estoria part i

i was going to write a short story but some disturbing and other news caught my eye. so many people say they are well informed or intelligent. i mean how many book s do they read on average per year ? how many perodicals? how many non-work related journals or significant publications? Besides daily politics, how many people know the history or general workings of various fields. they say the jack of all trades in economics is useless. but i believe contrary. in the past, at least for the history of western culture- thats another post. , show that many were polymaths. or whatever the word is for polygot- or- point being, they were good at multiple subjects; philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, physics, mechanics, engineering, reading, writing, prose, architecture, etc. when you think of all the time used by ourselves, and the information we look up. most people thinking they are expanding their minds, are following narrow roads down to their fulfilling desires. a recent article about slumdog millionare by a newsweek columnist was an excellent example. this movie, that people , white people are raving for , ironic isn't it? has a touch of white -imperalistic times , yay for the darker man and his triumph while we parade in our expensive luxuries; this is not an affliction of race, but wealth and status. anyways, back to the article. it was an excellent read, an eye opener for those who just bought into the film, without ever watching films that are deeply credible on the subject. maybe the average public should face his ever shallow truth: he is not that deep of a thinker. the great number of inventions, ideas, music, life, language, fields of encompassing arts , and fashion, the wide array of circulating subjects and their each layer revealing more like flower petals plucked away. interesting to note in another article, the world banking organization. i mean how it is organized HSBC. is a very interesting company. set up as an anglo banking company all over the world prior to abolition of imperialistic ownership of others and nations. yet these banking companies have set up shop all over the world. HSBC is the largest, and most profitable bank in the world- largest in terms of value because it was established in hong kong as european(british) and chinese lending were fostered. it also set up in all of pacific asia, by now, and has a huge revenue, bought into the US market, and also bought HOusehold co. for 9B pounds as a deal of the century. (21st). surprisingly, how money is fluctuate through the world like this. this great maze of maya, the great illusionist, which keeps all these busy toes bustling. for how long do you walk on that dreary road, darkened by ignorance and passions ,until the sight of the eye has lifted from the clouds of bygone births, sometimes when i think of that it seems somewhat depressing doesn't it?. all alone, on a path, that nobody understands. in deep loneliness, great courage is found. friendship, really has only one benefit, to learn the qualities or examine the ones you lack or do not wish for, and one other- to practice the art of grace and kindness. many especially the affluent, believe that just if they live, that should be enough that being a good person to call it- is enough- enough for what? to end misery, to give a title or halo to you , a congratulation entrance into the halls of some ciricular heaven situated in some clouds?. laudible. to reach the other shore, - .. being a good person , if that were enough. no . it is not. merely breathing is not compensatory for natures gift. merely walking across the earth in regret for harsh steps do not ease their dents. laws , that you believe in, work , and laws that you cannot see , beyond the subtle imaginations of even great great minds. , such seeings are found in a science long lost to the person. that is spirituality. it is the science of living. the art of using the sharpened blade to thrust clean, keen . like a great sufi once said: chant his/god's name, and remember him while doing so, keener than a blade is such remembrance. that means such thoughts have the power, the aura, to expel the toxins of the body, and uplift the person. merely by absorbing in other things, you cannot transcend. it is true , in a worldly art or subject a man can create something beautiful, but it is not god. to transcend, to take flight, you must approach it more cautiously. love is the vehicle, intense desire for that love, divine aspirations propel that. if you read the science of yoga, it says- to end the cycle of births, to fulfill the births of yester , man must strive in this birth, to establish himself in yoga. by establishing himself it means to maintain and create a a routine to move along the path. the Upanishads say that path is razor sharp. life is not a statistics. there is no distribution you can match to it. but the yogi's or seers of india, not just the ones dead, ones that are living, telling secrets about this century, this world, without you knowing it- , say this is why most people do not reach anywhere in spirituality, or never ascend. the path is that fine. you may say to be a person of character, academic standing, rigor, talent, ambition, success, takes time, effort, and persistence, and some luck or grace to mend it all. but to be uplifted spiritually , it requires capacity that you do not have, just as nothing accelerates past light, but a mass that is infinite, so for the particles of your body to