Joyful Life: 

Do they, the inanimate, have life?

Start the Day with ‘Good Morning’ to Birds & Trees, as was explained in a previous post. 
(http://veepandi.blogspot.com/2013/02/normal-0-false-false-false_20.html)

That I do during my mornicomng walk.

When I get up from my bed early morning, I say ‘Good Morning’ to the chairs, tables, pictures on the walls, etc with a feeling of reciprocity.

Do they, the inanimate, have life?

When I leave the house forgetting to take my pen, etc, my shirt is pulled from behind. Looking back, a hook on the door was doing it, like human being, reminding me that I forgot something. Immediately I sit down on a chair to reflect till I found out the thing I forgot to take.

Both animate & inanimate things have molecules in constant vibration. The only difference is the ‘life process’ involving the molecules in the case of animate things. Both verbal & non verbal communication among the animate things is related to the ‘life processes’.

Can we be certain that the absence of the ‘life process’ in inanimate things would mean no other process involving the vibrating molecules?

Also why not the non verbal communication of different kind possible in that different process in the case of inanimate things?

In Sanskrit, VASTU means un-manifest and VAASTU means manifest energy related to all the bodies animate and inanimate, distinguished by the presence and absence of the ‘life process’ respectively.

"If we go back to the idea of nature as a living organism, the whole of nature as being alive, and ourselves as living beings within a living world -- a living world that has many levels of organization, from molecules, atoms, cells, the whole planet, the solar system, the galaxy, the whole universe -- at every level there's a kind of integrity or wholeness that's more than the sum of the parts -- then we can think about the relation between science and religion in a new light, a different way than has been possible for the last three hundred years." ( http://www.intuition.org/txt/sheldrak.htm )

In all communications signals and noises are mixed. The skill of reception would depend on segregating the signal from the noises during the reception.

When my shirt was pulled from behind as narrated above, I might have thought it just as an act of carelessness on my part and remove the hook from my shirt. It would mean that I had treated a valuable signal as just a noise of my carelessness. I, the receiver was wrong then. 

If we are the source of positive vibrations consciously distancing ourselves from the sources of negative vibrations, we may be blessed to sensitize the signals from nature including the inanimate things. 

I am a beginner as a receiver to sense the signals from the nature including inanimate things. I am blessed to receive more such signals.

I am aware that I need to be a shelter of positive vibrations, and I need to be open minded to be blessed, to be the receiver.

The keys to be a shelter of positive vibrations were explained in the previous posts. 

Also when we interact with birds, trees & inanimate things, we do not need to be as alert as we need to do with the ‘insecure’ human beings, to avoid the following pitfall of the infection of comparison. (See the note below, cited from earlier post). 

All human communication is finite

and hence incapable of handling the infinite,

which can only be experienced,

reminding us the limits of the human communication.

Note: cited from the earlier post ‘Positive Vibrations & Secure Zones’; 
http://veepandi.blogspot.com/2013/07/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html 

A person in insecure zone will treat all human interactions as a battle to be won at any cost. They always look for self-help books and tips to excel in the battle briefed below. 

A person drowned in status- conscious - dominated consumer culture, while interacting with another person, will use all his mental faculties first to judge if the other person is, in terms of social status, on par or above or below him/her. The person will behave in subservient manner to the socially above persons to enhance the social network for wealth and influence,, and superior to the socially below to display his wealth and influence. In the case of on par persons, he/she will try by all means to prove that the other person was inferior to him/her in social status.

For positive vibrations, such persons better be avoided. If it can not be avoided, consciously limit the interaction to the smallest duration possible to minimize the unpleasant experience – negative vibrations.

Joyful Life:                               

          The skill of ‘dying’ & ‘resurrecting’   

We had seen in the earlier posts that in the digital age, we need to re tune our mind so that we do not permit negative feelings like anger or hatred. In case it makes an entry, we need to zero it - like the electric charges becoming zero when earthed. 

Also to get rid of the sources of our negative feelings, we may have to die to some of our relationships in the family, relatives & friends.

Is it possible to die to all relationships that caused the negative feelings, and be born afresh as a child with the curiosity to understand and learn with open mindedness, but at our age?

In that case, how to handle those who could only be the sources of our negative feelings?

Willingly paying the price to distance yourself from those persons while starting afresh to develop positive relationships of your option, the skill of secret dying for joyful living can be acquired.

No one can forget the past unless something went wrong in the brain.

But one can have the freedom from the known – the past. It means you are not burdened or enslaved by the past. You can live to even positive relationships in the past.

Remember that the world has innumerable persons – all strangers – zero to you. Hence when you die to some of your negative relationships, you just add them to those zeros- the strangers.

When strangers approach you for any help which you can, you will help them. Like that, when those ‘dead’ persons approach you for help, you could do it, if you really died to that relationship. They may not even be aware that they are ‘dead’ to you. You need not tell them that they are ‘dead’ to you, unless you want to hurt them – evidence you had failed in ‘dying’ them to you.

When a person physically dies, it is death for ever. But if you die to that person in your mind, he becomes a stranger like person – a zero to you. In case he/she undergoes a transformation becoming positive to you, you can resurrect him/her in your mind to start a positive relationship afresh.  

This skill of ‘dying’ to your negative relationships & ‘resurrecting’ them when they really become the sources of your positive feelings, will lead to joyful adventurous life.          

Joyful Life:                                     

Positive Vibrations & Secure Zones

From social point of view, a person may be a philanthropist, criminal, cunning, etc.

