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cant be ended through discipline control, denial or suppression but by understanding thinking process. It is not retiring into the woods or monastry or isolating. Nothing can exist in isolution
Man tortures his mind through discipline control, self denial, abstinence austerity to approach reality in different ways in pattern laid down by priest or sacred books, rituals, system invented by men. Present day climate is he is denying totally authority of priest, belief & dogmas & man lives for present enjoyment, satisfaction, happiness & denying religious conception & is after physical comfort & joy. By not valuing religion we have bred wars, separated man from man & destroyed by causing war & violence.
Life is empty, relations are corroded & rooted by misery battle sorrow which we try to fill with music literature, entertainment, ideas, knowledge we are seeking ways to fill up our emptiness loneliness by not having power position, prestige fame, prosperity. We think that if we don't seek strike struggle grope after, we shall wither away. Life is process of withering from the day of birth. Virtue beauty truth, wealth health has no continuity but time & thought continues non stop. We desire to be secure, paramount established happyness & escape from turmoil, pain, confussion, troubles.
We don't have to search for light but remove barriers that create darkness & removal requires intention. We have not to search but understand, be aware, & attentive. What others says may be mistaken never influenced by books or teachers if you are influenced you will find only what they want you to find so think yourself. Thought is ever shaping modifying colouring according to pattern of experience. Thought can't penetrate into unknown so it can never discover or experience reality.
Disciplines, renunciation, detachment, rituals practice of virtue however noble, are process of thought. Achievement is security, selfprotective certainly of the known. For security mind must be entirely silent, & silence cant be purchased through sacrifice, sublimation or suppression. Mind can be still only when it is not terming naming, recording, storing up memory.
Sacred books, churches temples rituals ceremonies are full of ideas of God but not Godly ways. Thoughts are not godly if you exploit to became rich.
Freud says when man's strong urge is not satisfied with nature seeks satisfaction through imagination. When life is threatened he wanted security of life. Man failed to control natural forces & was helpless he interpreted natural forces as God. Sacrificing comforts, prosperity, passions was intolerable, so he seek relief from God & gave concept of heaven.
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