Attaining Peace of Mind : 6.

 You will not have satisfaction of any kind unless you are adjusted to the conditions prevailing outside. Unless you are well-adjusted, the family to which you belong cannot be well-adjusted, because every member of the family is just like yourself. So, you do not know what a family is. It is an organism of individuals like your own self. This little organism which is yourself becomes a slightly larger organism called the family. The family organism becomes a community organism. The community organism becomes a village, a state or a nation organism. The nation is an organism, a living body. The world, the country, the nation is not a bundle of trees and mountains and rivers and roads and buildings – nothing of the kind. It is a consciousness. It is an ideology. It is an adjustment of consciousness to a particular objective which transcends one's own self. That is what is known as national consciousness. That may be called social consciousness. That may be called natural or universal consciousness.

The whole play is consciousness only. You are the maker of yourself, which means your consciousness is the maker of yourself. You do not exist outside consciousness. What you are is the mind that thinks and the consciousness that operates. You are not the body. You are also not any kind of physical relation, as you imagine in your mind. You are the consciousness that you are. Can you imagine what you would be minus consciousness? You would be nowhere; you would be nothing. You would be a non-entity. The entity that you are, the meaning that you are, the significance that you seem to have with yourself is the consciousness thereof. What kind of consciousness have you got? What do you think of yourself? Here comes the psychology of philosophical adjustment of oneself. You should not be under the impression that you can be very wise with people and be a poor man, a poor person, in regard to your own self. The world will see you better than you see your own self. The world is all eyes. As you are organically connected with things, the world will see you from all sides.

Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....