Human
beings are so much attached to their desires, comforts, wealth and mundane
issues that they seldom find time to search and seek the path of the religious
spirit. They are so much bogged down with the circumstances evolved out of
various situations, they feel that the desire of the religious fervor automatically
comes when you become old and somewhat wise because by the time, you have
achieved and completed all your responsibilities. This thinking is completely
prejudiced. With all the responsibilities duly discharged with efficiency at
each stage of your life, you must focus and keep a slot regularly to enlighten
your soul and seek the true existence of your precious life. You will
experience some turbulent time when you will feel utterly depressed and
despondent. At that time, you may not be
able to concentrate because you are not able to seek the real truth. Your inner sense will not in a position to
guide you as if, you are neither here nor there. It seems that you are passing through a dark
night in a dense forest resembling like a shambling gait. You will feel everything as dark, dull and
profoundly pessimistic. Some religious and spiritually enlightened persons call
this phase as a black spot on a charming mind.
Many people may not have the courage to visualize this particular phase
in life because it is termed as a spiritual desolation suffered by the cause of
identification conflict and your latent desire to achieve more and more.
In
close interaction of the first chapter of the Gita, you will observe Arjuna’s
depression and despair out of his inner conflict to combat the exterior
circumstances, which is termed as Arjuna Vishada Yoga. In life, all of us pass through these types
of Vishada Yoga and precisely for that reason; enlightenment of the soul is
very much inevitable to offset the effect of the dark night of the soul. If you happen to experience this spirit of life, you will accept this truth. When
this spirit is defeated, we cry because our mind, then becomes biased to see
every action and the consequence thereof in negative. Contrarily, when our spirit is rejuvenated,
we find blissful, become cheerful, joyous and tries to help and do good to
others. This is a cyclic condition in anybody’s life. The more power of good spirit you develop by
cultivating good and religious habits, your dark night of the soul will be
under your control. The situation then will not influence you, you will dictate
the situation whatsoever may be the outcome; you will not be emotionally imbalanced.
One
of the very pertinent questions of life is to awaken your soul to know the
purpose of your life. Why are you
here? What purpose you need to fulfill? If you have decided a purpose, is it only for
yourself or for others also? Some people
lead their lives, enjoy the same, and take the help of others for their own
survival without thinking and connecting themselves with the purposefulness of
others. Here comes the question of enlightenment
of your soul. But to know the spirit and
to enlighten your soul, you have to embrace the path of spirituality. You
should have a strong devotion to the Almighty.
Many times, for your internal spree to search the real purpose of your
existence in life, you will feel lonely and struggle with various conflicts. The
more you pass through this phase, the more you will be able to counter the same
and enter into the realm of self awareness of the true meaning of life. During
this phase, sometimes you will be alone feeling depressed. It even happened to
Arjuna when he saw that he had to fight with his own relatives on the
battlefield of Kurukshetra.
As per the mythology, during that time, his limbs were trembling,
his mouth got parched, his hair was disheveled, he was not able to pick up his
“Gandiva bow” properly and he was completely devastated. He was sad and lonely and not interested to
take part in the battle. His counterpart,
Duryodhana was not at all afflicted with these feelings. But Gita was not composed taking Duryodhana
as the central figure; it was Arjuna, because he could manage to awaken his
soul to identify the difference between good and evil. He was trying to be on the side of Dharma. He was not relishing the fact to enjoy the
kingdom doing perdition to his blood relations.
As per him, this was a crime and treacherous deed. He was in the midst of a dilemma whether to
give support to Dharma or go against it.
In the battle of our daily lives, we face these types of situations
often. Some people take the side of the Dharma
as they don’t want to impure their soul and some others don’t bother to accept
this theory because they have not enlightened their soul at all.
However,
if you consider the above phenomenon as an integral part of our life, you will
find that many of our plan of actions will lead to frictions, strife and
contrite and eventually make our lives like Kurukshetras and finally, we get
entangled in quarrels, conflicts and many other violence. But if we understand
with our sense of spirituality, we will
feel that all these momentary things are baseless and frivolous.
Once
you are able to enlighten your soul, you are able to discriminate between the
good and evil and Dharma and Adharma; you will make this world a haven of spirituality
to enjoy the same blissfully.
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