2. The Only Dilemma : Personality

The only problem in human life is we consider ourselves to be a person & in reality we are the formless ability to know.

This is not your individual problem but a peculiar problem of being a human. Every human child has to be brought-up as a person & once the child is brought-up as a person it starts believing that it is a person & forgets its reality.

Try to understand this. A human child is very vulnerable & needs a family & society to be brought-up, in the process it is given a name, it is informed the relationships & it is made to acquire skills to earn. The process goes on for almost twenty five years. When the child has become somebody, what he has really become is a person who can produce or provide what the society wants.

When he becomes self-sufficient he naturally wants to have his own family, this gives new dimensions to his personality. The personality becomes more emotional.

Now you will understand why there is a constant restlessness in the human life, it is because you have to live through this personality all the time. The dilemma is multi fold everybody looks at you as a person & you also look at everybody as a person so the personality becomes more & more confirmed.

People have found work as an escape route to get away from the restlessness & it is the most accepted & acclaimed social engagement. So people keep on working the same way all through their life & at times even if unnecessary. Work as a diversion cannot really provide relief because it is tiring & as soon as their is no engagement the restlessness pops-up! Many people try to change their work to have a pleasure but that also doesn't lead any further because the central issue is not work but You, it is your realization that you are not a person but the impersonal ability to know solves everything.

Now see how this self realization solves everything: firstly you come to know that you only feel the body but you are not the body because body is a form, secondly the person you think yourself to be is all a psychology; made-up of your name, make-believe relationships, acquired skills & the social image, finally you come to know that howsoever deeply you are made to believe & even if you are believing it for a considerable length of time, you are not & cannot become a person; this resolves the restlessness, this is Liberation.

Sanjay