Shiva Sutra: Activities vs Actions

The greed to become somebody and the fear of ending up as nobody, is the greatest stress of our life.

Our life is the permutation and combination of the amount of greed and fear. Buddha says that all our activities are caused by greed and fear. Both greed and fear are the symptoms of inner shallowness.

Activities provide an escape from our inner void caused by our ignorance and shallowness. The distorted perception of self create the inner void and shallowness in us. We try to justify our inner void with activities. Till the time we learn to face that inner void, we will remain involved with activities to escape...we will remain bored with life. We get involved in activities to avoid ourselves.

When Buddha asks us to face our inner void, it is called abhi mukhi, which Shiva refers to as Chaitanya Atma.Which means you learn to see yourself with awareness. When we see the self with complete awareness we also see the greed/fear that is inducing our activities.

Learning to face  the self, then identifying the greed and fear behind the activities, and facing those traits with full awareness...when we do so, our activities become actions. Actions, that are results of pure intentions of a fully aware self.