Dr. Vijai S Shankar MD.PhD.
Published on www.academy-advaita.com
The Netherlands
3th July 2018
Wrong
“Only’
Every educated human being expects and accepts that wrong action should not be done in any issue in daily life. They also believe that a wrong action in any issue in daily life should not be done by reason, logic and common sense.
When the wrong is done in any issue in daily life, man and woman are displeased and wish and want man not to do anything wrong, because they are convinced that the wrong action by reason, logic and common sense should never be done.
He or she also believes that the wrong thing regarding any issue in daily life should never be said. They also believe that the wrong thing cannot be said regarding any issue in daily life because of reason, logic and common sense.
When the wrong thing is done by man or woman in any issue in daily life, which is neither expected nor accepted by reason, logic and common sense, man or woman get angry accompanied by assorted emotions and consequences.
When the wrong words are spoken by man or woman in any issue in daily life, which is neither expected nor accepted by reason, logic and common sense, man or woman get angry accompanied by assorted emotions and consequences.
The anger and the assorted emotions and consequences that are expressed are expected and accepted by reason, logic and common sense. They are, however, neither expected nor accepted by reason, logic and common sense when they are expressed, because it is believed by reason, logic and common sense that one should not express anger.
This is the paradox in daily life, which has been going on ever since man and woman existed on earth. Therefore, there is no guarantee that it would not happen in daily life in the future either.
If man or woman does not get angry when the wrong thing in any issue in daily life is done or when the wrong thing is said in any issue in daily life, then neither the assorted emotions nor the consequences that accompany anger, including the anger, would not happen.
So what could the understanding be that prevents anger from happening when the wrong action or the wrong words are spoken in any issue in daily life, is the question?
When understanding happens to man that every moment in life happens by itself and man does not make any moment in life and, also, that every action is in the moment and every word spoken is in the moment, he will also understand that the action and the spoken words in the moment cannot be other than they are, man will never get angry.
The enlightened understand that whatever action is in the moment is not wrong, because the enlightened understand that whatever action is in the moment cannot be any other action instead. The wrong action in the moment neither means it is wrong nor is it an action that should not be in the moment, because life is a singular movement.
The enlightened understand that whatever is spoken in the moment is not wrong, because the enlightened understand that it is the only thing that could be spoken in the moment and not any other words. The wrong thing that is said in the moment neither means that the wrong thing is said nor what is said should not be said in the moment, because life is a singular movement.
Author: Dr. Vijai S. Shankar
© Copyright V. S. Shankar 2018
Editor’s Note:
Whatever action takes place within any moment is not done by man, nor whatever is said, for man does make the moment within which it happens. Any fault, therefore, that may be found with whatever is done or said within the moment is not nor can be attributed by man. The ‘blame-game’, as it has come to be known, has no validity. The wise are gifting each one of us, in this article, with their deep understanding that every moment in life and whatever is within the moment happens by itself, which is just a singular movement. The play in the moment is albeit illusory and there is no other play.
Julian Capper
German Translator’s Note:
Every educated person wants the right thing to happen. The right thing is associated with many emotions and feelings. But the wrong generates much stronger emotions and feelings in human beings, because the wrong is what disturbs the person, which makes him angry and makes him desperate. Therefore, it is a blessing that mankind through the sages, as here in Dr. Shankar's article, a way out of emotional chaos is shown. The path is not the pursuit of the right way instead of the wrong way, but a clear understanding of the way as the only possible way. The only possible way is that of man as manifestation of the evolution of life, albeit illusory. Therefore it can not be wrong.
Marcus Stegmaier, Germany.