Mail from Poojya Guruji Q: How do I resolve the pain of missing my dear one. I always feel their absence?
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Hari om! Everyone of us is a complex entity having different dimensions in our personality. We have our physical body, our emotions, our thoughts, our individuality etc. We are all rolled into one. A part of it is visible by our sense organs and the rest is felt and experienced by our mind. However, all this is a matter of experience. Then there is an experiencer also. All experiences also reveal the existence of this subject, who is experiencing all these gross & subtle things around. In fact all these objects in the form of things & beings alone are seen as real. Therefore all our likes, dislikes and aspirations are connected with these objectifiable things around. We get elated when things are cordial and we grieve when they are not. Real is that which can bring joys & sorrow in our lives. All this alone is. This constant importance of and dependence on these objectifiable things & beings is called extrovertedness. ‘I’ the individual feels complete only in the midst of cordial situations. Heaven is defined as a world of most cordial things & beings. We try our best to create our heavens here and even imagine heaven hereafter. When perception of someone is the proof of their existence then obviously the non-perception shall be construed as the absence of that person. The consequence of such an understanding is loneliness in their absence. We basically believe more in our eyes than in any other means of knowledge. Education reveals to us that there is so much to life than what meets our eyes. We see that sun rises but our understanding shows that sun never rises or sets. That
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