Are you living in Duality?

Are you living in duality?

In our day-to-day life, we always seek solutions to our problems. Sometimes these problems are not even the real problems and these are the result of several thoughts running to our minds. We make them so big and become restless to find the solutions to those imaginary problems. So after solving one problem, we start thinking or clinging to other problems. This process goes on. Isn't it? Are we always surrounded by problems or these are just the thoughts thrown by our minds which always want us to live in fear or feel unsatisfied to have something better. The fear of losing someone, the fear of insecurities, the fear of incompleteness, the fear of always being like someone else and having more from what is now etc is the dualism that keeps on running in our minds. So this duality arises when we separate ourselves from the rest of the world. Thus the Upanishads say,

Where there is duality, as it were, there one sees another; there one smells another; there one tastes another ... But where everything has become just one's own self, then whereby and whom would one see? then whereby and whom would one smell? then whereby and whom would one taste?

Can we ever get rid of this duality? Even if start getting focused forcefully to get rid of it then it would also be a way to adopt a method which we are forcefully trying to do. So nondualism should not be achieved by releasing something and adopting anything else. The truth is not static, it is flowing and no one can ever frame the truth or could define a method to understand what "truth" is? It should be observed at every moment with a selfless attitude. 

We start doing charity when we think we have earned or looted enough and start thinking that I am doing something nobler than others or we are the man of virtue. We just start practising the opposite of what we think we need to get rid of. A cruel person starts behaving gentle, the rude one starts being humble and so on. Even by doing charity if someone always thinks of it that keeps reminding him that there is an opposite (greed) associated with it and he has to suppress this now to be a nobler one. I hope this now clears the doubt about duality. 

In the great war of Mahabharata when Arjuna, the devotee of Krishna made his bow down and denied to fight against the Kaurava then Krishna removed the doubts the Arjuna by explaining what is "Dharma" and the "action" without the greed of its results. After this, the duality vanished and Arjuna won the battle and established the Dharma. 

In Bhagavad-gita Krishna says to Arjuna, we need not worry/think about the results of the Action/Karma and just concentrate on our actions with a sense of detachment to them. 

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।

मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥ २-४७

Karmanye vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana,

Ma Karmaphalaheturbhurma Te Sangostvakarmani

We should have the right to work only but never to its fruits.

We should not consider the results of action and make them our motive, nor should we be attached to inaction.