associates with the six sensory faculties perception and activates them. The inherent power of cognition and desire of Eternal Being (Spirit) is called the nature of Eternal Being. The creative power of Eternal Being (or Spirit) that causes manifestation of the living entity is called Karma.

A person whose mind is unperturbed by sorrow, who does not crave pleasures, and who is completely free from attachment, fear, and anger, is called an enlightened sage of steady intellect.

The one who sees the same eternal Supreme Lord dwelling as Spirit equally within all mortal beings truly sees Lord.

Those who are free from pride and delusion, who have conquered the evil of attachment, who are constantly dwelling in the Supreme Being with all lust completely stilled, who are free from dualities of pleasure and pain; such wise ones reach Lord's Supreme Abode.

Filled with insatiable desires, hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance; holding wrong views due to delusion; they act with impure motives.

The one who completely renounces the selfish attachment to the fruits of all works is considered a renunciation to supreme spirit. To attain this, one must learn to give up lust, anger, greed, and establish mastery over the six senses (hearing, touch, sight, taste, smell, and mind) by the purified intellect. One should always remember that all works are done by the energy of nature and that he or she is not the doer but only an instrument. One must strive for excellence in all undertakings but maintain equanimity in success and failure, gain and loss, and pain and pleasure.