Your perception is your reality..

Most of us have seen the famous photograph above- displaying amazing optical illusions. Some may see in this photograph – an old lady , others a young lady & and yet some may see both . We all see what we see with information gathered by similar physical set of eyes & interpreted by our similar physical brain . Then what is it that tricks our physical senses ? Why can our realities of the same entity be so different ? . Mind you ,this is just a simple picture.On the other hand, in life, We may have to interpret much complex life situations & people involved in those complexities with so factors interplaying distorting the actual facts .We still have to interpret to the best of our ability to form right perception from wherever you are standing - vulnerable to make errors & compulsively act accordingly . We live in our minds. Mind is always overwhelmed with so many of our thoughts . Thoughts are majorly created by perceptions from day today experiences which we get from the physical world . So in this one & only one physical world , each of us carries our own individual world in our mind .. the world of perceptions. No two people see the world the same way . Perceptions may be facts or flaws . But it is surely serve as our own truth for each of us. Accumulated data of repetitive perceptions creates our belief system . Any one who interferes with those belief system ,we perceive as threats. Our mind forces us to believe thus – since we strongly but falsely identify our perceptions as ourself . We resist & act out of that false identification compelled by our mind . So in toto ,clashes in outside world is clashes of perceptions .. our false identities & not literally ourselves. What decides whether you are generating true or false perceptions within you about external situation is whether you are under influence of true or false self about you . That influence itself reflects outside through your response to outside situations . It is so true when Rumi elaborates truth like this-

“ The truth was mirror in the hands of God . It fell & broke in the pieces . Everybody took a piece of it ,they looked at it & thought they had the truth ”. - Rumi The solution is to better our life experiences which will then evoke right perceptions . This can not be an individual job - but collective responsibility of a family , and the society as whole . Or to get yourself dissociated from our experiences & false identities at the individual level prior to forming own perceptions . But you know how outside world functions? You can not do much about & control - even to make it to beautiful . So at least you do ,what you can do ,to make it the best for you . Living in this world as you take your own life experiences , take a feel what you feel & lessons out of those experiences . Beyond this point just get dissociated yourself from your feelings you generate particularly from unpleasant situations. . You take yourself out of the situation & consciously interfere with your outside influences . I remember my esteemed teacher telling us to do this in in such times - “ Look at yourself dispassionately as you analyse conflicts you are in and try to perceive it as it is ”. More importantly act out of those near perfect perceptions without judging people involved , situation & yourself . At the end, still remember , your perception is your reality . Others still can have different perception & hence different reality . Respect it but you act as per your perception without explaining yourself . As long as intentions are right , fault if at all there is , is not of you or him or her but of perceptions almost all the time - unless it is done very much deliberately & with bad intentions . The moment you & people involved willingly and strongly identify with those different individual perceptions - war begins . Just drop that identification willingly , create the right perceptions ,war ends & possibilities emerge .. Apart from making our own perceptions better , we have obligations to make other people’s experiences better & thereby their perceptions - to make the world a better place to live in . Imagine how beautiful this world can become , if we collectively take the responsibility of making each other’s experiences - perceptions better .People will act the way act out of their own perceptions ,stop judging them. Others perceptions of you is actually a reflection of them . Have respect for their world of perceptions if you can , respond to their perceptions out of awareness of your true identity & if they reciprocate , who knows you may find lifetime’s best friend out of your foe ..

How beautifully William Blake has summarised when he quotes -

“ If the doors of perceptions are cleansed , everything appeared to man as it is -infinite .. “

- Krantikumar R Rathod .