Every year I wish
you Happy Diwali and New Year. But this time I thought let me break the shackles
of traditionalism, mannerism and monotony. I asked the question does my or
your or for that matter anybody's wishing or even your own desire or wish makes
the year happy??? What is a year? 365 x 24 x 60 seconds. Are you happy
all these seconds ? Or can you be? or rather is there a state which
transcends and transgresses joy and sorrow, happiness and unhappiness,
pleasure and pain .........??? That is to
crudely say can we or you be happy the whole year? If yes, how??? If no,
why??
But even before I
proceed to this, I would first like you to think about a question: are you a
human? or a human-machine? The ego would like to categorize the machines, but
the fact is 99.9% of the humans are not humans but human-machines, some thinking machines, some art machines,
some sport machines, some philanthropic machines and so on....... The
difference, if any is the type of machine, but not into the mechanics that is to
say that your doing, whatsoever, doesn't
differentiate you from machines; may be you are highly evolved machines, but
machines! Something that science would agree to!
The reason for
above question or statement is that what I am going to say further requires your
complete awareness and one dedicated
identity. With that only you can reach truth that lies about yourself and
within!
Let us begin by
asking: What is your search? What do you want in
life?
In my eyes: we
yearn for everything; except that which we want. We do everything to get
everything; except that we so long desire,
that which is the thirst of our being. And hence the
misery and unhappiness. We
forget our longing thirst, our utmost, basic and the innermost want,
wish and desire. This is the reason our whole life proves to be a mirage, a
hypocrisy and an illusion. The result: much work, but in the end it all
proves out to be failures. All successes in the end prove out to be
failures! Think about death. No matter whether you or other call yourself
successful, the death takes it away and makes you failure, if you are dumb
enough to not to realize it before! Because Death only knows one difference
and that is between an enlightened and non-enlightened, between true knowledge
and pseudo - knowledge....... This is the reason we in Indian culture have a
parable of Yayati, who lived for thousands of years, in return for somebody's
life and in the end found himself still yearning for
more.................................. See the beauty of the parable at the end
of the 100 years of his life when death came, he told death that he has yet not
experienced anything, he wants more. To this Death agreed and said that if
anybody is ready to give his life, you can have more. He had 100 sons and all
refused, but the youngest one agreed to give his life to his father. When death
asked the youngest one that he is so small and there is so much to his life why
he wants to .........? And the son replied that what would be in the life which
my father lived for 100 years and still couldn't find anything? Isn't this life
useless, because if it was useful he would have found it in 100 years. If he
can't find it in 100 years why should I waste myself on something utterly
useless!!!!
This is the reason it is said that Wise learns from others experiences. Intelligent learns from his own experiences and Fools don't learn anything from their or others
experiences! Needless to say 99.99999% of people are fools. Let
us see in our life, don't we repeat the same mistakes, don't we yearn for same
things which at the end we have found to be useless??? What difference
ultimately those things will make that you do in your
life? Your wealth, name, fame, wife, husband, children, knowledge etc. will they
come to you in / with your death???
What are we
searching for? Undoubtedly we all will feel and think that we are searching for
happiness. Even animals are searching for it, that is what we will think. This
search for happiness manifests itself in many forms; be it search for money, search for power, search
for position, search for fame, search for love or be
it search for heaven: it appears that , knowingly or
unknowingly we are obsessively mad at the search for
happiness? Isn't it?
Have you ever
wondered that many people have searched happiness since ages immortal, but have
miserably failed! Have you ever thought that where many have failed will you
succeed? As soon as you find or get one happiness, it becomes
useless. Our desire surges ahead, our search
surges ahead? Is the nature of happiness
that only, that as soon as you get it; it becomes useless and evaporates in thin
air?? Why this happens? Have you ever come across a happiness
that stays with the same intensity with you, forever? This is the reason we have
to invent new and new sensualities.
The fact then is
that, you start with an untruth and the result is catastrophe! The
truth is, the search for happiness in itself
is untruth, it is a mirage, it is an illusion. In truth, we really don't want or desire
happiness, we want something else. What is the else and
why? I will reflect upon, just go on. The fact is, in search of happiness,
we keep ourselves disillusioned enough to hide
our real search. As soon as you get a particular happiness,
your search for happiness ends and you immediately come in contact with
unhappiness inside. And we again have to start a new search for another
happiness, so as to forget the deep unhappiness that is within. As long as the
search continues, the desire continues, the hope continues, the unflagging
activity continues; we forget the unhappiness inside. As soon as you get
the happiness you are searching for; the mind, the brain, the activity comes to
an halt and you again come in touch with the inside where you find
unhappiness.
