Today I was visualizing a hypothetical conversation with a friend of mine. Visualizing a conversation always helps as the mind opens to you various different perspectives towards the subject of thought. Difficult to start with, but it works and has become one of my favorite activities during free time.
So the topic for my today’s conversation was ‘belief in possibilities’ which are beyond human and scientific understanding. I would not say beyond scientific ‘control’ because there are various areas which science is venturing into. These are possibilities which are already realized and introduced to the world by great leaders of Yogic path. But the problem lies in the difficulty to believe in their words. So that’s how the topic begins.
So here is the answer that I got after some thought process. I thought I should share this one.
To begin with the basic truth- human mind is conditioned to think and act in a way that is accepted by masses. We don’t like to embrace change. This is because of two reasons- first being that we do not like to change. We have been conditioned to live in the comfort zone and avoid change that puts us out of our zone of comfort. Second and a very important reason being that we don’t like to venture into unknown waters. We like to go by the majority.
Yes we all (the masses) do believe in the vast possibilities of science. And it is worth believing in! But why is that we would not like to believe in the possibilities beyond the obvious ? Because we are conditioned NOT to do so.
A simple question. When we visit a doctor, he prescribes us medicines. We have no idea what’s in the medicine. But it is out of faith in the doctor and mainly in science due to which we have the medicine without second thoughts, with a belief that we will be fine soon. Then why is it so that we fail to have a positive mindset about the yogic gurus and give a thought to their branch of studies? There are a couple of reasons to it. First being the lack of courage to go out of the comfort zone and out of the usual ‘belief’ that masses go by. In simple words, we are being judgmental about the science of Yoga that belongs to our own soil.
What is the benefit that we derive by being judgmental about a branch of studies and about spiritual leaders? What we are doing is harming us in the way that it confines our level of knowledge. Thank God that’s not the case with the westerners. They have played an active role in developing science. And they are equally positive in learning the deep yogic science. And that’s where the difference lies. So, they are venturing into knowing the unknown about our yogic practices and we would be the followers yet again!!
We say think rational. By this, we basically mean that believe only in those things which are proved by science. But when we negate the vast possibilities of science and the healing and other powers that great saints possess, are we making that statement after referring to all the science journals and research papers? That’s not true! Because science has advanced enough and has researched on such possibilities. The results are available. But we do not bother to check them out. Rather, we choose to comfortably negate the possibilities by saying the science does not approve it. Lesson learnt- do your homework well before making a statement about zero correlation between science and yogic path. Because they DO go hand in hand. The great gurus have always welcomed the scientists to experiment on them and realize the vast possibilities that our body possesses. Yogic science introduces ourselves to the vast power that our body possess. But we do not want to take that trouble to utilize the knowledge and change ourselves. We are happy the way we are. Sad but true.
Another point is, we all have had a different experience atleast once in our life. Be it in a temple of during any puja. We have felt something very pure and divine about it! Then why is it that we just leave it that way? Why would we not like to delve into it and know the reason behind it? It is essential to be curious! Only then we would not give weird reasons for such experiences and deal with it in a better way.
If we say that God does not exist and it is because of the vibes of people praying in the temple that we feel divine about the place, are we not talking about the power that humans possess to fill a place with divine vibrations? If we say that God does not exist and the divinity is because of human vibes, we cannot negate the fact that we possess certain powers and that the great gurus practicing healing and other techniques are genuine and helping the mankind! Because then, we would negate our own statement!
So the entire discussion churns down to some important things; to believe and have faith. Not to bluff about science and spirituality being poles apart without doing proper research on it. Not to go by the majority. Instead, use the gift of God, the brains to understand for ourselves various truths about life. For now, I would not be introducing these truths. For it is the job of each individual to discover them on their own and have the real progress in life. What I can do is throw some light on the right path of thinking. I hope I did it successfully by writing today’s discussion.
Have a great time realizing yourself, your vast capabilities and the truths about the spiritual world. God bless J
