How to cope with uncertainity
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October 11, 2010
I will share few words on uncertainity and coping up with uncertainity. Stop creating this constant illusion of certainity. It is a deeply engraved quality of matter to be certain. Please understand, matter material is always certain. So the material part of you always wants everything to be certain. Whenever the spirit, the spontaneity takes over, life brings in front of you some change, some sudden unexpected movement due to so many reasons.
Matter by its very nature is certain. Consciousness by its nature is spontaneity. When you are not able to handle spontaneity the name you give for that spontaneous movement is uncertainty. The very word uncertainity carries a kind of a condemnation in it, disrespect in it.
Whenever you face uncertain movements, understand life is in front of you. Consciousness is in front of you. Handle it, play with it, live it. There are some movements where you can change the matter and get rid of uncertainity but there are some movements where you need to live with it. Our big confusion is between these two movements - when we have to handle uncertainty and when we have to change uncertainity. I tell you, am prepared to handle uncertainty 24 hours. That courage will take care where you need to change uncertainty. So the basic thing which you need is, decide to handle uncertainity consciously, go through it. That courage is enough. Whenever uncertainty comes, if you can change by outer change, you will start changing it.
Do not let your matter claim chaos in your life. Chaos is nothing but your declaration. Don’t declare emergency, don't declare chaos. Whenever and whatever you call as chaos or emergency happens, declare spontaneity. Put a board on your table saying now I am behaving spontaneously. Tell yourself now I am playing the spontaneous game. Declare I am living, I am living.
Shiva in his Shiva Sutras declares very beautifully,living in utter insecurity is enlightenment. Living in utter insecurity, your intuition, intelligence, everything is awakened by force; just by demand it’s awakened. So uncertainty is life. Live it.
Contemplation – contemplate on what is uncertainity. How can you apply this knowledge in your life.