Meaning is relative, personal

Meaning is relative, personal.

Each of us, however close we may be to another, still lives in our own head, sees the world through our own private filter of perceptions, backgrounds, contexts, moods, colours. We communicate, we work towards objectivity by cleaning it of all transitory, passing colours. Yet, the glance we cast is our very own. And on the same scene, what another sees is completely personal to them.

Just a sort of good sense note when one feels the need to justify, defend, explain, and at times and often times this intense desire to share. It is what it is. It passes. It is all well.

Perhaps this is what Krishna meant about attachment. To not to be attached to private meanings, weights. One needs the same to live, but beyond that, the emotional baggage is deadweight.

A practice to begin where you are. Recalibrate. Look around. Where do you find yourself? What is doing well as that person means? How do you take care of yourself, of people and things around you? How do you become peaceful so that you can radiate the same out in the world? To being fully vital, here, engaged, and yet fully content. Fully here engaged, and yet yet not attached at all. Complete anywhere, anytime, and ready to be nothing, nothing at all.

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Here, a few things from Swami Vivekanada. From his way of looking at existence, reflecting the ancient passed down wisdom of Vedas:

Each soul is a circle. The centre is where the body is, and the activity is manifested there. You are omnipresent, though you have the consciousness of being concentrated in only one point. That point has taken up particles of matter, and formed them into a machine to express itself. That through which it expresses itself is called the body. You are everywhere. When one body or machine fails you, the centre moves on and takes up other particles of matter, finer or grosser, and works through them. Here is man, and what is God? God is a circle, with circumference nowhere, and centre everywhere. Every point in that circle is living. conscious, active, and equally working. With our limited souls, only one point is conscious, and that point moves forward and backward.

Soul is a circle whose circumference is nowhere (limitless) but whose centre is in some body. Death is but a change of centre. God is a circle whose circumference is nowhere, and whose centre is everywhere. When we can get out of the limited centre of body, we shall realize God, our true Self.

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest the divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy,—by one or more or all these,—and be free. This is all of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

Jnanam (knowledge) is "creedlessness;" but that does not mean that it despises creeds. It only means that a stage above and beyond creeds has been gained. The jnani (true philosopher) strives to destroy nothing, but to help all. All rivers roll their waters into the sea and become one, so all creeds should lead to Jnanam and become one. Jnanam teaches that the world should be renounced. but not on that account abandoned. To live in the world and be not of it, is the true test of renunciation.