Boredom .. Is it a state of mind?

We have phases in Life ... sometimes its disco and then its boredom. Sometimes we feel like climbing mountains and then sitting out rooms in isolation.

In this competitve world people have become workholic and if given an opportunity to breathe fresh air ... they get bored. They just want there laptops, internet and keep surfing the world. They have actually forgetten the meaning of peace ... which is always there with oneself.

According to wikipedia, Boredom stems from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, or do (physically or intellectually) when not in the mood of "doing anything." Often it is a clearly subjective state; one person may find a classical music concert "boring," for example, while another may find it riveting.

Normally, i have a problem of getting bored whenever i am free as i dont have many hobbies to mingle with. But last many weeks i have involved myself with writing articles on FMCG Marketing, working out in Gym, watching every damn movie released near my place, meeting friends in Noida - Arun Goyal, Gurgaon - Bagga ... and if given an opportunity love to drive Royal Enfield. How can i forget Wednesday visit to RPG's Spencer in Pacific Mall .. Just guess for what? To buy the fresh vegetables with my mother.

But the point to understand is that we only make ourselves bored ... At the spiritual level everybody will say it to be a a state of mind.

The even more important issue is - How to control this crappy mind? Gita recommend to have control over ones Indriyas. But where is the solution? I am 100% sure, its within us as i have read it in many texts .. and have also felt it. Its actually a state of surrender. Its is a state of emptyness. Its like a passive robotic - a robot who cannot think and interpret things. But i must tell you, its really tough.

How many people around you are composed, who dont get angry easily, who is not fickle, a thinking person ... Very very few. But there are people. I call them "Mature People". They have actually given a thought to what life is all about - there presence in this world - there purpose of life. Many of us are not clear at all what we are doing. Most of time it is people-following. This is dependency. And a level above this is Independent as narrated by Mr. Covey. But actually and the highest level is Interdependence. But very interesting thing to note here is that all the above three states/ situations have a commanality - DEPENDENCY. What ever level you are, you will always be dependent. But i thing there is even a higher state - Self. This looks somewhat similar to independent, but actually is not? Its is a state where one can be busy with oneself, happy with oneself - inspite of living with people. Once you can achieve this level, you will never get bored.

Just think of a situation where you are left alone in this world/ place and you have nobody to accompany you. How will you react. Its boring!! But if you can live at a level of self - Its serene, happy, calm - with no tumoil.

But again its really tough to achieve this state in this materialistic world. But one should give a try atleast.

Present is Parmatma & Meditation

Mind dosent allow to live in Present ... it makes u live in past or future.

And past and future is like a gate in ur house which is closed and doesnt allow God to enter inside. We never say God was, or God will... God is always in present.

"God is" is also not correct. "God isness" is right

OSHO told a story of a blind man. He is in a Bhawan with 1000 doors with one door opened. He start knocking all the doors one by one. But when he reach the open door, he gets lazy ... so miss the open gate.

This open door is Present. We keep missing the open gate i.e. Present. To be in present is standing in front of Gate.

To have you Mind in present is Meditation. But why do we get distracted fron present. The reason is Desire. Because desire always look for future.

There are 2 things:
1. Anger is created when are proud of what you have achieved in past. We have collected this in past few decades. Desire which is fulfilled is proud.
2. Desire is with respect is future... to achieve something

Old people keep moving with their proudy heads (they are past centered as they have travelled a journey of proud .. fulfilling their past desires .. thats why old people get chirchira, gussa aa jata hai).... Young people are future centered... they want to conquer the world

Desire will always lead to proud.

So when a person achieve money, fame, he want to achieve God. That is also a desire. At this stage ... desire dosnt work.

If you reach a state where you are in present .. you will with Parmatma .. God. You just need to experience a second of "present" to feel God. A person who has been living in a dark room for 1000 years or 1 year can take the same time to be in present. To be in present is not a function of past ignorance.

Ignorance of any time, any size is only ignorance.

Excercise: Sit for half an hour in present - allow a leaf to fall from a tree ... let it surrender, let the smell come ... let the extrenal things keep going. Allow any feeling, any thought to flow in your mind ... dont think of good or bad, dont interpret things ... dont do any thing .. aa raha aane de .. dont involve yourself. It will be difficult (we have an habit of involving oursevelves)- thoughts will be there, let them flow ...

OSHO gave a perfect analogy. The above state is something like watching a movie in a theatre, but not interpreting anything, allow whatever is happening on the stage ... Kante and Flowers are not different ... dont differentiate them.

When you will involve youself like this, one day you will see a gap of emptyness between one thought and the other. With time emptyness will increase .. gap will increase. In this state you will be in touch with Parmatma ... because you will be in present. To be in present is to be thoughtless.

And the day, there is no thought and perfect state of emptyness ... then there is "Milan" with the Almighty. There will be Bhagwat prapti. But remember you cannot achieve it ... it will just happen ... You just have to surrender. When you dont do anything ... you will get surrendered.

