As the title suggests, I am trying to arrive here that body and mind are not two different entities but one and the same in the sense that they behaves in exactly same way. Also these two ingredients which we say exist do not differ from other outside entities called nature. Both keeps on rejecting what is foreign to them, one example is any form of clinical treatment in the history of human kind is a disastrous failure and they have adverse effect on body what we call side effect and the justification of healing can be given that I am healing because I am being treated.

It is the newly discovered remedy that creates diseases this is statement can be supported by what U. G. Krishnamurti says. Same is analogy is not different for mind or human intellect any attempts be it moralist, religious, spiritual ultimately turns into bitter form. Every one of us has experienced that when we try to control our overwhelming emotions like fear, sorrow, greed, respectability, jealousy etc they become more and more agitated.

The possible solutions

Once you realize the truthfulness of above phenomenon it is evident to arrive upon a method that will try to let the body function on its own and do not interfere but this is not so easy as said any such attempt will be an effort on your side and thus ultimately lead to rectify what we think is malfunctioning thus itself becomes a hindrance. A popular philosophy of being an observer and watch your actions seems more parallel to this approach here if you reach that state the same can also be said in different words are “Not knowing anything”.

Human curiosity

The unbroken history of mankind of discoveries and asking questions led us to doubt and ask everything now it has come into our habit that we must throw questions on everything. It is an impression seeped on deepest conscious level that everything can be explained through logic whereas in reality for example death remains unknowing thing. Thus gave birth to stone Gods, religions, beliefs they were of past and in new world we become free of them and become slave of new ones. The certainty that those spiritual teachings or moral talks cannot help you because every word or has its life and when communicated they lose their meaning. In this very moment I am writing something with great life in those letters and sometimes seeing them simply as dead. It will not be a big wonder if they are interpreted in completely wrong sense.

Perception and reality

Perception or better call it experiencing will be different from what is real this is obvious to anyone who is reading or not reading this article. But Sometimes their gap is accidentally reduced or becomes very minimal this we call state of seeing. A state of seeing or sensing anything either through senses or even mind cannot be same as experiencing it. The moment we try to experience something, it is gone and what remains there is, a thought that is struggling to take hold of seeing and saying dead words “How beautiful is this..!” And we keep on trying to take hold of what is seen. One interesting thing to notice is every time when you come across such blissful moment immediately it is followed by one saying that “How  beautiful it is,,,!” or “I am seeing it” so that time is very small a momentary. When such time becomes elongated either by some practice or accidentally we experience what is called meditative state or Nirvana.

Ideations and verbalization

This is I am writing from similarities I found from talks of J Krishnamurti and UG both That is one cannot see his emotions there is no way to experience your emotions the one that is saying I am fearful is another thought which is another emotion. When you say I am fearful you are not actually pointing to the actual fear but entirely different location they are like one which says “I am fearful and it harms me” or second one that says “I must get rid of my fears..” so there is no existence of fear but the ideation of fear that persists here onwards and creates further fear.

19th century was flooded with the vast of spiritual teachers and thinkers of human psychology one noticeable of them was J Krishnamurthy who went for world wide public speaking on the matter of human psyche, effect of society and functioning of mind etc. Peoples have been following one guru/teacher after another they tried to practice all sort of exercises ranging from mental to physical but futility of those effort and then questions raised by some intellects on the usefulness of those preachings made this topic debatable that whether there exist higher, blissful and peaceful state and can we achieve that and most important does spiritual gurus, scriptures helps in those pursuit?

From the past

One thing to be observed is as the time progress so is the evolution of our species what problem haunted the old world  are not much of concerns today. Fear of death was prevalent in those days not only due to premature end of life by deadly diseases without in cure that time. Thus the initial fear of death leads us to find some kind of perpetual moral ethics to cling on that gave the life to world after death like heaven/hell and the rebirth. Peoples of today’s time still confuse themselves with the actuality behind reincarnation belief, missing the point that was only to give moral support to people of old times whereas today man is not much think of death and accepts it as it is.

Meaninglessness of religion

Now that religions have been fading away and as more peoples are educated as well as see any statement through logic and scientific analysis slowly but lot of hold religions on people is slipping. Mans world is more at peace and able to fulfill their basic demands more easily it seems foolish to take refuge of writings that have been written thousands of years back.

Today’s mankind

Man of today not free from mental illness or self deception though we cannot conclude that mans attention is moved from outer world of survival to oneself because though we can now easily earn livelihood but now our conscience is at the most of the time occupied by machines hence we don’t have enough time to think about our weakness that remains inert in the subtle forms. The major issues today is generated due to peoples are becoming intellectual, more educated and experienced in an ordinary sense that is benefit but major issue it of conditioning of human psyche. As more you learn your brain becomes cluttered of thoughts and hence all actions we do are limited by the nature of thoughts, prejudice and pre-expectations which an ancient man wouldn’t had to face.

Problems with spiritual grasping.

The major problem is of communication and limitation of language one spiritual guru or enlightened man cannot transmit his experience to another man by the virtue of words. There will be always dead listening filtered through logic and false interpretation of what speaker is  saying. Another issue is loss of possibility in attaining such tranquil state become much more difficult after listening to what speaker is sharing from his experience as everything becomes the part of mind and thus dead.

Now why this happens? why we are not able to take what a spiritually enlightened person is sayings because of again dead mind. There are two notable reason behind this one is mans tendency to imitate things from others thousands of peoples have to copy Buddha posture but no avail. Some concluded that every individual is unique what brings success to one cannot be applied to another person, well this in my opinion is wrong peoples are similar in one sense also. On the other hand we acquired the habits of learning through logic of dead mind. Hence what is written on books, or told by a higher mind teacher goes into waste bin.

