व्याकुल मन व्याकुल मन व्याकुल मन ...
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जब मन व्याकुल होता है, तो व्यस्तता ढूँढने लगता है, और व्यस्त होने में भूल जाता है कि वह व्याकुल था और है । व्यस्तता से व्याकुलता मिटती नहीं, बस आँखों से ओझल भर हो जाती है । जब तक व्याकुलता क्यों है इसे नहीं जान लिया जाता तब तक व्याकुलता बनी रहती है । लेकिन इससे भी कठिन और गूढ प्रश्न यह है कि व्याकुल ’कौन’ है? व्याकुल मन इस प्रश्न की गंभीरता नहीं समझता । यह प्रश्न शांत मन में ही प्रत्युत्तर के लिए चुनौती बनता है । इसका शाब्दिक उत्तर तो हर कोई दे सकता है लेकिन इसका शाब्दिक उत्तर है ही नहीं । सभी शाब्दिक उत्तर स्मृति से आते हैं और ’कौन’ स्मृतिरहित अस्तित्व है । यदि कोई कार्य नहीं है, कोई शारीरिक कष्ट भूख, प्यास, रोग, थकान आदि नहीं है, तो मन व्याकुल क्यों होता है? किसी व्यस्तता में विचार-प्रेरित गतिविधि में व्याकुलता को छिपाकर संतुष्ट क्यों हो जाता है? लेकिन यदि मन अपने ही यथार्थ को समझने के लिए उत्सुक हो उठे तो वह समझ सकेगा कि निद्रा में वह क्या था? निद्रा में वह जो होता है क्या जागृति में उससे भिन्न कुछ होता है? स्पष्ट है कि जागृति में व्याकुलता का विचार ही एकमात्र व्याकुलता है । विचार एक घटना है, शुद्धतः प्राकृतिक एक घटना । निद्रा में मन सभी विषयों से हटा हुआ था और शून्यप्राय था लेकिन वहाँ शून्यता भी विचार के रूप में नहीं बल्कि शून्य-साक्षी के रूप में थी । वही शून्य-साक्षी जागृति में विचार और विषयों का साक्षी होता है । अर्थात् इस साक्षी-चेतना की न तो कोई पहचान है, न वह निद्रा या जागृति से प्रभावित होता है ।
क्या यह संभव है कि हम जागृति में भी संसार के विषयों से वैसे ही असंग हो सकें जैसे निद्रावस्था में होते हैं?
यदि यह हो सकता है तो ’व्याकुल ’कौन’ है?’ का उत्तर प्राप्त हो सकता है ।
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The Restless Mind
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When the mind is restless it seeks some occupation. And while engaged in some activity or occupation, just forgets it was and is restless. Occupation or getting busy in some activity does not clear away the restlessness of the mind, but only for the time being it is concealed from the sight. As long as ‘why there is restlessness?’ it is not understood well, it stays. But even more difficult and rather more important, more serious question is : Exactly ‘Who’ is restless? The restless mind can’t grasp the seriousness of this question. Only in a peaceful mind this question assumes the form of a challenge. Though every-one can give a verbal answer to this question but there is no such an answer. Of course there IS the existential answer or rather of asking this question, where it becomes a deep, intense urge inside. All verbal or intellectual answers come out only from the memory, while ‘Who’ is the existence devoid of memory. If there is no physical need like hunger, thirst, pain, sickness or tiredness (which need to be addressed and are fulfilled also), what makes the mind restless? Why the mind feels satisfied by getting involved in some activity born of ‘thought’? But if the mind has an intense and deep urge and keen interest in finding out one’s reality, it could perhaps know: ‘what it was while one was asleep!’
Then one would muse over : Is it now, in this moment, any different from, -what it was during the time when one was asleep? One would perhaps see the thought of restlessness itself is the only restlessness while one is awake. ‘Thought’ is an event, purely a natural happening only. During sleep, the mind was withdrawn from all external objects and almost a vacuity only, but at the same time, this vacuity was not a vacuum, but was in the form of the witness of that vacuum. When awake, the same vacuum turns into thought and the witness of the objects (and senses).
In conclusion, this witnessing-consciousness is never an object that could ever be recognizable (through senses); - which is never affected by neither the sleep nor by the waking states of the mind.
The only question is :
Could one, the mind, perhaps be as unattached and unconnected to the objects, (experiences and the senses as well), during waking state as it is naturally and spontaneously while one is in deep sleep?
If this happens, then one could perhaps find answer to the question :
“Exactly, ‘Who’ is restless?”