Hence search for happiness at most, at its
best leads to forgetting the unhappiness, but not
happiness. It acts as a narcotic, as an addictive that is all, but leads you to nowhere!!!
However large or magnificent this search of happiness is, it can't end the
unhappiness within. It is impossible! It is irrelevant!
This makes me
remember one incidence of a shivir that I took: it was around 3 in the night, I
awakened 4-5 people and took them with me on the terrace of the building we were
sleeping and started searching for something with a big stick, yelling here and
there. Those guys started asking me what I am searching, but I kept searching,
ultimately they fumbled with me for some time awakening others and when
everybody had gathered around searching for more than 45 minutes without knowing
what I was looking for, they gathered around me and asked me to tell them at
least what was that I was looking for and I replied 'Oh! it is an elephant, I am
looking for'. Everybody was startled and told me that it was impossible to find
an elephant on the terrace. I looked at them and said well if you can find
happiness in the outer, if you can find happiness in money etc. why not an
elephant on the terrace. And then we had a session on the terrace.
Remember Alice in
the wonderland! Alice starts to run but never reaches anywhere. No matter how
much she runs. Be it the richest in world or the strongest or ........,
the reality is nobody reaches anywhere, because life is so much multi-faceted
that nobody can be number one in every field and even if somebody succeeds in
this impossible feat, it will be at its wits end to discover that it is in eternal hell as now there is no search left of
happiness!!!!!!!!!!
Why are you searching happiness?
Simply because you are unhappy. If you were happy would you search happiness?
But then, supposing you were ill, would you search for health or you will remove
illness? Both acts may look similar to you, but they are not, they are in
totality, wholesomely, different. If you had cancer will you get rid of cancer
or search for health. Let us for a moment suppose that you started searching for
health. Your search may be so wholesome that you will forget cancer, but when
you find your so called health, your search ends, the cancer will be there.
Because cancer is there. Your search for health was an illusion, a mirage. And
what do you have to do to get health. Just get rid of cancer or disease and
health will come.
You get it? Unhappiness
can be eradicated. Happiness can't be
searched.
This is the reason
Buddha and Mahavir have said that 'Life itself is pain, sorrow, unhappiness'. It
is to make you realize that the main thing is unhappiness that is inside you.
Unhappiness lies there. The biggest illusion of human mind, logic and brain
is that when it experiences unhappiness, it starts searching
many, many : big, big happiness and pleasures. And this search instead of
eradicating unhappiness becomes a search to forget unhappiness. And the result
being unhappiness spreads inside like a fire. This is the reason Buddha has
to put up his first immortal Truth as 'Life is pain, sorrow and unhappiness.'.
Many an idiotic people lament teachings of Buddha and Mahavir as Negative. Is
it? It is most scientific and these are most
scientific statements. If you have illness, you remove the
reasons for the illness. Similarly if you are unhappy will you search for
happiness or remove the reasons for unhappiness?
Which is
scientific search for happiness or eradication of reasons for unhappiness. As
soon as the reasons are removed the happiness will appear like a boom!!!!! Have you ever asked yourself why are you
unhappy? Of course even to ask this question you have to
first stop your illusion, be; aware with one dedicated identity to know that
there is unhappiness inside!
The more you seek happiness in the outer; the more
unhappiness cripples you inside. And then sometimes some
people as a reaction to their failure to get happiness in outside
renounce the world. They become bishops, nuns, saints, Sanyasi etc. And
some of these even start torturing their bodies. But something that they don't
realize is and that is if torturing others is violence, so is torturing oneself
or ones body.
And these people invent an illusion of
heaven!! People have invented different heavens. People
living in cold countries have hot heaven and vice versa an so on.... And
all religions become corrupted with the doings! See there is no
difference between the so called religion and non-religious. Both are searching
for happiness. All these tortures are for getting happiness, may be in next
birth or may be in heaven or other world.
