Suffering and its Remedy

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why am i unhappy

first is the i the second is unhappy

and in my opinion or you can say from my

perspective

both of them do not exist

both of them are

mental constructs both of them are

illusory

imagination so yes that that is again

you see

just

a description of the ignorance so

there is no separate eye which is

unhappy

there is no

me who can get unhappy this is the first

thing to know

and once you see that there is no

separate self which has

um this kind of

state of unhappiness

then the question disappears now what

are you asking me is no no i know

unhappiness so nothing to ask about

this is a very refined state as you can

see

and this requires the knowledge of the

self

this requires the introspection

self inquiry to know

what is my essence what is the essence

of the eye

and once that once it is seen that there

is no separate eye

there is no no

separate self or individual

who can be happy or are unhappy

then

the question will be dropped

the answer will not come don't worry

there is no answer because the answer is

to that which exists

if something does not exist there is no

answer to that

the question is seen as invalid question

the question is seen as coming out of

ignorance so i am 100 sure that this

answer is not going to benefit anyone

so let us see and let us assume that

there is an eye there is a separate self

individual or a person

we can say it is the body and the mind

let us you know give a concession drop

down into the illusion one step

because the person is probably

you see

will not understand

the ultimate which i just said uh so

let us assume it is true that there is a

person individual there

defined by the body and the mind

whatever goes on in the body in the mind

and

he is unhappy he or she now what is

unhappiness and like nicholson it is

unfulfilled desires we expect some

desire to be fulfilled it is not

fulfilled

what happens the state of the mind

changes from desiring

to

disappointment

that is

unhappiness

that is the illusory answer but you can

i don't need to tell it again and again

you can understand this

that we are talking from the perspective

of

an ignorant

a separate self so that is the

unhappiness you will find that this is

our there is the mind our inner space

in that mind are desires they appear

i do not choose my desires let us start

from here

start from this

internal scene the introspection

look who is choosing the desires

the desires appear first

then i say

i say it in my mind that i desire

isn't it this is the

this is my direct experience

and

what do we do then the desires are

motivating force they push the body into

action

so we run to fulfill that desire it can

be a small desire to go and eat

something you see

it can be a big desire to rule the

planet

something like this it can be anything

and the desire is a motivating force you

can define the desire like this the

intention

the word tension says that it is tending

to it is pulling you

internal tension

and another word is desire wish

and expectation is

kind of a desire we want something to

happen in a specific way that that is a

desire

and

then the body runs to fulfill it

where else will you fulfill your desire

if not in the world

imagine if you could fulfill all your

desire in your mind wouldn't it be like

heavenly

probably that is ham and only so

and the individual assumes that the

fulfillment of my desire lies in the

world so where else can he

run

isn't it our waking state is the world

that is all we know

we run into the world we run after

objects people

achievements situations whatever to

fulfill

that which appeared in the mind from

nowhere

and

you will find something funny

that

i also have a delusion that i am in the

control and i can fulfill it

my actions are going to fulfill the

desire

now

desire expectation and this

feeling of being in control and plus the

illusion of free will that it is my

desire i desired it so and i'm in the

control i'll fulfill it

this is a recipe of disaster can you

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can you see

this is a you know you mix many many

acids and chemical in the chemistry lab

and what can you expect

it is like that you know you expect a

big explosion

suffering unhappiness is this disaster

that's all

that is the good definition of

unhappiness if you want to know what is

unhappiness i cannot tell you what is

happiness isn't it

can i tell you what is happiness have

you ever experienced like happiness

no never you only experience this

you know violent combustion of chemicals

things that happen in the mind in the

world

have you ever experienced anything else

because you have experienced the bliss

but you call it sleep

you call it inactivity

you find it boring the individual does

not like it

so

so much so that we completely ignore it

it does not exist the happiness does not

exist

for an individual

the individual is a name for misery take

misery take individual one thing you see

that's why we say the ego is miserable

you see akatole calls it the pain body

among all things

he chose the word pain to describe it

yes it is a pain actually

that is what it is doing can you see

we get up from the bed because of a

desire

did you get up from the bed that i'll

not do nothing today

i'll just sit i'll remain in the deep

