Every our action implies a feedback from others (as a rule, the response we get is very
much the same as our approach, whether it has just happened in the
present or it happened in the past), this is the meaning of
relationship.
A:B = C:D
The relation between A and
B, affects the relation between C and D too. We are all connected in
the big game of life.
It is just through the relationships that we have the possibility to express our divine nature, that is developing and experiencing our best original spiritual qualities. However we can experience a
lot of sufferance as well.
Our inner well-being
greatly depends on the way we trust people in the relationships and the way others respond to us. A sensible, caring person usually realizes
within a short time, whether his or her words, actions and even thoughts has
a positive or destructive effect on the others.
When a person suffers
and seeks relief, compassion and trust, turning to somebody who can
help, how can one find the cause of sufferance? Where do disbelief,
depression, pain or negative feelings come from, what is missing? The
deep cause is often rooted in the relationships.
Everything in the universe
is ruled by the divine laws and this order is based on a dialogue, as
Galileo’s quote recites: “Dialogue between Two Chief World
Systems". Dialogue re-establishes an order, and such order should
govern our relations too, so in any dialogue the
first priority is to meet the needs of other person through attentive listening and sincere interest.
The more virtuous
relations are, the higher is their quality and greater the standard
quality of listening and speech skills.
Sattva is order,
virtue, harmony. It is the condition that most of all favors our
evolution. It is a conditioning state, it is not complete freedom, therefore
even sattva guna is to be transcended. The
conditioning that arises from sattva guna is the feeling of
attachment to a kind of freedom that is always anchored to a mundane
layer, in spite of a prevalent virtuous nature. Someone may think:
sattva guna is good enough for me, because I am satisfied with one
kind of pleasure and one kind of mundane virtues. However a person
cannot be satisfied with this vision because there are negative sides
and sorrows that cannot be avoid with sattva guna alone, unless one
ascends to a spiritual awareness.
Among such sorrows, which cause a great deal of sufferance, is old age. Aging is a
heavy humiliation because the person is not able to take care of
one’s own basic personal needs, and sattva guna itself cannot free
us from such great pain. Sattva is the condition we can easily obtain
in our embodied life, although we ought to make another step
forward to approach transcendence, in order to reach the abode and
original nature of our spiritual eternal Self.
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