COMING OUT OF COCOON

SECOND HALT: BONDING WITH PEOPLE

Relationships with “You"

 We have worked quite hard on ourselves, did introspection and also tried to improve our aptitude and faculties. But the real test starts when we go out into the real world, and starts bonding with people, or "you" group. Anybody outside us is 'you'. Our parents are the first 'You', to come into our lives. An integral part of our existence, They would just love you, whosoever you are, white or black, fat or thin, beautiful or ugly. They would just embrace you the moment you are born. To rear you become their sole motive in lives. They can go to any extent to provide food, shelter, clothes, and education to you, and lastly make you happily settled down.

   Relationship with this 'you’ emits, love, patience, sympathy, sometime coaxing, but unconditional support, however it is unfortunate that this most beautiful relationship becomes over -bearing with passage of time. Expectations, and grudges seeps in this once forgiving relationship.

    The next relationship broadens our horizons and gives us the taste of sweet and sour experiences of our siblings- our brother and sisters. This teasing relationship gives us the taste of bondage, support and dependency unfortunately jealousy and grudges seeps in and you start tasting disappointments and insults. Real world can be more ruthless and we come across "you" in many ways, friends, peers, teachers, employers and employees. Now the 'give and take' business starts. To sustain this 'You group', one has to invest time, money and energy. By now, we  have tasted the glimpses of jealousy, revenge, envy and deception. 

       Friendship, courtship, and companionship may cross ones path, Whether experiences are good or bad but they are certain to leave imprints on our mind, which eventually starts accumulating in our memories. These recollections consume most of our time and energy, and we start reacting to them unconsciously. This is the reason why fond memories make us happy and sad ones leave us grumpy.

    Once these impurities get accumulated in our mind, contamination starts and if these feelings go unchecked they are guaranteed to damage our mind.

   By this time we have learned all the harsh lessons that it is quite impossible to make this 'you entity’ happy, but it is all the more difficult to ignore them, as they have spread everywhere.  To escape from this multidimensional, omnipresent 'you' is a difficult task. 
So then what should be our goal in life?

And what could be the best approach to live?

Shall we also behave like turtles exposing only the hard shell to the outside world?

A third exceptionally important entity can answer these questions and solve this dilemma- ‘GURU’(spiritual teacher).

Only HE can show you the middle path to live socially and still be untouched by venom.

GURU is a mystical figure, an incarnation of GOD, and our savior;

Without  unconditional love we cannot understand GURU and GOD. Therefore let us first explore the mystical reality LOVE.

Pure love, is it really possible?


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