*Nature, the Best Teacher*
The state of wisdom starts where the knowledge concludes its journey. Knowledge is local but wisdom is universal. A knowledgeable book is a hard nut to crack, only some fortunates and selected persons have access there but objects full of wisdom are accessible to every one, which expose different reality to different people. Let's have a funny but thoughtful story about wisdom in the mystical works of Mullah Nasiruddin.
In the Arabic tradition Mullah means the religious teacher, the person with theological knowledge. Once upon a time a neighbor of Mullah Nasiruddin came to his home and demanded his donkey which was borrowed by Mullah last night, "O, Mullah, please back my donkey because it becomes urgent for me to go to the market just now". "There is no donkey in my stable right now, come tomorrow", Mullah replied with annoyance. In the mean time a donkey began to make sound roughly and loudly in the stable. "That's my donkey", the man shouted in joy. "Do you want to trust on a donkey's word over the word of a Mullah", Mullah asked the man indifferently.
That is the nature which travel spontaneously from person to person, does not want to convey any logical approach. From the very beginning of our lives we come in contact with the wisdom of nature. Through the projection of our mind and intelligence we try to interpret it, then we try to add our choices and desires with it, which really makes our lives difficult. Every now and then we are gathering data, information, and knowledge through the natural stream of our five senses. Adding choices with these activities our physical existence is jeopardized and becomes full of misery and sufferings. Questions may arise, what is the natural way of watching, listening, touching, tasting and smelling, which can make our lives quite different other than lives with the spectrum of desires.
Humankind is the combination of three different scenario- ego, superego and ID. The foundation of superego is common sense and logic which makes us different from all other life forms. I am watching you, whatever you might be; I have no choices and desires but I have attention and intelligence for my watching activities and my intelligence will decide what to do for myself and for you all adding not a single drop of desire. This is called the complete or absolute awareness. My question, is it possible to attain absolute awareness; is it possible to do anything without any desire! May or may not be, that is quite unknown as the reality and the God is unknown. Do you invite God in you. Absolutely, you do. You invite that God who is known to you. Nobody invite a stranger in his home. So, known God is different from religion to religion and person to person, those are the personal Gods. That's why, we can say those are not the real God. The word God is not God at all. If you invite Him, He does not come. He will occupy your eternal heart spontaneously without let you know.
You can't be a fool, a virtuous, a clever or a pious person moreover you have to observe and act for all aspects of life through the stream of your attention and intelligence without any choices and desires. Only then you will be intoxicated by the reality, by the God. Such is the wisdom of nature.
Ramesh Balsekar, a profound mystic phylosopher, a retired bank president, golfer and elderly family man, lives in a small but comfortable flat amongst the noise and smog of Bombay, India, giving teaching each day to a small gathering of some ten to twenty people. What really is the essence of his teaching, what's new. For sages such as Ramesh Balsekar, human beings are no more than 'body-mind organisms' programmed by genetics and conditioning to react in certain ways. These organisms suffer the illusion of having a personal identity, and this is the cause of all their problems. Close investigation shows that there is no 'self'; there is no 'doer' or 'thinker'. Actions are just happening in the same natural way that the sun rises and sets. Thoughts arise, but there is no thinker. They occur as organically and spontaneously as flowers grow and rain falls. Everything is happening by God's will and being witnessed by the one consciousness. Ramesh says, "Whatever decision we think we are making is actually being made for us, because the decision is the end result of a thought and we have no control over the arising of the thought." The profound and ironic conclusion of Ramesh's teaching is that because there is no 'doer' nothing can be done to speed up the natural process of enlightenment. It will happen when it happens, just like everything else. Anything that the 'person' does by way of spiritual practice to achieve enlightenment can only add to the illusion of there being a 'person'.