Living with Uncertainty

delusion, uncertainty and hallucination: salutations to Her, again

and again.

To that Devi Shakti, present in every class of creature in the world in forms such as maya, disorder, infatuation, chaos, illusion and uncertainty, salutations, salutations, salutations.

Bhranti is a word filled with many layers of power (a multi-layered word).

This power takes many forms. The main point is this: when confusion comes in life, when delusion arises, we see uncertainty. That too is part of its special way of working. Imagining what is not there and experiencing that something is happening is called bhranti (hallucination). When one falls into bhranti, one can also come into danger.

It is the feeling of the mind wandering (to wander mentally).

It is perceiving an object or event that does not exist (perception of a non-existent object or event).

It is described as sensory experience produced as if by stimulation of the relevant sense organs (sensory experience of the relevant sensory organs).

Meaning: seeing something that others cannot see, or feeling something, and having such experiences: that is bhranti, delusion.

In itself there is no danger in this, and it is not an illness.

Bhranti means that the person who has the experience insists it is real and will not believe otherwise, however much anyone tells them. Because people suffer mental stress, fear and many other troubles from it, doctors call bhranti a mental illness.

Depending on its strength, it is called mental fancy, delusion, or false vision.

When bhranti makes life chaotic and disordered, that too is a living power. Only after disorder does a good, settled order come.

When disorder and chaos come to a seeker, they should not be afraid or alarmed; they should welcome it. That is the glory of the Adi Shakti. With the power of that glory one should move forward, practise in life with divine consciousness, walk with full awareness in everything, and become aniketana, one without a fixed home.

Sometimes, when we suddenly fall into bhranti on this journey of evolution, we see many forms, many states, many times over.

The state of bhranti is sometimes stronger and sometimes weaker. In art, science and media, bhranti even takes the form of a highly evolved state.

Only when disorder and chaos come does a good, orderly path appear. One finds order, one finds regularity. When a person is bound by delusion and infatuation, they live in a world of illusion through many mental dualities. They create troubles and make mistakes.

So when they come out of the bondage of such infatuations, they grow in life.

In the same way, when you look at the Devi’s power through bhranti, it does you no harm. But you must understand it rightly and experience that power. You should not condemn it.

When you come out of that state of bhranti and walk the right path, it is no longer bhranti, illusion or infatuation. When you understand the real truth, you have a good experience.

This state of bhranti, of infatuation, of delusion, also happens in geniuses, brilliant minds and intellectuals. Because they look from a limited state and then try to see what lies beyond it.

When such delusion takes hold of someone, they say: I am talking with others, someone is giving me messages. In the spiritual world people stay stuck in such madness. When they turn it negative, they suffer.

But illusion or delusion in itself causes no such troubles.

In the same way, these days there is a terrible infatuation with mobile phones. We keep watching, listening and talking, connected with others from far away. There is good in it and bad, gain and loss. It strikes at our mind and has harmful effects.

The mistake you make in spirituality is this: you grab a delusion, an infatuation, and hold on to it as a spiritual experience.

You become prey caught in a tangled net, in bondage.

You get caught in the net of the spiritual hunt. Even there, there is no problem and no blame. But you stay inside the bondage.

Leave these many bonds and move on. All of these are conflicts going on in the mind. Only after experiencing all this does the right road appear. Then you begin to see something new.

So bhranti means uncertainty. Living in the wisdom of uncertainty. A person tries to make their life certain. But life is not certain; it is uncertain. Bhranti arises precisely when there is uncertainty.

So accept uncertainty too as the play of the Adi Shakti, and be natural with it.

Then life itself guides life well and carries it forward.

In the same way, it frees us from blind beliefs, from illusions about the past and the future, from shastras and magic spells (from “katham,” only “hukum”: command, order, doctrine, decree, permission, instruction). Because it is the play of the Adi Shakti that inspires, urges, makes things said and shows you your future. Through this one must unfold in infinite consciousness.

Because the consciousness of Ma Adi Shakti is in it.

So do not fall into any illusion, bhranti or blind belief.

Become divine consciousness yourself, and go from unconsciousness to aniketana.

(Make the whole world your home.)

You yourself are a great conscious power.

(Song: “O nanna chetana, aagu aniketana.” O my soul, become one without a fixed home.)