6/7/2014. Jay Shri Krishna What is life? Some say life is happiness. But there are very few to buy that idea. Many say life is distress. There are also few who discard this idea. The pessimistic people will say there is one day between two nights and the optimistic will say there is one night between two days. Interestingly both are true. I say life is what you make it. It is you who has to give direction to life. If you remain passive, and leave life unattended, unguarded, then life will be distracted from the right path, and will wither away as the fallen leaf of the tree is lost in bewilderment. The life is journey between two points: one is birth, the other death. So we can say that life is journey to death. The first certain thing that was established immediately after birth was death. There is no escape from it. So if you do nothing and sit with folded hands, then also death is certain to knock at the scheduled time and place and take you away. Before it happens we must live the life as a human. There are so many courses teaching men the art of living. I say we don’t need to learn the art of living but the art of leaving. There are birds, animals, insects, whales, fishes and reptiles, but I never have come across where they were taught the art of living. The art of living teaches you the civics, the personality; whereas you need to learn essence. When we were born we were full of essence. We totally lacked civics. We were not wearing clothes, we were not telling thank you to Mom, we were peeing any time anywhere, but we were complacent, though we were having nothing to belong. We were having no complaint for anything, we were very happy; though we were having nothing. But after we have attained a hoard of things, we have turned to be destitute. Obviously this makes one thing clear that, what we believed to be source of happiness, and we purchased the pieces of durable things, was actually an act of being deceived. Our belongings have become things of loathing. The more we rely on technology, the less analytical and intuitive it makes us. Today, due to social media, we have less time for introspection and meaningful conversation. It has become very unclear to a person whether he acts for living or lives for acting. He just accumulates and accumulates without sparing time for spending and enjoying it. He postpones enjoyment to tomorrow for the sake of earning, whereas in reality he must have postponed earning for the sake of enjoying it. You must have seen sparrow or any bird, making nest in your premises. If one day you go there and just drive it away, next day it will not come there. The bird would have taken pains in making the nest, but bird believes that nest is for it and not it for nest. So if it feels that its security is at stake, it will leave the nest and find its dwelling elsewhere. But we pile up belongings and start believing that we are for the belongings. And though we have been bitten bitterly, we return again and again to our belongings. We are lacking the simple understanding that the sparrow has. So for us belongings holds first place and then come our turn. We devalued ourselves. That is why instead of giving us happiness, our belongings have given us distress, disgust and dissatisfaction. So we shall have to learn the art of leaving. Because the nature’s innate temperament is to make us leave. When we were teenager, we were growing in height but nature took away it as soon as we entered youth. Then nature took away our black hair and gave us grey instead, then came diabetics and it made us leave sweets, then it took away our teeth, then our colorful jeans and t-shirts, then took away plain face and gave us wrinkled face instead, took away our childhood games and gave us walking sticks, and took away many more things and compelled us to hold unpleasant things instead. One day we shall have to leave the palace, farm house, wife, son, daughter, friend and this body, too. So it is innate temperament of nature to make us leave. And as if we have waged a war with nature, instead of learning leaving, we have been learning how to grab more and more. This will not do. We shall have to learn to leave. Because we can survive only in cooperation with nature. So we shall have to learn to leave and become child-like to feel happiness. We shall have to return to source. May God bless you.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 07:32:11 +0000
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