reorganize, and restructure, it requires the living presence of a master. a master, is not recognized from the outside. if there is no inner message, no divine alert that clearly tells you it just means you belong to a group that is regular. without spiritual roots from previous incarnations, you cannot expect to become highly advanced in this life, the only way such is possible is to get the grace from a master. that is why great saints have always stressed humility. most people do not have divine instruction by themselves ,on how to mediate, or how to move along the path Besides books, and garbage instructions from others, or academics, etc. but i have met those who have needed no instruction. and this is no guessing game. this is not a quack science. spirituality has results. by that i do not mean levitation. if you want to levitate you need to find a hatha yoga expert, or an esoteric master on the subject of breath its possible but you have to give up everything else first. see, thats the catch. well to progress slower than that, while maintaining your current lifestyle, now we get to the more digressed part of someone who finally reaches that height of mental awakening. but yes some know, and you can tell. they can tell you clearly. experience is not ambiguous. but it is not in a book. the art of eastern spirtuality, that great men have abandoned homes, and hopes, to find the great truth of inner knowledge, is not so easy to come by deciding to go to yoga a couple times a week. these men, and such like, who live today, immersed in practices throughout time, seek to rush toward the infinite, so they may merge into the sun like a ray cast, and no more . the rest of us, move slower, because we have ambitions, life to live, our slates are not so clean, our propeller does not have that much energy or purity of tejas to make that oribtal freelance. thats why people do not see results in yoga or meditation. . the leaks. but it is different with a master, you may not be practicing every day, you make try, you may fail, but your connection with that master illuminates more than i can write to describe. that is an experience and growth that is not scientifically capable of being define. it can be described and highlighted. but not more. it is like trying to say how the world works, when physics can only address subjective case by case, not try to explain the world, when the symmetrically findings in a leaf suggest combinatorial patterns do not say anything about why the cosmos have placed such and such timing for someone to do this, or die, born, collide, etc..indeed the grace of a master is all liberating, with the right effort, one can make amazing progress. only another mathematican can appreciate a mathematical discovery. only a musician can appreciate the talent and soul of someone better than them. likewise, only one who has either felt the twang of the piercing of the arrow of divine love, or the one who has sent the arrow from the bow- those are the only ones who understand the presence and grace of such a being. they are rare, and though they are so much more grandeur than all that goes on, we are just going on living, forgetting their lives, or maybe like so many of them or you out there, you never meet them or heard of that either way- made nothing to your life, and that is the sad part. that is why all the scriptures, all the yoga, all the love, cannot be found in such a life- these ideas from such places cannot be more deeply found and understood till that experience. what do i say to anyone about it. i have no need to convince you. it lives like the truth, even if you say you have no tongue. you may discover the moon, or not, you make just mosey go
b y happily. but unless you find the inner self, while doing all that- you wont get anywhere . you will die like the rest, yeah with your contribution sure, with your own book for life, but it will go with the sod. the dirt will eat all such memories. transitory is all these emotions and branches of family and attachments. the great , who are able to see through such , with discerning eyes throrugh such fog, while i cannot, even while knowing about it, like that guy from matrix, who betrays neo ; while he's eating that steak knowing it is an illusion but cannot give it up; not that i cannot give anything up, or have to, but just by knowing it isnt enough to make full progress. one must immerse in it, while living . the lessons of spirituality only come after one is fit to be made a disciple, a student. then come the real teachings. all the searching, questions about life and what it is, are before that. then when you get a little calm and clarity, the teachings you follow like the academics or things you study for what you like to do, will become your road map . the homework or hobby you do; will be those teachings, and their practice, and their continued practice becomes illumination of a strong point, they begin to work on the nerves, and the literal particles of human elements, rearranging not literally, but in a metaphoric way, changing your personality, by revealing what was deep beneath the layers of finite wafers. then if you look at a person like that, you will know the difference between such a spiritual soul and an ordinary one. the difference will be like a master musician and a novice. the former , will have the solid background of effort to rely on, to illuminate their ideas and firmly hold to their convinctions, while the latter will still be searching for where to begin