Unity through Humanity

When I was in school, I get compared with others. But I never liked to be compared. I wanted to different, wanted to be unique. I never liked being just another guy and never liked becoming just like any other guy. My parents had their own dream for me, but after all that I have gone through in my childhood; I was so ready to dream one for myself. I was 16 and that’s when I started being on my own, even if it meant being alone. I bought my first Walkman, with my savings. And when people’s words don’t mean anything, music was everything to me.

I was never that expressive, but then was the time I wanted to be so. And I started expressing, though I didn’t have any idea what I was doing. Those few years passed by nicely. There was a storm in the middle that it seemed like I might drop out. But that one long week passed by and the sky became clear. The year that followed was one of the best times I had so far. It just felt like I had everything and it all seemed to have fallen in right place. Then it all started to tumble. Too much misunderstanding and ego totally flipped everything in my life. I became silent, only physically and not in heart.

“Sometimes… it’s not the song that makes you emotional, but the people and things that come to your mind when you listen it”

I wanted a new start and was preparing for that, at all cost. Yes, it really cost me a lot out of my life. I have stopped laughing much, but my smile got better. I have stopped speaking much, but my silence got a new meaning. I have stopped shedding tears and I just became stronger. Then, I had enough time to observe, learn, think and change. I read every possible topic that I came across just to know how much there is in this universe that I missed so far. This made me realize that I was giving too much of me to hold on to this this small box. I changed quite a lot, in other words grew up. And still going strong…

“You will never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have”
I started seeing things in their simplest form. My thoughts and actions became simple, I became cooler and life just got better. Many just see a part of me and they believe that’s all is me. They don’t know who I was and who I could be and yet never hesitate to judge me. What I can do and what I want to be are sometimes too different things. Many tend to confuse between these two things. Only people who know me now are the ones who dared to break my silence.

“Sometimes, the whole is greater than the sum of parts…”
Being expressive is actually good and truthful. But not many people like it when I say to their face that they are doing wrong and that I don’t like it. That’s the same I expect from others, to tell me straight to face when I do something wrong and not gossip at the back. But the problem is, both these are difficult for many people. If someone would ask me, if I dare to be expressive again, my answer would be a definite yes. And this time, it’s only going to be about the right people who are around me and with me…

“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world”

There are times I never did try a thing. I have heard from people around me asking to stop being so conservative. The question is not how conservative am I, but why am I conservative. I know I was afraid and my ego was smart enough to come up with logic to hide that I was really afraid. It made me happy to think that I was smart and could handle things, but was I ever true…?

I know I was afraid of losing, but losing what? In recent times, I realized that everything I was afraid of losing, are the things that I never had. Then why is that I have this fear, might seem like unnecessary or is there something more to this? Fear and Courage for me are 2 ends of the same scale. It is just about where I'm and how much I could avoid the influence of my ego on both. With ego's survival mode and reasoning stupidity, both ends seem dangerous to me.

“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”
I felt it might not be just fear. There was something that I'm yet to realize. The day came and It was who I am that I realized. I'm a curious and like to learn new things. When I started learning, initially and even up until recently, I have thought that I'm able to understand new things, a lot of things; so my perception of world is changing now; people around me are still just the same; they don't understand these things nor me. But it was nowhere close to what actually happened.

I had a perception on new things and for the other part, I was almost the same. It's me who I didn't understand and It's who I am that I failed to see. I have let my ego influence choices in my life. I'm trying to overcome this for quite some time now. I thought about doing this post about more than a month ago. This mean time was filled with moments that has been quite interesting, to say the least and have made me realize things about myself. This feeling of being heavy and light at the same time is very different and I have never been here before. As always, it is hard to accept truth. But I don't want to deny it anymore.

“Life is not a problem to be solved, it's a reality to be experienced.”
I have done things in my past that I'm rather not happy with or not so proud of. If you ask me, If I had a chance to go back in time where I could take them back, I would choose not to. What I have done is already past and I can't change it. But, it has changed me. My choices have made me who I am now. Every choice has made quite a bit of impact in and around me and it always will. I'm going to move on with my choices and with my life. I would atleast be satisfied that the course of my life has been built only upon my choices.

I had a dream... to be a human; to learn from my mistakes and never repeat them; to rise up stronger in every fall; to live every moment in life and not count the days; to respect freewill and to be free; to be just true and to be me; to love and to be loved; to choose and to live my life. I had a dream and I'm living it now...

