Compulsions and Compromises

- Prof. Kawaldeep Singh Kanwal

Living in (the life) has its own compulsions and compromises, not deemed righteous they are, most of the times, not only to others but also to our own conscious; our choices actually at such crucial turns of life make the men what we use to grow into.

Freedom the Ultimate

- Prof. Kawaldeep Singh Kanwal

Genesis of Life

- Prof. Kawaldeep Singh Kanwal

Freedom

The territory of one's freedom ends where the territory of same of someone else's starts.

- Prof. Kawaldeep Singh Kanwal

Rigidity: Thought

Extreme rigidity in theism and in atheism as well is highly grievous and destructive not only for the individual but for the society as a whole.

Immoderate theism take the colours of fanatic fundamentalism while on other hand uncontrolled inordinate inclination towards godlessness leads to totalitarian tyrannical behaviours ..

- Prof. Kawaldeep Singh Kanwal

Speaking-Me

Life is struggle, we all say. But how many of us accept it? We couldn't win all the times; we have to loose sometimes too, and for normal ones most of times as per simple probability mathematics. What's the big deal if we couldn't overcome situations sometimes (even most of the times)? We are single; they are multiples; there is more probability of them to win. So if we are loosing, it doesn't always mean that we did wrong.

We could always start anew. Of-course not from the level we fell, we definitely have to come down, dig up once again, sow the seed again, water it and wait for once again for a new and fresh life to come out.

Situations can never be reversed, and for sure we couldn't go back in time, neither we can decide our future. What we can do is to live (in) our present. We can make adjustments (if any) in present only.

If we are standing by the bank of a stream, the water flows through it today. If tomorrow we come back to the same place, we could still find the water flowing through it (if it hasn’t dried up) but in any case could never make the same water flow through it again. It would be the new water, the fresh water. That is life !

Life & Emotions

We needn’t to be above emotions, we need to be emotive, and to live in them but don’t allow them to take over us..
An emotion is a sign of life but life is much beyond emotions, we have to be emotional however just need to be careful that they simply not take control of our life or wisdom..
We can’t live without emotions but couldn’t conclude to a logic with them too..

Emotions are no doubt a necessary part of life. An emotion is actually a sign of life, if and only if a person is emotive then only one could be considered as alive in real terms. However emotions when take control of our wisdom, our decision making capabilities, then they are the worst enemies of the life itself. Emotive mind goes illogical could be think freely at all on new thought against ones prejudices or presumptions with which our self has developed some emotional attachment. We simply don’t want to give second thought when something we feel is hurting our emotions, irrespective how much weight it might possesses on logical plane. So in that manner emotions controls our wisdom or our otherwise intellectual self.

Emotionlessness is actually lifelessness, however life is not emotions only but moving beyond while still keeping them alongside. It is not leaving them all alone, but its actually practicing detachment from them while spreading open arms for them.

It is actually living in between, like Lotus in a pound, an otherwise muddy pound.

Human Emotions, Science & Future

Human emotions are something which are still unexplainable with the scientific knowledge that mankind currently possess. There is no scientific theory that can explain why we get happy on some moments or why some things make us unexplainably aggressive? Why we get jealous with some achievements of others? How we sometimes feel huge intrinsic desire for somewhat? The very weak reply comes as what is visibly happening in the neurons, present in strength of millions in our brain, in form of some electrochemical reactions. But why these reactions exist on first place? Why only some particular emotions are there at specific occasions rather than the other ones? Who is actually deciding which emotions to be best suitable for the situations in which they actually emerge? Current knowledge is astonishingly silent.

May be the knowledge to which we would evolve with time in future, we can answer these questions. Then, by that time, we might be able to control or generate the human emotions. Loss of some loved one would not be going to generate any shock and grief. Or we can imagine a world free from depression or any kind of mental disease. But this could turn the humanity into mechanic puppets with nothing left humane. Somebody or something could control all the emotions, all the feelings and can generate them or wipe out with the central control. There wouldn’t be any motherly love and care, there wouldn’t be any affection, love, romance, bravery, kindness, zeal for struggle and our million other emotions which actually make us what we are today. Everything would be controlled or falsely induced. Isn’t it a terrible visualization?

Now try to imagine the authority that is having the control of whole false and induced world. The one with that power wouldn’t be anything less than today’s God or even above that. God of today atleast has no control on our feelings.

But the question arises would we ever be able to attain that power. Is this anyway possible? However whole world sharing and evolving information with internet was not even imagined in one or two centuries back. Nobody had ever thought about cloning, travelling to moon or other planets & stars beyond. So what is hidden with future would only be revealed when the appropriate time would come.

