We are born into an illusory world and from the moment of our conception we have to learn how to deal with this illusory world. We have to learn how to make our way through it. And even though this world is illusory, we get from it things that are vital to this existence within the illusory world. And quite simply we rely on the world to give us food, we rely on the world to give us shelter, and we rely on the world for lots of other things.
At one time, not that long ago, man, for the most part, lived in an agrarian society. Man would grow his food and be self-reliant on what he could till from the ground and raise by way of livestock. And his life centered around a small area where he farmed, a small village of people who did similar things.
We now live in a much more complex world with much more complicated scenarios but what hasn’t changed is, to use a popular word in the tech world now, what hasn’t changed is our interface with the illusory world and the extent of this interface with the illusory world.
Now, basically we have certain needs and if these needs are not supplied to us we take on a certain state. If there isn’t enough rain for a farmer he may become frightened, he may become angry, he may become lots of things, but they’re all in reaction to not being able to get what he wants or what he thinks he needs.
Take us to our modern society we all have needs, we all have desires, and we all have certain wants. If we don’t get them, or if we see ourselves somehow in jeopardy, because we don’t get them, certain things happen to us. We go into states of fear, we go into states of anxiety, and we go into states of anger and reacting to the fact that we don’t have what we want. Now what is it that produces these states of fear, and these states of anxiety, and these states of distress?
How many of you have been to the zoo and seen a chimp when they lose control? They begin to shriek and jump up and down and grab sticks and beat sticks against the wall and you can hear them, “Ah ah ah ah ah!” They go into this incredibly spirited out of control chaotic state. Well as you all know our mind is compared to the monkey so we have to realize that our mind has the tendencies of the monkey and those tendencies are to go into a chaotic state. And that chaotic state can be fearful, can be angry, can be anxious, but it’s chaotic.
Imagine having the information that living inside of you is this monkey who tends to be chaotic and will put you in a chaotic state if you let it, and all you have to do to let it, is not do anything about it because it will naturally go there, it will naturally go towards chaos, it will naturally go towards anger, it will naturally go towards fear and it will naturally react in a way that will viscerally affect your entire being.
If that mind of yours becomes fearful a knot forms in your stomach, your vision may become blurry, your heart begins to beat faster because you have all of these reactions to your thought patterns. And where do these thought patterns come from? They come from your interface with maya, your illusion, your reaction to worldly illusions and your thought process as to what can happen to you because of that interface with illusion.
Imagine the criminal who turns himself in after 20 years because of something that he did or thinks he did, and he can’t handle the constant insanity of the paranoia that develops within him over the years.
Imagine the businessman, look at the Great Depression of the Twenties, people were jumping out of buildings because they thought they were going broke, and that thought alone was enough to make them end their own lives. Why? Because they could not conceive of the possibility that their lifestyle would somehow alter.
There are all kinds of reasons that people react in a chaotic manner because of their interface with the illusory world, and the illusory world constantly creates situations with you that make you chaotic.
Now, what is the part of us that becomes chaotic? It’s our mind, and it’s the certain states we develop through our mind. And how does Satan get to us? What does he use as his tool to enter us? It’s our mind. The Quran tells us so. It says, “The whisperer comes, whispers into your ear, and then leaves” it doesn’t say that he whispers into your heart. It says, “He whispers into your ear” a very easily understood reference to the fact that he’s speaking to your mind…
