Q: How does a spiritually enlightened person like you deal with situations like people in his family & friends make fun of him, in front of everyone brutally & torture him emotionally & psychologically? Do you focus on: "I do not exist". Or something else?
Krishna: I am enlightened scientifically (1). So I will answer this Q in a scientific way.
If I say there isn't much difference between 'people' who are torturing and people who are undergoing this 'torture'? Both are made of similar atoms and energy borrowed from this universe. The only difference is the working difference of brain cells that form different circuits.
Imagine this situation:
One group of atoms in one form (predator) eating another group of atoms (prey)? If a predator feels happy and satiated the prey feels the fear and pain of getting eaten. This is because the brain cells have formed different circuits and these help in processing the information they obtain from their senses during a particular situation they encounter.
But there is universal oneness that you realize with higher awakening.
This universe doesn't care which form of atoms is doing what! Both the one that is 'torturing' and the one that is getting 'tortured' are similar. The one that eats the prey gets the atoms and energy from the prey and that group of atoms and energy from prey attain predator status then! When these get aligned with predators, they hunt for another 'prey' which becomes 'predator' again. Then what (group of atoms) is prey and what (group) is predator? When these groups of atoms and energy are becoming both prey and predator interchanging places in the game of hunting?
One group of atoms arranged in a particular form is 'hurting' another form?
Other neurons (made of molecules and atoms) arranged in a particular form and a brain made of these neurons wired in a different way undergoing some feelings 'feel tortured'?
In front of other groups of atoms and energy arranged in separate forms?
It matters only if you think 'in front of these differently arranged atoms' makes any difference.
It is important only if you think these things have any significance and can affect you radically.
It bothers you only if you think the people who are saying things are equal to you with regard to your enlightenment process and can differentiate between culturally conditioned good manners and bad manners. An enlightened person will not do such things anyway.
If these forms 'who torture' are in a very pitiable condition and cannot even think that atoms and molecules arranged in the form of neurons and glia can give birth to emotions that can give pain and agony in certain conditions because of the brain circuits formed in a particular way, it is these forms who are in need of different circuits to correct themselves.
I feel sorry for these forms who wasted their lives despite getting the opportunity to get enlightened and squandering that opportunity that one gets in one's lifetime.
Apart from this thinking I don't feel anything. Even if I 'feel' for a brief period, I can overcome these feelings with my critical thinking.
Sometimes I try to bring these forms to my level of enlightenment. If they don't bother, it is their headache.
My definitions of pain and agony are different. My analyses of situations are different.
When you are wandering at a higher realm, these things are not 'good enough' to make any difference to you.
But they do bother others in their realms. That is why we try to change their - this word means both the ones who are torturing and the one who is feeling it - brain circuits to make them work "correctly".
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Q: I am a very jealous person. I feel very jealous whenever I see someone rich, happy or successful. How can I control this feeling of mine?
Why should only a few people get all the money and others nothing?
Krishna: Let me answer this Q from a different perspective.
If I see someone very rich or successful, I don't feel anything. Or sometimes I feel I am the one who is enjoying these things!
Why?
Because I don't see any difference between me and the person with lots of money.
We are both one and the same!
A group of atoms has lots of matter of wealth.
Another group has less matter.
And there is no difference between them in the eyes or consciousness of this universe. Because all that what you call "money" or "wealth" is matter belonging to the universe, not the group of atoms that is you or the group of atoms that is another one.
Why should you feel happy or unhappy or jealous about things that are not anyone's in reality?
Both 'you' and the 'other persons' too belong to the universe's wealth of matter and energy. You are not separate.
You might get more matter if you are overweight and less energy to do work. A person who has less matter because he is lean can feel very energetic to do hard work.
Who is the winner and who is the loser? No one!
It is all in your mind!
The person who thinks he owns lots of wealth is not the actual owner of this matter.
The person who thinks he has less doesn't lose anything because the others are not true owners, it is the universe who is the correct owner of matter and energy. And you are a part of that universe! So everything belongs to everybody and nothing belongs to anybody!
This thought and correct explanation removes jealousy from your mind!
You feel happy and contented too!
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