Wednesday 8 February 2017

Why you must balance Sekala and Niskala?



Balinese culture has introduced the concept of balancing sekala and niskala in matters of life so that one can achieve success and satisfaction. This blog post argues why you must adopt this balance of sekala and niskala in your day to day life:
Sekala is the concept that explains what you see as physical and visible or what you feel, perceive and discern. Sekala is about latency yet obviousness of the matter whether it be tangible or intangible. Let me give you three illustrations:
1.         When you eat you satiate hunger on one side and receive nourishment to your body on the other  
2.         When you watch a love film you see colour and graphics, hear tone and music, enjoy dance and drama, witness gestures and touching. It makes you rest and spend time in leisure
3.         At work, you do a physical checking before you make payment voucher and dispense cash after getting proper acknowledgment from the receiver.
In first two cases you are only accountable to you. You can either feel satisfied or have a false sense of satisfaction. In the last example, you are accountable to you and to your management. You can be honest or dishonest in your dealings. For example, you can violate norms and underpay the receiver hinting him that the balance is your commission. In sum, you are able to violate your accountability at your own free will.
Niskala, on the other hand is neither physical nor quantifiable in any form. It remains mostly in the realm of intangibility. You cannot see or perceive it but your spirit knows its existence. Let me re-visit the illustrations after doing cosmic analysis of the underlying issues:
1.         When you eat morsel of food you get a flash from somewhere that the food on your table there is indeed blessing from the heavens
2.         As you watch the film you hear the underlying doctrine that love and affection will take you a big way towards higher consciousness. You also feel that real and inner love between the lovers in the film is much more valuable than the pleasure of having physical intimacy
3.         As you make the payment to a receiver after going through the formality you understand that every effort must be rewarded and that it is a boon from the sky. By facilitating the voucher payment honestly you sense an elation in your body, mind and spirit that you have done the duty by you, management and the cosmic world.
Bisecting day to day actions into sekala and niskala hypothesis you can easily learn to glide in the affairs of men and heavens. Because your accountability to you, to other men and to the divine mandate are accomplished in the best of your ability. By now your body, mind and spirit must be feeling synchronized, satisfied and having succeeded in your effort to be a balanced person.
Muthu Ashraff
Cosmic Adviser
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