Creator – Preserver – Destroyer
What an amazing trinity — a concept so deeply fed into the collective mind that generation after generation could never forget it.
Everything we see or feel around us exists in polarity:
sad–happy, anger–peace, excitement–dullness, laughter–tears, health–illness.
Even in the outer world — day–night, up–down, inhale–exhale , duality pervades all.
We attach ourselves to these polarities, and as a result, life becomes misery.
One moment we are happy, and in that very moment, we are inviting sadness for the next.
If you recall, our grandmothers used to stop laughing children, saying, “Don’t laugh too much, or you’ll cry later.”
Those elders knew this psychological phenomenon very well.
If there is birth, then death must exist too.
The moment birth happens, death already enters life.
Because death exists that's why birth happens.
When you feel happy, it means you have already invited a sad state — it’s only a matter of time before you face it.
If you are angry, then peace exists deep within; you can call yourself angry only by comparing it to its opposite — peace.
Without the polarity, how can we even assess our state of mind?
So whatever state of mind we experience can never be singular — its opposite always exists somewhere within.
it's other matter that we are not able to indetify.
But why?
What went wrong that we never focus on the other side of our mental state, which is always there?
The reason is simple: we forgot the root.
We became engaged only with outcomes.
We were trained by society, by schools, by colleges, by the environment — to focus only on results.
We cling to those results and begin to ride upon them, saying “I did it, I achieved it,” to prove the importance of “I” to the same society.
But that very society never tells you that misery lies ahead on this path — disease, sadness, loss, anger, arrogance, envy, and attachment are all waiting there.
We never tried to understand the root.
Whatever happens in life happens because we fail to understand this polarity.
Try one small experiment:
During a heated argument with your wife, observe your body.
Feel your blood flow. You’ll notice your body trembling; if the argument becomes intense, you may even feel pain in your head and pressure behind your eyes — your veins turn red.
And suddenly, if your wife says, “I was just joking,”
what happens?
The situation changes instantly — your mind relaxes, but your body remains in the same state for a few minutes.
You may speak a few words to release the tension before the body gradually returns to normal.
Why does this happen?
Because the body and mind are not one.
They can be trained through different mechanisms.
Film actors understand this perfectly — they can appear furious, and their body language convinces the audience of their anger, but inwardly their mind remains calm.
We witness such performances daily on TV, and our own mind reacts —whatever happen on screen we start feeling that , we feel emotions, enjoyment . though our body not engaged to the act.
Our body doesn’t know why it’s happening — it only follows the brain’s signals.
This body–mind relationship is very important to understand.
Polarity always exists in the brain.
If a trained mind can control the body, can a trained body also control the mind?
Yes — there are techniques for this.
But to know them, we must understand "Vishnu" — the state of balance.
There must be a state of mind that is beyond polarity — neither extreme, but in between.
This middle state is beautifully symbolized in the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh.
There is a third state beyond creation and destruction — a transcendent state some call Consciousness, Awakening, or Chetna.
This is Vishnu — the preserver, the balanced one.
In the Puranas and Upanishads, Vishnu is portrayed as lying upon a vast cosmic ocean, in eternal bliss.
This is the same state of mind we experience in deep peace, meditation, or Samadhi — when the mind floats in an ocean of stillness.
Yet, even there, someone within remains aware of that peace.
Who is that witness?
To understand life deeply, we must contemplate this — how to remain unattached to either pole of experience,
and how to stay centered in the middle, like Vishnu —
the perfect balance,
the state far beyond all misery.
-- हरि ॐ तत् सत्
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