4. Letter

Mail from Poojya Guruji

Q: How do I resolve the pain of missing my dear one. I always feel their absence?

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

is why there is profound importance of exploring other means of knowledge and getting a better and valid view of life. Whatever manifests is first unmanifest - like a tree. The tree in the seed is not visible but we all know that it is very much there. If there is an effect there has to be a cause. That is the basis of scientific thinking. Now let us turn back to our question. If there is a manifestation then definitely there is an unmanifest state - the so called causal state. Whether my eyes see it or not we have to believe and in fact take that into consideration. It is as good as seeing - with our Gyan-Chakshu. Life is complex and we dont get its answers till we open our Gyan-Chakshu.

When there was a lovely & lively person, a divine loving manifestation, then such a person doesnt come from zero and also doesnt go into zero. He or she manifests from the unmanifest and goes back into the manifest. In fact a manifestation is all about the unmanifest donning up some limitations of time, space & objectivity and thereafter alone it is available for perception by our sense organs. The manifest going back into the unmanaifest implies that all donned conditionings have now been dropped and that is why the person is not visible. Visibility is possible only because of the donning up of some conditionings. In fact the person has gone back to its original state. Right wisdom blesses us with an understanding wherein we as good as ‘see’ the existence of the infinite, limitless, unmanifest cause of all the manifestation. Death as though makes everyone that infinite & limitless unmanifest again. In fact they were always that only our understanding changes for the better. If for someone the unmanifest too becomes a matter of as definite an existence as the manifest, then there shall never be the absence of anyone. In fact all manifestations just reveal to us the nature of the heitherto unknown unmanifest. The going away of the manifest doesnt leave us in grief but leaves us enlightened and blessed about the truth of the substratum of life. Think. Love & om.