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
Mobile: +94 777 265677
E-mail: cosmicgems@gmail.com
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