This world is so random, yet so methodological at the same time. If you look at things they make look/sound/feel completely illogical from a valid standpoint, yet there’s a method to it. Being rich, for example – is not an accident, if it is it comes and goes like that, but thousands are trying – yet there’s so simple methodological path that exists, which if followed will allow you to create your own path of success.
Goes around the same way in every area of life, you may think that for instance life is random, and it completely is – your current position is a result of small games that you played on everyday life – it becomes that (a game) after a point, you may right now think that the job you desire – the money you made (or want to make) in life, will give you the satiety you need, but turns out it won’t. That is as true as it gets, every rich man, every successful athlete everyone follows the same set of daily actions their life as a result of their small games gave them, did they create those actions? Did they decide if they will keep running 2 kilometers a day their stamina will grow? Your sense of control over life comes from a point of ego, that you are the controller of life, but are you? I don’t think you have done enough mental rumination to answer that question, independent of your biases so let me answer that for you. You’re not – and it’s provable because you didn’t decide to come out of your mother’s womb, this life you call you made for yourself is not by your choice, but by nature.
Nature gave it to you, it decided you’ll be born, then you were free from biases until you could fathom this world, when things started to make sense for you (after let’s say 4-5 years of age), this society we live in starts to introduce you to your relation to this world, that’s your first point of interaction with life, this influences how you see, perceive, hear and think about reality and life, for the rest of your existence. If those people involved are not intelligent, it’s likely you’ll end up being stupid at start but if you preserved your intelligence (which you will) you can figure things out for yourself.
The average IQ is 100, what that tells you by human comprehension these people are able to perform a basic set of instructions, rules and impositions set by the government and are effective survivors at the same time, that’s all about them. Which means if you end up being stupid in life it may have been linked to your childhood upbringing, the layer that society weaves on your personality during your upbringing and turns out those people are already conditioned to a degree and those are transferred over to you.
By that point in life where you start figuring things out for yourself, obligations come into play, maybe you’re born in a poor family in a tribe at the unknown islands or maybe you just came out of a chicken’s egg, there’re obligations that pre-exist – in nature and society. Sometimes those obligations don’t bother you much and sometimes oh boy, they rip you apart, and you may (it’s possible) cease to exist, but if you’re reading this nature also wanted you to live, hence you’re alive reading this on a (probably expensive) screen.
So the path I was earlier talking about – is to navigate those obligations (in every scenario) in a way that comes from a higher law and order not this delusionary world (society), hence resulting in a fruitful existence. That’s what nature wants, fruitful existence, and it’s nature of life. I will ponder on fruitful existence and come back to it someday else but the basic meaning of this term is to live life in a way that is aligned with the law and order set by nature, you may however choose to ignore, try and do things your own terms, to which life reacts in a manner that turns you upside down – you may disagree but there’re enough examples to get you in agreement, from your own life.
What is The Delusion?
The Delusion as the title says of this post – is that, YOU are the controller. Someone told you or you read somewhere but you ended up with a conclusion that you are the doer things/life (or the main character), that is what we call ego, and it’s delusional because it really is the fabrication of society that I was earlier referencing to. The name you’re given, the place, the language – everything is given by society and yes it’s necessary but it’s not you. You are the same as maybe your friend, same two hands, same two eyes same number of bones (exceptions do exist to this as well, and those are also by nature) same brain. What’s different? The conditioning, layer that society gave you while you were growing up.
That might leave you in an existential crisis – but don’t run away from it, stay there for a moment, it’s required. We all have it at certain times in our lives maybe if you think about it enough yours might be today but you get the general idea about it. When we start questioning existence from an intelligent perspective, it doesn’t make sense. Nature does.
You do not exist in nature, because nature doesn’t exist forever for that matter, everything follows a principle:
Bhagavad Gita 9.7
“Sarva-bhūtāni kaunteya prakṛtiṁ yānti māmikām
Kalpa-kṣaye punas tāni kalpādau visṛjāmy aham”Translation: “O son of Kuntī, at the end of the millennium all material manifestations enter into My nature, and at the beginning of another millennium, by My potency, I create them again.”
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad Verse 1.2.1
नैवेह किंचनाग्र आसीत्, मृत्युनैवेदमावृतमासीदशनायया, अशनाया हि मृत्युः; तन्मनोऽकुरुत, आत्मन्वी स्यामिति । सोऽर्चन्नचरत्, तस्यार्चत आपोऽजायन्त; अर्चते वै मे कमभूदिति, तदेवार्क्यस्यार्कत्वम्; कं ह वा अस्मै भवति य एवमेतदर्क्यस्यार्कत्वं वेद ॥ १ ॥
Translation: There was nothing whatsoever here in the beginning. It was covered only by Death (Hiraṇyagarbha), or Hunger, for hunger is death. He created the mind, thinking, ‘Let me have a mind.’[1] He moved about worshipping (himself). As he was worshipping, water was produced. (Since he thought), ‘As I was worshipping, water sprang up,’ therefore Arka (fire) is so called. Water (or happiness) surely comes to one who knows how Arka (fire) came to have this name of Arka.
Creation and destruction – is a cycle, you may observe that across the world, nature (the process of creation and destruction) is infinite in itself, yet the beings or the result of nature are temporary, nobody remembers anyone except some notable figures carved out in memory, even those are not consistent across the world, only one thing that everyone sees for what it is – is nature, our blames fall short, our justifications fall short at times. But stuff happens – on it’s own.
Hence by nature life is not dictated on your terms but it’s own terms, because you’re a part of it and by not following the law and order you’re fighting against it, you’re fighting against life itself, can you win? No I guess – right? Is the victory worth it? I don’t think so.
From nature comes the path, to attain everything (you desire – if that’s what you want). This is the path of non-illusion.
Human mind is a mysterious thing, if untamed – it goes bonkers at times, in all the ways, we have discovered a way to fly but we also have discovered a way to wipe out an entire country from the globe. All for what? To reciprocate the society. A country is a large group of humans surviving with a sense of belonging to the name confines (boundaries) set by some other human, nature didn’t name this piece of land by itself, we did. That shows the delusion of the whole world – that everyone believes in, and is ready to wipe out uncountable number of lives if something goes against their other “illusions”, so there’s a difference between knowing/observing and believing.
How to Get Out of The Delusion?
Look there’s only one way based on my experience and it only involves two steps that need to be repeated everywhere:
Step 1: Start today
Step 2: Fuck around and figure out