Beliefs and related scepticisms Sr no 3

Mind's Turmoil


Consider the following scenarios :

1. A man who is corrupt, thinks nothing of cheating others, is a terrific friend when he needs you, but drops you the moment he gains nothing from you; this man is a regular contact/alleged friend etc.

2. It's a freezingly cold temperature outside. You are in a car, and you stop at a signal and it's after sunset, and dark. A destitute beggar almost nude, comes and begs you for alms.

3. You are on a pilgrimage trip to say tirupathi, to offer a "kaanikkai", after fulfillment of your desire by the Grace of Balaji Swamy. Your friend who has no body else, is in serious trouble and your help matching exactly with your "kaanikkai" amount, is what he requires to save him. He is in front of you and asks for help.

Now some of our beliefs.

1. I really have no means to know my balance "prarabdam" in this cycle of "births and deaths" and therefore, have no great right in judging either my plight or the other's; it's all past karma which has brought these scenarios, which is otherwise termed as destiny, fate, etc, and every one of us has to endure it.

2. Going by CWG and others, it's the individual souls sole choice to experience what it desires, and all that we perceive as misery, suffering, cheating et al, arise out of our ignorance/ failing to remember. The re-membering with that "one" universal soul, is an inevitable, process.

3. There can really be no such "While one is enlightened the other is not", kind of feeling in any one of us. Every one of us is indeed "enlightened".

Now, how does one connect these beliefs with the earlier mentioned scenarios, Do I emapathise, with my fellow human beings, and

(a) hand over one of my 3/4 layers of protection, to the fellow in front of my car,
(b) Hand over my kaanikkai to the friend in need and tell Balaji, that that service to my friend who had come to me was perhaps His Will, and my giving away the kaanikkai to this friend, I am actually giving to Him.
(c) Tell that cheat of a friend what I think of him or simply try and avoid him.
OR

1.Confusing all these turmoil which results in a listlessness , within me, as renunciation, continue with my daily "anushtanams" with a degree of nonchalance, and with a mistaken notion that this is precisely the scripture prescribed "doing my duty without any expectation" kind of detachment.

2. Ignore that destitute in the street, the friend in desperate need of cash, and that cheat of a friend, with the "samaadhaanams" that, as these are (a) their fate, (b) defenite individual souls choices and (c) true to that doctrine "every one to his jignyaasaa, to find and tread the path, to that enduring "peace" in perfect re-union" all of them have chosen their paths and (d) as it is my choice to do "nishkama karma" to attain "moksham", I need not unduly bother about these other "subjects" of His will.

This is the state of my "turmoiled being" today. Like an "ekalavya" without the grace and guidance of a "guru", I can only repeatedly yell about my state, and hope by sheer repetition, I may just stumble upon some "enlightenment". Thanks folks for providing this "jignyaasaa" blog.

Love

Vichu