The actions of any great personality in this world are guided by love, compassion, and freedom. It is because of "Awareness" of the real nature of "self". As we become aware of our true nature, we feel "free". Our true "being" is free of all the identifications because all the identifications exist in the domain of ignorance. Due to ignorance, we feel insecure, and due to that insecurity, we try to identify with something or the other to feel secure, depending upon the "mental stories" we listened to since our childhood. Some feel secure with social validation, some with relationships, some with friends, some with money, and some with powers. Some feel secure by believing certain concepts of "God" and believing that "God" will help in the moments of crisis. Some believe in the theory of Karma and keep accumulating "good deeds" in their bank account to remain safe in the moments of crisis. Some feel secure with the blessings of some "baba". Some feel secure in certain "mental visualizations" about certain divine experiences.
Awareness does something very different to us. Awareness takes away all these mental concepts of securities and makes us naked. Of course, if we are wrapped in inauthenticities, first of all, those inauthenticities have to drop to connect to reality. How can an inauthentic self connect to reality? As these inauthenticities and identifications drop, we get to experience our true nature, and with that realization comes the realization of oneness with all. That feeling of oneness fills us with a feeling of "love". We connect to the people around us and the task at hand in a very different manner. We do not work in the office to get a salary so that we can spend the salary on some comforts and pleasures. Rather, we work because we feel connected to the people for whom we are working. Our work is driven by that "love," and since we feel connected to those people, we are actually working for ourselves, and there is no effort. There is no conflict to reduce or minimize the work. That is why we enjoy the state of flow when "awareness of the reality" is the guiding force behind our actions. "Love" is not a barter of emotions between two individuals and can definitely not be selective. It is like rain that showers on everybody unless somebody is adamant not to touch it and fortifies himself with an "umbrella of mental stories". It is like the Sun that shares its sunlight with everybody, unless somebody is busy sleeping with thick curtains of ignorance.
The feeling of "love" is followed by a feeling of compassion. We realize that all beings are connected, but due to ignorance, some of the beings identify themselves with positions, material possessions, communities, belief systems, and religion. We understand the miseries of their lives. We understand how they are trapped in the cycle of ignorance and are unable to utilize the fullest potential of their lives. We understand their suffering, and that fills us with compassion with the fixated people. "Compassion" does not necessarily mean help. No doubt, a compassionate person would like to help fellow human beings who are trapped in ignorance. However, none can help others unless the others are "open" to being helped. Rama tried to help Ravana, and Krishna tried to help Duryodhana. However, sometimes people close all the windows and doors so tightly that not even a ray of light can enter their inner selves. Compassion does not mean throwing one's life at the feet of an idiot who has no respect for "love". "Compassion" means awareness of that "shared consciousness" and also how that "shared consciousness" has fallen into the trap of "ignorance-driven identifications and fixations".
Awareness of the reality brings "freedom". Since our fixation with the identification drop, we become free to explore the unknown. Freedom has been the most significant attribute of all the great people in this world. Meerabai will drink poison for that freedom, Socrates will die to express his views freely, Bhagat Singh will choose to be hanged rather than dying as a slave. Even if most of our identifications drop, we always remain attached to the body and its sensations. Any person, however aware he may be, would always feel pain if there is pain in any part of the body. Yet these people chose extreme pain and torture to remain free. They did so because the pain of letting go of that freedom is far more than the body being tortured.
An "aware" person lives with love, compassion, and freedom. He loves the work at hand, the people around, and all the living beings. He has empathy with everybody around. He explores the domain of the unknown freely. Exploration is the purpose of his life. He would not like to waste time in any limited frame, and that is why all great personalities in this world love "solitude". They like to spend time with their own selves and the books written by "aware" people rather than wasting time in meaningless and inauthentic social interactions. They are "aware enough" to see through the inauthenticities and therefore choose "solitude" over inauthentic conversations. They can't accept inauthenticities in exchange for social validation. That's a very stupid exchange for them. That's why they have often been misunderstood and mistreated by society, and ironically, these are the people who become the role models of the society when the society grows and understands what they meant to say. However, any person who becomes "aware" of the reality will have no "choice" except living with love, freedom, and compassion because "awareness" and "identifications" can never go hand in hand.
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