CRISIS In HUMAN LIFE

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Crisis in human beings are such wonderful aspects of life.

It sounds weird isn’t it? Well, it is true. Crisis is wonderful. It takes you to the core of your being. Every crisis that we face is actually telling us what we are not. We always want to know more and more about ourselves. We always want to have confirmation about everything.

Our entire life is about finding some important thing about us. The crisis that we face does exactly the opposite. They keep telling you what you are not. We try to run away from them as we don’t want to know what we are not. Aren’t we afraid to know ‘what we are not’. Yes we are because that puts us into limiting conditions, isn’t it? Don’t we all know that we are unlimited and we would like to become unlimited.

Then there is a situation which tells us, ‘Come on, this is not something that you can do’. We really don’t like this attitude. We try to run away from it, try to hide from this situation and as we are about to overcome that situation when again we are faced by the same limitations. Again some situations tell us to accept it, it is not your cup of tea anymore.

Moreover, when it comes to your own beliefs and value system, we absolutely deny it. We never want to change our value system. Is the situation out there demands it or the situation in here demands it? We can easily fight with the outer situation when it comes to challenge our beliefs or values. But when we from very core of our being start challenging what we believed so thoroughly? Can we cope with that? Can we think of ourselves without our values and beliefs? The fear is losing oneself. If I don’t believe in my own values, what would become of me?

Aren’t we all in our mid-life crisis challenging the core values which were so dear to us? We start with unbelief and yet we want to preserve it? What is it that is stopping us from detaching from the values and beliefs? It is the fear of loss of one’s own being. If I stop believing in this or that value, who will I be? Where will I find myself? Won’t I be lost in the chaos of the world?

Are we really only our beliefs and values? Is that the core of Human beings? What are values and beliefs after all? Aren’t they important for the smooth functioning of society? Am I not my value system? For whom do I need the values? Is it to show society or is it to show me? In any case, don’t I need the values to be my own self?

Are we really our values? Are we really our beliefs? What are the values? Are the values making us free? Can a human being be free in exercising different values? Are we free in our choices when we are exercising the values in different situations? There is no denial that values are important for our social life. In spite of this, why does every human being start challenging the core values in his life in the mid-life? Why suddenly the inner world is shaken up completely? The values which were so dear are no more appealing. What message is the spiritual world giving us through the threat to our own core? The values that were so dear now seem very limiting. Why do they become suddenly limiting? Whom are the values limiting actually?

In spite of their purpose to serve human beings, the value system has an aspect of limiting human beings which is strongly felt in mid-life. The values instead of helping now seem very unfriendly suddenly.

The spirit that is ever free can’t take up these limitations any more. For the spirit, freedom is its very nature. Every limiting belief is an obstacle in that direction to freedom.

Almost all systems of spirituality tell man to overcome good and evil. It is easy to understand to overcome evil but why goodness? This is an area where most of the human beings struggle. Why overcome the goodness present in the human being? The spirit is ever free of good and evil. It is complete in itself. It does not need the approval of goodness to be itself. The core values are hindrance on the path of freedom. It is only when a human being is free from all sorts of beliefs, values that he can understand and exercise his own freedom.

The struggle of the great people is overcoming goodness. Evil is not so difficult to overcome as much as goodness. Aren’t we attached to our own goodness? Is it not a hindrance to our own freedom?

The mid-life crisis challenges this goodness in us and they wake us up to the ever free real spirit.