Action and Choicelessness.

Action and Choiceless Awareness.

परोक्ष अनुभूति और अपरोक्ष अनुभूति

The Perception of Reality :

The Direct / the Indirect Perception. 

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Action is activity that is the World.

World is the consciousness of activity.

Everything happens because of itself or is done because one is prompted doing the same. The causes known to us, or we think or have to think of something that attracts our attention and accordingly, we try to do it. The actions or the deeds "done" by the body too could take place only because of the conditions favorable to the Happeing of the activity, though the common Idea behind it is like :

"I do, I will do or will don't do, I can or can't, I should or shouldn't, should have done or shouldn't, I'm going to do or I'm not going to do, I want or I don't want to do and so many other, different forms of this very idea",

Where "I" refers to itself, though it can't clearly, conveniently, properly point out What or Who it is itself indeed.

(An interception : Could we perhaps say The famous Mathematician Kurt Godel might have taken a hint from this?)

"What" implies something; an "object",

"Who" implies the "consciousness" or the "subject" where-in the object is known.

The "consciousness" is therefore the one "Who" knows or is "the knower", while the object is " the known".

Maybe, we could say "consciousness" is the interface.

The individual with reference to oneself on one hand is the "knower", but on the other is also "the known".

And there-from arises the conflict which causes the common Idea that I'm on one hand the "known", I'm at the same time the "knower" also.

This division between "the knower" and "the known" that applies to all and every individual causes the secondary Idea  that there is again there a "World" - the objective totality of the insentient objects and the "subjective consciousness" or the "individual consciousness" - Who is ever so the Sentient Reality, the only support the underlying principle and evidence of itself and the World.

In between the sentience - the subjective, and the insentient - the objective, arises and appears something though dubious, fictitious, superfluous, a pseudo-entity, a shadow existence only which is neither world, nor the subjective consciousness.

It's this Idea, the fundamental illusion of and about the Reality of Oneself and the objective world -the conflict between "the knower", and "the known".

With reference to this very fundamental notion, one tends and tries to point out, define and accept oneself -

In terms of "the knower" on the one hand and "the known" on the other.

 One in this way, inadvertently begins to believe, -though mistakenly - "I think, I do, or can do, experience, feel, know or I don't know." 

Still there is hope when One says and declares : 

"I can't understand, I'm confused or I'm not sure of etc." 

Throughout this whole happening, one is inevitably, certainly also sure of what I'm.

I'm the pure consciousness, - the sentience, and I can't never become nor be the experience, experiencing or the activity that one goes through and mistakenly accepts as oneself.

The idea of the Freedom of Choice is the ignorance that one gets involved into at once, is overwhelmed by this idea that takes one to believing in "I do, I can or can't, will or will not, have to do or not, should or shouldn't try to do"

"Awareness, understanding of this truth frees the consciousness from the idea of "The Freedom of Choice" and one for the first and the last time as well comes across the Realization that all Choice is ignorance and is therefore bondage only. Understanding in this way the world and all and the every activity in this perceived outer world or in the inner individual mental world is seen as a happening only and the idea of oneself as an independent one Who can initiate any activity is simply lost.

One can't even claim to be a witness, for this implies "I'm the witness" - and in this way again the idea or the ignorance survives and keeps on growing, always  prospering without end.

Without arriving at this "Awareness" / "Understanding", ignorance persists on and therefore one can never become really Free the idea of an assumed world outside "there", and one inside oneself.

In a situation like this, one has willingly or unwillingly, deliberately or out of choice, cling to the idea of compulsion and to make effort of some kind or the other on one's own accepted approach, and that is really never the Freedom.

The first approach is the Essence of the sAmkhya, the Choiceless Awareness or the Choiceless-ness, while the next is of the Yoga / karma / activity.

These two are the only meaningful ways  an earnest serious seeker has to opt to.

The two are though mutually exclusive in practice, in the effect do help, result in discovering the same Ultimate Truth.

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