The things we surround ourselves with can influence us to a great deal. No one is born with jealousy, prejudice, or with hatred; these are learned behaviour patterns like all others. Now think what if we keep ourselves isolated from all the people, from all the other creatures, and from all the worldly things since the time we born? Will it make us free from all these learned behaviour patterns? It may but our minds will certainly be empty. Being in isolation with everything will keep us away from the knowledge and wisdom, it won’t let our minds to evolve. Moreover, to survive we need knowledge and wisdom, not an empty mind. We learn when we consider ourselves as a part of this universe or world, part of a group or family, part of anything; we learn when we exchange our thoughts, information, experiences and words with others.

The prime reason for the negative behaviours in our selves is the differences, the illusion of differences. Instead of understanding the differences we implant some behaviour patterns in ourselves in the illusion, instead of trying to erase the differences we construct walls of more other things on the base of those differences.  It is this illusion of differences which is a reason for some unreasonable beliefs or opinions in our minds; it is in this illusion of differences the world fall divided when actually it is one.

There is a world outside the illusion of differences and to know it one have to climb up the walls of differences then only one can realize how amazingly we all thrive on a plant in this amazing universe, and then only we will realize we don’t have to do some of the things which we do under the influence of the illusion of differences. Our efforts should be to keep ourselves at bay from the illusion of differences. Our efforts should be to educate our minds as much as possible to become the change we want to see in our surroundings, we are all surrounding of somebody else and you know surrounding has influence.

Have a good day/night ~ Vikas Sharma

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