A basic difficulties one seeker encounters in his initial attempts is what tools he has got in his Armour is all made of mind and thats what he is trying to control where as mind has intelligent defense system to protect its own existence. I” will take one example suppose a person is facing first time the public speaking he might stumble upon words or some awkward situation he might face. as soon as speech is over he might think over his performance again and then see some problems in delivery which otherwise would have been disappeared in the next attempt by the very intelligent mechanics of body-mind system but now identification of the problem and trying to improve upon persists thus actual problem is no more but trying to improve becomes the problem, he might do several attempts to rectify this problem through techniques but no avail.

A direct disapproval of psyche teaching cannot be concluded as right thing, you approach more and more techniques from gurus, books or through self research. they will continue to replace one ideology with another this continues the day you slowly become aware that all those preaching are of no help except they took you to this location where all of them seems to gone in vein. This will start a process of slowly ceasing of mind, its logics, its questions etc.

Understanding and knowing

There is huge difference between the word understanding and knowing of something. Knowing something is that comes through when you scrutinies something based on past knowledge and logic and then accept it as true. Where as understanding requires no tools that is used for knowing. One has to be utterly silent before he can understand something far from logic and interference of any past knowledge. There is great deal of hindrance comes because of social conditioning, throughout ones life person keeps accumulating more and more memory and this memory blocks his ability to see anything new this will reach to a peak point of saturation

Tackling with mind & its nature

Now knowing that all that tools which uses to control the mind is also made of mind therefore bound to fail. this means that mind which is dead and made of past memories you device one techniques that is again made of mind hence dead and cannot remain working in the different situation. One example of such is if a person is practicing meditation and attempting to become thoughtless by suppressing of undesirable thoughts, replacing them with different one or neglecting them will not work! Here we need to understand the basic tendency mind that is if you try to control it it becomes more and more agitated. A person trying to perform fasting or celibacy for a period things about food or sex all over the day whereas fasting / or celibacy can be automatically achieved effortlessly sometimes accidentally.

Search for what we call spirituality is rooted from ancient times in the human civilization. Even today most primitive tribal groups has awareness about some form of supernatural power like God and their worship God in the form of stone statue. Spirituality has come into human conscience in different forms like religion, God or seekers and theist who are actually searching for God in some other forms. Moralist, religions and gurus have separated human beings as the evolved and top most creation of nature, this is self proclaimed statement without any proof. As humans are aware about their suffering and sometimes scholars of human psyche conclude that animal forms are better than human. Because they do what they are supposed to do meanwhile life has no meaning and human tends to waste their energy in unanswerable questions.

This discussion I will try to explore why a human tends to become miserable and starts constant searching for something which has no guarantee of existence. We are not sure that if this happens to everyone. To make our life better we turn around and see other peoples who seems happy (At least from what we can see) then try to mimic them same it true for followers of spiritual leaders. Those leaders seems to have attained their state in the age of dying and seems like they stake their social life at stake and we are still not sure that their posses something that we are looking for. We always look at them with suspicion.

One of my observation was that as the people become more experienced and educated as well as they read more books they become more miserable, it is that not that before they were perfectly happy..! So when try to reverse this process of evolution and look at animals they seems happy, at least what we think from their ability to perform livelihood so perfectly that it doesnt seems like something like mind is interfering their life. Again when we look back to humans who are living in conditions like stone age and not affected by evolution of human intelligence also believe in God and they use liquor, why is that urge for God or liquor is it something that comes from nature sown basic instinct called spirituality that human is bound to prone.

Some peoples claimed that they attained enlightenment and others can achieve the same through some sort of Sadhana etc. There have been tremendous incarnations of spiritual super human on the planet some used to keep quite and some other tried to influence the masses to make their life better. The difficulties with the approach to impart someone who has attained higher level of knowledge is that experience cannot be transferred to other living being. So many gurus falsified the business of spiritual leaders seeking pleasure. One thing is sure that when a person is in absolute harmony with surrounding he doesn’t bother about so called spirituality – U. G. Krishnamurthy has added important dimension to this.

Some peoples are asking questions about life, death, what happens after death and does God exists etc now it has been widely accepted that person who is asking such question is in some kind of mental illness. But one other question which remained unanswered that why a human being that is perfect form of natural living organism since birth and has natural  ability to enjoys all perks around here becomes so miserable. Many have said about Ego and Conditioning generated from accumulated from past and thus freeing from all past and ego would be a transformation into a perfect human being. But some level of Ego as well as memory is required for preservation of human life. thus their essense cannot be discarded entirely.

Ego and their different manifestations

Ego has been repeatedly condemned for all human sufferings.  It comes in subtle to most colossal forms in the ocean of human conscience and create ripples. The basic work of ego is to self protestation and gain but in case human due to knowledge and social conditioning it takes complex forms identifying all of them can be exhaustive task. The ego starts interfering when it says you are different from the rest of existence. So some examples like jealousy arises when you feel someone better than you, considering oneself superior than others on the basis of physical attractiveness, a man of great achievement, or self proclaimed moralist can easily fall into prey of ego. Some have added that fear is another form of ego where it creates some anxiety in you for not being perfect in situations.  Identifying those forms of ego and observing them in the time when they become intensive can be a start point to overcome it.

What is remedy

This has been the topic of debate over the years and no single conclusion can be arrived because every person is unique and what works for one there is no guarantee that it will work for other. ?If you observe that all those who we perceive as enlightened peoples took different paths. Some  like U. G. Krishnamurthy and Ekart Tolle says they passed through psychological transformation by accident and there can be any resort or method for any one to reach that state. One of question to understand is can there be any help with learning all those moral lesson and research done on mind and some thought based practices and our very first attempt to control mind or come to a new conclusion is generated from mind itself and mind has nature of constant change.