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Articles: My Thoughts | Illumination
- gOpika
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Boredom, sorrow, insecurity and other psychological discomforts make us look out for a change. A lot of us take the escape route in delicious food, drinks, cinema/TV etc. Certain substances stimulate and please our senses. Sometimes an ideology may stimulate us. A rosy picture of how things should be may energize us. Many a time, one does not know if one is creating new divisions when one embraces some ideals or belief systems.
Illumination is pure light where there is no room for conceptual barriers or walls. Seeing directly - with the innocence of a child - is free from the traps of idealization. Knowledge, which is limited by one's conditionings, is involved in stimulation.
Illumination takes place when one is free from all knowledge. One sees an object, a person or a situation as it (he/she)is. Because man gets caught in stimulation, there is so much bloodshed even in the name of religion.
The illumined would never justify killing and other forms of violence or exploitation. We arrive at illumination by emptying our bosom of all beliefs; it is not by accumulating some more information about another school of thought.
(Swami Chidananda)
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