SOHAM

  Man is asleep. I am not referring to the ordinary sleep but the metaphysical sleep in which we all are deeply drowned. This sleep is in the form of what is commonly known as unconsciousness. Because of this unconsciousness I’m not aware of what I’m doing. I’m not where I’m, though physically present. I’m not with what I’m doing. For example I’m eating but my awareness (variously known as consciousness; witnessing or simply energy) which is real ‘me’ does not travel with my eating. Things are just happening in asleep or mechanically. This is true for all what I’m doing. The real ‘me’ always remains busy somewhere else and this is how the life keeps happening in unawareness or unconsciousness. All the time I’m dreaming. This is true even when I’m alone by myself. Because dreams and sleep exist together. Dreaming means being pre-occupied with what is not there. Mind is illusory and non-existent because mind exists in time. Time means past and future. One is not with the reality or...

Coronavirus pandemic is nature’s arrangement of mandatory leave for the humanity. In many jobs there is such provision whereby a jobholder is supposed to proceed on mandatory leave for certain days, usually, once in a year. It’s used by the corporates as a tool of internal controls. It’s sort of stocktaking and ensuring that all is hunky-dory with what is being done in that job. So in the name of Covid-19, the nature has provided us a similar opportunity. We should, therefore, use this period of ‘mandatory leave’ for Stocktaking. Taking stock of that which is not on the outside but that which is within. What is there on the outside is momentary but what is within is everlasting. Our interiority is the truth.   Body and mind are in the physical domain. Living in the physical is living on the periphery. This may bring in material wellbeing but will never result in spiritual wellbeing. Spiritual wellbeing can happen only when we take care of our interiority i.e. we do something at...