Avatar – We all have one!

Recently, I had the opportunity of watching the latest movie ‘Avatar’. My kudos to the director and his team for portraying something possibly so near to the definition and concept of life. The movie is certainly a game-changer in international cinema from technology perspective. But for me, it had given a new food for thought. The definition of life and our inhuman ways of warping it by belonging to a ‘Society”.
Millions of people are born and die, but they never live. Their life is only apparent, because they remain rooted in unconsciousness. And whatsoever we do on the surface may not be true about us at all; in fact, exactly the opposite is the case.
Life is only an opportunity. This life that we know is not real life, it is only an opportunity to attain to real life. The real life is just hidden somewhere in this life, but it has to be provoked, it has to be awakened.
Our personality consists only of clothes and clothes and clothes – clothes upon clothes. ’Personality’ comes from PERSONA. The actors used to wear one mask, we are wearing many, because for different situations we need different masks. When we speak to our friends we need one kind of mask. And when we are talking to our adversaries, of course, we need another kind of mask. How can we use the same mask?
Have we ever watched? When we speak to our friends, we are all smiles. And when we are talking to our adversaries, have we seen the arrogance and anger on our face? We have never smiled. How can we smile talking to our foes? It is impossible. We have to dehumanize him. How can we smile and relate to him as a human being? We have to behave in a different way than we behave with our friends. We have to use many masks, and we have many faces, and we go on changing them as circumstances change. Our personality consists only of false faces.
And what is essence? Essence is our original face, without any masks. Essence is that which we brought into the world when we were born. Personality is a gift of the society, parents, school, college, culture, civilization. Personality is not us, it is pseudo. And we continue to polish this personality, and we have completely forgotten the essence. And unless we remember the essence, we will have lived in vain, because real life consists of essence. A real life is the life of essence. We can call it ’soul’, or ’God within us’, or whatsoever we will. But remember the distinction. We are not our clothes – not even our psychological clothes.
Essence is that which we bring into the world. The personality is that which the world imposes upon the essence. The world is very afraid of the essence because the essence is always rebellious, the essence is always individualistic. And the world does not need any individuals, it needs sheep.
Society requires obedience, and society requires efficiency. The more mechanical we are, the more efficient we are. When we are more alive, we cannot be so efficient. A machine is more efficient than man. The society’s effort is to reduce every man into a machine. And how to reduce a man into a machine? Make him more and more unconscious, make him more and more robot-like. Let his essence completely disappear from his consciousness. Let him become perfectly pseudo. Let him be a husband, let her be a wife; a servant, a boss, this and that, but never let him be his essential self.
That type of being will be very inconvenient to this so-called ’society’, because this society is not created to fulfil the needs of human beings, it is created to exploit human beings. It has every intention not to allow you to grow because the more you grow, the more independent you become. The less you grow, the more dependent you remain. And a dependent person is reliable because a dependent person is always afraid.
A dependent person always needs somebody to lean on. He is childish. He leans on the parents, he leans on the priests, he leans on the politicians. He cannot stand on his own feet. The society goes on covering you with many many clothes – not only physical but psychological too.
So friends…we need to realize our real Avatars!