Re: Loneliness...
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
Originally Posted by
Anirudh
namaste Yajvan ji
Can you tell what Blaise Pascal is conveying through his quote ?
It is my opinion he is suggesting that being at peace with yourself, as demonstrated by being content with sitting quietly, is of high merit.
That one does not need to be entertained/amused perpetually. It is the notion of a balanced rago-guna within one's being. That it ( rago-guna)
is not the driver... that sattva-guna ( balance, ease, purity, easiness ) is being establish.
Look at our world today... many do not step 10 ft. ( 10 meters) without looking for a text message, a email, some news on their phones, tablets, etc.
The mind that is in constant motion, the expression of rago-guna. The mind likes and grows on change, on differences, on more, on amusement, on ( _________fill in the blank).
It this a bad thing? In and of itself no, the mind does, and is catapulted by its nature - by past impressions ( vasana-s).
Yet what is this capricious mind looking for ? More happiness, more contentment...
It continues to look outside of itself and the upanishads are quite clear on this matter: Finite things do not contain happiness. What is finite here?
Anything that has a beginning and an end - houses, cars, people, places, food, mountains, bikes, ( ______ once more, fill in the blank).
Hence the wisdom offered by Messier Pascal. It is simple and spot on ( in my humble opinion).
So , now what does one do... I am going to set-down and be quite. I am going to pretend to be satiated by sattva guna. One cannot pretend . Maybe for
a hour, a day, a week... yet it is pretending. It is not the real thing. It is the mule pretending to be the stallion.
So, what is one to do ? Find out the way to infuse/unfold more of your core nature - pure awareness¹. Then real blossoming occurs.
iti śivaṁ
1. pure awareness - see this HDF post: http://hindudharmaforums.com/showthread.php?14309-The-formless-truth-of-Lord-Shiva , post 9 & 10.
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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