Crossing the threshold
Ever since I was a child I had had a higher threshold level for it. We are three sisters and amongst the three of us I think I could manage it the best. I was lauded for it also and felt quite a bit of pride at the fact. Though now when I look back I wonder whether arrogance and pride in something so basic is justified. It’s just something you’re born with and it’s the function of what your level of consciousness is at a given point in time.
You must be wondering by now what exactly I am talking about here. Well you may cringe on hearing the word but what I am talking about is something very basic and fundamental to our existence – the presence of pain or rather the experienced of pain in our lives , in our journey of life . There is no one on this earth who hasn’t experienced pain in one form or the other , yet we are scared of acknowledging its presence. Why?
Pain which we all consider as unholy, a burden on our souls. But is it really so? Have we ever tried to look at it from a different perspective? Are not our thinking patterns so grounded and set that we don’t look at things differently. What if it were not so? Why are we not questioning? Is pain a reality that God wants us to experience? Maybe. So then its time to look at it differently. Its time to discard the mental barriers created by us for we may not even have a rational explanation for them.
There are gateways which we as humans tend to shun. These are gateways to our soul, our inner self - that which hides the presence of the supreme self within it, what some of us may believe in or call God. These gateways are there, very obvious to any one who would want to learn but yet we ignore them. If I now pause and reflect I don’t think I am aware of all of them , I might not be even close either but my proximity or awareness of pain has always been an inherent in me .
Pain is, I believe, one such gateway to a higher state of existence. It’s just that we aren’t aware of it because we never explored pain. It’s like that threshold that we never want to cross. But what if we allowed ourselves to experience it without any inhibitions? Experienced pain with a wild abandonment. Accepted it in our lives. Let it flow through us, through every pore of our body right to our souls.
We need to cross over that threshold that demarcates the two states of the mind – pain and pleasure. I am aware that it’s the crossing over that is the most difficult part. It’s like an abrupt halt that we make just ebfore the threshold unknown to what lies on the other side, not even aware of the door that is standing invisible in front of us that leads to that wonderful world that lies beyond. A world of compassion, of greater sensitivity and different level of existence – the purpose for which we are born.
And if it is the greater purpose for which we are born as I like to believe then what stops us? It is that one negative emotion called Fear. Fear is at the core. Fear of tomorrow. Fear of yesterday and even the fear of today. If we accept what we get in life then we are not scared of anything and that is I believe is raw power. A fearless mind has great power unequaled to only time which I believe has the greatest power on this earth.
To sum it up it is fear that binds us, prevent us from reaching out and crossing over to the next level. Pain on the other hand is an embodiment of truth.
As a great poet had once said “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high …………..”
You must be wondering by now what exactly I am talking about here. Well you may cringe on hearing the word but what I am talking about is something very basic and fundamental to our existence – the presence of pain or rather the experienced of pain in our lives , in our journey of life . There is no one on this earth who hasn’t experienced pain in one form or the other , yet we are scared of acknowledging its presence. Why?
Pain which we all consider as unholy, a burden on our souls. But is it really so? Have we ever tried to look at it from a different perspective? Are not our thinking patterns so grounded and set that we don’t look at things differently. What if it were not so? Why are we not questioning? Is pain a reality that God wants us to experience? Maybe. So then its time to look at it differently. Its time to discard the mental barriers created by us for we may not even have a rational explanation for them.
There are gateways which we as humans tend to shun. These are gateways to our soul, our inner self - that which hides the presence of the supreme self within it, what some of us may believe in or call God. These gateways are there, very obvious to any one who would want to learn but yet we ignore them. If I now pause and reflect I don’t think I am aware of all of them , I might not be even close either but my proximity or awareness of pain has always been an inherent in me .
Pain is, I believe, one such gateway to a higher state of existence. It’s just that we aren’t aware of it because we never explored pain. It’s like that threshold that we never want to cross. But what if we allowed ourselves to experience it without any inhibitions? Experienced pain with a wild abandonment. Accepted it in our lives. Let it flow through us, through every pore of our body right to our souls.
We need to cross over that threshold that demarcates the two states of the mind – pain and pleasure. I am aware that it’s the crossing over that is the most difficult part. It’s like an abrupt halt that we make just ebfore the threshold unknown to what lies on the other side, not even aware of the door that is standing invisible in front of us that leads to that wonderful world that lies beyond. A world of compassion, of greater sensitivity and different level of existence – the purpose for which we are born.
And if it is the greater purpose for which we are born as I like to believe then what stops us? It is that one negative emotion called Fear. Fear is at the core. Fear of tomorrow. Fear of yesterday and even the fear of today. If we accept what we get in life then we are not scared of anything and that is I believe is raw power. A fearless mind has great power unequaled to only time which I believe has the greatest power on this earth.
To sum it up it is fear that binds us, prevent us from reaching out and crossing over to the next level. Pain on the other hand is an embodiment of truth.
As a great poet had once said “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high …………..”
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