Hard Disc Meditation

New approaches

Chapter 22   Hard Disc Meditation

“You can trust this,” said Charles pointing to the internet on the computer.

Neela had absolutely refused to come under the apprenticeship of a guru. He figured that, these days, a man cannot truly learn by giving up his free will.

“So this is the new bodhi tree,” Neela said, in reference to the Buddha sitting under the bodhi tree.

A new age requires new remedies. They had installed the computer in Neela's office in the hotel. It became the substitute for information that he obtained from the tourists and satellite TV.

In the old days, a man would sit in contemplation, to still the mind, until he was able to contact the three active components of his being. These are the qualities of Piety, Action and Ignorance. In relation to the body, these receive their greatest influence from the qualities of milk, blood and the sexual impulse. Together they mix to form the basis of all thought and action and is perceived by the mind as the great sea that is the threshold to physical life.

In all the ages of man, the first great labor of the mind was to reach for the zenith of its experience. Such an experience represents in some way the realization of the dream and the optimization of the pleasure principle. The second great labor was to create a store of the memories of all the events its life encountered. The third was the organization of the knowledge, in its store, in a form that helped the life come to understand itself.

Every society came to understand the importance of the knowledge it had stored about itself. In that it gave man the semblance of determining his own destiny, in a way that aligned itself with the intelligence of the creative power of life. In time, man came to realize that the creative force relied on him for its own further advancement. Man, has in a sense become a co-creator of his destiny.

Neela had his work cut out for him. First, he had to discover the individual identity of Neela the man. Secondly, he had to learn to apply that in a social context to discover Neela the social self. Where he failed in his efforts, he would have been introduced to Neela the anima. All three contribute to cultivating the experience of creation and of man.

“I went through ten years of struggle just to find out that I don't want to be in Nanda Puram.” said Neela.

“How else would you have known?” asked Charles.

In the 20th century, the US army organized the information it had about the fighting man and put it together in a scientific organization of its forces for greater efficiency. The results it produced drew the interests of academia and a new science emerged called the Organization of Management.

The discipline, thereafter, came to be relied upon in a critical way by commercial institutions and the needs of mass scale production. Today, the study of management forms the backbone of the world's economy.

Neela had the heart to deal with the volumes of information one encounters in the mind but he lacked the pragmatic skills in organizing it into a perception of the world.

“I hear there's a swamy here in need of training,” came a voice from the door.

They turned. It was Mike Flanders.

“The way I heard it, it was the Navy Seal,” replied Charles.

Around them, the Himalayan range reached for the sky, in a burst of ambition, that was unbridled by human reason. Nature brings itself into contact with man in the most unusual way. In the encounter, both the creator and the created, come into intimation with new possibilities.

                           The End