Awareness: The Bulwark to Safe-keep your Love Pond

 

Nathaniel Branden: “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”

No wonder, adding to your awareness takes you to greater dimensions of consciousness, which in turn opens limitless possibilities for you. In fact, awareness and the resultant contemplation provide a meaning to the infinite interplay of random forces around you. It simply helps you in getting your footing. The moment you get your footing, you get a huge dose of hitherto untasted confidence and then you just cannot help a smile full of love for each and everything around you.

This awareness boosts your conscience that in turn empowers free will and creativity. You make better choices. You respond well to situations instead of reacting. And all these are nothing but tiny rivulets unloading their majestic waters into the pool of your loving being.

As they say, awareness is the first step for any type of change. Without proper insight and self-acknowledgement, both born of awareness, it is impossible to even think of any concrete change for the better. You get a spontaneity that gives you a marvelous detachment, taking you on the path of spiritual upliftment even before you realize. Love is simply a natural outcome on this path.

You know the entire concept of kindness is based on the awareness of interdependent co-existence of living and nonliving beings. Limitless is the canvas of awareness. You can simply etch out infinite dimensions of the ultimate truth on it. You become a unique creator because in the realm of raised awareness kindness, love, beauty, truth, insight and intuitions are available to you to help you paint your picture in an entirely original way.

With awareness, you get a clarity where you get sensitivity for other's pains and feelings. A very fine pre-requisite for an all-loving persona. It is a simple journey from particular to the universal. The horizon gets broadened. More space for your soul to spread, and the nagging dots of fears and insecurities vanish in the roofless vaults of the cosmos.

It needs no mathematics to prove that if you see more clearly, you can walk better. If you have better insight, you can make better choices. Only through practiced awareness, you get some clues about the larger picture. Otherwise, we just waste it on a narrow stage, always fighting with hate and prejudices to avoid a fall off the edge. Awareness gives you a whole limitless pasture to roll in fun and be there with a purpose that isn't bound by your insecurity-born prejudices and complexes.

Awareness is the most practical step to self-discipline. It dismantles the self-created walls of an unaware mind, thus setting you free. You see the light. You bathe in it, and smile and love the way things are.

It also sharpens the streak of solitude in you. In the mode of pause, you observe little wonders that are otherwise lost in our mad rush. To put it more simply, in the silence aided with awareness you allow the inner voice, the citadel of your all-pervading goodness, to come up. If not God, at least godliness becomes possible. And the chief trait of godliness is love only, nothing else.

Awareness is a simple remedy for thousand ailments. Raise awareness. Work on it diligently. It gives you a nobler heart and more controlled mind. No better recipe to cook love delicacy, I tell you. It’s a practice much like you build your physical strength through regular workouts. Natural instinct, almost similar to being inclined to be lazy, is to be caught unaware. It’s nothing short of blindness, just like going into a dark tunnel. Once you cannot see, you are no longer responsible for your actions.

Evil has roots in unawareness. Awareness is a disinfectant. A human being, while being fully aware, can’t kill, rape, rob or quarrel. It’s simply impossible to be aware and be at your worst at the same time. Goodness flows from awareness. It’s simply being in the warm light where you feel better and see everything crystal clear.

There is a fountain of happiness inside. It lies dormant under the crust of fears, lies, illusions and ignorance. All these are bred by unawareness. To sharpen your awareness, you need to do the spadework. A lot of unearthing required. You need to dig, stop, take a pause and dig again. It needs a long look within.

With just knowledge, you can walk on the crust only. It makes you simply competitive, wherein you want to win at any cost. It pushes you into a zone of being terribly self-centered. No wonder you become less humane.

Awareness breeds wisdom. You reach the source of happiness. Therein you just don’t run to your destination stampeding over the lesser mortals along the path. You have empathy and you care for the consequences of your actions.  

Unawareness is the root cause of pseudo-illnesses of the mind. In the long term, these even turn into real physical and social ailments, for example Pseudoism. It’s the art and craft of using a positive emotion, picking its hypothetical meaning in letter, and grafting it over the mean spirit. Pseudoism is a suitable device with power aspirants particularly.

Pseudo-secularists copiously cash minority fears. Then pseudo-nationalists take charge of the affairs. The latter create a rhetorical stage, offering people a feeling to contribute to the nation. Little do people realize that by the time they are still enjoying the echo of their slogans, they have already crossed a line to enter a zone of hate. Even before they realize the slightest change, they have already surrendered a part of their good self. They are less loving, less tolerant, and more insecure. They get polarized. The society gets a fracture. It's painful. 

Not that I just crib about it. I offer a solution also. Web soldiers and internet patriots can go to Breakrooms specially designed to allow the spirit of revolution come out. Go there and smash out your hate and frustration on junk TV, microwave, radio, etc. It will soothe the angry man in you. The blood on boil will cool down. An utter sense of heroism will prevail as you smash the screen. It can be a suitable punch bag for the paper tigers of pseudo-nationalism. After pouring out hate and frustration, they will come out happier and more loving beings. They might even go beyond the tools of pseudo-nationalism like temples, mosques, cows and national anthem, and do something more important for this country.