sleep today

did it happen no

individual is born as soon as it is out

of the bed it is as soon as the activity

of the mind starts the individual starts

there's one more thing to introspect

see it

wake up very very slowly one morning

if you do that you will find that

initially there is no individual there

is just mental activity

then the desires start

the intentions start appearing

and the individual is born because the i

thought appears oh my desires and this

sansar starts the wheel turns

this happens every day this is happening

since many many years this is happening

since many many ages you don't even know

it

this is what we call as the cycle of

birth and that's the samsaric

activity of the mind and the mind is not

my mind this is now something big

so and there is a bigger cycle here we

are waking up and

going to sleep is a smaller cycle of

it corresponds to the bigger cycle of

dying and taking birth

so you can now suspect that we are born

to fulfill some desires now don't give

it a name that i am born to you know

marry and have children or i am born

here to rule this country to become a

big

you know big shot or something

or i am born here to serve humanity no

these are

not the real desires

there are germs of the desires

into which i am not going to go today

that is called latent desires also

or we call it latent impressions also

and then the sanskrit word is sanskar

for that

it is not a desire that can be stated in

words if you are in the yogic practices

if you are you know diving deep into the

mind you can actually see the latent

desires you can see them and because

they are latent they will need to be

pushed into a little bit of action and

you can bring you can see their face a

little bit

and probably it will be very difficult

to

put them into any kind of language

because the language that we we use is

of the waking state when the desire is

full blown manifested here

it is right here in my mind

we can use

a

language to describe it

what is the desire what is the root

desire the root desire the basic desire

is to be happy can you see

what are we desiring

i want this i wanted no no no

we are desiring happiness

and just like i said you cannot get it

there is no such thing as happiness

the happiness that you experience

sometimes

is because of the absence of these

desires

this is another thing to introspect

about

when were you most happy when your

desires were gone when the desires were

fulfilled

you wanted nothing

that is then expressed as laughter

smiles

um joy pleasure dance song

party

who knows what

you want that isn't it and when this is

not there you say i'm unhappy i'm

miserable i'm suffering so desires are

this motive forces are present

expectations are present hopes are

present and this delusion of control is

present these all combined to um form a

situation which you called unhappiness

that's why i got them but sansa is the

doc

this birth this world

is

suffering this is how we he arrived at

this conclusion you see do not think

that one day he sat down below a tree

and concluded

billy nilly oh the world is a boring

place full of suffering

no he did not simply see the dying man

an old man in the beggar and no no that

started his journey

see how deep this

insight is it took me 15 minutes to

explain it in short but it is very very

deep

it can be found through your own

experience of what happens in the mind

can somebody tell you that you are

unhappy that the world is

suffering

that

there is no happiness can will you

believe

somebody blindly can you believe me

no only if i take you like this step by

step to the conclusion

look

the the

activity of the mind is responsible for

what you think is unhappiness

there is no that is you the answer to

your question why am i happy why am i

unhappy you never ask this why am i

happy

you always when something goes wrong

then only you question isn't it so

suffering is a big teacher isn't it

suffering is our guru it's a good thing

without suffering you will never learn

anything that's why i said you see

if our desires are fulfilled like this

it would be a heavenly experience

and if you don't believe me don't

believe but there are these states of

the mind there are places in the

universal mind where exactly the same

thing happens

what do whatever you desire is right

there in front of you

and people call it heaven

what happens there is that the jew is

trapped in fulfilling endless desires

because they are infinite activity of

the mind cannot be stopped

all activity is appearance of desires

only intentions and desires

right now you can assume like this you

see don't make it so complicated

and

you can achieve that step state where

there is instant fulfillment of desire

only in the mind

it is called heaven and the jeep or the

this bundle of memories that is engaged

in this kind of

activity is called a god or a deity

ascended master or something like this

so now without going into the detail

this activity that is happening right

now is

activity of a greater mind

you can

explore like this if you are interested

that is not going to end your

suffering that is not going to end the

misery

because the mind is impermanent

and the heavenly states they do not last

and we say that the mind falls

and it finds in this kind of itself in

this kind of world again

again in the

