During our childhood, there was a ritual that whenever some baby was crying without any reason, parents used to say "Nazar Lag Gayi Hai" and they used to have some ritual such as seven rounds of the kid with an oil lamp or salt in the hand. Yesterday, I watched the following video on YouTube related to Quantum Physics:
https://youtu.be/r848-ArgP1Y?si=XAHMvN66Vaj6k_Kk
At the quantum level, there is no difference between matter and energy, particle and wave and all the possibilities may be manifested. However, the moment, there is an observation, the reality gets fixed. That's something phenomenal. We have all the possibilities within, however, we get fixated on one of the possibilities and make ourselves limited.
We often read the news of suicides in IITs and IIMs which are the so-called best institutions in India. A kid who got admission into the best of the colleges commits suicide. He explores the possibility of beating the competition to get admission into the college and then gets trapped with the thoughts of being a failure to the extent that life looks worthless and he commits suicide. We see many such instances where well-educated people turn into terrorists. People commit heinous crimes like murders and rapes. People exploit others to earn more wealth and comforts. Why would any being who lives in the domain of possibilities try to restrict the freedom of another person? Why would there be exploitation, rape, or murder in the domain of possibilities? Probably that can happen only when we are fixated on something quite narrow and become blind to the possibilities.
Fixation is not limited to criminals or weak minds. Even the top businessmen get fixated on the idea of being number one and start exploiting the small fishes in the pond by eating away their business. The best of the politicians become dictators to perpetuate their political empires. The best of the bureaucrats become obsessed with positions and go down to any extent to protect their positions. It is not restricted to only businessmen, politicians, and bureaucrats. People get fixated on their properties and fight long battles in courts against their siblings to get those properties. People get fixated on relationships and the people whom they claim to have loved become their greatest enemies. People become so fanatic about their religious ideas that they can kill the people believing in the other religions just to prove themselves right.
The most amazing thing about fixation is that the more we are fixated the more we are certain of the thing we are fixated on. A terrorist is so certain of his belief system that he may kill many. A person committing suicide is so certain that suicide will relieve him of pain that he gives away his life under that belief. Most of us are so certain of our belief systems that we live the way we have been living almost the whole of our lives and never ever examine ourselves. We keep bearing the pain for the whole of our lives believing that to be a reality while the reality may be that pain is just a creation of our own mind. Maybe, certain sensations in the body are categorized by us as pain and as our belief system gets stronger, the feeling of pain also becomes stronger.
I really do not know the possibilities of choiceless observation by a fixated mind. I have myself tried observation in the moments of fixation and the thoughts to which the mind is fixated at that moment come back again and again and it is actually very difficult to get rid of those thoughts. In the moments when the mind is not so fixated, it is easier to observe the possibilities. I found that observation of breath is quite effective since that takes the attention away from the thoughts. In the state of thoughtlessness, we can observe different sensations in our body without assigning any value to the same. Observation, without fixation, fills us with infinite possibilities. It is a feeling of liberation and freedom. However, the moment we come back to the domain of thought, we become limited, stressed, and confined. Probably, unless the entire domain of mind and body is free of fixations, we will continue to remain limited. It appears to me that we will evolve to be free of all the fixations. Sometime in the future, when we are free of fixations, fears, and insecurities, human beings will be capable of manifesting all the possibilities magically.
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