the last step

The last step is not the last 

At first glance, the title may give an indication that the topic refers to a series of  last step that we try to cross progressively in order to reach an intended goal. If that is so there must be a number of steps involved, each step contributing its own value but the last is playing a crucial role to achieve target if the last step is going to decide how you had played the role  addition because of which we will be able to reach the goal. In other words, no two steps can be alike and must necessarily result in positive value addition. But then how can the first step be the last step and how the last step is make a history? Doesn’t it contradict the whole principle of the life cycle of activity we may undertake in order to achieve something in time? In the philosophical world that is how things happen and we cannot consider them as a contradiction at all. J Krishnamurti says that is how it happens with respect to the ‘Self Realization’ and beyond.

According to J Krishnamurti, anything that is a product of time is dangerous since for the mind that is trying to ‘become something’ or ‘achieve something’ other than ‘what is’ looks for time naturally and the same time will become a means of escape for it from achieving its intended goal. For every small progress to be made the mind tries to take time without knowing whether the time is a necessary factor or not. Probably because of this reason J Krishnamurti rejected the time and made the first step the last step too. So, we must understand the first step totally since it constitutes the last step and the last step will no need to make first step again in addition like we all do due to psychological pressure and in  emotional but after the realisation that's step is not a stepping point but if the last step is the step of the goal is like first step also.

As we know already,our life experiences may gets you in some misunderstanding ,you getting stuck in your thoughts , comparison , societal pressure but how  long it's been taking executing to the last step and our last step will be the end of misunderstanding  and  leading you with the real life of steps that cheerup you to make your thoughts valuabe and all thoughts originate from our memory that stores information gathered through life experience and inheritance. So the ability to comprehend something is limited. But the egoistic mind doesn’t get satisfied with its limited ability and hence tries to buy time constantly towards achieving its intended goal. With time effort will be involved and the mind may not know that the effort could be futile. Either the ambition to achieve something great or the fear of losing something else in the event of a failure to achieve may compel the mind to stay on the course of time forever. This could lead to an illusion also where the mind says it is progressing always while the end goal could be unreachable.

In the religious or the spiritual world man has been trying to comprehend God, Truth or whatever we might call it, which is immeasurable and incomprehensible. When we say it is ‘immeasurable’ how can the limited thought try to comprehend it? The limitation is due to the conditioning of the mind that would have existed for millions of years of man’s existence. The result of the conditioning is the individual consciousness that has its own opinions, conclusions, feelings, emotions, etc., which all eventually operate during the process of judgement by the mind. Hence whatever judgement is done could be incorrect or incomplete.

Same is true with the understanding of the ‘immeasurable’ but the mind always tries to reach at a conclusion because there is a sense of comfort, satisfaction, fulfilment and so on in any conclusion. This is nothing but an escape from the reality, truth. When the mind reaches a conclusion it may stop further enquiry and hence the truth remains deluded to it because our series of step leads you to the last step of your journey . In other words, a mind that is already having a known field of knowledge with which it always operates cannot possibly perceive the truth. So, if one wants to perceive the truth his/her mind must be totally free from all conditioning, which is nothing but staying in a silent observation where there is no identification, justification or condemnation whatsoever. Such a mind will always be watchful of every movement of thought, its actions, and the consequences of the actions and so on, trying to understand totally and learning from it. Such an understanding must be of the “Self’, the “I”, the “Me” or the “Centre” since without understanding it all that it produces as thoughts will be distorted. Hence understanding the “Self” forms the first step towards  your last step to perceiving the truth of your life.

Best of luck for your jouney ....!!! 

 

@Psychology, of mind

         Kirti sharma