The very nature of everything in the creation is that it is already enlightened but it has not been understood that way. On the contrary the minds of the people have been conditioned by creating a goal against nature giving it a beautiful name and man is caught in it. The nature of the thing is already there where we are. It is not an excitement, not a challenge and it does not want one even to prove one’s ego. It is not a far away .But because mind wants its nourishment, it thinks about it, as without thinking mind cannot exist. It therefore thinks very beautifully, thinking it something to be very difficult and almost impossible. For its own nourishment, mind creates an idea that only if one can achieve the impossible, one can feel to be somebody special.
Enlightenment is not a talent to be achived at all. it is simply everybody’s source of life. One is not even to go out of one’s house to look for it. Even to go out is to miss it. It is simply a realization that one is that what one wants to be. One is not anything else, one cannot be anything else even if one puts all one’s effort to be enlightened. To make an effort is nothing but to create misery anxiety, anguish as one cannot go beyond it. It is you and how can you go beyond yourself? It is one’s very life source, one’s very existence .Wherever one goes, one will be it. It is just an absurdity as one is just trying to be oneself. This is the only impossible thing because when one is already it how can one try to be it?
All the priests, all the religious leaders want one to be enslaved by giving the idea that unless one believes in a certain way , one is wrong. Unless one does things that they prescribe, one is not good. Nobody is asking to those people as to who gave them the authority to decide for others. If somebody thinks something to be good he may do it but no on has no right to impose upon others to follow him. The great poisonous people are they, who have created followers because following somebody means one is being put in an absurdity, against oneself. One is told that one is to be somebody else which one can never be. This has created the whole world a tremendous misery. Unless one sees the root, the misery cannot disappear. The simple morality is that one should never go against one’s own nature. Even the whole world may go against it , one must not pay any attention to it because they have nothing to do with it. That what makes one miserable . That what takes away one from oneself and this is the only thing to be avoided. One is enlightened and one has always been enlightened. There is no way to be unenlightened at all.
There are people around us who cannot sit at ease unless they drive few others to run after shadow which can never be realized and the more the people run , the more the meaningless, the more the hopelessness, the more the emptiness and a sadness settles .It becomes thicker and thicker as the time passes by .So one must not accept any criticism that makes one miserable, no morality that makes one feel guilty. Just to be natural is that what one can do.
Except man, the whole existence is enlightened. Nobody in nature is trying to be ‘a somebody’ except man. Everything is at ease with the universe, in harmony with the universe. It seems that something has gone wrong in man in his very mechanism. No tree is in anxiety, no animal commits suicide in the wild. The animals in the zoo are sometimes seen to have committed suicide as they have come in contact with man in imitating some of his great qualities. Except man ,the whole existence is perfectly happy, perfectly at ease.
It is not hereditary that what happens to every child but social as he is born in a society which is insane and he has to learn the people who are insane. The child has no alternative. By the time the child is capable of getting intelligence, he is already poisoned. He has become an imitation. Children are innocent .They come without any idea .They imitate and that is their only way of learning. But the people whom they imitate are sick and these sick people are further dangerous that they will not tolerate any people who is not sick, one who is healthy.The sane is going to be poisoned because the crowed is to choose between two things: whether the individual is right or the whole crowed? If the whole crowed is wrong then the whole history is wrong, the so called golden past is wrong. The whole crowed cannot tolerate this futility of its whole past and then this man is to be erased out because he is a constant question mark .Socrates is intolerable because his very presence hurts as it proves others to be hypocrite. A Socrates says that our hopes are nothing but consolations, he says that we are trying to hide our nudity that we know perfectly well. our so called love is nothing but a diluted form of hate, a jealousy .It hurts us to know that our gods are our own manufactures. The easier way is to remove away that man and again start making effort to be enlightened. It is quite but certain that our very effort to be enlightened is a strategy to postpone enlightenment. This is the paradox. Enlightenment is to be natural, to be in tune with existence and anything other than this unenlightenment.
Dr Sudhansu Dash