YOU AND I DO NOT HAVE TO JUDGE
When we judge, we cannot see the world for what it is, how people are just as they are.
Unknowingly, we create boundaries between us and the other. The world is divided: good and bad, innocent and guilty, friends and enemies, victim and oppressor and so on.
This separation is the root of fear and confusion. Judgement is like psychological blindness where we see only what we want to see.
Whereas, when our vision is expansive and inclusive, our focus changes into perspective, attention to awareness, and action changes to responsibility.
Our gaze/vision learns to reject the boundaries separating the self from the other. This is called DARSHAN (when we see ourselves in others). In darshan, there is no judgment, no separation, no good or bad, no mine and not mine.
Why we are unable to do darshan?
Because of past samskaras (grooves in mind due to past karmas), and smriti (memories which bring back hurt and prejudice).
Samskaras and Smriti, distort our current observation leading to judgment.
How can we do darshan?
When we refuse to let memories strip us of empathy and see things as they are.
How does this effect our life?
A life created based on judgment evokes rage. Life becomes a battlefield (rana bhoomi), where both sides feel like victims, where everyone wants to win at all costs, and where someone will still lose.
A life created by darshan evokes understanding which makes us see the underlying fear and hunger of all beings. Life becomes a performance on a stage (rang bhoomi). We learn how to nourish and comfort the other, while deriving nourishment and comfort from their happiness.
Your actions become leela, where you dance to the flow of life, seeing things and people as a part of you.
There’s no boundaries, no separation, no hero, villain or victim… just oneness and pure love