I call all these
people non-religious! No matter what they do externally. All commandments exposed from outside are
hypocrisy. No matter whether they are said or written in any so
called holy book. In fact, such people who become self - proclaimed or an
organizational proclaimed safeguard to so called religion or organization are
mostly mentally sick. The best example of it is they have put up a person who
does a small mistake into eternal fire of hell!!!!!!! For small
mistakes???????
In fact, this
clearly shows the madness of human desire and search for happiness. Once the
person fails to get it here, it imagines it to be in another world. But doesn't
realize that its search is wrong or an illusion!
People worship God
or do religious things for pleasures, for getting's, for their search of
happiness. And hence any god, person, activity or the like that isn't according
to their desires is bad, not followed or worshiped.
This is the reason Science has soon replaced so called
religion. Science has become another competitor for so called
dead religions. Because science says very simply that forget heaven, we will
create heaven right now here in front of you. And science has created all
sensualities, pleasures, comforts etc., but humanity forgot one basic thing and
that is happiness, unhappiness are totally different than comforts, pain,
sorrow and pleasures.
Now comes the important part of my email, have you
ever wondered that we all are living the same life, same monotonous life.
Everybody just runs; mad running is our life.
The life that as philosophers describe as 'A
Tale full of fury and noise signifying nothing'. There is
absolutely no difference between the day of birth and death of a person. He has
the same amount of unhappiness, may be more and the feeling for more and more
....................
No happiness
comes, no matter what you do. All things prove out to be momentarily. The more
you search for happiness, you find that unhappiness is standing behind it. Then
how do you get happiness?
Happiness and unhappiness are the same sides of the
coin. They are the two facets of one thing. They both
go side by side. Good and Bad both go side by side. Love and hatred both are two
facets of the same coin. They both go side by side. Psychology will readily
agree to this. Right now you might be respecting me, appreciating me. A one or
two bad words I write and you will feel hatred! Peace and War both go side by
side. In your non-violence, violence is hidden. So no matter how much you search
happiness, unhappiness will stand behind like a shadow. How
can you escape unhappiness?
Now comes the most important point of this email:
go inside, go inside yourself, search for
unhappiness? What is its form? From where is it originating?
But before you
jump to anything let me clarify one thing. What will you find? You will say that
you have pain somewhere...... or ..... This isn't
unhappiness. This is pain and this form can be cured by science,
if not today tomorrow.
If there is no pain, all comforts, all pleasures are there in your
life then do you think you will have happiness? No, you would not have.
You know Mahavir and Buddha were prince, they had all that life could offer
them. Still they left their houses because they were unhappy. They had all the
so called happiness or rather pleasures or sensations, all the happiness that
you call as happiness, much more than you can even think of. For instance,
beautiful nude girls used to stand on the staircase as railing when he used to
walk on staircase.
Now the something else: now the
real reason, at last : the real
unhappiness is not knowing yourself. The real unhappiness is self-forgetting. To
remain ignorant about your true nature, your true form is real unhappiness.
Hence your real search is search of your true self, your true inner most being.
And this is the search you hide behind your search for
happiness.
Have you ever
asked yourself 'Who you are that is who am I?'. Go on asking this
question again and again, may be at least 1000 times and you will realize
what I mean.
To know yourself , your
true self is the only secret to happiness or rather
bliss. Bliss, that transcends and
transgresses both happiness and unhappiness. Happiness is soothing, but
bliss is ecstasy and ultimate exultation. Bliss in nature is different.
Happiness and unhappiness, pleasure and pain, sorrow and joy both can be there
and still you could be in bliss!!!!
The real religion
begins only then when person asks 'Who am I?'. Come what may you will have
to know your real self. You will have to know that which is
inside.
Only this can give
you happiness or rather bliss something much more and qualitatively different
than happiness. This is the only way to eradicate unhappiness, sorrows and the
like. The day you know yourself, the doors to ecstasy and bliss will flung
open!
But how to know yourself, your true
self?
It is time for the
Deep to throw light on this occasion:
Let us begin when
unhappiness comes, we say I am unhappy, when happiness comes, we say I am happy.
When childhood comes we say I am child, when youth comes you say I am young,
when old age comes you say I am old. If this 'I' can be happy, unhappy, child,
young, old etc. Then don't you think this 'I' will be separate than
these.