Including the philanthropist, every human being normally will have an insecure zone, related to the fear and anxiety in living. The insecure zone will be less in dimension in proportion to the less in fear and anxiety. That will depend on the condition - if we are slave or king to the comforts in our life style.
 

When you interact with any person without trespassing into his/her insecure zone, most probably the person will appear gentle and even broadminded. If there was any conscious or unconscious trespass into his/her insecure zone, then the interaction may end with unpleasant outcome.
 

A person in insecure zone will treat all human interactions as a battle to be won at any cost. They always look for self-help books and tips to excel in the battle briefed below.
 

A person drowned in status- conscious - dominated consumer culture, while interacting with another person, will use all his mental faculties first to judge if the other person is, in terms of social status, on par or above or below him/her. The person will behave in subservient manner to the socially above persons to enhance the social network for wealth and influence, , and superior to the socially below to display his wealth and influence. In the case of on par persons, he/she will try by all means to prove that the other person was inferior to him/her in social status.
 

For positive vibrations, such persons better be avoided. If it can not be avoided, consciously limit the interaction to the smallest duration possible to minimize the unpleasant experience – negative vibrations.
 

They are the unfortunate victims of hierarchical insecurity due to their misguided drowning in status- conscious - dominated consumer culture. In turn, they loose their sensitivity to identify their status-free natural vibrations and ability to retune their mind to positive vibrations to move close to nature to enjoy the music, dance, positive emotions and , if blessed, to experience the infinite. Their mind is obsessed with status consciousness and hence they are always in insecure zone and are ignorant of the joy in a secure zone. All their enjoyment will be tied to status, displaying the status controlled programming in their robot like life style.
 

A different interesting experience may be possible to those interacting within the secure zones of a person. Only positive vibration persons will be associated with a secure zone of positive vibrations. There could be no scope for ‘on par or above or below’ interactions in the secure zone. The absence of motivation to exploit all interactions to earning money and influence will differentiate the secure zone from the insecure zone discussed above.
 

Compared to insecure zone, the secure zone is not accessible to anyone. It is limited to those with proven credentials of not exploiting human relations to serve selfish interests.
 

The higher one’s status in social hierarchy, the more scope to participate in the human rat-race with negative vibrations – also less in scope to identify positive vibration persons and still less scope to enter into their secure zone.
 

Every stratum in the social hierarchy has its own range of life style. While the negative vibration persons, in view of their active participation in human rat race, willingly interact with those in the higher strata, the positive vibration persons, least interested in the human rat race, will not easily permit those in the higher strata into their personal secure zone domain. 
 

Only those with social flexibility to adopt any life style of any stratum, depending on their positive vibrations, could enter into the secure zone of positive vibration persons as well as nature.
 

That would not be possible, if we are slaves to our comforts in our life style. We could never enjoy the sun shade under a tree unless we expose ourselves to sun at least for some duration.
 

We need to practice our freedom to experience both ‘sun’ and ‘sun shade’ in our lives, to preserve and nurture our positive vibrations and enjoy valuable interactions in the secure zones of human beings and nature.

Joyful Life: Positive Vibrations

                                      The Balancing Skill 

 

Our survival needs in the competitive world will force our participation in the human rats race for wealth and power. Our success in the rat race will depend on tuning our mind to the rat race and simultaneous development of the required skills. 

If we like to survive to lead a joyful life, we need to get out of the rat race and move close to nature to enjoy its music and dances briefed in a post below. Obviously we need to undo the above rats race tuning and re-tune our mind to lead a joyful life.

How to balance the above two apparently contradicting tuning and retuning of our mind?

The balance will depend on our option to lead a simple life or a life enjoying all ever growing comforts. A simple life will confer more freedom to opt out of the rat race after ensuring the survival needs of a simple life. That freedom will decrease in proportion to the comfort level of our lives.

The skill and scope of sensing the positive vibrations is related to the above balancing skill.

While in the rat race, we also become a source of negative vibration in view of our tuning the mind to be in the rat race. But if our life’s basic tuning were for positive vibrations, we will feel uncomfortable with our negative vibrations as well as the negative vibrations of the other human rats in the rat race. It is like a swimmer going down the sea looking for something depending on the oxygen available in his kit  and immediately come back to the sea level to breathe free air after getting the object of search. Hence our basic tuning for positive vibrations will caution us to get out of the rat race after getting our simple living survival needs.

Those who succeed in getting out of the rat race will enjoy the process of undoing the rat race tuning for retuning the mind for positive vibrations. 

Then to experience consonance we will look for objects of the positive vibrations in nature and other human beings.

Since those in the middle class and below are already living a simple life, it will be a heterogeneous group of different kinds of tuning and hence different kinds of positive and negative vibrations. Those with the negative vibrations will look for opportunities to take part in the rats race to enhance the comforts in their life and to earn more wealth and power. Also those with positive vibrations will have a self contented life and shun the opportunities for the rat race. If we could identify such people of positive vibrations and move close to them like we move close to nature, we will increase the scope for consonance experiences.

The probability of identifying such vibrations will be more in the middle class and lower levels and less in the upper middle class and affluent sections. This will be because the pressure to be in the rat race will increase as one increase his/her level in the social hierarchy.

But to earn wealth and power, one must develop a social network of people in the higher levels. 

Now it is clear that we need to balance the above two apparently contradicting social networking to survive and at the same time lead a joyful life. Obviously this balancing is related to the above mentioned balancing of tuning and retuning our minds.   

Remember to move closely to people at different social levels need dynamic changes in our mode of interaction to suit the level. We shall see about them in the next post.