The Three Body Clinic

The idea of happiness encompasses in human minds, essentially certain materialistic possession which basically stems from the need of identification that in turn leads to building relationships with things. While so many of our habits and attributes stem from our animalistic characteristics and our relationship with the jungle, this idea of identification seems to be pretty evolved with the development of human 'ego'.  Animals do not accrue more than what is essential, even babies do not choose to stockpile their toys.      The ego needs certain attributes associated with it to develop an identity and one gathers things to differentiate oneself from the other souls. While it is necessary to possess what is needed to survive, have certain identity we end up accumulating to an extent where we lose our identity, forget that we are spirits before humans and entangle ourselves in the illusions of the world.  A short interaction with a spiritual being in a tiny abode ...

'Change is the only constant' reminded a friend, when I faced the dilemma of executing the radical decisions I had made. The things that we own end up owning us, the start to a radical shift for me was by auditing the things that I owned and consumed. Other aspects such as friends, relatives, career choice, etc shall come subsequently. While I had been able to part easily with the idea of validation through a social media post, parting with the things I had collected was one of the hardest things to do. I would have shifted so many places in my college life as well as my career later on, but I never mindfully filtered the things that I carried and kept with me all along which in turn occupied lot of space physically as well as in my mind.  Fashion that is sold to us through some idea of a temporary mood shift called 'trend', some festive offer, end of season sales, festivals, office meetup dress codes force us to feel the fear of missing out, yada yada yada... in hindsi...

The system is so designed to make you addicted and dependent on it.. Consume, crave, work, consume, crave, work...and the cycle continues in loop till we die (and wake up in the afterlife to realise we fulfilled some dream we were sold by the people we did not like for the life we never wanted) Wake up at a certain time.. Go to a workplace you don't like.. Eat street food to save energy and satisfy our cravings.. Spend weekends consuming more to compensate for the lost week.. Hate Mondays.. Hate Mornings.. Attend meetings that are not necessary.. Feel stuck.. ........and that's how it should be, everyone does it the same way, earn more, buy that house, take that vacation, buy that car, get that necklace, marry that chic, have kids, they need good education, ......uff  we create a mess of a drug around us, blind ourselves with its smoke! The skills that one has developed seek a job in the system and the rewards keep us hitched to it like a rat in the psychoanalytical experiment ...

  Sharing an understanding from the first chapter of the Yoga sutras: The world is what we create in our minds! It is the projection of understandings of the external world. Consider there are three parts to our being:  The stimulus: It can be visual, auditory, sensory etc The organ : That perceives the stimulus The mind: That makes sense of the stimulus A discerning mind can only understand the mind deciphers the world based on its past conditioning. A particle of sand is enameled by an Oyster to create its own little pearl, that is what we do as human beings; distort the reality with the enamel of our biases and conditioning.     Truth is to look at the stimulus as it is: unbiased. How is it possible to discern? Knowledge, understanding, rationalisation, questioning, contempt, introspection... Look at your patterns, the layers which we naturally create in our minds... Is this the better way of living or creating our own enamel is a better way? That needs to be...

Do you feel better?  Are you calmer than before? Are you more in the moment? Are you more aligned with the nature? Are you more aware of the mystery beyond what you perceive? Are you open to receive magic from the universe? Are you proud of your journey through life which is a rarest possibility? Did you let go of that one small thing that bothered you so much and could you laugh at the absurdity of life? If the answer to any of the above questions is a 'yes', you are on the right path.... Remember to take one step at a time..

 As simple as it sounds, reading is pathway to unknown and the known, yet we never quite embrace it the way we should. Our lives are driven by the data that is fed to us through the series that we watch which are suggested mostly by the few people around us, the news or media that is pumped to our feed through algorithms driven to keep us hooked, the dreams that were sold to us since our childhood, books that are sold to us to perhaps improve our productivity, the list goes on... Somewhere down the line we do realise we are a part of the trap that was set for us even before we were born, yet we refuse to take the 'red pill' afraid that we might end up in something unknown and the desire to belong keeps us happily part of the system. Yet do we truly ask ourselves, what is happiness to us? More importantly are we left with the time to ask ourselves some questions that are important to us. Are there things that may really make us happy perhaps ecstatic? Do we not owe it to the exi...