In
our life the opposite attracts. Man attracts woman and woman attracts man.
Always the opposite is attractive. Life is a play of attraction of the
opposites. Yin attracts Yang and vice-versa. This is the way of nature, of
biology. Even spiritualism is not affected by this rule, although it is a
different journey altogether. Spiritualism is a pilgrimage to self-nature, to
being oneself. We don’t have to seek through spiritualism that which attracts
us, that which is our opposite. On the contrary, we seek that which we are- we
seek our own pristine nature, our original face. In youth everyone is so
active, and as we grow old all activity begins to ebb. Just for the reason that
the youth is packed with feminine and masculine energy, so young men and women
become busy building and preparing for adventures. With the advent of old age,
the fire of life dims considerably. By this time men and women come to know all
about each other, and so the pull of the opposites withers away. Too much
familiarity breeds indifference.
As
it is the natural law of life that the opposite attracts, so it is the natural
law of spiritualism that self-nature attracts, not the opposite. Here the
similar, the same attracts. Because of this, we find ourselves in trouble when
we apply the ordinary law of the world to spiritual discipline. Therefore, a
scientific discipline for the spiritualism should be understood, whose basic
law will clearly say- no law of biology applies to spiritualism. In biology
opposites attract and in spiritualism self-nature is the magnet. Spirituality
is actually our immersion in self-nature. In spiritual journey I don’t have to
reach the other, I have to reach myself. Of course, our life long habits come
in the way.
I
have heard a story for a scholar. When electricity became available, a rich man
had his house electrified. Soon after this a relative from village visited him
who has never seen electricity in his life. He was only familiar with lamps and
lanterns as instruments of light. After the night’s dinner, the guest was put
in a room for the night’s sleep. But the guest was faced with a serious
problem- the problem of electricity. Since the light in the room was very
bright, the man could not sleep. How to extinguish the light was the problem.
He fetched a ladder from some where in the house to reach the bulb hanging in
the ceiling, to blow out the light. But, even with repeated effort of blowing
it of with breath failed him completely. He examined the bulb from several
angle but failed to understand miserably.
He felt embarrassed to wake his host for this problem and the whole
night went tossing in the bed without sleep till the host cam in the morning.
Host understood the issue and pushed the button to switch the light off. Now
this man had no idea of light controlled by a distant switch. And we can not
blame him for that.
All
our life’s experience can be summed up as ‘attraction of the opposites’. So
even when we enter the world of spiritualism, which is different dimension
altogether, we carry out old ways with us. We try to blow out the electric
light with our breath, and we fail to think of switch. This error is centuries
old and enduring.
Wishing you good health & happiness,
Dr. Dwarakanath,
Director, Mitran foundation- the stress management people
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