The Psychological Theory of Relativity – ‘You’
exist only in relationship to your ‘Goal’ or Ideal!
It is the ‘ill-fitting’ dress or
shoe (as opposed to the ‘best fit’) that will remind one of the existence of
the body or feet. Otherwise we are not even conscious of our body or feet.
It is in relation to the ideal or
goal of ‘the perfect, selfless, generous, magnanimous, free, happy’ that one is
reminded of the existence of ‘self’ as its opposite - ‘the misfit, selfish, greedy, jealous,
unhappy’ etc.
No ‘ideal’ means no ‘self’. The effort, struggle, restlessness or frustration in bringing about any psychological change to become someone other than what one is, reminds us of our existence!
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Video Transcript:
UG: This state that you are talking about, your
‘state’ does not at all exist except in relationship with the ‘state you want
to be in’.
See, you want
to be happy for whatever reason, that is why you are unhappy. So I really do
not know what happiness is like, so I cannot be unhappy, that is all that I am
saying!
Questioner: I don’t even know myself except in relation
to that state I want to be in.
UG: Exactly! So that is false and that has
falsified me. What I am saying is that your very demand to be selfless is the
one that has created the selfishness there otherwise you are not selfish at
all! As long as you want to be selfless or you are going to be a selfless man tomorrow
or in the next life, so long you will remain selfish.
The other
day I was saying, if there is no trace of love in your heart, you cannot hate
anybody, you can’t hate anybody. Only when you have some traces of what you
call love there, then there is the danger of hating somebody. They always go
together.
There is
no way of looking at yourself and telling yourself that this is ‘me’ except in
relationship with what you like to be, what you should be, what you ought to be
and whatever it is…
Questioner:
Basically these are not even super-impositions because ‘self-consciousness arose
before superimposition.
UG: Self-consciousness is perpetuated through
this demand to bring about a change.
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