The Matrix

Remember the movie Matrix? What are the first three words that come to mind when hearing about this movie?

NEO, RED PILL BLUE PILL, ORACLE

The Red Pill or the Blue Pill scene from The Matrix

One more scene which comes to my mind very often is …..

“There is no spoon”

Was there seriously no spoon? Is it really possible to bend a spoon like that? I have

often tried that exercise myself with a spoon while sitting on the dining table. Is it because movies are just for entertainment

and that’s why that spoon bent in the movie, and it's not possible in actuality. But do you feel like there was more to the movie apart from just entertainment? I have watched it multiple times and although I don't understand it completely, how much ever I get makes me think deeper.

Denial is the most predictable of all human responses as told by the Architect in its second part – the matrix reloaded. Even today the same thing is said by Sadhguru that; Nature has evolved us to a higher level of intelligence and awareness, but we are refusing to accept the promotion. As I attain little bits of “wisdom” with time, I sense a matrix around myself.

Is there really somebody who is watching us, and we are mere puppets in their hands. As known as Magician of Space Peter Brook’s theatrical Mahabharat was an epic version of human condition. His vision was tragic. Like Vyas of Mahabharat, he raised his hand in despair crying “Nobody listens to me” indicating that there is nothing beyond this world except the blackness of the void.

What emotions do all these kinds of lines generate inside you? Is it Fear of the Unknown? Or is it because we don’t want to see it and therefore we are always in a state of denial? We are also being

told to just be in the present. "Don’t worry about the future." But did we ever stop worrying?

We constantly tend to blame our situations, capabilities, and behaviour towards every problem we face in our lifetime. We see ourselves as if we have performed our best in the given circumstance, we take the best decisions according to the situation which were present at that time. We even prove it with this Geeta verse - "Karam karte jaao phal ki ichha mat karro"

So I have done my best until now and the rest I don’t know. This “rest I don't know”, isn’t it the Denial?

Today whatever we're doing is it leading us anywhere? But then why can't we stop doing it? It's because we do not know what else to do apart from this. When we stop doing certain things, we begin to make a blueprint in our minds on how to get engage ourselves in anything else before the first thing stops. What is the emotion behind that; Fear of missing out? But the question is what are we missing? To be very specific is it any particular type of job that we are doing now, what we will miss if we don’t do anything? It’s our progress which is always relative, in comparison to others. Just imagine now itself in this room you are the only one who is sitting everything got blurred just like matrix in a scene which all the surroundings are white and Neo is standing in the middle. Nothing is present around him. And now explore and notice the emotions that are triggered inside you in terms of your progress? Just be with those emotions for a moment.

What is the ultimate reality of existence? IT’S DEATH.

So, what are we progressing towards? We have been told that the main aim of our human existence is to raise consciousness. Perhaps it's because when we attain such wisdom even then we should have something to do, which is sit and meditate to raise our consciousness to meet that one big thing we are all part of. That the ultimate goal is to just meet ourselves. However when discover that there is nobody beyond this and it's just us, does it feel mindboggling?

How does it make you feel about your own self? Who are you actually?

You are that ultimate power, you are everything, that’s why we often say that we enter life alone and we depart all alone as well. You feel boundless and limitless, everything created in this world for yourself serves no purpose except for you. It is your own creation to keep yourself occupied. To make you feel you are a part of something which doesn’t even exist. Solely for the purpose of passing time. Then, once when you start feeling like you have passed enough time, your cells don’t respond the way you want them to, you just sit and relax. Every wish to progress starts to fall behind and start concentrating on yourself only. You realize that the matrix is not in your situations, behaviour or capabilities,

It’s not outside you ….

It’s inside you …..

IT IS YOU.

All of this said, if we still choose to live in a state of denial then here is another quote from the Matrix;

“To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us Human”

"You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole"– Morpheus

(The Matrix)