What is joy? What is this fundamental joy that is called by some “joy without object”?
Objectless joy, has it any meaning in today’s life with our obsessive search of pleasure and well-being? Can joy exist in the constant pursuit of pleasure…? Can we experience bliss and beatitude without falling back into the sufferings of the ego?
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Does the « me » exist or is there a state in which true action arises spontaneously accordingly. This question is fundamental as it is the guideline on how we live our lives. The understanding of our personality, our ‘me’, the ego is necessary, for our life unfolds accordingly: we are what we think!
Our ego is the outcome of our thought—that is, we are what we think. If we are afraid, individually or collectively, we create a society based on security, the pursuit of comfort, social success, money, and possessions becomes all consuming.
When the school teacher asked me in front of the class what profession I wanted to pursue, the inner child in me replied: “I don’t want to become anything in this corrupt world.” Later on, when forced into mandatory disciplinary commando camp for military training, the commander thrusts a rifle in my hands, and shouted at me to shoot the target: “Kill the filthy Kraut.” In revolt to these angry words, I threw my rifle on the ground and spent a week in a dark cell for “disobedience to the homeland.”
When the individual is more evolved, duality and separation trigger the need for peace and harmony. Pleasures, passions and the ambitions of the ego now feel vain, superficial and bring frustration and suffering. The individual feels an emptiness which pushes him or her towards a disidentification and detachment from all things. Eventually, this outer detachment leads to a detachment from oneself.
“All being is one and to be fully is to be all that is. (…) to feel all selves as one’s own self.”
With these few words, Sri Aurobindo gives a perfect definition of what Global Consciousness consists of. Somehow, at the same time, he provides a direction to our ego, which is lost in the mischief of separateness.
The problem that humanity faces is a problem of growth.
Krishnamurti, in a discussion with physicist David Bohm, confided that it was not he who meditated, but the universe itself within him. He then spoke of the idea that the universe itself was in meditation! “Learning” would then be the ability to allow the universe to penetrate into our consciousness, so that it directly reveals the truths that are impenetrable to thought. …
A more comprehensive, holistic vision of life includes the lesser views. It puts forth the proper significance and value of all its aspects that a diminished or limited perception cannot comprehend.
Chaos exists at one level of reality-clashing forces of desire and ideas. In a global cosmic perception, reality is order and harmony, desire becomes love, and ideas are pure intelligence. …
Sri Aurobindo and J. Krishnamurti are two of the most important contemporary sages of our time. They have opened a new path towards self-transformation and genuine spiritual awakening. Their message, addressed to each one of us, gives a new direction for the third millennium. They challenge our present psychological make-up centered on the ego and each in his own unique fashion, …