Sometimes we feel trapped in our brains. The more the brain tries to find a solution, the more we feel trapped and confused. Probably the brain is too focused on what we know. We fail to realize that what we know is just the tip of the iceberg. It's quite difficult for our brain to accept the limitations of its awareness. That's probably the fundamental cause behind all the psychological problems of the world. We get stressed because we extrapolate our present circumstances to our future. We are unable to acknowledge that so many possibilities exist in almost every moment.
I listened to the following video by Anita Moorjani sometime back:
https://youtu.be/snV0pXF1i8U?si=DhFKi6Ex_HGPKPxm
Around 35 minutes into the video, she provides an analogy of a warehouse. Suppose. we are in a warehouse with a headlight, and can watch a few compartments which we have explored so far, or we are presently exploring. We know only these possibilities. Suddenly, the lights in the warehouse is turned on, and the entire space is well-lit, allowing us to appreciate the vastness of the warehouse. Once that enlightenment is there, we get to understand the vastness of life. After that, even if the lights are off, our lives will undergo a significant change. We will know the existence of so many possibilities, and our lives will never be confined to the domain of the known.
But why is God playing this game with us? Why not switch on the lights and let everybody know the entire reality? After all, we are all sons and daughters of the merciful God. Is he playing some game with us? When we watch reels on YouTube, it shows the type of videos we watch more. It just reads our history and creates customized reels for us based on our areas of interest. If we are not aware, we will watch the same type of videos again and again and will develop a distorted sense of reality. However, all types of reels are available on YouTube. Similarly, we focus on certain thoughts, and our brain repeats those thoughts again and again. If we are worried about our health condition or relationship, our brain will repeat that again and again, and we will be trapped in that. Somebody said something to us, and we felt bad. His words will echo in our ears.
Most of us get so trapped in our limited worldview. We create an entire ecosystem around us, comprising people like us. We meet people who think like us, watch movies as per our interests, and also read books on the topics we like. We reject almost every thought we encounter that does not conform to our thought process. Slowly, we become limited and confined. It does not matter which country we live in or which organizations we work for. People in the best of the organizations and in the most developed countries may be as confined and as limited as a mobile phone without any internet connection. Life is full of possibilities, and somehow we choose a limited worldview and confine ourselves to that, and then hold God responsible.
The worst thing is that the people who know very little are very sure of themselves. It is because processing a lot of information requires effort. That's too much of a demand from the people enjoying holidays away from the world of reality. They just wait for some crisis to happen to realize that life is not about having liquor, wine, and fun; rather, it is an opportunity given by the divine to all of us to explore. To some extent, each one of us resists growing beyond the domain of the known. Because known is comfortable. However, as Anita Moorjani says that we may keep our life limited to one of the compartments of the big warehouse of life, or explore many more. WE can't hold the divine responsible for our narrowness. We can always type on YouTube whatever we like to watch, and it will show us what we asked for. We watch reels purely because of our laziness. Similarly, we live a limited life, purely because of our laziness. All the great personalities are also products of the same society. We just need to change the focus. However, people who take different paths will always be criticized. But that hardly matters to someone who has seen the entire warehouse well-lit even once.
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