Various spectrums create a conditioning within us and, as a result, we find ourselves limited as an individual
and this interconnectedness somehow gets lost.
It is time to cut these complexities or webs that we have created and, mindfully and Heartfully,
move forward to an integrated human society which is united.
One wonders how we become so “specially” individual. What is so special about each one’s individuality?
How is that individuality created in the first place?
And, how the same individual changes his or her own mask during each transmigration, life after life?
How do we end up creating such a very subtle persona around us?
Let me give you an example. This conditioning happens because of the external influences.
Beginning first with our parents, second with our community, our siblings, then as we enter the school,
others start influencing our conditioning, I would say. It happens even in the animal kingdom.
How we condition, for example, an elephant or a horse from the wilderness.
We bring them into the farm, alluring them with some temptations of grass or better food,
chain them, bind their legs, especially with elephants on four logs.
This is how elephants are trained, by chaining them with logs on four legs.
Once this elephant is well trained, he does a wonderful job of helping humanity, entertaining humanity at many levels.
You must have watched, for example, in a circus, this elephant tied with a small string
or small rope to a plastic chair on the stage.
Once upon a time this elephant could have,
before the training, dismantled the entire circus tent.
No one could have stopped it. But now after this conditioning, it is tied with mere rope to a chair.
See how this training or conditioning has changed and made him forget his original strength.
We too have forgotten our original strength and ability to do so many things.
Ability to love freely-
are we all able to love freely as an individual? I doubt it.
Because conditioning has taught us not to love each and everyone. So many times your love has been compromised.
Love failures, and then you say, “Oh, I am not going to love again ever in my life.”
But then whom are you punishing by not loving?
Love is our basic nature. It flows naturally from our heart.
Because of this condition, when we block these impulses of love from our heart, it stops flowing.
It’s like a river.
If you put a dam around it, it will stop flowing. A time may come when it starts stinking.
The same thing happens to our Consciousness. When the love element is removed from Consciousness, we suffer.
We have all kinds of ailments then, as a result.
A loveless person’s life is an unhealthy life-psychologically, emotionally, spiritually.
And ultimately, it does affect our physical being. Imagine two young ones, two teenagers in love.
They are gleaming and glowing with love because of what's happening as a chemistry between the two.
And imagine two individuals fighting angrily, hating each other. What happens to their faces at the time that they are angry.
So, this is how layer after layer of love, hate, likes and dislikes, fears and courage, restlessness and peace-
various spectrums - create a kind of conditioning within us and, as a result, we find ourselves limited as an individual
and this interconnectedness somehow gets lost.
It is time to cut these complexities, our webs that we have created and, mindfully and Heartfully,
move forward to an integrated human society, which is united.