The purpose of my existence is experiencing. Not doing.
I, on the other hand, am obsessed with doing and focus very little on experiencing.
God experiences through me. That was all he was really interested in. To experience himself, his self-creation, through the experiencing tool of the anandamaya kosha.
Doing is the secondary purpose of my (or any other jiva's) existence. Doing modifies the state of creation, so that there is a variety, a movement, a gradual sophistication and complexity in the state of creation. This makes the experiencing more interesting.
All my other koshas are designed for doing. The annamaya kosha physically touches the world, the pranamaya kosha energises the movements, the manamaya kosha tells what to do at this point, the vigyanmaya kosha defines long-term goals of action.
But these are all tools of change.The primary purpose of existence is experiencing.
Our sensual experience, however, is forever modified - embellished or sterilised - by our mind, before it is presented to the creator. Is this the experience he wanted? Did he want the pure input or the modified mental imaged input, for his enjoyment? I feel that he wanted the pure input, but by the sheer design constraints of the jiva, the inputs are always channelised through the mind and distorted. The inputs can reach the anadamaya kosha without distortion only if the mind is tranquil. And this is the only reason why I have to make so much effort to still my mind by going through the regimens of sadhana - simply in order to ensure that the pure sensual inputs pass through to the creator and he can enjoy the beauty of his creation in its purest form, undistorted.
Enlightened beings provide this clear path and are the instruments of God. Instruments of PERFECT PERCEPTION, mind you. That they do great good to the world by their actions is just a corollary.
I, on the other hand, am obsessed with doing and focus very little on experiencing.
God experiences through me. That was all he was really interested in. To experience himself, his self-creation, through the experiencing tool of the anandamaya kosha.
Doing is the secondary purpose of my (or any other jiva's) existence. Doing modifies the state of creation, so that there is a variety, a movement, a gradual sophistication and complexity in the state of creation. This makes the experiencing more interesting.
All my other koshas are designed for doing. The annamaya kosha physically touches the world, the pranamaya kosha energises the movements, the manamaya kosha tells what to do at this point, the vigyanmaya kosha defines long-term goals of action.
But these are all tools of change.The primary purpose of existence is experiencing.
Our sensual experience, however, is forever modified - embellished or sterilised - by our mind, before it is presented to the creator. Is this the experience he wanted? Did he want the pure input or the modified mental imaged input, for his enjoyment? I feel that he wanted the pure input, but by the sheer design constraints of the jiva, the inputs are always channelised through the mind and distorted. The inputs can reach the anadamaya kosha without distortion only if the mind is tranquil. And this is the only reason why I have to make so much effort to still my mind by going through the regimens of sadhana - simply in order to ensure that the pure sensual inputs pass through to the creator and he can enjoy the beauty of his creation in its purest form, undistorted.
Enlightened beings provide this clear path and are the instruments of God. Instruments of PERFECT PERCEPTION, mind you. That they do great good to the world by their actions is just a corollary.
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