Polarised World View

I've had a very polarised world view for some time now.

This is good, that is bad. Only Prabhupada is right, Osho is not to be respected at all, he has absolutely no goodness in him, he is all bad. Just dehumanising people. Thinking well this Sai Baba is a cheat, completely bad, with not a tinge of goodness.

This extreme view has been detrimental to my existence. I've been rejecting money and materialism and mathematics as being bad. All of science as being misleading and bad. And only embracing abstract spiritual teachings. Well the whole world is full of beautiful people, who are all good in lots of ways.

In fact, nothing is all good, and nothing is all bad. Everything is a mix of the two, and in some situations, the good is bad and bad is good, depending on the circumstances, factors, time, place, favorability, etc.

Sometimes we accept something because it leads us to our desired goal, and then reject the same thing again at another time because it now does not lead us to our goal.

Our goal being: to live a life of surrender. Once you live a surrendered life, you don't even feel the need to go from this world to that world. In fact, you realise they're both right here, waiting for you to change the state of your mind.

If countries in the East and West unite in a common philosophy to embrace materialism and spirituality equally, if our left and right brains entrain and accept a world view of non-polarised beauty, then we can live in love, peace, harmony and happiness forever.

The only thing is - we need to come to a point in our life - driven to a point in our life - where this becomes clear to us.

Resistance serves as great a purpose as agreement. Discomfort serves as great a purpose as comfort. Pain serves as great a purpose as pleasure. We cannot have one and avoid the other. We must embrace both as two extremes that give each other meaning.

Without the existence of someone who is not God, the existence of someone who is God does not make sense. There cannot be a master without a servant, for who is he a master of?

Without the pain of separation, there cannot be joyful union. Without challenges there cannot be victory. Without ignorance, knowledge ceases to make sense. If there were no polarities, life would be ceaselessly meaningless.

Let love and hatred confront each other. Let beauty and ugliness be compared. Let there be resistance, opposition, pain and difficulties. For they allow their opposites to come into existence.

Let me realise what it is like to have a noisy mind and uncontrolled senses, that I may value control over the mind and senses.

Let me realise what it feels like to be surrendered and not surrendered, that I may choose one over the other. Let me come to a point where I neither detest nor prefer anything. And I will be truly at peace.

What use is life if we cannot serve? We look down upon service, only to realise that it makes way for - looking up at service - to exist. When you have nothing to serve, you become restless.

Parents want children so they can serve them selflessly. It gives them pleasure to neglect their own needs for their child. It is not bad, nor is it good. It just is. And in knowingly doing it, there is joy. It's simple, try living alone and cooking for yourself, cleaning, serving only yourself. And you will wish to die of feeling worthless. If you had but one person to cook for, clean for, look after, you would be so passionate about life - you would welcome it so much. You would realise the importance of having someone to look after.

The dramas we play out for energy are not bad, nor are they good. They just are. We can see how each story, each drama, each conflict, is actually helping time proceed, helping change occur, helping progress happen.

It's a game. And enjoying the game, means to understand it first.

I thank God for giving me the opportunity to come face to face with my so-called loneliness. It's helping me realise that I'm now going to embrace it to make peace with it. And that will give me purpose and drive in life.