HANDLE WITH CARE!

Imagine for a moment that you are supposed to carry a bowl, filled with liquid to the brim, from one place to the other. Can you imagine, as how much care you will have to take while you walk, carrying this vessel in your hands? For sure, this, is going to be a tightrope walk for you because, if you do not take due care, then you will spill the liquid on to the ground and you will lose it. However, if you handle it with care then, you will save this liquid which you can use to your benefit. 

This human body, too, is like a bowl which is filled to the brim, with energy or consciousness and you are supposed to carry this vessel from one place to the other, i.e. from birth until your death. This vessel is always with you, wherever you are and wherever you go. This vessel, full of this ‘precious’ energy, not only moves, all the time, with you but is always at your disposal. Hence, it is really up to you, whether you save it and use it to your advantage or spill it and thus lose this ‘precious’ resource. 

Consciousness is the most ‘precious’ resource because this energy creates. This energy is the source of creation. All what you see around, is a creation of this energy only. This energy is capable of creating both, the physical and nonphysical. This energy can create physical or this energy can create divine for you. This energy can create samsara or can create samadhi for you. The same energy but what it creates, depends on what you do with this energy. It depends on whether you can direct the energy or the energy directs you. In other words, it really depends on who controls, whom – whether energy controls you or you control the energy? 

That’s really the care; that’s really the caution which, one needs to take while carrying and handling this vessel of energy from birth to the death. If you take charge of this energy, it can bring divine to you and if you spill it then, it creates world for you. Spilling this energy means outward movement of energy. Energy, when moves, it always moves into the world and thus creates new worlds for you, which is a compulsive way to exist here. Outward movement of energy is our default mode, which we are put into, right from our birth, which means, energy essentially moving, all the time towards the world or the physical. 

Outward movement of energy is spilling your energy into the world and thus existing here horizontally which is that you just keep spreading yourself around in terms of more and more physical possessions. You live here, only for ‘me’ and ‘mine’ which pertain to the body. Outward movement of energy is wasting the ‘precious’ one to the world or to the physicality because physicality is temporary. And that which is temporary, can never bring spiritual wellbeing to you; can never bring freedom or liberation to you. 

However, when the energy stops moving outward or to the world and instead stays within or remains in the vessel then the same energy which otherwise would have created new worlds for you, can now create divine for you. Energy when stays within the bowl, gets transformed into samadhi for you. The glory of human birth lies in directing this energy from outward to inward. The human birth becomes worth of it only, when you put a stop to this default mode or compulsive mode and instead give it a new direction to create spiritual wellbeing for you.    

The caution, therefore, lies in the way you make use of this energy. If the energy controls you, you belong to the world of the physical and hence you come back in a physical form. On the other hand, if you control or direct this energy then it becomes a means for your release for your liberation or mukti. It’s worth knowing that only a human being has this capability to direct or control this energy which other creatures do not have. In other creatures, energy just moves instinctually, in one or pre-defined way only. They do not have the intelligence to direct this energy in the way they want it. Let us exercise this human privilege and use this energy to create spiritual wellbeing for us. Meditation is a method which prepares you to take charge of this ‘precious’ source. 

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