A life of non-resistance

A life of non-resistance- Anant Sri

If you observe carefully you shall see that people are in constant resistance. A child is provided for all his needs, there is no struggle in life and so he is non-resistant and is mostly happy. And he observes everything with curiosity and a natural joy.

Then in youth also you do not resist the change for you are eager and looking forward to being young. However impulsiveness and agitation is often found in teens as they observe elders acting freely while all keep advising them constantly. There is no freedom for them, and their natural energy is not allowed to flow freely and this pressure makes them anxious to grow up fast to adulthood so that they can act the way they feel like. Though the energy levels are high in teens yet there is constant pressure of non-acceptance of the present state due to their yearning for freedom.

Then as you grow old a strange type of anxiety grips you and you resist all changes towards getting old. There is a deep conditioning that getting old is not desirable. Now this conditioning comes at any age depending on person to person but by the age of forty, this grips all. And with it comes numerous problems both on physical and mental planes. Now it is a matter of research that how far these problems are genuine or they are merely results of unaware living. Our thoughts and experiences affect our living. With this conditioning all changes towards getting old are not acceptable to us and so there is constant struggle in life.

The body moves at its pace, and with time it will get old also, that is natural. And it is meaningless and foolish to resist. Moreover when you interfere in its natural movement, it decays faster. The more you resist the more you get old whether it is physically or mentally. You have to accept and flow with the change and then things move smoothly.

Not only a specific figure is decided for your body but a shape is planned for your mind too. The parents, the society, the family, the cults, all play a role in fitting you into some frame of body and mind and that is why businesses associated with these, thrive. There are products and yoga to give a figure to your body likewise there are products of meditation and other techniques to give a figure to your mind. Many businesses run on this psychology of people. Many products are there in the market to make you look younger and delay ageing. There is great competition and marketing techniques, all providers trying to prove their products better than the others.

If you can let go these mental conditionings and these structures, both mental and physical, where you are expected to fit in a particular frame due to conditionings prevailing in society, all these pseudo businesses will have to go.

All these things create constant struggle in man.

The body mind structure is different for each individual. Everyone’s body is different and all bodies cannot fit in the same frame. But the conditioning is such that there is attack and expectations from all sides creating great pressure on the mind. The mind is delicate and if these pressures increase there are chances that mind may rupture and mental problems may crop up. Compulsion in any form is damaging.

If people would live in a natural way in harmony with the existence in a state of complete surrender, life would be very easy to live. The body and mind have their own natural intelligence, that we know as body wisdom and if you live with this wisdom, the body itself guides you. If we can allow each individual to make his independent choices then his energy flow will be natural, life will be easy and a person can experience better health and happiness. Freedom to make choice with awareness is choice-less awareness.

The way we understand youth is a myth. Youth in the true sense would mean that all your energies remain active. Youth is expression of your internal energy. When you drop out of mental and physical resistance then the expression of your inner energy increases, the flow is unobstructed and natural. You look young and there is a glow around you. You become more attractive as your inner beauty radiates.

Living in complete surrender and in a non-resistant state brings ease, simplicity and beauty to life.