Dealing with Feeling

When we feel high, we have no problems. The problem comes when we feel low. No one wants to feel low. When one feels low, then the more one tries to feel high, the more the low feeling presist. This seems to be the biggest problem. What is important about the feeling? They never stay the same. Feeling are fluid. See,you feel good now,later you don't feel good.This continues in life. If we base our life on our feelings, we will be ruined . You feel good about something  now and a little later you feel  bad about the same thing. Then those feeling change yet again. Have you noticed feeling changing?

Many people are unware of the nature of feelings. Everywhere you will hear people say, "Follow your feelings, go by tyour feelings, do what you feel like,"etc. What will you do? Be independent? People mis interpret what independence means. They think it means following your feeling . They think" I do as I deel now, I do as I feel tommorow. I do as I feel the next day."Then there can be no stability in life.

We are unhappy if we follow our feeling. when you feel low, jump into the lowest, Be like water. That is your real nature; inside you, it is like water. The coconut is the symbol of the whole human life. The coconut has a husk, That is theenvironment,And then shell is the body , The mind and the inner intellect is the white menbrane  inside. The water is the innermost part . Your truenature is like water, fluid and not hard inside. What is the nature of water? Humility, it alwaysgoes down.

Stiffness is the problem. Stiffness is ego. Water can take any shape . Whatever glass you put in, it will take that shape. Water means acceptance of the present moment. You put the water in a bottle and it will take that shape. Our innermost Being agrees with nature. In water, the slightest movement makes ripples . It is dynamic also. It is not simply acceptance with fatalism; it is acceptance with motion, with dynamism, with readiness to jump up .A little shake, and the water is ready  to jump up.

 The  ocean is the lowest. How has the ocean become an ocean? It has accepted the lowest . Can ther be anything lower than an ocean? All rivers from the mountain tops flow down to the ocean.The ocean is full. The humblest is the greatest. If you agree to go low when you don't feel good,you will become the richest person on earth, Have you ever loved feeling? you have always fought with themWhen you don't feel high, justclose your eyes and go into that low. " Okay. todayI shall agree with my low feelings and I shall go as low as I can, without acting." Do not do any action but just agree, " Okay, I am going down,down, down......." How far will you go down? Youwill find the ocean there. you will start rising  up in no timr

Depression and low feelings cannot touch you. They can do nothing to you. They can do nothing to you . However big the clouds are, they cannot over shadow the sun. it could be the darkest day, but still it will remain day, and those clouds can never make it night. So, when clouds are there, you don't have to shiver. Just go deep , observe and you will see a lot of sensations rising up. some fears comes up. What is fear? Just a sensation in the body. Agree to it , " All right, let it be, I will dive into it today," An amazing thing happens within you, a phenomenon. Psychiatrists will be out of jobs. Everybody can look into this aspect. This is very , very beautiful.................

 What is the nature of water ? Water , when it reaches the ocean,does not always remain ther.It rises high as the clouds and then comes down again as water. Feelings and water synonymous............

By sri . sri. Ravishankarji

"ART OF LIVING"