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जब मन व्याकुल होता है, तो व्यस्तता ढूँढने लगता है, और व्यस्त होने में भूल जाता है कि वह व्याकुल था और है । व्यस्तता से व्याकुलता मिटती नहीं, बस आँखों से ओझल भर हो जाती है । जब तक व्याकुलता क्यों है इसे नहीं जान लिया जाता तब तक व्याकुलता बनी रहती है । लेकिन इससे भी कठिन और गूढ प्रश्न यह है कि व्याकुल ’कौन’ है? व्याकुल मन इस प्रश्न की गंभीरता नहीं समझता । यह प्रश्न शांत मन में ही प्रत्युत्तर के लिए चुनौती बनता है । इसका शाब्दिक उत्तर तो हर कोई दे सकता है लेकिन इसका शाब्दिक उत्तर है ही नहीं । सभी शाब्दिक उत्तर स्मृति से आते हैं और ’कौन’ स्मृतिरहित अस्तित्व है । यदि कोई कार्य नहीं है, कोई शारीरिक कष्ट भूख, प्यास, रोग, थकान आदि नहीं है, तो मन व्याकुल क्यों होता है? किसी व्यस्तता में विचार-प्रेरित गतिविधि में व्याकुलता को छिपाकर संतुष्ट क्यों हो जाता है? लेकिन यदि मन अपने ही यथार्थ को समझने के लिए उत्सुक हो उठे तो वह समझ सकेगा कि निद्रा में वह क्या था? निद्रा में वह जो होता है क्या जागृति में उससे भिन्न कुछ होता है? स्पष्ट है कि जागृति में व्याकुलता का विचार ही एकमात्र व्याकुलता है । विचार एक घटना है, शुद्धतः प्राकृतिक एक घटना । निद्रा में मन सभी विषयों से हटा हुआ था और शून्यप्राय था लेकिन वहाँ शून्यता भी विचार के रूप में नहीं बल्कि शून्य-साक्षी के रूप में थी । वही शून्य-साक्षी जागृति में विचार और विषयों का साक्षी होता है । अर्थात् इस साक्षी-चेतना की न तो कोई पहचान है, न वह निद्रा या जागृति से प्रभावित होता है ।
क्या यह संभव है कि हम जागृति में भी संसार के विषयों से वैसे ही असंग हो सकें जैसे निद्रावस्था में होते हैं?
यदि यह हो सकता है तो ’व्याकुल ’कौन’ है?’ का उत्तर प्राप्त हो सकता है ।
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The Restless Mind
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When the mind is restless it seeks some occupation. And while engaged in some activity or occupation, just forgets it was and is restless. Occupation or getting busy in some activity does not clear away the restlessness of the mind, but only for the time being it is concealed from the sight. As long as ‘why there is restlessness?’ it is not understood well, it stays. But even more difficult and rather more important, more serious question is : Exactly ‘Who’ is restless? The restless mind can’t grasp the seriousness of this question. Only in a peaceful mind this question assumes the form of a challenge. Though every-one can give a verbal answer to this question but there is no such an answer. Of course there IS the existential answer or rather of asking this question, where it becomes a deep, intense urge inside. All verbal or intellectual answers come out only from the memory, while ‘Who’ is the existence devoid of memory. If there is no physical need like hunger, thirst, pain, sickness or tiredness (which need to be addressed and are fulfilled also), what makes the mind restless? Why the mind feels satisfied by getting involved in some activity born of ‘thought’? But if the mind has an intense and deep urge and keen interest in finding out one’s reality, it could perhaps know: ‘what it was while one was asleep!’
Then one would muse over : Is it now, in this moment, any different from, -what it was during the time when one was asleep? One would perhaps see the thought of restlessness itself is the only restlessness while one is awake. ‘Thought’ is an event, purely a natural happening only. During sleep, the mind was withdrawn from all external objects and almost a vacuity only, but at the same time, this vacuity was not a vacuum, but was in the form of the witness of that vacuum. When awake, the same vacuum turns into thought and the witness of the objects (and senses).
In conclusion, this witnessing-consciousness is never an object that could ever be recognizable (through senses); - which is never affected by neither the sleep nor by the waking states of the mind.
The only question is :
Could one, the mind, perhaps be as unattached and unconnected to the objects, (experiences and the senses as well), during waking state as it is naturally and spontaneously while one is in deep sleep?
If this happens, then one could perhaps find answer to the question :
“Exactly, ‘Who’ is restless?”
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