SOME MORE CLARIFICATION

“But how do I know for sure if it is the end of journey for me or just the beginning?” an obvious question that springs up after the last discussion labeled “so near and yet so far”. Please understand this very question “but how do I know......” is a testament that we haven’t awakened in our INNATE INTELLIGENCE. If the person realizes that he is not his virtual self (internet avatar) he would automatically and simultaneously be aware of his real and virtual self, he would naturally and obviously handle both his identities with ease and without doubt. But if he were to be stuck with his virtual self just imagining, contemplating or dreaming about the possibility of a physical reality without actually realizing or awaking into it then all sorts of doubts and discrepancies to this theory would arise. Such as “if I am the body then why am I unable to be in total control of this virtual self?”, “if I am the body then why do I still feel hungry after having eaten so much food?”Etc...
So if this doubt, this question arises within us then we can rest assured that our journey is yet to begin.
The anticipation is palpable and excitement is only natural. We are finally going to begin for what we had been preparing since past 2 months, SELF INTEGRATION. But here again a word of caution becomes necessary. The caution, please understand, is not being given out of fear of any anticipation of ill effects or to generate fear and deterrence with regard to these insights and understandings rather it (caution) is being issued out of genuine concern.
A Genuine concern about the true, effective, really transforming and lasting APPLICATION of these insights into our lives instead of making them just another momentarily uplifting reading.
We will now take a look at a few more fine points of insight into our own modus operandi (modality of functioning). Consider the following, if a person is blind from birth there is no way he can be made to understand or feel the beauty of a sunrise or magnanimity of an ocean, it’s just impossible. It is so because he does not have the same “COMMON REFERENCE DATABASE” as ours.
Let first understand the concept of “common reference database”. Well, put simply it is a generalization of our likes, dislikes, preferences and believes, our entire experience of and with life on to the entire humanity or to our own socio-cultural milieu at least.
For example if a person is cornered lying he would immediately throw up “oh come on EVERYBODY lies it’s only a question of getting caught”. Ask an alcoholic and he will assure you that EVERYBODY on this planet can be put in three simple categories
1. Consuming alcohol in public and accepting the same
2. Consuming alcohol in privacy and denying it
3. Dying to consume alcohol but yet have been unable to
Ask a promiscuous person about his infidelity and he will also offer you a similar worldwide classification system. Ask a person caught taking bribe and you would be astounded by his belief in this “classifying the entire world into three categories” thing.
Even in our lives we do a similar thing, if we do not succeed at an exam or a project we immediately collect the references of all the people who had failed doing the same, we vouch for their (people who had failed) credentials and the unfairness and disrepute of the exam simultaneously.
If we shy away from a bigger cause or a social responsibility (like standing up against corrupt top management of a company or voicing our opinion against oppressive behavior of a teacher or professor) we urgently summon logical rationalizations such as “oh come on this is real life not a movie we can’t be opposing or going against the system NOBODY does that”.
If we closely examine all the above mentioned examples we will find one stark similarity in all of them and that is EVERYBODY and NOBODY. That is a generalization meant to blanket the entire human population or at least our own ambient socio-cultural environment.
But why do we do this, justifying our own discrepancies and in capabilities by falsely alleging the entire society to be in a similar status, condition, behavioral pattern or capability (or incapability) as ours???