507. Duality from whose Point of View…….

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When we look at this universe we can surely say that there are dualities. As the day ends there is night and as the night ends there is day so we can experience the duality in time as day and night. Further there is heat in summer and cold in winter, joy in birth and mourning in death, there is like in promotion order dislike in pink slip. It is impossible for us to exist without experiencing that extreme duality in our life.

Some dualities do not affect us much like day/night and heat/cold, we need them for survival and hence have conditioned ourselves to accept them. While for some dualities we stick to one extreme and want to keep away from the other. Like for instance the joy and promotion is always welcomed while mourning and pink slip is avoided as much as possible. Why is it that while we accept some dualities we are not comfortable with some??

The problem is that our human mind tends to presumes that it is a separate entity while in reality the mind and duality is one and the same. Our human mind does not always look at itself as different from duality hence there is an easy acceptance of day/ night heat/cold, when it is very hot our mind looks for an alternative means to balance the heat. While in some cases the mind is not ready to accept that it is same with the lingering duality and the mind sees the duality as an external entity of separate existence and views it in the world with a defined set of polar opposites.

How can the mind look at the dualities as the same entity as it is??

For the Absolute everything in this universe is same and so He sees no duality. In other terms if the human mind attains the perception of Absolute then it can go beyond duality to fathom that the Absolute, itself and dualities are all one. The testimony for such a state is found in life of Ramana Maharishi. Ramana Maharshi had cancerous lump in his arm which grew in size and it was diagnosed that the affliction was a bone tumor. Few doctors suggested amputating the arm, Ramana Maharshi replied with a smile: “Do not get alarmed. The body is itself a disease let it have its natural end. No need to mutilate it a simple dressing will do.” Ramana Maharshi was quite unconcerned and was supremely indifferent to suffering. He was just a witness watching the disease chomp through the body yet his eyes were shining as bright as ever and his grace continued to flow towards all those who came to his ashram.

How could people like Ramana Maharshi behave so?  

Such behavior is possible only to a person who has crossed the limits of duality and reached a state beyond. Well, did Ramana Maharshi not feel the pain at all? It would be wrong to say that a realized being doesn't experience physical pain. A realized person just knows how to endure the pain. For him the pain and pleasure is same he endures and relishes them both. This state of going beyond the mode of duality is distinctive and can never be explained in words.

The very closest illustration to make a human mind understand such a state is by evaluating it to the process of lucid dreaming. It is more like a state of a person who happens to consciously know that he is in the midst of a dream in which he is experiencing pain. As far as the dream is concern he does experience the pain but as a person he is reluctant to even consider giving a thought to that pain because he has realized the truth that the dream itself is a false reality as is. The reality is beyond the state of the dream. This universe is nothing but a great thought…..