Identification

                                                                          

                              From the very dawn of human civilization, humans have been identifying their need for sustenance and growth which have led them to the present information\knowledge worker age. Without the powers of the human intellect to identify the priorities to sustain the wheel of life and the growing need for adaptation to the ever magnifying changes and challenges, human civilization most probably might have been static and would have never developed through the various ages to the present age. The ability of the humans in identifying their priorities, working towards fulfilling them, instrumenting themselves around every nook and cranny of challenges and adapting to the sweeping changes around them is gradually shaping and directing them to the end of human evolution, the golden age. In fact, the end of spiritual evolution comes about when humans identify the need for their thirst to realize God, realizes that the end to human suffering can only come about when they reach a state of no-suffering and when they ponder over the fact if they have meaning into their lives hankering after worthless and meaningless material pursuits. Therefore, we can say, identifying the demand for the highest human priorities, working in a determined manner to fulfill the needs and realizing the need for adaptation to change with the growing changes in  society is what makes the clock go ticking or what makes the humans go on evoluting to transform God’s Divine mission into a living reality.

                     In the stone age, humans mostly lived off the flesh of animals, sea food and birds for food and it takes a full twenty four hours to digest one meal of non-vegetarian food. You can only imagine the lethargy it might have created for the stone age people by living off four meals a day of meat food. So they identified the need for digestive food and vast forest lands were evacuated and tilled for agricultural land to grow wheat, paddy, corn, vegetables etc. This identification about efficient food for the belly made humans undergo a transition from the stone age to the agricultural age. By then, human population was slowly increasing. People were gradually preparing  for the industrial age in which human life would be more hectic, compatible clothing needed and the demand for multi storeyed buidings and skyscrapers were on the rise. Therefore, this made humans transit onto the industrial age because people identified the value of time and fast food was created and transportation medium made efficient, industrial textile factories were created to create more efficient clothing and multi storeyed buildings and skyscrapers were built to accomodate  more people and  house small, medium and big corporate houses.  As time flew on, existing machines became out of date and became incompatible and inefficient and technology had to advance to make human life faster, easier and comfortable and therefore advancement in technology in the name of smart machines like computers and super computers were created to make individual, societal and the entire world go techno to make human life efficient. This identification shifted human race from the industrial onto the information\knowledge worker age.

                              Being identified with something or somebody or getting identified in principle terms is necessary to chug the engine of human life, society and the entire world. Our individual, societal and the world affairs would be in a minimal  speed growth if we don’t get identified with our individual, conjugal, moral, societal and planetary duties and responsibilities. There would be a lot of distraction in a house if a toddler was never amused by his toys, the means of livelihood could never be arranged if someone could not identify the need for some sound education and a career, a conjugal life would be unsatisfactory if the concerned couple would not be sexually and emotionally compatible, the society and the world would be obscene, profane, immoral and violent if there were no specific moralistic codes of conduct and rules and regulations to curb violence. These are some of the identification that can create a feasible individual, societal and planetary life. A positive form of identification is considered mandatory to sustain worldly life.

                      Now let’s get into some details what negative identification can do to human lives. I guess we have all at one time or the other watched various pornographic sites on the internet." Don’t be embarrassed! because I too have watched X-rated movies on the internet." The rise of sexual violence in the world like child molestation, obscene verbal sexual abuse and sexual harassment, incests, rapes are all manifestations of the widespread pornographic reach of the people. Watching too much violent movies can make any adult go around equipped with a lethal weapon and to just get the nerves and feel of a gun slinging cowboy. A  youth who has just lost his girlfriend can go into bouts and bouts of an alcoholic spree and become an alcoholic because of his identification with the sorrow of losing his flame. In the Mahabharat age, the pandavas identification and attachment to Draupadi started a great war between them and the Kauravas. In other words, negative identification can do  a lot of harm to everyone who gets identified with thoughts, people, things , situations and circumstsances in a negative way. The only thing that creates a havoc in individual lives, society and the entire world is negative identification.

                                      "Identification  creates prosperity as well as adversity"

                                                                                                           -Ashwas Thapa

                       Yes, identification has the powers to create either prosperity or adversity in your life. Let me give you an example. I had a soulmate before, for whom my love was very very deep and very very intense. After quite some time into a relationship with her, suddenly one day, I got identified with a dual thought about her. This single dual thought about her set off a series of successive dual thoughts because I got identified with the onset of that particular dual thought and started fuelling it by thinking about it continually day in and day out. If I hadn’t got identified with that dual thought and had not fuelled it further by thinking about it continually like water rushing out of fountain I would not have succumbed to a two decade long bout of Paranoid Schizophrenia. The process of myself getting identified with a single abnormal and dual thought and the succeeding event of fuelling it continually made me suffer a twenty  year long psychosis of Paranoid  Schizophrenia." Read carefully and remember!!!" Getting identified with a single dual thought can catapult yourself into suffering from the worst form of psychosis and make you handicapped and paralysed for a full twenty years. This is negative identification and now I would like to talk about a positive one . I suffered from the worst form of psychosis because of identification with a dual thought but I never regretted the onslaught and instead took this as a stepping stone to propel myself onto the path of meditation. I succeeded on the path of the spiritual growth process and forever established myself into the field of everlasting happiness due to God’s  grace and Mahaavatara Baba's Divine intervention. Besides Brahman and Mahaavatara Baba, there is only one saint responsible for my encounter with spiritual destiny and that is Sri Sathya Sai Baba."Thank you Sai". Today, I perceive the world’s richest man who is not Enlightened a beggar and myself who doesn’t even own a single penny but who has found his field of everlasting happiness, an Emperor.

                        Let us take care and get identified with only the positive and totally avoid negative identification. Let us be moralistic and spiritual and above all be good human beings by identifying ourselves with our real essence, the soul nature.

 As the saying goes,

                                   " Only the wisest and stupidest never change."
                                                                                              -Confucious

                       So let us make a vow and a strong resolution today not to get identified with negative identification so as not to prove ourselves stupid and idiotic.
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