Life without Meditation is Useless

 

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Life without Meditation is Useless

Gurdjieff had said that if you don’t meditate you will die a dog’s death. What did he mean when he said that – what he implied was that your life is useless, it is wasted without meditation. We spend time and think a lot on the most useless of things. We plan holidays, we think a lot and spend sleepless nights on which car to buy, time is spent on decisions to buy a new house, in short, we are directing our attention outwards to indulge ourselves in things which are so impermanent and which will give us happiness for the moment only. In fact, we go to the extent of borrowing money to indulge in our desires. While doing all this we are absolutely unaware that with each passing day, nay, with each passing moment we are approaching our physical death. What use is all of this if we are to die without being able to enjoy any of our material belongings?

We all live our life moving from one goal to another, from one desire to another, from one love to another without any clue as to where we are actually headed. We are all taught from our childhood on what we need to do to achieve a good status in life – good education, good job, good salary, etc. – but nobody tells us that this is useless when it comes to our real life’s goal! In fact, we don’t know our life’s goal. Maybe 1 in 100000 people really know what their life’s goal is and they work towards it! So, while living life in the material world chasing all our worldly desires, we are doing nothing but wasting our time chasing impermanent happiness – meaning happiness which is based on material desires and wants which all die along with us. What does not die is our soul!

We should all be chasing permanent happiness which can only come from realising our soul. This happens only when we meet our spiritual Master or Satguru who helps awaken our soul – once we get the realisation that we are a soul, with meditation we commence our real journey towards permanent happiness and bliss. Of course, once this happens and we start our inner journey we start becoming witnesses to our life in the material world. We start living our day-to-day life with detachment – we perform all our roles – husband/wife, son/daughter, business person/professional, etc with the same level of efficiency and professionalism as earlier, but now we are not emotionally connected to any of these roles.

The inner journey makes us realise that ‘life’ has a far more profound meaning to it than that of living a dog’s life! We realise that our purpose of taking birth is liberation and we set out on this goal with renewed purpose. The inner happiness which stays with us all the time now becomes a part of our personality, it reflects in our radiance and aura. We have found our goal and are well set on the journey to reach it!