The Only Permanent Solution to Any Problem Is to Transcend It - 14th January 2020
Saar (Essence)
Ananta teaches that worldly problems cannot be solved at the level of the mind, but must be transcended by shifting to a higher perspective of grace and acceptance.
The only permanent solution to any problem is to transcend it and not to fix it.
The universe is not messing up the recipe of my life; it is exactly how it is meant to be.
We cannot understand life, and that is all you need to understand.
contemplative
Transcript
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A very strong reluctance to give it a penalty to everyone after knowing that it's a carpet, yes. In theory, sir, if I don't solve the garbage and filter it here, it may come back, yeah? I need to make sure that it is solved.
So you need to solve the garbage. Okay, so give me one example of solved garbage that is permanently gone now because we solved it. There is no problem which is resolved completely in that way. There comes a point where, and you will notice that this is how it played out, that even when we think we came to a resolution, actually there was still an element of just letting go involved in that. So in a way, we transcend. The only solution to any, the only permanent solution to any problem is to transcend it and not to fix it at the same level. To transcend it, you see? So to transcend it is to look at it from a higher perspective. To look at it from a higher perspective.
So because from a personal perspective, for example, there is no solution to the relationship problem. If it says that—I am not recommending that everybody goes off the relationship—I'm just saying that we can have an idea of the perfect relationship, but it is not found in this phenomenal world. And it is nobody's fault. Even if you and we do find the perfect partner, whatever is meant in our life is easy, that's how it comes and goes. But this perfection is not recognized because our ideas about what the partner should be also keep changing.
You look at most relationships, how do we start then? How does it start? Oh, we are attracted first to the differences, and opposites attract. We first get attached to the differences over here. So, you know, something, 'You complete me because I was half and you were half, now you complete me.' That's how it's done. And after you get into it, it becomes a committed relationship or you get married. So after that, it is just like, 'Why are you like this? How do you change a bit? If you could just become more like me, you will be so happy.' Then the boy part, you start to try and change each other, you see? And how the other one should change.
Even if the other one conforms, even if they conform, if they're of a subservient nature, sometimes they do conform, you see? But again, the mind is not happy because the mind will say, for example, 'Oh, you used to be so independent, now what has happened? You have not become like how you were, it was so exciting like that time.' So, so trying to solve it at that level, if there's the world, do these ideas keep coming? Okay, now how can I patch it up? First we change the person to become like us, then we say, 'Oh, the excitement is gone because we're so like-minded, you should become a little more independent.' And this thing, once they start to become independent, 'No, now we're becoming too different, I feel like there's too much distance between us.' It's just not solvable at that level.
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So you have to transcend it, look at it from a higher perspective. You see, what is the higher perspective? You could look at it as Grace. Everything that happens is Master's Grace, Guru Kripa, or something. You could see that all of this is just a fleeting part of the appearance. There is nothing to be solved, you see? The universe is not messing up the recipe of my life. Existence is exactly how it is meant to be. And even if the ups and downs do happen, it is happening in the amusement park called the world.
So, and you don't end the problem by looking at it from one higher perspective, otherwise relationship, money, security... how much money one needs to be secure? Because billionaires are still insecure. Some have ten rupees for the day, just for lunch, and are very secure. 'I have money.' So, health of the body, how long will you keep it healthy? 100 years, 200, 300 years, whatever. How long will you solve body problems at the body level? You have to transcend. And the search for meaning, how long will we keep trying to put meaning onto this world, burden the world with our meaning? 'It must mean this because that's what I think.' Well, simply, all this existence is playing out. It is a human condition to say, 'Oh, this is what it means,' and the world is like, 'What?' This is what life means, life is going, 'What I mean?' Social meaning, meaning... why does everything have to have meaning, hey? And the minute you conclude, 'This is the meaning,' life shows you a different color, a different shade. So we cannot understand life, and that is all that you can understand. And you don't have to. To transcend our problem is to see that there is no such problem like I have to solve.