Random Musings for College Students: Part Four
By Raja Sharma
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I started excavated the sleeping ideas and decided to give them the shapes of essays, articles, and stories to help my students develop the art of writing.
In this series I am presenting random writings which are definitely going to help school and college students if you are pursuing your career studies in Literature or Social sciences. The writing may seem to be not systematically planned, after all they are Random Musings.
Raja Sharma
Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.
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Random Musings for College Students: Part Four
Raja Sharma
Copyright @2012 Raja Sharma
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Chapter One: Recognize the Source
All religions in this world have their books, mantras, temples, songs, hymns, and what not. They tell you to recite the lines, repeat them every day, and if possible continue to do the same every single moment. But I believe that remaining silent is the most beautiful thing. Silence is the highest religion. You are dwelling in absolute silence and prayerfulness is flowering in you. You are living a natural life that has been conferred to you by the existence, and as a result you will find yourself in a state of euphoria, absolute freedom, and peace. The person who is in tune with nature and natural really lives, he loves; he enjoys the small pleasures of life. And once you start enjoying the small pleasures, the total accumulative effect is a great bliss in your being.
Small things are quite significant and never wait for something big to happen to you. Don’t wait for the promised divine bliss because it will never happen. The religious preachers tell you to do this or do that to achieve the divine bliss. I tell you to be yourself and lead the natural life and you will see that you will be living in an everlasting natural bliss which no religion can confer upon you. Nature has conferred it upon you so begin to enjoy it. Great bliss never happens. Great bliss is nothing but small pleasures accumulating in your being. The total of all the small pleasures is the great bliss. Eating, enjoy it. Drinking, enjoy it. Taking a bath, enjoy it. Walking, enjoy it. Such a beautiful world, such a beautiful morning, such beautiful clouds…what else do you need to celebrate? The sky full of stars…what more do you need to be prayerful? The sun rising from the east…what more do you need to bow down? And amidst a thousand and one thorns a small rose flower arises, opening its buds, so fragile, so vulnerable, yet so strong, so ready to fight with the wind, with the lightning, with the thunder. Look at the courage…what more do you need to understand trust?
If you miss the small bliss you are definitely going to face despair. You are disturbed and you go to gurus or seek truth in book. If you go on looking in the small openings, the total effect is a great door. And suddenly you start seeing what prayerfulness is. Not only seeing, you start living it.
You don’t need any Tantra or Mantra in this life. Just be natural and begin to enjoy the small moments of bliss which come across your way. One day you will see that those small moments of bliss will begin to mean great to you. That is what I call living a natural life.
But the mind is very cunning. The mind wants to manipulate. The mind wants to manipulate even the relationship of love; the mind wants to manipulate even the mysterious phenomenon of prayerfulness. The mind is a great controller. The obsession of the mind is to control everything, not to allow anything beyond control – hence technique. The mind is always asking for techniques and the mind goes on planning for every possibility.
Don’t always try to plan for everything; just give the existence a chance to enter you, to fill you with something which you have never experienced.
We think with the help of our ego and never want to surrender to anybody. We don’t want to take the help of anyone, thinking that it might prove us weaker. All things in this beautiful world are in one way or another related to each other.
Right from our childhood, we are taught that we have to prove ourselves better than other. Everywhere there is competition. Once a small child was playing around his father, who was sitting in the garden and the small child was trying to pull up a big rock. It was too big and he could not do it. He tried hard. He was perspiring.
The child’s father who had been observing the child’s efforts finally said, You are not using all your energies.
The little one looked at his father firmly and said, Wrong. I am using all my energy. And I don’t see what more I can do.
The father gave a big smile and said, You have not asked me to help. That too is your energy. I am sitting here and you have not asked me to help. You are not using all your energy.
Child came into existence through father’s energy but the child did not know it. The child thinks that it can do everything alone but the father knows that he can help the child.
Chapter Two: Love the Way You Know It
I am often troubled to see the way love is defined and described in this so called civilized and educated world. To me love is definitely not a technique and no one can teach you how to love. It is an inborn virtue and it is always there in your existence. There are many gurus and books available in the market and they guarantee that they can teach you love. This is nonsense! Beware of such gurus and books. If you once learn the techniques of love you will never be able to love again. Those techniques will become a barrier. Love is a natural spontaneous phenomenon. Even animals love – they don’t have Kinseys and Masters and Johnsons and they are achieving orgasm perfectly, without any scientific help. They don’t have any sex therapists and they don’t go to any guru to be taught how to love. It is an inborn quality. Each being born brings it with himself.
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