If at work you get into an unknown situation then how do you feel? Do you start your downward journey of
- Oh! I don’t know this
- Oh! I don’t know I will come out of this
- Oh! will this lead to losing the job
- Oh! why is my job so complicated
- Oh! why isn’t there a simpler way to earn money
- Oh! please someone else take this part and take it to completion
- Oh! this is dragging for so long, when will it end
- …put our favourite Oh!! here…
You scamper, grumble, scream within, move around confused, lost, and so on.
After some struggle, parts of the unknown become known. Slowly, you are able to come out of the situation, hopefully unscathed.
This burnout keeps repeating itself.
What happens to us when we are unsure of something? Sometimes we get irritated, sometimes frustrated, sometimes clueless.
And where do we release all that pent up energy? Mostly on our near and dear ones. Do you know the real cause of your outburst with your 5/10/15 year old? Do you remember your scream at your spouse asking her to reduce her volume by raising your volume?
And then spending the rest of the day regretting on how much you can’t control your little discomfort, your little uncertainties, your little unknown. And taking it out on people who care the most for you.
Maybe that is the reason you don’t like The Unknown. Maybe that is why you like to keep life as it is, a routine (wash, eat, work, sleep). Maybe that is the reason, change is the last thing you want to change.
A little unknown in the world bothers us so much. How about the unknowns which are beyond the worlds? Some things like,
- how much do you know about your mind?
- how much do you know about your body?
- how much do you know about your breath?
Gurudev Sri Sri RaviShankar ji generally covers the above 3 as three dimensions of your existence in most of his meditations.
But the question is,
- Why aren’t you bothered with the biggest unknown, the largest mystery that is you?
- Why aren’t you intrigued as to how it functions?
- What are the causes? How do you become the way you are?
Why are those NOT the burning questions for you? Why are you wasting your life without knowing why you are living?
Become a seeker of knowledge called life.
Your self is beckoning you.
Start to listen.
Start to look inwards.
Start your inner journey. There is so much to explore, so much to know.
Start meditating.
Now.
On spiritual quest, you embrace the unknown. You learn to live with it. You can look at the unknown in the eye. The fear of unknown is still there but you learn to live with it.
You get a sense that you are bigger than the fear of the unknown.
Why?
Because you start to believe in something that is bigger than you. You also believe that it is taking care of everything, not just for you but for everyone and everything.
That faith carries you through the travails.
I encourage you to find a master who can lead you through the unknown.
The children hold the fingers of the parent and remain secured. Your master is your best security. Everything else in the world is transient.
Don’t get misled by the worldly unknowns. You will be lost. You will lose the chance to fulfil your purpose of being born on this planet.
Be led by the spiritual unknowns. You may find yourself. You may get proper vision(sudarshan) of who you really are.
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