BEING SPIRITUAL MEANS, FIXING YOURSELF AND NOT OTHERS

We, usually, blame others saying that, someone on the outside, is a problem to me. Others are a disturbance, to my peace. We say, he or she doesn’t let me live, in peace. Now, let me tell you that, those on the outside are just doing their jobs. They are doing, what they know. For example, you sitting, in meditation, in your room and a dog barked on the outside. You got disturbed by that barking and you reacted within, saying that, ‘this dog is disturbing me’. Now, the poor dog, doesn’t know that, you are meditating or he does not know as, what you are doing. The dog is just doing what, he knows. The same is true for all the movements, which you see on the outside. The outside, too, is nothing but just a play of unconsciousness only. Now, if you also react to what is happening then you, too, are becoming an expression of the same unconsciousness. 

Now, if you also exist here just as unconsciousness like, others, I mean, as a mind only then, yes, you are right, that others are a problem for you. In that case, of course, the problems for you are on the outside and you need to fix the outside. But, once you decide to walk the path of spirituality, once you are a sadhak, I mean, once, you have become, a bit aware of the other dimension which, we know as silence or stillness or divine, then you will not see the problems on the outside but you will see and know that, the problem is within me. 

The problem is the mind because problem exists, in your reaction and reaction is of the mind. In the above example, if, you would have chosen to remain silent within and would not have reacted to the barking of that dog, then the problem or disturbance or the barking would not exist for you. Please know that problems or for that matter anything else, exists only, for you, so long, you are moved or disturbed within, by that movement. If you are not moved within, if you stop reacting within, then no movement does exist for you and can ever disturb you. Then nothing is a problem. 

In fact, another name for the mind is nothing but problem or disturbance only. Because mind is nothing but an expression of your individuality or ego only. Mind is problem and hence, if you live in your mind then, you will exist here as a problem. But if you live in your awareness then all problems will vanish, of its own accord because awareness is pure knowing. In awareness there is no language and hence, no reaction. Just see the existence on the outside. For this existence, we are not a problem, despite the fact that, we are creating all problems for it. Not only, but this existence has survived all the problems, created by innumerable generations which have existed, so far. Do you know why? Because this existence is pure awareness or knowing only. In awareness, there is no individuality, no ego or no others. 

Problems, exist because of our individuality and reacting is nothing but expression of our individuality only. Hence, stop reacting and all problems will disappear on its own. Being spiritual or sadhak means, you don’t want to change others but you want to change yourself. Changing others is not in your hands, but if you change your nature then, may be, that your change would lead others to change, too. Meditation is nothing but practicing to consciously rest your individuality and thus knowing to exist in complete silence, without reacting.