The Hardware and Software of Your Being !!
Today let us understand what life is and how one can take control over life. People talk about the spirit and their involvement in religion is only to understand the truth about life and to take life to the next level.
Let me explain this through a simple example that everyone will connect with. Since people are engaged in gadgets and involved in applications more than the knowledge of technology; this example will make you realize that life is simple only when you understand and apply this understanding.
Human being as Hardware and Software: Consider a laptop that works perfectly fine. But this is just hardware; the display, the power cable, the keyboard etc… its life-energy or Prana is the current. Without it the laptop cannot be used. Similarly, all the changes one can do with oneself can happen only until there is life-energy or Prana within us.
Now even if the hardware is perfectly fine and there is life-energy or current, the laptop can be utilized only when the software is loaded. Hardware is physical, software on the other hand is non-physical. For the software to be utilized you need the hardware to be available in a properly functioning state.
You will connect with me now; Your body is the physical hardware and the mind is the non-physical aspect that makes the physical body to express itself.
When a person has a physical problem meaning a problem in the hardware, it can be fixed without disturbing the software or without disturbing the mind.
But when there is a problem in the software, we need the hardware through which we can fix it. And that is our body. It is therefore the essential duty of every individual to have a healthy body or a well-functioning hardware. Because the best software with the best intellectual capacity cannot be utilized without good health.
Fixing the Software: Now consider a problem in the software or a mental problem. This non-physical problem in the mind cannot be seen, diagnosed or assessed using any technology. No direct parameters like a scan, MRI, X-Ray are available or can ever be available to assess the problem in the mind. One can only land up on predictions and assumptions. How does one fix a software or mental problem?
To fix a mental problem one first needs to get the body into right condition. The brain and blood circulation must achieve optimum coordination and alignment. Only in this state can the software problem or the state of disturbance in the mind be fixed.
We might not know the reason why we are depressed but we can raise ourselves to a level where we are no more depressed, or the depression is totally removed from the present state. This is where meditation or Atma-Dhyana helps.
I will explain this with a simple example. Imagine a glass of water with salt in it. Now you cannot pray to God saying, ‘the water is full of salt, but I don’t want the saline taste’. It’s impossible. If there is salt, there will be a saline taste. You cannot remove the salt that’s already dissolved in water. It is impossible to remove the salt, but you can reduce the taste of the salt by simply adding more pure water to the glass. This is what happens in meditation.
By adding more water, the salt becomes irrelevant or its presence is not considered. This is always a possibility for human beings.
One could have landed in unexpected situations that we call struggles and suffering but we have the ability not to remove the salt but to add more water to the glass. And for this to happen, to be able to add more water, you need to increase the capacity of the glass. This is called ‘expansion in consciousness’. When the capacity of the vessel is increased, the energy is automatically increased. Now the salt is still there but it is totally insignificant. It can no more disturb you.
This basic understanding is for entire humanity. Meditation acts like an antivirus to your system. And Spirituality is simply taking care of both the hardware and the software and understanding that to fix a problem in the software you need a hardware only through which can be done.
That’s how the entire process is designed, Meditation or ATMA-DHYANA is for the Software and PRANA-VRITTI is for the Hardware and together you can create miracles through Atmayoga.
Wishing you a Life Full of Peace, Success and Happiness !!
Atmayogi Shri Aasaanji
Aham Brahmasmi !