“There is no life as complete as the one that is lived by choice”

We see the world with different perceptions, yet we live in the same world. We live a unique life in our perspective. I don’t experience the things that happen in your life and vice versa. The things that happen in one’s life are unique to them in their world. This is very true at the basic level of the events of life.

Let’s have a broader look and instead of uniqueness, let’s try to find the similarities in our life. At a very broader scale it’s easy to say that your life is similar to me, because we may have so much in common. I agree that sometimes still our lives may not be similar by any chance. Take your time to sit, relax, think and analyze the lives of the people whom are close to you. For e.g. it can be your best friend’s life or even your dad/mom’s life. I ended up with lot of questions. Whenever a question arises in my mind, I spend most of my time on that until I find the answer. Why so much difference in our lives, yet we are so close and share a lot of things?

Some people believe in fate. I tried to understand the concept of fate. To my knowledge, Fate is “All that happens in your life are already meant to happen and there will be no change.” This is what I got from the people who believe in fate. Some may agree and some may laugh at it. We may argue, but for how long? What we need is answers and not arguments.

“Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.”
Fate as it seems is bound with the concept of sins and good deeds. And it is also built on rebirth or reincarnation. The reincarnation here is about getting a balance between sins and good deeds and thereby nullifying the total to get rid of further births. So if you commit a sin, you will be born again. If you do good to others, you will be born again. So how will I know to nullify the total???

“Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.”
This concept has a major flaw. If everything that you experience now depends on your previous birth, let’s rewind to your very first birth. What were the rules at that time? Surely there can’t be predefined events, because your account of sins and good deeds will be empty. So if you say that God lets you do whatever you want in your first life and then based on that decide on rest of your incarnations, that’s not justifiable. Because if in your first life you can do anything, and someone else in their nth birth/incarnation (n>1) is living with you, don’t what to you do affect that person’s life??? You can analyse this with many angles. This is a concept that contradicts itself in many places. May be the ones who thought to propagate this concept didn’t spend much time to design it well. So it has been a false and wicked propaganda by some power group on earth to induce fear and thereby control the mass on earth. There are so many like the above statements. People who propagate this and who blindly believe in fate say these. Dark places? It just seems to be part of the fear inducing plans.

“No man can make another's destiny and all the wishing in the world will not make it so.”
Destiny refers to an event in your future that fulfills the purpose of your birth. This too deals with rebirth/reincarnation in a way. Reincarnation here has a very profound distinction from the previous concept. The purpose of rebirth/reincarnation here is to learn things that we missed in the previous birth. So it is like we are in a school and in each grade, we apply things that we have learnt in previous grades and also learn new things. So you decide that you are going to play this role and learn these things in this incarnation.

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped”
You may or may not be able to fulfill your destiny (wished event). So the decisions you take in your life, the path you chose for your life, controls your destiny. So the future depends on what you do now. Unlike fate, destiny doesnot say that life is always a chain reaction. It is sometimes the case of what you did yesterday determines what you do today and what you do today determines tomorrow and so on. But you can break the chain here and that makes a significant difference. It's like, you may dwell into something that may not be your destiny. But at some point in your life when you realize your destiny, you have all the freedom to make the choice and shift your path towards your destiny. The path that you may take may change. The time that you take to learn and realize can vary. But your destiny may not change. You decide your destiny when you decide on your birth/incarnation. So you have control your life. The things you see and face in your life are because you invite them to experience them.

“It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.”
Some may accept and some may not. It depends on what you wanted to learn in this life. The knowledge and truth around the concepts are all there in this world before our eyes. You may not see it, if you are not paying attention to it. The knowledge was never lost. It was always there, but hidden by some. I agree that the knowledge is not readily available to all even now. It should be and it will be soon. It is time for the world to make a shift. The energy is already in the air. I hope that all of us will make the shift. In the mean time, I’m just trying to discuss the information that i have, just like many others in the world who are doing this. Hope soon people have all the knowledge and come together to make this world a better place to live in, for everyone.