Your only shackle
is your attachment!
Suppose I can go
to a building and come out of it, then I must be separate than that building.
Isn't it? Then this 'I' is separate. If it was unhappy, how can it be happy? If
it was child, how can it be young? If
you were sitting under a tree, day light comes and you will say I am day, night
comes and you will say I am night. Will you? You will say
that I saw day and I saw night. Isn't calling yourself day and
night stupid? Then what about you associating yourself with everything?
You are just the
seer or rather just the knower or to be precise that which knows it knows, that
which knows; that which; watches or
witnesses.
When somebody used
to applaud Swami Ram, he always used to say people applauded the King Ram today.
When somebody used to abuse him, he always used to say I enjoyed, today people
abused King Ram. Do you get it???
When you sleep (wrong
metaphor!), don't say I sleep. That is untrue. Really you are just knowing that
somebody is witnessing that sleep is coming. You are just getting the message.
You say you are hungry? Are you or you are just getting the message that hunger
is there, that stomach is feeling hunger!
Create this third
point, which is already there within you. As soon as you become aware
of it, you will come to know that which knows this third point, which knows
this witness, that which is aware of
the knower who knows this witness. Alas you have even
forgotten the witness, forget the aware!
When you are
reading this, are you reading this? Or there is somebody who is witnessing that
which is reading. And yet a knower which is knowing this witness. And yet the
awareness that is aware to know. That awareness is you or rather
aware-consciousness.
But we are fools,
we search for happiness and save ourselves from unhappiness through
illusions. We search the outer and then renounce the outer. Then how will we
find that which is neither happiness nor unhappiness, that which is neither
night nor day, that which is neither light nor dark, that which is neither good
nor bad, that which is aware of the knower of the
witness of both eating and fasting: that which isn't contained in any
experience, that who experiences or experiencer or
experienced. That which is no -
experience.
But we are idiots,
we even label buildings as Temples, shrines, Church, Mosque, Gurudwara and so
on......And don't search God in these buildings, search within.
But why are we not
able to go inside or search within: it is due to our fear of unhappiness, wrong search for
happiness and idiotic ego.
I take this
opportunity to bring to your notice how some idiotic, filthy so called
scientific technical machines
(humans) interpret things wrongly because of their mechanicality. Recently some scientists studying brain showed that by
applying electrode to the point above your right ear, you can feel and
experience out of body experiences. And hence they concluded that all spiritual
experiences are nothing but miscalculations, defects. But they forgot something,
because they never knew themselves that this all the more proves the point
of Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavir, Jarthrustha etc....
Why can't the
brain after death even though kept electrically active report the same
thing when an electrode is applied. Who is that to whom
brain reports to? What is that which knows
that it is being witnessed that it has no body?
What is that which is aware of this knower?
We are not talking of any spiritual
experiences, but the realm where no experience remain, where you are just
witness, where you are the knower, where you are just aware. The realms of no
experience. And hence it in no way proves the non-existence of spirit (though by
this word I don't mean what you mean!) that is pure awareness, am-ness.
And this
experiment beyond doubt proves the famous MAYA which so much categorically
proves that you are machine, until you reach to the stage of knower and pure
awareness.
That all your
associations, your attachments are mere calculations, mere calculations and
hence illusions, lies and mirage!!
I pity those
scientists who are acting like machines and cutting the very branch they are
sitting on.
So it is very easy to be
happy or to be in bliss. Start from witness, to knower, to awareness!!! If you
find it difficult it is because of your mind and brain. Just let go. Know you
are witness, Know you are knower of the witness and Know you are aware of the
knower of the witness and not that which is going on!!!!! This is religion!
What you need to
do nothing. Just interpret the things correctly. This knowledge, this knower,
this am-ness, this awareness of the knower who is the witness of all that
happens is SOUL.
And as you reach
there GOD will shine through. You will find GOD!!!!!!
Your true self, the GOD will shine through and
that is the only way to be in bliss!!!!
Experiment this!
The journey to unknown or miraculous or spirituality is as experimental as
science. Only difference is here the lab lies within.
My pranam to Gods
within you.Yes you all are Gods, you need to remember that is all!
Did you read this
e-mail? Yes, shucks you missed this email!! No, then WHO
ARE YOU?!!
My
Pranam
Devang H.Dattani
