Aloneness is our very nature, but we are not aware of it. Because we are not aware of it. We remain strangers to ourselves, and instead of seeing our
Aloneness as tremendous beauty and bliss, silence and peace at - easiness with existence, we
misunderstand it as loneliness.
loneliness is misunderstood aloneness. Once you misunderstand your aloneness as loneliness, the whole context changes. Aloneness has a beauty and grandeur, a positivity; loneliness is poor, negative, dark, dismal. The dictionary meaning is the same; that show the mind of people who create dictionaries. They don’t understand at all the vast difference between loneliness and aloneness. Loneliness is a gap. Something is missing , something is needed to fill it, and nothing can ever fill it because it is a misunderstanding in the first place. As you grow older, the gap also grow bigger. People are so afraid to be by themselves that they do any kind of stupid thing. Somehow one wants to remain engaged. That engagement may be with people, may be with work... there are workholics; they are afraid when the weeekend come close. What are they going to do? And if they don’t do anything, they are
left to themselves, and that is the most painful experince. People are playing cards, chess; people are watching television for hours. People are listening to the radio just to avoid themselves. The only reason for all these activites is not to be left alone; it is very fearful. And this idea is taken from others. Who told you that to be alone is a fearful state? Those who have known aloneness say something absolutely differrent . they say there is nothing more beatiful, more peaceful, more joyful than being alone. But you listen to the crowd. The people who live in misunderstanding are in such majority, that who bother about Zarathustra or a Gautam Buddha? These single individuals can be wrong, can be hallucinating,, can be deceiving themselves, or deceiving you, but millions of people cannot be wrong. And million of people agree that to be left to oneself is worst experience in life; it is hell. This escape from yourself , you have learned from the crowd. Because everybody is escaping, you start escaping. Every child is born in a
crowd and
starts imitating people; what other are doing, he starts thinking that this is what others are in , he starts thinking that this is what life is all about. And he has missed life completely So I remind you, don’t misunderstand aloneness as a loneliness. Loneliness is certainly sick; aloneness is perfect health. Your first and primary step towards finding the meaning and significance of life is to enter into your aloneness . once you have entered your innermost core of being , you cannot believe your own eyes: you were carrying so much joy, so many blessings and so much love .
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