Religions tell us who we are, what to believe, who to be and what to do to be what it wants us to be. For the people who feel that religion is love, you cannot say that it’s not without some conditions and some force. But this is exactly opposite what we really are. As a spiritual being we are free, with unconditional love and we are limitless. Because we don’t like to live within a limited cage, religion uses fear tactics such as guilt, shame and punishment theories to exercise this control. Because of this fearful separation of ourselves from god, we loose the connection and also feel empty. The fear has been the greatest cause of dumbness in humanity that stops us from realizing who we are. Religions have portrayed us as the creatures made by nature carnal and if left on our own, will do the wrong thing. By saying so the religions has made the humanity to feel themselves as low level creatures and not as co-creators of this universe, which is what we really are. It is the truth that we as spiritual beings are the creators of our world and there-by stand as co-creators of this universe. And by portraying as nature carnal, religions have made people forget about the inner spiritual self, which is what we really are and not this carnal.

"The essence of religion: Fear God and obey God.
The quintessence of spirituality: Love God and become another God."
Where is God? This has been ever the greatest question for the people who follow the religions. Religion talks about the heavens as place of the God. But in spiritual reality god is everywhere. Everything in this universe is part of god. With religion, at times, God can seem far from the reach of aspiring humanity. Religion embraces forms, rituals and practices which have emphasis on outside world than the inner spiritual reality. God and Spirituality is first about inner, higher self than the outside world.

“Only in a quiet mind, is adequate perception of the world”
The mind is a conscious projection of soul. But our mind is not completely conscious. As we have heard and known, we have a conscious mind and a sub-conscious mind. Sub-conscious mind is responsible for our reflex actions. Some or most of our habitual actions have become part of sub-conscious mind. The sub-conscious mind executes the action (habit), even before we try to interpret the event from our conscious mind. That is why it is hard to change a habit. As the time goes on, some or most of the religious practices, which we repeatedly perform, tend to become habits that in-turn are a part of our sub-conscious mind. Thus the religious matters have moved away from pure-consciousness state, making our sub-conscious mind the bigger part of our mind. Since the religions’ emphasis more on the outside world, we tend to look outside from our mind and hence the projection gets broader, thereby making it harder for us to look at our inner self. Spirituality places emphasis on inner self. As we spend more time looking within ourselves and start to understand the spiritual reality, the size of the projection i.e. the mind decreases. Take an electronic projector for example. The projected image is small when the distance between the projector and the wall and the size increases as the distance increases. The soul is the projector and the mind is the image. As we understand the spiritual reality and bring our mind closer to the soul, the mind decreases in size. At a point where the mind overlaps with the soul, the projection is no more. This is the pure-conscious state. But as we dwell in the pleasures of this material world, we take our mind far away from soul and hence the mind seems to be the biggest reality. This is the state where we find most of the people today. All the fear, search and emptiness which have lead to the hatred, greed and wars on this earth are because of this.

“It is God that the humanity really needs and seeks.”
Let us have a thought on our past. There have been many civilizations in the past and every civilization had their own religious practices. When the day the civilizations ended, their religious practices too saw the end. Today this world comprises of many new world civilizations. May be the religious practices has changed, but our belief of God and the true spiritual essence of our life has never changed. With the increasing global spiritual awareness, it is time for us to remove the differences, bloodshed, and all the pain and sufferings of the past by placing all our faith, belief and emphasis on God. We always know that there is a better way of doing things and spirituality is one real better way to reach God. Let us step up to make this earth more spiritual, more flourished, more harmonious and a better place than ever it was. Let the future be an Aquarian age for us and for the generations to follow.

If we have been shown a group of people and asked "What are the differences between those people?" We have a whole lot of differences to say and sometimes we think it’s endless.
If we have been asked the opposite of that question, meaning "How can you say that those people are one and same or the similarities between them?", then we may say that "Those 2 speak the same language or these 4 are from same part of the world...”

Just take your time and think practically, how do we find similarities between people? It’s obviously through differences. Yes it seems true most of the time in most of the people's life. We have been made to perceive so because of the past or so called history which has taught us only envy, hate and greed; and also the present which is still same as the past. We all forget that, at the end of the day we are still the same, we are just human beings.

1) Is this our fault? Does this mean we are bad?
No.
2) Is there a way to change this?
Yes.

Human population was almost down to 2000, 70000 years ago

The above research finding says that we all came from just around 2000 people. So it means that we all are descendants of the 2000 people. They were one as human beings at that time, they didn't have any differences, they were able to fight back the natural disasters together and they brought us to be we are now in this beautiful world of ours.
Just think about that. Where did we learn to find all the differences, worth for nothing, on this world now?

Let’s start it as simple as possible. First of all, we should love ourselves. Love your family; tell them that you love them so much. Show them the way and Let them follow you.

"First yourselves; now your family and then the humanity."