State of Effortless

There are somethings in Life which need absolutely no effort. One of them is Sleep. Most of us whole are unable to sleep always try to look for methods to sleep. I personally eat fruits, take a bath, listen to music etc to get an early sleep. But here its not required at all.

OSHO said that just try effortless before sleeping. You dont need to even think of God to give you a power to sleep early. You can definately do that .. But the point is that if you are doing this to sleep early then its not required.

God is the last thing where zero effort is required.

Now people will say that one should not do anything?

OSHO gave a perfect analogy for this. If you are looking in a closed house and you want the sunrays, you can never get it. You just have to open the window or the gate to get the shine. You cannot hold rays in your hand and get inside home ... or procure for night. You just have to wait for the Sun to come and an open window. So the whole point is that you have to remove the hindrances .. thats it !!

Desire to get God

I was listening to an old commentry by OSHO. Somebody asked him about one desire which help him reach God.

OSHO explained that one has to run for something which is away from oneself.

• To achieve money, one has to take lots of pain, be ambitious .. one has to run
• To achieve fame, one has to do something great .. one has to run

Without desire, money and fame is not possible.

And when people get bored with money and fame, they desire for God - achieve salvation - follow the path of self realization. Many of us are blindly following things just to fulfill the desire to get an appointment from God.

OSHO said that human mind understand the language of desire.

Then OSHO asked a simple question - "Where is God?". He is within us. Do we need to run for God? You can run if he is a Km away from you. But he is within us.

You have to search for something which is lost. But if there is something with you, it dosent make sense to search for it. Thats God.

One drunkard after having all the pegs, reached his home and asked the neighbours for his house. People assured him about his home and even his mother told that she is his mother. But the drunkard didnt agree with anybody.

The whole to understand here is that we are standing in front of God, ourselves ... but we keep wavering here and there to seach for the Absolute, the Supreme, the God.

So if i person dosent recognize the presence God in oneself, he is GRAHAST and opposite for know about God is called SANYASI.

Grahast will say "I want God"

Sanyasi will say "I can feel God"

When you see outside mind will keep wavering. But when you look inside yourself - there is no turbulence.

Its no more a simple world !!

Hi Friends (people less than 30),

You must have heard lots of stories from ur parents regarding the simple life they had 2 to 3 decades back. My father's started with a Bank for Rs. 120 a month and mother for Rs. 521. But money was not the only attribute which differentiate today's life and that of our parents.

Its COMPETITION and especially in India.

Just remember of you passtime in past 20 years back ... i still remember its Hide and Seek, something Kanche , climg on trees, watching lots of time in outside actives. But now we have seen that its more of indoor activities - computer games, internet etc. This actually is an indication of future competition for these guys.

You must be finding my above thought a bit confusing. Actually the point i want to make is that - we are experencing an age of information ... an age of abundance ... bombardment of varied thoughts from our parents, relatives, peers regarding the different options for us to pursue our careers. Most of the parents want their kids to become doctors, engineering and the buzz these days is getting a stamp for them from either or both of IIM and IIT.

Do you how many seat are there in the above institutes. IIT has around 4000 and IIMs have 1300 seats. There was a big news last month - Crorepathi is not enough. Now its the time of millionaires (1m$ = 4.5 crores). Its difficult to get 3 room house in Delhi in 1 crore. Also there was huge talk in the education sphere of the 4 guys from ISB Hyderabad who got more than 1 crore salary.

Its is %$#@ing tough. How many are lucky to smell the seats of the auditoriums of the above prestigious institutes.

When i did my preparation for CET and other entrance exams to get into one of the best engineering colleges in India, the tution fee which Chitkara sir use to charge was Rs. 500 per month. And now its like Rs. 20,000 for the enrolling for Maths, Physics and Chemistry. Whats the reason? ----- Its DEMAND and SUPPLY.

Every day the supply of student is increasing. Every year 20,000 more people enrol for CAT. There were 28,000 aspirants for IIFT in 2003 and increased to 35,000 in 2004. It will further increase. But are the seats increasing? Nope.

Still in this cut-throat competition, the politicials cannot involve themselves in kind deeds for the nation. They are always ready for campaigns to get that extra vote by increasing the quotas for SC/ ST. They are absolute selfish people.

Let me go back when out parents were as young as we are today. My father told me how happy he was for his first scooter. At that time very few had scooters and most of the people use to commute via their respective bicycles. They use to wait for our grandmothers to cook Khir etc. They were not heath concscious and use to eat Ghee in tons.

Now the people driving Maruti 800 are considered poor and driving Papa's scotter in college is like a shame for them. They need the jazzy - in - bikes - Pulsar etc. We love eating outside or may be we are forced to eat out as we dont get time from the hectic schedule in our jobs. Also we rarely see joint families, so how can we expect that tasty kheer from out mother.

So my whole point is that those old simple beautiful days are gone and many of us are set to slough our life in earning those extra bucks, making big house and the own most dreamt Mercedes if possible.

I can keep writing many instances ... But i think i should stop here and ask you guys to give a thought to whatever crap i have written above.

What do you feel?