Thought, Effort and Will.

Automatic Divine Action

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All sentient beings find themselves in a world where though they have a certain freedom of action, they are always in doubt if they have a future of their own choice. Every moment in their life a new perception of the world and of oneself arises and accordingly they begin to think what they want, what they hope and  what they fear, desire, what will make them happy. All the time all their priorities keep on changing constantly. It's only humans who can think of something as a God, Someone who controls the individual and the collective life and also the world around them. We don't know if the animals and all other living beings except the humans might have such a notion of God.

Only because of  the fear and desire, hope or despair, and because of the imagination of an assumed and unknown "future", one begins believeing in such a God in the imagination. There are others who too suggest, even force one to believe such a God of the imagination of their own. During long time, this becomes a tradition, and also part of the sub-conscious mind of all those who belong to that society. The sub-conscious however is the store-house where all information of the verbal kind and of the kind in the experience is maintained in the memory. There is also a strange pattern and all that which has been experienced so far is known as if is inter-related. So the memory causes the thought and conversely thought also stirs the memory and every moment an altogether new perception takes place. When the abstract notion of "I" / "Me" takes place, soon its counter-part "a World" also assumes Reality and though both the two thoughts are intertwined and interdependent Realities, the "I" / "Me" refers to the assumed "self", while the "World" is believed to exist independent, apart and "other" than the "self".

Memory strengthens the apparent duality of "oneself" and the "world" in memory, but one is always rather oblivious of the fact that the two are inherently one and the same aspects of a single phenomenon and perception.

The "Me" / "I" tries to attain certain objectives in a projected "future" in imagined, assumed "world".

The "I" / "Me" are thus but two branches of the one and the same thought and perception and none of them exists independently and apart from the other.

This is the root-cause of Conflict. There are certain physical needs and one can achieve many objectives at the physical level, but the "idea" "I shall try and achieve a certain goal" is basically a contradiction in itself. For the simple reason that the thought that says "I" / "Me" in the present moment is not the same as the thought that arises in the next moment as "I" / "Me". The two are two structures, entirely and altogether different configurations of the two different states of mind. The illusion that the two are one and the same is because of  In-attention only. When there is attention, mind becomes silent, fully aware of the situation or the phenomenon.

In this awarenes, "I" / "Me" is known and understood well in its entirety.

Though there is "no-one" who can claim to have known or understood.

Still, if given a thought to, everything appears as if repeatedly happening and unhappening. Whatever appears to have happened is no more in the next moment. That is what could be said "unhappening".

"Worry","Fear","doubt","conflict","suspicion" "apprehension","agony", anxiety", excitement, "depression, all arise and soon dissolve too. But whatever could be said to "happen" and "unhappen" remains as the underlying Fact, The Automatic Divine Action, if you would like to give it a name.

He was asking -

"Why do people commit suicide?"

The evening was approaching at the door. The delicate sun-rays were illuminating the sky. 

Giving continuity to thought is tremendously grievous a happening.

Unfortunately and sadly, though one may or may not escape from the thought. Attention and awareness is the only way to freedom from the thought. Attention and awareness is not an action to be performed or to be done deliberately through effort or will.

Attention and Awareness is therefore :

The Automatic Divine Action.,

Worth the name.

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