Effort, Grace and Insight.
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The Seeker and the Seeking.
Living and Believing.
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There is search and there is urge.
One who finds something is lacking in the life, begins trying to acquire what may fulfil him and make perfect so that seeking is needed no more.
Food, shelter and security are the basic and primary needs for the life.
Having achieved all thise things, there is the fear of death that grips the man. Though any creature other than man is rarely as much intelligent so as to think and imagine of death, all fear the harm and loss of their body and make every effort to keep it safe when they see that there is a danger. This fear is because of the natural self-defense mechanism in them that they are prompted by. But in the case of a man, he has an elaborate thought-structure in his mind or in the brain that creates an idea about death.
Evidently, death could never be either an experience or an objective reality one can experiment with and formulate a theory upon it.
Still the man, a seeker of the Ultimate, Final and the Absolute Truth, is always ambiguous, suspicious and doubtful if what death might be in fact.
It's just because one thinks I was born in and as this physical body, and surely, this body is going to die one day.
I'm alive at this instant, but I'm the life in it that helps me say so. This thought, like so many other thoughts appear and disappear in the mind. The thought of the death and the thought of "I'm" are merely thoughts only. Still both remain stable and fixed in mind and come up on the surface from time to time. The thought of Death is but verbal and we hardly know what essential meaning this thought has. The word "Death" and the fact "Death" are altogether different in the feeling that comes to us when we think of and use them.
The word "I'm" has no verbal meaning at all, though has sure a deeper sense that can't be possibly described by the word.
This sense is not merely a thought but something quite inexplicable.
At the one end it proclaims -
"I'm" a timeless all transcendent truth unaffected by situations, circumstances, and the conditions;
And at the other end it says -
"I'm weak, strong, thirsty, hungry, old, young, male or female, happy, worried, proud, humble, angry and so in.
Everything seems to be so true at the moment but is no more in the next.
If such a thing as "Death" really exists; Who exactly is the one that "dies" in the event of the "Death"?
We can't speak for those who have died before our eyes, nor can we speak of as a person for ourself.
However if we are really serious to find out about this phenomenon, we cannot do this in the framework of thought or the speculation about it.
This attempt of finding out is :
The Effort.
If we are earnest in this endeavor, we at once see there is no role here of any so-called, known or unknown God.
Such a God that we think, who might have created the Whole Universe, Who rewards us for our virtues, punishes us for our sins.
Such a God is simply only a brain-child of our imagination.
Still when in our seeking, we cross over the grey-line between the two kinds of the "I'm", When there is insight about what we truly are and what we are not,
The Grace
descends upon us in the form of :
The Insight.
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