Recognition

[Krishna G Misra]

Rejection is recognition. Anything that we see or recognize is a result of rejection  or reflection of light. If light does not exist or it passes through an object without any rejection then in either case, the object is never seen or gets recognized.  Government is recognized similarly because it rejects or reflects or fails its purpose and its encounters. Absurdity or any non sense are introduced in advertising to get quickly recognized in high cost TV time slot. Crime and politics and any uncertain sporting events can only make up Breaking news.  The moon is recognized  by us because it rejects sun light and our eyes pickup that reflected light  where as the night sky which let's the sun light pass through it is unnoticed.

Sri Krishna therefore says never get recognized. Recognition lives only for a moment as it always has, a certain beginning and an end. Sri Krishna says to think of who is  that " I "  in all of us,  without a beginning and without an end. People say I am this and I am that but, this and that are not "I".  This and that are recognitions and they differ but each one says itself the same " I " as non different. Because of this, non different nature,  truth of "I" cannot get recognized by any senses or mind or intellect. I is always present everywhere  and in everyone but universal "i" is never recognized. And, the world or the word with which you are recognized is within me but I am not in the world or different words or names of individuals.

Krishna is pure and transparent. This is like space which accommodates transparent light but space and light which are means of observation are never seen.  Whereas, the objects which reject or return back that light  and sit in or occupy that space ( to reduce it somehow), momentarily get recognized. Recognition of an object by its occupancy ( its appearances and disappearances) kill the space and peace of mind.

In India, people get influenced but not empowered. Increase of personal space is empowerment but recognition which takes way that space in mind is called influences. 1% of recognition such as crime and politics occupies all space in mind but 99% of goodness in non recognition or unoccupied space is unnoticed. 99% women in this country are highly self revered and because they are invisible they are taken for granted but just 1% of women in film or sex or advertising industry occupy all the visibility. Just 1% people play cricket in field and 99% people watching it on TV sitting at home have never walked in field in their entire lifetime.  People somehow are trying to act abnormal for getting some momentary recognition. Visibility or any recognition is a kind of sickness as it is used for influencing but not empowering.

Any good teacher or parents  are taken for granted and they never need any recognition because they are too close to be seen. Students for example, see the knowledge through light of that teacher. If a teacher unfortunately needs a recognition by its CV, position, awards, language and cloth and so on then students  can learn nothing about the subject. Krishna says that I am unknowable by senses and mind because I am the one who  is a means by which knowledge itself gets known.

Finally, those who understand it can now see the unseen and know the unknown. The unseen and unknown are present forever and because it is never separated from us, it is not needed to be seen or kept vigil at. See therefore the space within which all objects appear and disappear. By seeing that space  and its role in accommodating the entire reality, you become infinite and obtain a freedom from any recognition including birth and death.