This is the Story of a Spirit who is making use of the materials...
The biggest duty of a person for finding his own identity is to eliminate the deceiving scenes presented by the materialistic life and make himself come face to face with the universal realities.
It is possible that the objective of a person could be using the material things. However, this does not mean that he should be made a slave of this world as if there were chains on his feet. In spite of the fact that some ideologies are based on materialism, sooner or later the reality will be showing itself. This is the realisation that everything is only an illusion, a total mistake.
As a matter of fact, the Universe is the story of the spirit which makes use of the materials. Instead of getting attached blindly to a life style which has no soul, no love, no feeelings in it, which is unsatisfactory and depressing, it would be more meaningful and strong to start a war for giving an end to this pain.
It is not compulsory to experience all kinds of pain for being mature and for developing oneself.
So long as we keep on trying to find the source of the pain in the social-economical conditions based on our selfish material interests, it would not be easy for us to get saved from the pain. All the efforts which are based only on materialism, which do have any of the normal strength and way of thinking, would only make us loose our identity totally.
All of us in this world are the readers, listeners even the players of a superficial story which does not have any depth. We are not capable of doing any other thing besides these. If we do want an internal change, to reach a certain state of consciousness and make advancements on the road to enlightenement, then we should stop reading this story over and over again, refrain from leraning it by heart and playing it.
Actually, the objective of the efforts for finding the ‘’perfection’’ related to the physical body should be to attain the perfection in the spirit.
We must never forget that in the efforts spent for making the spirit in harmony with the physical body, so many lives have been consumed so many bodies have vanished. How nice it would be if we could at least get a reflection from their experiences, but we are insisting to continue our daily lives based on material things in a monotonous way. Be sure that if there had not been the small or big upheavals that come from time to time, we would not be aware of the fact that we are living.
There is a general foolishness prevailing in our century. One of the most amazing foolish acts is to consume our energy uselessly for running after simple comforts and for soothing ourselves with artifical material comforts. How many of us are aware of the fact that knowledge, understanding, the ability to do things starts first by finding our identity, by knowing ourselves? How many of us approve these as well as being aware of the fact that we shall have a faster development by increasing our awareness about ourselves, through spending efforts for knowing and understanding our own selves. Can it be said that we are satellites or people who are not able to understand all of these? So, the fight for one’s ‘’identity’’ starts at this point. I do not think that one would be able to understand even the meaning of the question ‘’Who am I?’’ unless he attains the consciousness of his existence.
The spirit, the thought mechanism, one’s way of understanding, the excitements and the wants, the enthusiasms and the passions are all influencing the physical body. This is a very important fact both in terms of capability and continuity. So, what is effecting and directing our physical body? Is it the basic materials, the thoughts, the realities, the fate, the needs, the passions seperately or the composition of all? No matter what the answer is, the human has to give form to himself, he has to find his ‘’identity’’ and most important of all he has to recognise and know the Creator who is being reflected on all of these. It is an obligation for us to accpet this by all means whether directly or indirectly, whether at the beginning or at the end. No matter when and how we accept this fact, it is certain that a day will come when the human being will know his essence and get to know his nature...
How shall we save ourselves from this state of sleepwalking? The result of acting in the opposite direction of live’s real objective is pain and sufferance, getting through severe trials.
To get saved from these will only be possible by the awakening of the human being and finding his own identity. Otherwise,comfort in the materialistic sense and riches would not be enough to stop the fear and the suffering.
Going blindly after the things that we have ben used to, leading a mechanical, monotonous life would make us loose our strength. In his later life and and in his actions, such losses would make the person have a low accumulation of knowledge and make him deal with very ordinary activities. In order to get saved from such a situation, we have to know our habits very well, then put them in an order and start leaving the habits that have turned into a passion, that have taken the form of an addiction one by one.
Pain is the effort spent for getting rid of all kinds of unconscious behaviour. All the living things are busy in search of the places where they would be able to find the necesary things for themselves. While a mouse is searching for his necessities in the garbage, the bird is chasing the insect and the wolf is chasing the lamb and the insect is eating up the flower.
Among this stinking spiral of materials, the men are looking for the things which they think are compulsory for them by stepping over each other’s feet and shouting out loud ‘’Yes, I have found !’’ What a great weakness!
Could it be possible that the things which they have found, which have satisfied them were the things that have been lost from the hearts of the ones around them! When you look carefully, you will find that underlying all of their feelings there is a very strong selfishness. Day by day this selfishness is getting hold of the society like the flu.
Man can no longer carry this pain which he himself had created. He is trying to figure out how he would survive in this cruel life. He is guilty conscience, but at the same time he is trying to repress the voice of his conscience. He is like a ghost and he is breathing with difficulty, yet he is still carried away with the illusion of his existence. Does he think that it would be possible for him to get saved from the viscious and blind pleasures of the material world? This confusion and this whirlpool in which we are carried away, would they permit us to set ourselves free from this slavery? In reality ‘’WHO’’ are we ? Does any of you know????
Hanri Benazus