Perception

How amazing it is to see the most ironic thing in this entire creation... PERCEPTION!!!!

This word first of all itself is the most funny... Funny because till you don't realise the humour in it you yourself are busy indulging in it... Mind perceives through the limitations of the 5 senses... Eg. Eyes can only see what can be seen, ears can only listen to what can be heard, tongue can taste and speak only what can be tasted or spoken, Nose can only smell what can be smelled, body can touch only what can be felt... All these senses are limited to the gross... Mind is the faculty which perceives... But the hilarious part is that Mind itself cant perceive another Mind... it can predict another mind but cant perceive it fully... hehehehe... The effort of trying to understand another mind through the limited vision is the most futile... but still most of us do it...

Till a certain level of maturity haven't set in, Its impossible to evaluate the unique individual consciousness... Perception through the 5 senses will definitely lead to misjudgement... Judgement again happens according to how you perceive a person and then the intellect compares it with the database called "Memory" and then decides either "Good" or "Bad" or whatever... Again the funny part is the memory is full of impressions which are gathered by the perception based on the 5 senses!!!! One need to rise above the perception to actually see each and every individual as Vrittis and not just people... As the mind matures one starts seeing the beautiful individual consciousness... and so on the journey begins... More the maturity of the consciousness better the "perception"...

I am not saying that perception is a bad thing or you should not do it... Rather just making you aware that this is how I have observed the pattern of the Mind... Observation, Perception and Expression are the the characteristics of the Consciousness... Letting the judgement go is what seems to be beneficial... the moment you drop it you come back to the Beautiful Present Moment... Where each and every individual is New... This realisation will lead to putting a stop to judgement which are really not necessary... With that stops the accumulation of impressions (KARMA)... You can live more Vibrant, more Pleasant, more Blissfully the Life...

Pleasure

Life is pleasurable.... Life is motivated by pleasure!!!! Depending upon the level of the quality of life, the quality and the quantity of pleasure vary... Nothing can be perfectly said about this as there are millions of permutations, combinations and vary from different individual... As each and every person is unique, His/Her way of experiencing pleasure is different & unique... Broadly can be categorised in 3 types, Tamasic, Rajasic and Sattvic...
Each and every person is stuck in either of these pleasures. Till there is a craving to experience pleasure Life will go on... Opening the deeper layers on this we can see that there is actually our own past impressions which lead to the thirst of finding higher and higher pleasures... On every level there is pleasure... through the 5 senses, Mind games, Intellectual games, etc etc... Till a seeker doesn't realise that Life itself is been motivated by pleasure this thirst will not be quenched...
For an immature mind this realisation may lead to depression, Life seems meaningless to him... But same realisation for a trained and mature mind is the state of actual liberation... Rising above the level of pleasure into Bliss... Any pleasure with sacredness will lead you to experience it 100% and will free you... Contentment will settle in... the moment there is contentment you have already risen from pleasure into bliss... Then the onward journey starts into the realm of the Self....