There may be problems of the body. There can be problems of the mind. There are problems of the world. But you are not a body, of the mind, or the world. The question of transcending the experience of a body, mind, and world arise when there is contact with the limitations of being a limited body, mind, or this world. The limitations pose themselves as a problem, which is how the desire for transcendence even arises. If it were all too jolly, the state of ignorance would be too good to be true. But it isn’t, and is how the truth of ignorance comes to be revealed.

It would take a certain intensity of alertness, attention, awareness, consciousness – whatever one may mean to call it – to choose to transcend beyond the limits of their body, mind, and the world. This intensity gets prompted by problems in order to peak at a higher frontier so to speak, but it would be wise to inquire into the nature of this life itself to consciously take it to where it belongs. The longing to settle is akin to ceasing to exist. This is not a positive or a negative statement. We can only settle into the present experience for always and also completely cease the existence of all that the might of ignorance has proven to be capable of in its attempt to prove ‘I am’, and continue in a body, with this mind, and the world. Knowing is not a question of knowledge. Knowledge would be something that’s making the mind exist in patterns. Knowing is not something about the ways of the world either. Knowing is this, that there is no that. Knowing is that, there is no-where to go, no-thing to seek, no-one to be. To be knowing the body, mind, and world, makes it evident how none of them is who you are, or what life is. Knowing is also to remember that only nothing can truly be known.

So how to know nothing, in all honesty. To know all will need you to include everything, or lose your self. Both can lead to interpretations of what’s true and explanations of the false. Including everything will not end till the self has not been lost. The self cannot be lost by chance, but can be found consciously, perceived to be nothing of this body, mind, or the world, and lost in experience. Losing in experience is akin to ceasing to exist, which is akin to settling down. Now, the body moves, mind may happen, and the world must learn to wait.

Yuvraj Goswami is the author of No Point Talking. available on amazon. Excerpts are on www.elefemel.com and @nopointtalking on Instagram.