Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Essential Philosophy: Flow With Life
    Essential Philosophy: Flow With Life
    Essential Philosophy: Flow With Life
    Ebook47 pages41 minutes

    Essential Philosophy: Flow With Life

    By Raja Sharma

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    I noticed the next time that it was eating a piece of biscuit which had fallen off the table in front of me. I did not mind. In the evening, I often take tea and biscuits in my shop. It continued for many months and that rat appeared every day.

    One day, I was not feeling well so I did not order for biscuits. I was enjoying my tea. I noticed that the little rat was looking towards me with its round twinkling little eyes. It seemed he was asking where my biscuits were. I felt there was a connection between that rat and me. I immediately got up, brought a packet of biscuits from the kitchen and threw one biscuit in front of the rat. The little fellow got scared when the biscuit fell in front of it but soon that poor creature was enjoying the sweetness of the biscuit.

    I felt something at that time and it seemed as if a ray of light had entered my mind. I was smiling, and after a while I began to laugh. I extended my hand and I wanted to touch the rat. I was quite amazed that the poor creature did not run away. I really touched it and it did not mind at all. That experience made me think about all the theories about humans and animals which had been stuffed into my mind in my schools and colleges. There was definitely something between me and my rat and it had not been mentioned in any course book which I had read. That something unknown did not need to be enquired because I had experienced it. I don’t want to question it and I don’t want to make any theory because it is possible that you begin to wait for your rat with a biscuit in your hand night after night but that rat never comes. No, I don’t want you to try to train your rat in the way I reacted with my rat. You might have a different rat, a very angry rat, and the moment you touch it, it bites you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateDec 23, 2011
    ISBN9781465745286
    Essential Philosophy: Flow With Life
    Author

    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

    Read more from Raja Sharma

    Related authors

    Related to Essential Philosophy

    Related ebooks

    Philosophy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Editor’s Note

      May 31, 2018

      You know, I just have to say, I love getting older. And I don’t know if this is necessarily because I now have ‘wisdom’ from living so many years on this earth. I think it is actually more because I am finally getting ‘my ducks all in a row.’ I have

      4 min read

    • Article

      Hooked On A FEELING

      Feb 16, 2021

      Hooked On A FEELING
      4 min read

    • Article

      Happiness The Explorer

      Apr 21, 2022

      Happiness The Explorer
      3 min read

    • Article

      Clearly, God Loves Me: The Millions Interviews Nada Alic

      Sep 21, 2022

      "The whole point of art is to ask, 'Are you seeing what I’m seeing?'" The post Clearly, God Loves Me: The Millions Interviews Nada Alic appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      Your Dilemmas

      Aug 11, 2022

      Your Dilemmas
      3 min read

    • Article

      How To Tame Your Inner Voice

      Jan 5, 2022

      How To Tame Your Inner Voice
      4 min read

    • Article

      Ask Dr Louise

      Jul 28, 2023

      Q My wife is having an affair and she thinks I don’t know. She is trying hard to mask it and to let me think that all is well between us. The problem is that my sexual functioning has deteriorated because each time we are intimate I start thinking ab

      3 min read

    • Article

      Ask Gf

      Mar 2, 2020

      Answered by Family Planning NSW associate medical director Dr Clare Boerma. What do you do if you go to have sex with a guy and he just doesn’t fit. Like, if he’s too big for you? I really want to do it, but it’s sooo uncomfortable! Charlie* That so

      7 min read

    • Article

      Yoga For Dating

      Nov 18, 2021

      Yoga For Dating
      8 min read

    • Article

      Your Dilemmas

      Nov 2, 2023

      International Executive Coach of the Year and confidence & human behaviour expert, Jo Emerson, answers your questions. Jo’s new email course can help you build confidence – visit jo-emerson.com. Grab her book, Flying for Beginners, on Amazon. Find Jo

      4 min read

    • Article

      Myha’la Herrold

      Jun 13, 2023

      Being an adult is… Crazy. What are you worried about currently? I’m worried the WGA [Writers Guild of America] will have to strike for longer than is sustainable for individuals. But they will win so I’m really not ‘worried’ at all. If someone could

      2 min read

    • Article

      MINDFULNESS & SELF

      May 15, 2019

      Concierge Medicine, LifeScape Premier In recent months, I’ve been attempting to incorporate mindfulness into my life. I’ve listened to several podcasts and read books on Buddhism and meditation. I’ve also been listening to Sam Harris, a neuroscientis

      1 min read

    • Article

      Baby Light My Fire

      Sep 3, 2021

      Baby Light My Fire
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Alchemy of Anxiety

      Sep 2, 2020

      The Alchemy of Anxiety
      7 min read

    • Article

      Break The Chains Of Thought

      Jan 21, 2020

      WE ARE ALL CITIZENS of the Information Age, when attention-consuming data is abundant and human attention itself is regarded as a scarce commodity. In the noise and chaos of this flood of information, how often do you notice where your mind is and wh

      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Essential Philosophy

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Essential Philosophy - Raja Sharma

      Essential Philosophy: Flow With Life

      Raja Sharma

      Copyright@2011 Raja Sharma

      Smashwords Edition

      All Rights Reserved

      Chapter One

      Inquiry is an inevitable part of human existence, and human mind easily changes every experience into a question. If you start questioning everything, it becomes very destructive. You should avoid it. It is good to know all that which is still unknown but all that which is not knowable is beyond our reach. We should not waste our time in stupid questioning. If your mind is full of questions about such things which don’t seem to be in the reach of human mind, you will be distracted and there will be no peace in your life.

      If you come across a situation where you feel that it is really inexpressible and it can’t be put into words, just enjoy it and avoid questioning. You must give subtle to grow and dance with you. In such an experience you will find that you will obtain something which can’t be expressed to others because you have experienced it and others can’t feel the same.

      Generally, modern learned scholars are always ready to make theories, based on their hypothecation and observation. But you must avoid it and please don’t make a theory out of any experience which you think can’t be understood fully. I believe that theories are very dangerous and they are always uncertain.

      You must remember that all that you have made is in your reach but all that nature has put before you is definitely beyond your reach. You can never understand it fully. You see the scientists have been making theories about human existence, including Darwin, for hundreds of years but they have not found the truth. They are further confusing the matter. I don’t mean that all scientific inquiries should stop; I mean to say that you should try to enjoy all that is in front of you. Let it grow. Don’t kill the child before it is born.

      Sometimes, it happens that you have an experience which you can’t compare with any other experience. You try to find the reasons and the circumstances. You begin to believe that this and this thing is responsible for this experience. You are wrong here because the enjoyment which you may have had from the same experience was not received by your friends. At that moment something happened to you, something strange, something very subtle, and something divine perhaps, and you want to share it with others. Stop here for a while and try to concentrate. You can’t express it yet it has happened to you. You should be happy because you are blessed.

      If something inexpressible starts happening to you, you are heading towards godliness, the ultimate secret of the divine. Keep on moving because you are on the right track. Don’t you try to share it with others because others will not understand you! Your happiness is very personal to you and you can’t explain it to others.

      Your mind does not help you because it is bigger than mind. That something if it happens to you is the blessing. Just continue to enjoy it. You will never understand it through any kind of analysis, or dissection. You will have to absorb the

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1