sunshine again trapped

in this

wheel of desires they're infinite so it

goes on and on and you don't know how

many how many how much time has passed

you are doing only this

there is no time in absolute sense

so

well

you understand now

how deep this question is

uh but don't worry there is a solution

if you get rid of the activity of the

mind

that is the end of the suffering

now you will say tell me tell me the

formula to get rid of the activity of

the mind we'll see the me is also mind

you will need to know your true nature

that which is witnessing all this

madness all this activity

you cannot stop it some people interpret

patanjali like you know

means stopping

and niro means

many things actually i was going through

a book which is a commentary of vyasas

on

patanjali

and also some uh

side notes by waja's pati mishra

now these names must be familiar to

those who are deep into the text in

sanskrit literature

and i found something very interesting

that vyasa has a little bit of different

kind of interpretation of patanjali it

is kind of interesting those who

are interested in the yoga philosophy

philosophy knowing

yourself

is

not going to stop the activity of the

mind union with whatever is not going to

stop the activity of the mind the union

of the shiv and shakti not going to stop

it

almost guaranteed that's why we have the

shakti worshipers they know this very

well

shakti is what activity of the mind

nothing else

so shiv is what shivers you

shivoham i am the consciousness and the

dark one black queen which cannot be

seen

you see and checked is that whatever is

manifested whatever can be seen

in any form um

do not expect the mind to stop you see

do not interpret the nero as

disappearance of the mind no mind

there is no such thing the activity will

never stop

but don't worry there is a way out of it

that is called this identification i am

not this activity

what is the major activity of the mind

production of the misery so i am not

this i am not unhappy

what am i i am pure bliss i am absence

of all these activities and that which

witnesses all these things and therefore

these qualities these activities do not

happen to me they happen in me

they experience them but not as myself

this identification

and then what happens will it get rid of

suffering misery no

don't be so happy don't be so quick uh

slow detachment happens with the mind

very slow process may take few lifetimes

and then the mind is freed from the

activity i'm sorry the the

jeeve is freed from the activity

it is a liberated

individual

and the liberation of the individual is

the disappearance of the boundaries of

the individual and no more individual

you can see that it is right now like

this

you can see it like this

there right now also there is no

individual

and right now also the states of the

mind including all the unhappy states

that do not belong to me

not mine

this is only due to its identification

it is not going to change the mind

instantly it takes a lot of time

for it to give up

the activity

there are three kinds of activities that

are

identified in advaith and the first is

you all you know all those you see

thomas is

that

you you have a negative kind of mind

lazy mind ignorant mind you see stupid

mind and most of the activities avoiding

the activity that's all it does thomas

very dark state of the mind

and rajas is exactly opposite a very

active mind very bright mind very

intelligent mind

the go-getter you see successful person

that is the

rajasik

mind satwik is the balanced mind

about which i am not going to say a lot

but it involves the detachment it

involves the disidentification with both

hamas and rajas that is the

this is how we classify the activity of

the mind in advaith at least

and patanjali has his own way he is he

he has five kinds of activities there

you go and read it it's very very

interesting very interesting how people

have approached this um

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problem from so many ways they have

found so many solutions

and ultimately if all boils down that i

am not the mind

i am not this activity any kind of

activity i am not

even the satwik activity i am not it but

the goal of the yogi or organi is to

arrive at the saturn at the balance

because we know it's not going to end so

balance it a little bit

let the pendulum not swing too much you

see let it just vibrate at one place

this is what the hermetic teachings will

also say very very close to

vedic teachings

and

how to do that how to have a satwik mind

and there are many ways and ashtang yoga

is one which is proposed with patanjali

and

path of knowledge is one where complete

this identification and then you let the

mind do whatever it does

you are always in the blissful state

which is called samadhi

there is a way of gotham which is

his own way the middle way

so i did it it will not possible for me

to get into long discussions about this

but he but here your path starts isn't

it

suffering has brought you to here

now it's all open for you choose any

path and get rid of the suffering

don't worry it's

not your suffering

these are states of the mind

corresponding to the waking state

and just purify the mind

do your best i'm not guaranteeing that

the mind will become a

happy mind

you are happiness mind is not happiness

you see

i am the bliss

i

am the sachitanon