Monday 12 August 2013

Will Acceptance Lead to Inactivity?

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One may question whether acceptance in all situations will make life inert. The Enlightened Ones ask the pertinent question, ‘Is the goal of your life happiness and peace or is it to keep your body, mind and speech running amok?’ If you yearn to experience absolute peace, your indulgence in the activities of body, mind and speech will certainly reduce. And from the spiritual perspective, this is a virtue. But this inactivity should be a result of active awareness of the Self.
 
 
Such inactivity is not dullness or laziness. Glad acceptance that stems from awareness of the Self produces profoundness that results in peace. It does not make you inert. Inertia is an outcome of too much activity just as someone who is running may drop to the ground in exhaustion. With acceptance, the pace of external activities may slow down but it will not bring inertia.
 
 
People associate reaching a destination with the speed with which they move. It is believed that the one who runs, arrives faster. However, this does not hold true in the spiritual world. Some spiritual destinations are such that they can be arrived at only by moving slowly. Some by going deep and becoming still. They are reached not by going somewhere but by not going anywhere; not by running around but by becoming steady.  Those in a hurry to reach somewhere, to attain something can be called the sensual ones. They want to arrive at their goal by acquiring material pleasures.
 
 
Those eager to run away from somewhere are like ignorant renunciates who wish to escape the world for fear of getting caught up in it. Both wish to run. However, the spiritual one does not wish to run anywhere. He remains completely content, relaxed, peaceful and steady. His external activities are guided by destiny. He travels only wherever and as much as life takes him. On his own he has no desire to go anywhere.

Om Namah Shivay.

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Will Acceptance Lead to Inactivity? 


One may question whether acceptance in all situations will make life inert. The Enlightened Ones ask the pertinent question, ‘Is the goal of your life happiness and peace or is it to keep your body, mind and speech running amok?’ If you yearn to experience absolute peace, your indulgence in the activities of body, mind and speech will certainly reduce. And from the spiritual perspective, this is a virtue. But this inactivity should be a result of active awareness of the Self.


Such inactivity is not dullness or laziness. Glad acceptance that stems from awareness of the Self produces profoundness that results in peace. It does not make you inert. Inertia is an outcome of too much activity just as someone who is running may drop to the ground in exhaustion. With acceptance, the pace of external activities may slow down but it will not bring inertia.


People associate reaching a destination with the speed with which they move. It is believed that the one who runs, arrives faster. However, this does not hold true in the spiritual world. Some spiritual destinations are such that they can be arrived at only by moving slowly. Some by going deep and becoming still. They are reached not by going somewhere but by not going anywhere; not by running around but by becoming steady. Those in a hurry to reach somewhere, to attain something can be called the sensual ones. They want to arrive at their goal by acquiring material pleasures.


Those eager to run away from somewhere are like ignorant renunciates who wish to escape the world for fear of getting caught up in it. Both wish to run. However, the spiritual one does not wish to run anywhere. He remains completely content, relaxed, peaceful and steady. His external activities are guided by destiny. He travels only wherever and as much as life takes him. On his own he has no desire to go anywhere.

Om Namah Shivay.

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