Suppose this universe represents the human mind; there are around 200 billion galaxies, and each galaxy contains 100s of billions of stars. Let us assume that each galaxy represents a human being. Each human being is different. Each galaxy has billions of stars and planets representing diverse thoughts. We are constantly jumping across the planets. One thought to the other is what we do throughout the day. One worry to another. What will happen to my kids? Today is their exam. How will they perform? What about my medical tests? Appointments with the doctor, installation of the LIC, electricity bill, shopping list, work at the office, news of an incident, social gatherings, and so on. We are all the times busy jumping from one thought to another.
While we are busy with one thought, our entire existence gets limited to that. We get worried about the future, develop performance anxiety, and become restless. The more we become anxious and the more tightly we hold on to that thought. We lose awareness of the space. We are too engrossed with the worries of the future of Earth that we lose awareness of the wideness of existence. We make it a mission to save the Earth, losing awareness of the fact that the Earth hardly matters at the scale of the universe. There are trillions of planets like Earth, and the sum total of those trillions of planets is just minuscule when we compare that to the size of the universe. In this vast universe with trillions of such planets, one human being, who is one among billions of human beings on the Earth, feels that he would be the savior of the Earth. That sounds so stupid.
Each night reminds us of the existence of space and stars in the universe. We can see many other stars of our own Milky Way, and also many other galaxies in the night sky. But much more important than that, we can look at the space. We can see that all the galaxies and stars put together are just like a speck of dust in the cosmic space. All our thoughts, too, are just a speck of dust in the cosmic space of reality. When we realize the grandness of the cosmic space, we get a very different understanding of ourselves. We are no longer thoughts. In fact, we can observe our own thoughts just like an astronaut looking at the planet Earth floating in the sky, and that's when our entire fixation with the thoughts gets melted, and we feel free.
Generally, we keep reacting all the time. We hold onto a thought and start reacting. We hold onto thoughts like performance in an exam, our parents' health, office politics, losses in the stock market, or a broken relationship. Whatever the thought, the more we think about it and the more we feel worried. Because we want to cling tightly to something temporary. All the stars and planets will eventually disappear. It is only when we step out of the gravity of a planet that we can observe it without identification. While we are on a specific part of Earth, morning and evening will have particular meanings, which will differ for people in the USA compared to those in India. Our senses are influenced by weather, climate, and society. This ability to step outside the gravity of thoughts and view our own mental planet from space is wonderful. It makes life magical and opens up many possibilities. Now, our existence isn’t limited to Earth—we can move from planet to planet and also enjoy being in space.
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