Moha moha ke dhaage

Just received a message on a whatsapp group that someone lost her mother, another message followed was birthday wishes to someone celebrating her 50th birthday, the next message was a joke on the vaccine found by Russia and the next was someone died of COVID… I am sure you must also be in a similar situation wherein you are subjected to a wide range of emotions from elation to tragedy, from pain to happiness, all within moments, without even allowing you a moment to process the emotions. Welcome to the digital age which bombards you with information at the speed of thought without asking you whether you wanted it in the first place. All this is one of the contributors to the increasingly stressful lives that we all live, but coping is no longer an option, you simply don’t have a choice unless you decide to crawl under a rock, which certainly seems to be a tempting option under these bizarre circumstances.

Along with problems come solutions, along with risks come opportunities. It is when you face problems head on that you get into finding solutions, not by avoiding/side stepping them. This information overload is going to only increase and lives are going to be only more complex to understand and live peacefully. So what does one do? You would have to build your inherent capacity to deal with the new world order of chaos and confusion. As Sadhguru beautifully puts it “We are trying to set up a new normal: to be immensely capable and absolutely involved with life in every way, but untouched by the process of life” 

How? you may ask. Yoga is the way to build capabilities and capacities, be absolutely involved with everything and yet remain detached. It is our attachment to various people, roles, possessions that is the root cause of suffering. We somehow make ourselves believe that people & things(including our own body,mind) in this world belong to us and we get attached to them, it is we who nurture the emotion of attachment under the umbrella word “love”. These are Moha Moha ke dhaage. “Hate” is also just a negative attachment. The word love and hate as we understand them are our excuse of forming and maintaining attachments to various things.The problem you see is attachment.

You are attached to the process of pleasure seeking, pain avoiding. It is only when you realize that what you are attached to is your source of pleasure as well as pain, and you seek to experience detachment that your spiritual journey begins. 

Sant Kabir says:
“Sadho bhai jival hi karo asa” which is beautifully translated by Rabindranath Tagore:
O FRIEND! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death? 
It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body:
If He is found now, He is found then,
If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.
If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.
Bathe in the truth, know the true Guru, have faith in the true Name!
Kabîr says: “It is the Spirit of the quest which helps; I am the slave of this Spirit of the quest.”