Life, Questions & Answers

What is the meaning of life? Is it only respiring, earning, eating, sleeping, romancing, reproducing or so? We are living on a planet full of around 6.5 billion of people. Everybody is doing these things, so de facto all are qualified of being alive. My conscience always asks me am I here to be just like crawlers or there is a specific purpose of my existence? Why am I alive otherwise? It seems to be representing spiritual alter-ego of my personality but it is a valid question in all senses. If completing my daily tasks is the only need then I am nothing but a crawler. There would be hardly any difference between the existence of a cattle or an insect and sophisticated, intelligent and so called humane existence of mine.

The best way to know the answer(s) of these doubts is to earn the eligibility to get answered. Wisdom says that there is no question without answer(s). Answers are ready much before the question is posed. Only thing is some answers are readily available while for others we have to put extreme efforts of ours to find out. In addition to these, there are some answers for whom we have to earn the qualification to get them known. Questions of life meet the criteria of answers belonging to later category.

Now this believe is itself a web of questions. How could one become eligible to get the answers of life? Where to start the journey and what actually is to be achieved? What is on stake and what could be in the way as facilitator or as obstacle? How could I be sure that I am following the right path or direction i.e. whether I am moving ahead on the road to attain eligibility to get the solutions of riddles put forward by life or just confusing with and getting all my energy wasted for none? Can someone be chosen as the guide or this travel actually needs guidance? There are millions of other threads in this web but foremost is whether these questions of life which appear to demand answers are genuine or just an escape route for running the routine challenges and pains of human life?

This subject is so mystic in itself that once you start with it and you find yourself in an unending maze. Begin with any corner and you never seem to find the other one while losing the way from where you have actually started and left puzzled & perplexed in every sense. So do we need to quarantine this thinking to save ourselves from mental stigma or at least dive in the ocean of thoughts and try to search? I agree with later argument. It doesn’t matter if we would fail to reach to conclusion(s) but the pleasure of search is itself a big achievement. Answer(s) would definitely be the target but steps we follow and logics we employ could never be underestimated in its value.

Even though we could disturb our routine life while seeking out the solutions for the questions whose genuinity we couldn’t sure about, it would always be worthy to struggle for.  It could be anything but an escape route. Every life in existence has a motive associated with it. It’s exploration worth our efforts.

Search of an individual is the reflexion of the intellectual capability one possesses in the way of one’s thrive for answers about the truths of life and is specific to particular identity. So there is no question of external guide. The one could take the guidance from self only. Others can give suggestions based on superficial thinking which could never be helpful until the self search. It is similar to way that we could never learn swimming unless we ourselves dive in water. Only the submergence of our conscience can make us able to find the pearls of truthful answers.

Even if we have doubts about path we are following we should at least attempt to search. A failure in an attempt wouldn’t be a failure in real sense but the success in manner we would have discovered another way via which success couldn’t be achieved.

My Spirituality

Two people asked me about spirituality, today – One theist and other atheist.. “Does it makes any difference?”, one asked. I said, “It makes for me while embedding something in usual conversation, because spirituality is nothing about words, but all time beyond that. Words otherwise require perspective as well as pre-study of the mind of listener”. We couldn’t explain same thing to tailor or a doctor in a same manner. So does the spirituality.

My first requirement from them was to come to me with their mind cleansed from their previous preoccupations, prejudices of their ideologies or beliefs; as only a clean vessel is eligible to pour something inside.. One has to forget one’s previous-self to learn something new, else one can proceed with one’s already pre-decided conclusions of something which is otherwise anew/unknown in real sense..

One asked me if I am religious or spiritual. I said give me the definitions of both and I would then tell you which would fits on me best. He asked me whether I follow some specific and stringent prayer-timings or other conducts. My simple answer to it was if you ask me do you believe in God (Any Supreme Authority), I would say I am but if you ask me do you follow some ritualistic conducts, I would say WHAT??

There are no such specific & stringent timing requirements to get connected with your innerself, with realization of Supreme. The very time when you have your realization is the only blissful time (or Amrit Vela in eastern perspective).

Furthermore to it, we need to conclude that there is no requirement of mediator between one and one’s ownself (or the Supreme) of any kind. A Guru or spiritual teacher is just a medium, a medium of connection, and its utilization is till that only. Guru is never a destination but a path or the enlightenment of path, and one has to reach ultimate destination through one’s own experiences.

Actually the religion & spirituality though seemed different superficially but actually coexist in one person if understood deeply. That was my point in asking for separate definitions for both as they are NOT as clear bounded..

Spirituality is not like spoon-feeding, if one aims for same then one has to search it for oneself.

Buddha has given a very powerful statement. “Don’t follow me blindly.. Search yourself !”

This is what spirituality is !