Over to ‘Ananda’

The aim of an artist as a participant is to regulate oneself to overcome one’s own limitations. Apparently there is a paradoxical position in the concept of regulating oneself to cross over the boundaries. But really there are no controversies in this concept because to regulate oneself only means to realise and overcome the limitations through concentration of one’s own energy to a particular point of expression. Take for ex. a musician who uses the sound to reach a universe of silence. The methodology to cross over the limitations of sound must be developed and practiced by every musician to express silence. The task of a musician is not in the expression of sound but in the experience of silence. The regulations are to be imposed on oneself to experience the world of silence where one should not be limited by the boundaries created by space and time. Such a state of experience has been technically termed as ‘ananda’. Brahmacharia is only a prelude to the experience of ‘ananda’. The person who practises ‘brahmacharia’ has to share whatever he has with the rest. The state of ‘ananda’ can be experienced only when one shares whatever he has with the humans and non-humans alike. Since ‘ananda’ is a state of experience that can be attained only by sharing, then it can be argued that brahmacharia is an activity to break the prisons created by the ego-sense to reach the rest. Ananada can be experienced only when one strengthens oneself to break the conceptual prisons of various types created by the ego-sense, due to the influence of selfishness. Market economy believes in concentration of selfishness and advises all human beings to get sheltered in self-created conceptual prisons. Naturally, a contestant cannot enjoy ananda by himself; hence he cannot make others also enjoy it. The situation of a participant is different; not only is he/she capable of enjoying and experiencing happiness but also making others to experience the same. This proves that the practise of brahmacharia and connected self-regulation is always relevant in everybody’s life.