Of course it has a source in India but today it’s hard to find application in own prosperity....
We always wonder, why India, in spite of having so much spiritual knowledge, failed to display its prosperity in today’s world. I think, answer to this will be, socially and culturally the very common accepted goal for Indian society is to reach a calm, peaceful and pleasant state. Which is linked with a state call Nirvana in spiritual journey. And various paths for reaching Nirvana is explained and practiced in Indian philosophy and spirituality. But the aspiration to create something or the dynamism and spirit of action is not celebrated to that extend. On top of that, historically a lot of rule regulations have been imposed on our society to be in moral path but we forgot the true intention of it, so as if blocking every initiative become our social moto. To prevent ourselves from some attached work which causes misery, we started discouraging any form of dynamism, this is one of the main reason behind the failure of India to flourish with its knowledge heritage.
Practicing and nurturing a calm peaceful mind and the evolving in the path to achieve that state is of course, very important in spiritual journey. The potential of all dynamism lies in a peace full self-absorbing silent moment of our mind and other faculties. Once we can stay few moment in that silent conciseness naturally we get tremendous motivation for creative work, the outcome, can be visibly displays in the passion and intensity of our work we do in our day to day life.
Now the question is, getting engaged in world of action, is a diversion from the spiritual journey, which is the primary fabric of Indian socio-cultural system. The answer should be no, but unfortunately answer appears as Yes in recent interpretation of spirituality. That passionate dynamic state of mind, is also a nature of expression of the pure soul. Ignoring this, is the common mistake in the so called religions or even spiritual path…….Quite often we ignore inspiration as another divine nature. Stay in that joy of creative state (Sristi sukher ullase) like an innocent child with full of life and dynamism is also equally divine.
We impose so much formalities, rules, restrictions on our life and on our world of action, but we simply ignore to appreciate the dynamism of pure inspiration which rises from pure inner aspiration as a divine expression. With that mind set when we take up a work with half-hearten will, we don’t find our sprit in action, don’t get the joy of work. Any effort of restricting that expression results emptiness.
I believe all the rules, regulations, laws, formalities are created only for one reason, to prevent ourselves from the addiction of some activity, which comes from attachment. The moment we wrongly associate the source of joy from work to some external object, it kills the very free nature of our existence. Then we get engaged to that activity not from the inspiration of free will but (Moha) to seek pleasure or happiness or anxiety. But in the process of stopping ourselves from addictive work we mistakenly started discouraging the inspired work too.
There is an acid test for realizing a work is from attachment or an inspired work. This explanation, I heard from somebody in TedTalk. After finishing an inspired work we leave with an ah-ha moment just feel good from the extension of the feeling during execution but doesn’t want to go back to do again the same activity but an attached work we tempt to do it again to sick some sense of fulfillment.
From outside, people can observe the passion, the intensity at the time of executing the job, which is a result of pure inspiration. No wonder, passion is the new buzzword of professional life. So we should try to embraces those inspired motivated feelings spawn inside of us and try to channelize it in some creativity or productivity. When we can identify some work and can devote ourselves in it, that time also gives a great feelings.
From my very little understanding about what is tried to be described as ultimate in any religion or spirituality, this is not such a type of Nirvana after that everything is in as calm and peace as absolute zero, neither reaching some place of ever indulging enjoyment what is loosely described as heaven, but it can be a vibrant, intense dynamism too. This has been historically ignored in the recent Indian history…and the result is obvious.