Questions and answers

From a subtle perspective, life is all about questions and answers. The delay between a question and answer can last an entire lifetime, multiple births or it could be trivial. Answers should arise from real world experiential learning. The truth cannot be borrowed. It has to be experienced to be able to appreciate and internalize it. This leads to the development of self-confidence, self-conviction. Being equipped in this manner for the future journey, the individual is propelled in the right direction. 

A gap/delay between questions and answers has unintended consequences. Multiple factors influence this gap/delay. They include evolutionary state (understanding and awareness) of the soul, past experiential learning, attitude, self-motivation, acceptance, availability of a spiritual master, environment and prevailing circumstances. A demand supply gap perceived during this delay results in stress perception. This stress in the delay is the root of all suffering. Inability to remain still, inappropriate attitude, intimidation leads to unintended consequences. 

a. When faced with any question an experienced individual perceives it 'as it is' and derives the answer either through silent contemplation OR the individual's mind processes the question and independently and effortlessly arrives at an appropriate answer.

b. An individual who has some contextual experience but is not fully equipped to independently arrive at an answer, when faced with the same question, processes it and over time after undergoing a corresponding experiential learning phase (~delay) arrives at an appropriate answer.

c. An inexperienced individual when faced with the same question, might be ill-equipped to arrive at an answer immediately and may not have the contextual experience to facilitate processing of the question. In such cases, fragmentation of the initial question into smaller questions facilitates processing. The individual undergoes learning phases corresponding to each fragment of the original question and arrives at fragmented answers which are latter mapped over time into a single answer. This is a time consuming and energy intensive process. The individual might lose the connect between the original question and the final answer due to a. The underlying delay in arriving at the answer and b. Fragmentation. This approach requires qualities like patience, calmness, stillness, letting go of control, self-motivation and the attitude of learning. Lack of any of these factors or presence of opposite qualities leads to a stressful experience (due to demand supply gap).