Every country has its laws. We follow them, we are good. We don’t follow them, then that has its consequences – fines, imprisonment. As they say, ignorance of law is no excuse.
Life in this universe is no different. Our lives are governed by the laws of the Universe. Just like the law of gravity, invisible yet decoded, these laws are always at work. If we can understand those laws, and learn to accordingly operate, life would certainly flow easy.
1. Law of Duality
2. Law of Impermanence
3. Law of Cause and Effect (Karma)
My very first post was on Ego – Duality. Its time again for the basics.
Law of Duality means that on this plane, in this form, on this planet, as humans gathering vast experiences, we experience life in two extremes or rather opposites. Look around you – day follows night and is followed by day. Birth follows death and death is followed by birth. Happiness follows sadness and sadness is followed by happiness. High with low, positive with negative, success with failure (although there are no failures, only feedbacks), abundance with lack, and vice versa. Without the other, we can’t experience what is. If darkness wasn’t there, we wouldn’t know what light means. If we did not experience sadness, we wouldn’t know the meaning of happiness. The opposites are nothing but the Yin and Yang, Shiva and Shakti, masculine and feminine, inhalation and exhalation. They all derive a meaning or purpose only because of the existence of the other.
Rejection or aversion to one, means rejection of the whole. So rejecting sadness and embracing only happiness, makes the experience of life incomplete. Rejecting death and embracing only birth, makes the in between i.e., life incomplete. Just as music lies between the notes, life happens only between birth and death, between inhalation and exhalation. Between each contraction and expansion. Rejecting negativity or brushing it under the carpet and forcing positivity, is rejecting exactly the other half of one. Enriching life and experiences means embracing Duality with equanimity. Knowing that the entire universe, our solar system, our planet, life on this planet is governed by this law of duality and embracing it in totality is necessary if one wants to really experience life in a holistic manner.
Just as it is okay to feel love, it is okay to feel fearful. Just as its okay to feel positive, it is okay to feel negative. Just as it is okay to feel happy, it is okay to feel low or sad. Acknowledging it for what it is, is an expression of love for the self. But post acknowledgement, what one does, matters. The whole game of acceptance is around non resistance to what is. For whatever we resist, persists.
Look yourself and around with the lens of duality – with Non-Resistance!!