Are You Lost in the Delusion?

There are many things currently occurring in the world. Wars, economic hardships and an ongoing effort to stay emotionally balanced and aware, to name a few. Depending on your perspective of what is going on, you could either be in a state of hope or in a state of despair.

For some, it is the circumstances in their respective countries that they perceive as the source of their anger or despair. For others, it is the presence of people and leaders that they trust and admire that evoke a sense of hope and anticipation. Wherever you are on the spectrum, it is important to recognize that you are still in a "delusion".

A delusion is defined as "a false belief or judgement about external reality, held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary".

If how you perceive your world, and everything within it, is from the place of something is wrong - then you will experience the corresponding emotions to that. And if you how perceive your world, and everything with it, as something is right, then you will experience the corresponding emotions to that perspective. Yet, in the realm of awareness, awakeness and consciousness, both perspectives are delusion.

The delusion is that something specific, with only one CORRECT perspective, is actually occurring. But think for a moment - if we consider, by agreement, that everyone sees the world from their very own, unique perspective, then it would be accurate to say that what is true for one person will not be true for another. If you've ever discussed a movie with another, it is likely that even if you both agree that you liked the movie, you both will have different perspectives and ideas about what you saw. No 2 people see the same thing alike, even when it seems like they do.

In the realm of liberation from suffering, suffering meaning being adrift on a sea of emotions and perspectives generated from what you believe, it is transcending all states of perspectives as "truth" that engenders that liberation. It is said that for Moksha (Liberation), it requires the transcendence of all 3 gunas - Sattva (Goodness-Harmony), Rajas (Passion-Activity) and Tamas (Ignorance-Inertia).

So, the more we handcuff ourselves to "righteousness", the more it enhances and expands our delusion. The more we buy into the delusion, the more we suffer. The more we suffer, the more dense our everyday experience of life. The denser our experience of life, the more likely we are to live in a comatose state. Until one day, we are at the precipice of our bodily transition from this body, what we refer to as death, with no preparation for it or what comes after.

To snap out of our self-induced delusion, we need to pay attention to what we are feeling and recognize, first and foremost, and above all, that those feelings relate ONLY to what we believe, not to the truth. And that what we believe, can, and in all likelihood, with new information, will change, and dramatically at that.

To achieve a state of liberation the three most important questions to answer are:

• Do you care more about what you feel than you do being liberated from suffering from what you feel?

• Are you 100% certain that what you feel is from "your" perspective? Or have you adopted another's perspective as your own to justify how you feel?

• Do you really want liberation from suffering to experience unlimited Love, Peace, Harmony and Ecstasy? Or, is your desire a pretense - meaning, you pretend you want to enter the abode of the divine but are unwilling to let go of your beliefs in order to do so? Because it is an impossibility to enter the abode of light, the realm of ecstasy, fettered to the belief that what you "feel" is "true".

Ultimately, it makes no difference if we want liberation or if we want to stay in the delusion. Both paths bring us to the same end - the departure from this earth, leaving our body behind. The most evocative inquiry of all is the state you want to be in when you get there.