We live in a perspective-driven world suffering from a deep identity crisis. In such a time, the preservation of the self is not merely a philosophical pursuit—it’s the most urgent challenge we are bound to face. Yet the real question remains: Are we prepared to confront the self honestly?

This is an age of disruption—not only technological or social, but internal. Our thoughts swing like a pendulum, constantly oscillating between extremes. Knowledge, as we understand it today, becomes the force that keeps this pendulum in motion. Like energy, it is conserved—never destroyed, only transferred—moving endlessly between cause and effect.

But where do we stand in this cycle?

Is the cause controlling us, or is the effect controlling the cause? Or are we merely enabling a system that operates independently of us?

We are conditioned to believe that situations control us. However, upon closer examination, a different picture emerges. Imagine cause and effect as two balls swinging endlessly, striking a center ball—us. If the center ball is removed, the other two continue their motion briefly before eventually stopping. By their nature, they require a platform to operate.

Our withdrawal from this loop functions like a circuit breaker. When awareness is introduced, the machinery of cause and effect loses its grip.

Sadly, both society and individuals are overpowered by myths built on false knowledge. Perceptions—shaped, curated, and enforced—define how we see ourselves and society around us. We rarely understand the fact that society is a manifestation of our inner self, meaning it is virtual or illusory. Instead of guiding us toward detachment, society conditions us to form deeper attachments: to identities, beliefs, success, and validation.

Detachment is often misunderstood as escape or indifference. In truth, it is the only way to resolve the mystery of repeated entanglement in karmic cycles. Breaking the cycle of karma does not require more information; it requires awareness before learning.

When awareness is absent, learning becomes conditioning. Over time, we become phased—reactive, predictable, and vulnerable to the continuous impact of cause and effect. Here is where deep awareness is the need of the hour!

Awareness is not a passive act. It is a disciplined state of presence—one that observes without absorbing information shaped by hidden agendas, whether our own or those imposed by external forces. Over time, we have allowed ourselves to become products of our surroundings, rather than shaping our surroundings through conscious thought. This is where awareness, paired with premeditated thinking, becomes essential. The question then arises: how do we live within society without losing ourselves? The answer is- Like a lotus that grows untouched in muddy water, awareness enables us to exist within the world without being consumed by it.

Without this discipline, we become victims, trapped in repeating cycles. The Matrix analogy is apt here: liberation begins not by fighting the system, but by realizing that the identity we believe ourselves to be is not real. The moment we recognize the illusion, its power begins to weaken.

The true role of the self is not to act compulsively, but to observe silently while remaining rooted in the present.

Modern society equates the accumulation of data with knowledge and the application of data with wisdom. But data itself is often curated to control narratives. What we call knowledge is frequently perception shaped by social, political, and psychological agendas.

Social media and digital platforms have mastered this art. They exploit the spiritual void within individuals, flooding minds with information disguised as insight. Books, content, and ideologies are consumed rapidly—not to awaken awareness, but to reinforce existing biases.

Reading, in itself, does not produce wisdom. It produces perception. Without self-awareness, readers unknowingly become carriers of the very propaganda they seek to understand.

One of the most damaging myths imposed by society is the concept of binary thinking. We are trained to see the world as either/or—success or failure, right or wrong, 0 or 1. Yet the reality is singular, fluid, and continuous.

Binary thinking is a maya—an illusion we have accepted and internalized. Living in this artificial framework forces us into constant conflict, comparison, and identity fragmentation.

Spirituality does not thrive in abstraction or mixed signals. It exists in practice—in presence, observation, and restraint. While perception multiplies confusion, awareness simplifies reality.

Manifestation is often romanticized as an external process—the creation of outcomes in the world. In reality, true manifestation begins internally. Before any thought takes external form, it must first arise consciously within the mind.

This requires an understanding of how thoughts are formed, how perceptions shape them, and how awareness determines whether they direct us or merely pass through us. In the absence of awareness and curiosity, life is simply lived, not examined. Information is mistaken for knowledge, and knowledge for wisdom. Such assumptions of “knowing” have repeatedly diminished humanity, giving rise to forces such as colonization, terrorism, and cultural dominance—each rooted in biased awareness later justified as experience or truth.

The essential question, then, is not what we know, but what we must truly understand.

Experience is often upheld as the ultimate teacher. Yet experience is nothing more than perception filtered through the intellectual frameworks we build over time. This explains why the same situation yields different lessons for different individuals.

What, then, is the true function of experience?
Is it to affirm the intellectual ego—or to dismantle it?
To reinforce inherited narratives—or to break them?
To provide comfort—or to reveal truth?

Self-discovery and self-destruction move in parallel. The more rigidly we define ourselves, the more confined we become. Identity, when fixed, becomes a prison shaped by societal trends and borrowed perceptions.

Breaking this pattern requires withdrawal resilience—the ability to step back without succumbing to the temptation to escape. Gratitude, sacrifice, and surrender are not virtues of weakness; they are pillars of inner renaissance.

Ultimately, we are neither the cause nor the effect. We are the medium through which the illusion operates—until awareness intervenes.

When the pendulum stops, what remains is not chaos—but clarity.

Liberation may not be found in definitive answers, but rather in the diminished relevance of persistent questions. When change occurs through awareness rather than force, an unfamiliar silence emerges that does not insist upon interpretation.

Within this silence, causality and justification lose their pursuit of one another. Processes may persist out of habit until there is no longer a central focus to guide them. What remains is not triumph or avoidance, but a clear understanding: continued participation was necessary for the cycle’s existence.

The notion of self that was thought to require preservation was not truly lost, but instead misinterpreted as movement. As movement ceases to represent vitality, identity gradually relinquishes control. The observer and the act of observing become indistinguishable, rendering detachment superfluous.

No dramatic shift occurs; there is no announcement of revelation. The world persists unchanged, though a fundamental urgency to assume a distinct role within it quietly dissipates.

In this absence, a significant realization surfaces: the pendulum had never malfunctioned; it simply ceased to recall its purpose for swinging.