Isn’t it amazing how the human biology works? Perfectly designed, internally and externally. Our scriptures say that Man and God are one and the same, but it is the mind that fails to understand such a notion.
"Realize the ideal that you are the witness of the mind. Lust, Anger and other deadly enemies are the attributes of the mind and not the soul". When an individual can put into practice such a thought, then such a notion, that, Man and God are one and the same; that they are merely reciprocals of one another. Then this would make more spiritual sense.
The Body, Mind and Heart. These three elements make us what we are, without either one of these three elements, our life as it is will cease to exist.
I’ve come to the conclusion, that these three elements are no different from our physical counter-parts. That of: Father; Mother and Child. This understanding has led me to the belief that by means of association, the Body represents the Child; The Mind the Father and the Heart that of the Mother. Why you may ask? Well in all respects, the mind on its own is logical, forth-right, practical; in some respects extremely irrational. Basically, through experience, everything a father is in a household; fairly Dominant. Now the Heart, always trying to see reason, compassionate, willing to except faults as a stepping stone for a greater good. In essence everything a mother would express; loving, caring etc. The Body a means of expression, for both Heart and Mind.
Therefore it can be said that, without the Body the mind can’t delegate mundane functions; The Mind without the heart can’t mature; The Heart without the mind can not rationalize, and tends to become an emotional wreck, and The Body without Mind and Heart can’t grow.
It is therefore understandable, when a man or father gives in, to Human Nature; what has actually occurred is that, he has come in contact with his motherly side.
I’ve always wanted to know, why men and women differ in opinion, even if they are fighting to sustain the same cause. Well my opinion is that 85% of the time, men tend to use their mental thinking capacity to justify their reasoning. Basically more in the Mind. Women on the other hand, arouse their thinking and rational capacity from the much distinguished Heart; which occurs 90% of the time.
Now, Age and Experience play an integral role in Human development. Swami Vivekanada had said that, “Each soul is potentially divine.” Did he limit it to age and experience? Did he specify a condition for the bases of such a statement?
Not at all! Each soul varying on how they faired in their previous lives, will either reap the benefits of their actions or suffer the consequences of their actions, in their next Life or next Birth. Age and Experience play only a small role, in God's play of Maya. Age allows for the maturing intake of knowledge, not forgetting the fact that, it perpetually keeps one in check with reality; whereas Experience establishes ones self within the context of that knowledge. Just as fire and its power of burning are not different, so are Brahman and Maya. Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Sarada Devi are one. In other words, they complement each other.
This is what I find really amazing; we have God (Brahman), then we have man and on top of that… the stage of Maya. Brahman, who is all perfect, has provided the modern man with everything, that which is needed. To untangle himself from his disillusioned state of worldly attachment, to attain ascension from his alter self.
Now man has all this before him; Specifically with reference to our Hindu scriptures:
The Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, etc.
But regardless of what our scriptures say; Man always finds some excuse to please one of their five senses. You can be the highest in your field of work, have an outstanding appeal to others in your surrounding and have the ability to change views at a glance. But what is the virtue of such characteristics, when you have not tamed the so-called animal within you. High thinking and Shallow interpretational action is merely one of many characteristics of a weak mind. Therefore, theoretically knowing what is in the scriptures, is all good and well. In fact, you would have qualified for a position, with His Holiness (Brahman).
But that’s just a qualification, whether you actually get there or not, souly depends on how you act out, what you have gained intellectually; on this stage of Maya!
Even the greatest of men, fall at a moment's notice; to such petty sense pleasures; and worse so, they feel entitled to it, forgetting their real strengths. But what makes the greatest of men, Kings; it’s not the choices that he makes nor is it the way he executes his tasks with a level of perfection unknown to man who is governed by sense objects and sense pleasure. No! These form the basis of his principles. What makes the greatest of men “Kings”… It is in his simplistic nature, which enables him to cut through the discrepancies of life, and still maintain his course of spiritual action; in thought, word, and deed.
Shridhar Jugwanth
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