Cellphone is a
necessity today. This modern instrument
is not only very helpful in communication between people but it can also
communicate the deepest spiritual truths to us which can help us to face the
challenges of life more courageously.
Given below are some parallels we can draw between the cell phone and
spirituality:
- The
cellphone instrument is the body.
Now-a-days we have phones with which we can take a photograph, see
movies, download emails etc. These
are somewhat similar to our sensory perceptions of eyes, ears, speech etc.
- The
cellphone-memory is the mind on which all the impressions of the pictures,
phone numbers etc. are stored
- The
battery is the prana.
- Spirit
or Soul is the Electricity.
- Cell
phone number is the name of the individuality.
- The
charging of the cellphone-battery(Prana) is the regular intake of ‘food’ that we take.
- The
charger(food) charges all parts of the phone. Similarly our food must be also holistic
and include physical, mental, intellectual and spiritual food.
- When
the battery is low, the transmission and receiving is disturbed. When we do not have enough energy, then
the functioning of BMI is not very efficient.
- All
Incoming calls are free. Gurudev
Swami Chinmayanandaji said –“ Problems and challenges supplied to us –
Free. We don’t have to ask. Even before one is over another is
already waiting.”
- You
can choose to attend a call, divert it, keep it on hold or ignore it.
Any challenge can be
- Faced
objectively (attending a call)
- avoided
or one runs away from it(not taking a call and pretending as if the call
did not come. This avoidance is only temporarily. The problem will ‘ring’ back)
- kept
on hold(Ruminate over the problem and get tensed. The call which has been kept on hold
keeps beeping and one is disturbed in one’s present conversation. A problem kept on hold disturbs one’s
actions sub-consciously)
- Diverted
to someone else (one can divert the call to another number. May times we blame others for our
problems & feel victimized)
- Opportunity
knocks everyone’s doors. Most of
the times we are either ‘out’ or ‘sleeping in’. This is the missed call.
- When
we are in the ‘home’ location, incoming is free and outgoing is charged
minimum. When we are in ‘OM’ – our
True Home, we are at peace and harmony.
- When
we are in the ‘roaming’ area we pay extra charges for incoming and
outgoing both. When we are
‘roaming’ in the area of OET we pay ‘extra’ charges.
- Each
cellphone though looking alike, is unique.
Each one of us, though made up of BMI(made up of same 5 elements),
is yet unique.
- The
SIM Card can be called as the Senses, Intellect & Mind. These can be removed from one cell and
put into another. At death
something similar happens. SIM from
one body(Cell-phone instrument) is removed and put into another. The
balance on the SIM Card is maintained on it even if it is transferred to
another phone. The balance remains
unaltered. Similarly, the account
of our Karma is maintained in our SIM(Senses Intellect Mind) and comes
with us life after life.
- Today
cell-phones have multi-play capacities. We do have multi-tasking
abilities. But research shows that our brains are not wired for it. Only
6% of people are made for multi-tasking. In everyone else multi-tasking
reduces efficiency and rains away energies. Just like in a phone too.
- The
Cell-phone-Company is the Ishwara.
- Just
as all the cellphone users are linked to each other through the
cell-phone-company, similarly all individuals are linked to each other
through the Ishwara.
- The
electricity empowering(‘illumining’ is the Vedantic equivalent) the
individual cell phone is the atman.
Electricity empowering the cell-phone-company and the other
cell-phones is Brahman. Atman and
Brahman are one and the same. Tat Tvam Asi !
- The
usage of the cell-phone is the karma of the user(Ego). The karmaphala is the monthly bill. Whenever the karmaphala is not yet
ready, it gets accumulated in the cell-phone-company(Ishwara) which sends
the bill as and when the time is ripe.
- Many
cellphone users are too attached to the cellphone. They just can’t switch it off. They are afraid and insecure- What will
happen if I switch off? What if
someone wants to contact me…..?
Most of the individuals cannot switch off from BMI and its pleasures. One feels insecure – What will happen if I switch off? What if the family needs my help? How can I ‘realise’ leaving them? etc. - A Sthitaprajna is one who can use the phone when required and switch off when required. He is not affected by either the usage or switching off. He is equanimous in both the cases. He uses it as a means for communication. Unlike others, His Psychological security and peace do not depend on it.
