REALIZE THAT NO IDEA IS YOUR OWN; THEY CALL COME TO YOU FROM OUTSIDE

Let us break the above statement into parts and analyze is bit by bit.

The statement talks about analyzing.

That idea is not our own, it always come from outside us. They all actually.

 

Idea - what is it ?

Idea is a thought, nothing else. Thought about something completely new, or novel way to do things which are already there. It can be reduced to a mere thought.

 

It is not our own and it always comes from outside. What does it mean that it comes from outside. Has anyone thrown the thought from outside our consciousness and consciousness has caught it. If anything be outside the consciousness then it is not reality / absolute and also it can then not be known.

 

Hence the thought must have come from us, consciousness alone, as nothing can be outside consciousness. However the core here is not about what constitute inside and outside us but rather where do the thoughts come from and are they under our conscious control ?

 

We can easily verify that we don’t generate thought as in will the thought, but thought comes to us and we grab / identify with it via thinking. Thus we are presented with a thought without any will of our own.

 

Every thought is like this and this is not an exception; and we also know that all actions are preceded by thought; and since thought is not under our control hence any action is also not under our control. Thus there exists no free will.

 

Will exists only for consciousness and consciousness alone. We are mere instruments of her. 

HOW TO TEACH CHILDREN ??

It is a very important topic that needs a fair bit of contemplation as to how we want to raise our children.
 
First let us say that there are two sets of knowledge that is to be imparted to the children of our age.

One is called as AVIDYA or knowledge of the world; and the other is called as VIDYA or the knowledge of the Self, the background of all that is taught as part of the world.
 
The whole knowledge system of the schools and colleges is designed towards developing human as an efficient machine that can function well.

Alongside there can be added a moral and ethical knowledge systems which can soften the human and generate in him compassion, and other qualities that differentiate it from the animal kingdom.

The home I.e. parents on the other hand must be equipped with the right knowledge of the dharma, the knowledge of the Self and it must be imparted to the child at home. For that we need tutors that are equipped with this knowledge is mass numbers and parents which are enlightened enough to know the importance of this knowledge. 

DOING GOOD TO OTHERS !!

 

Any action that does not bind you is a good action. Act alone doesn't qualifies itself as good. What mental attitude you were having while doing the act??

 

If suppose after doing charity, your ego inflates as a result of sticking thought that you have done a good deed, then that is binding thought.

 

You can be good, or your action can only be good when you are established in truth, when the good loses its goodness and gets transformed into truth.

THINKING IS DUALITY; IDENTITY IS NON - DUALITY

 ALL THINKING IS IN DUALITY; IN IDENTITY NO THOUGHT SURVIVES.

 

Let us first clear what identity means here. All other words are self explanatory here. Identity here means awareness’ identification of herself not with a body, mind or world but with herself alone. That means I = Awareness only.

 

Awareness = Knowing = I. Any supposed activity happening in Awareness takes the form of thinking, feeling, sensing and perceiving.

 

Thinking comes in the form of split in unity. A supposed thinker is assumed, and thought is assumed to be thought with an object or content of thought, and supposed thinking linking a thought and a thinker. Thus a duality automatically comes into existence with a thinker and the thought. For a thought to exist there must be a thinker.

 

If thought ceases to be thinker cannot exist. Thought and thinker are simultaneous.

 

In identity, there is only pure knowing. Knowing / Awareness sees herself everywhere. No separate thinking or seeing or hearing exists. There is only Knowingness, which knows only Knowing.