Mystery of the unknown, is at heart of all stories, that we find interesting. “Why or how, something is the way it is? What happens next?” Our minds are engaged with curiosity. Our fascination comes from the suspense of those unresolved aspects of a narrative, which trap our attention.
The moment we find out the answers, there is a closure. We are satisfied and happy, because our captured attention is released free, to return and rest within its unstrained naturally-flowing ease.
But we are always living with a mystery of the unknown, being ourselves the tremendous unsolved narrative of all time!
“Who am I?”, is the root mystery, which contains our enchantment with all stories. The mind wants and tries to know everything, but it never can.
This suspense keeps us engrossed in forever-ongoing spiritual journey, which never concludes. We can never reach an ending, to our mind’s satisfaction.
But, as in case of all such mysteries, we have a hunch, a feeling about something, which the mind cannot quite grasp. At a sublime level we know, but this knowing just does not carry over, to the logically deduced concepts of our thinking mind.
We cannot find out, ‘Who we are’ by thinking. Following the trail of this exploration, we always end up in that vacant emptiness, but obviously ‘we are’, so the mind is baffled!
This is challenging for the mind, because it always tries to move towards a completion of everything, it does not like leaving things half-done. By its very nature, the mind constantly strives and struggles to discover, conquer, reach and conclude.
But what we are, is already forever complete in perfection, it cannot be further concluded! This mystery will forever remain unresolved for the mind.
That is why, mind is confused. It does not know how to proceed here, how to fathom this mystery. Because all skills of logical thinking, which solve every other problem in the world, are useless here.
Once the mind accepts it’s not knowing, and reconciles with a possibility of something remaining beyond its reach, then it naturally retreats. This acceptance itself brings the necessary closure, to free our attention from the trap, and releases it to immerse in causeless contentment.
All efforts of mind to uncover the mystery, spontaneously subside, leaving the attention free, to fall upon our own ‘being’ and ‘knowing’.
Then, we knowingly live, in a perpetual not-knowing! This surrendering to the unknown, is the conclusion, as far as the mind goes. We only need to accept it, and consciously live in this completion.
From here, we unfold moment by moment into a deep, alive, ongoing, everlasting mystery. We may never know it through ‘thought’, but this mystery is at the heart of our existence!
The realm of the ‘unknowable’ has no limits, and we have constant access to it, in each moment of our conscious ‘being-knowing’, from the centre of right where we are.
The beauty and joy that we find in exploring our own truth, is emanating from this mystery, which constantly invites us from within. The world around us, reflects this mystery.
We are attracted towards our own ‘being-knowing’ reality, our ultimate truth, this unknown mystery of all that is! It is a puzzle, one whole mysterious fabric of existence, with its countless interwoven threads. As a body-mind, we cannot ever understand it’s wholeness.
But we are this unknown ultimately-unknowable mystery. We are, a thread in this fabric of existence, made of the same substance as everything else.
Within our own ordinary ‘being-knowing’, awareness, we are hiding the gate to the beyond!
Comments
4 responses to “Mystery of unknown”
Perhaps the logical mind can go on to explain why all questioning must ultimately lead to the ‘unknowable’.
It is not an answer the logical mind would accept, but seeing the limits of possible logical answers can be an answer in itself.
Yes, that is what I think so too. This acknowledgement of the limits is not just an answer but an essential stage in the exploration with the thinking mind. It can only be reached when all things have been thought, all avenues exhausted, over and over again, convincing it of the wall in front that cannot be jumped. In this stage, the giving up, the letting go happens, which takes us across…
Adding one more point here, about the “why all questioning must ultimately lead to the ‘unknowable’.”
I am increasingly convinced that, it is because the thinking mind is using the only approach it knows, of looking outwards for an ‘object’ (in this case identity of self), but the way to know this reality of our own Self, is only through ‘being’ (as the ultimate ‘subject’). The thinking mind turning back upon itself, finds the answer to be empty, no-thing, no-object there, hence it always ends up at the ‘unknowable’. That does not disprove it’s potential use in this exploration, it simply shows it has limits!
Thank you Shajan, good to hear from you!
I’ve recently received the same understanding during one of my recent Meditative Contemplations…..a synchronicity for me.
And, you are the only person who I have ever been aware of to refer to Meditative Contemplation other than myself…another synchronicity.
I enjoy your blog.
Thank you! I find such synchronicities a wonderful reminder of our interconnectedness and the common ground that we all are travelling on, regardless of where we come from or where we are right now, I suspect we are all headed the same way. Thanks for dropping by to read and for your comment!