Where you have become
erroneously serious has created paranoia, mania,
melancholy, depression, quarrels, clashes, misunderstandings, regrets, ad
infinitum.
All major illnesses of the mind are due to this: getting serious about something
we
should not be serious about in the first place.
You might wonder why in the Golden Age there is only seventy-five percent
truth rather than a hundred percent? According to the past Golden Age, which
Vedic sages have calculated as at least 10,000 years ago, when you come to
ultimate truth or one hundred percent truth, this world totally loses its
meaning. The creation ends. You cannot exist as you exist now. It will be
not only Liberation but the creation itself will vanish. If there were only
light everywhere, no darkness, no shadows, creation would end. Therefore
some minimum opposition to the light has to be there, a negative-positive
force, to keep the creation existing. But when truth tumbles down, the
balance is lost more and more and miseries increase. Therefore holy people
always suggest that in order to maintain the balance and harmony in life,
you have to be on truth to a certain extent. Not that you can be totally on
truth. If you were, you would be Enlightened. |
It is not a matter of training your mind to detach from here and concentrate
there; it is not a mental struggle at all. It is a common sense attitude
that automatically frees your mind to pursue the highest, whatever goal you
choose in your own mind and heart. Some would say peace or happiness or
wisdom. Some might say Enlightenment or Liberation. Some may say, “I just
want to be a good person.” Whichever way you put it, just bring your mind
out of seriousness about side issues and see how sensibly your brain
develops. Where you have become erroneously serious has created paranoia,
mania, melancholy, depression, quarrels, clashes, misunderstandings,
regrets, ad infinitum. What is a mania, actually? It is when you are stuck
in something and your mind is revolving round and round. What is depression?
Again, it is where your mind is stuck in a rut, going round and round.
Psychologists and dictionaries might define it differently but this is the
way I would see it. What is paranoia? Going round and round with the same
thoughts or fears. All major illnesses of the mind are due to this: getting
serious about something we should not be serious about in the first place. |