Life is a Constant Movement

 

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Life is a Constant Movement

We have all observed the ups and down in life, many of us have lived and experienced this too. In a way life can be said to be a mixture of roses and thorns. If you have positive karma, it is a bed of roses; if you have negative karma, it is a bed of thorns. Life is never about all positives or all negatives, it is always a mix and match based on your past birth karma and the fresh karma you create in this birth, and that is why it is a mixed bed.

Sometimes life offers comfort and happiness and sometimes pain and sadness. It is one’s approach to life which decides one’s spiritual progress. An approach of acceptance with equanimity of whatever life has to offer leads to progress, whereas if you react negatively and complain, then one is adding to one’s karmic bank account.

Remember that life has no security, it thrives in danger. It has no safety; it is possible only in danger. If you think about it - death is safe and secure, and life is risky. Hence, those who live have to really learn how to take risks that keep cropping up as we go through the various aspects of ‘living’. Life is like moving into the unknown – and the unknown is always full of risks.

Seekers have to learn one of the most fundamental lessons: that there is no home; that life is a pilgrimage, no beginning, no end. Yes, there are places where one can rest, but those are just overnight stays and, in the morning, one has to move again.

Life is a constant movement; it never comes to any end; that’s why life is eternal. Death has a beginning and an end. But we are not death; we are life. Death is a misconception. People create death because they long for security. It is the desire for security and safety that creates death, that makes one afraid of life, that makes one hesitant of moving into the unknown.

Risk is the only nourishment for life; the more one takes risk, the more alive one feels. It is the rush; it is the sensation of being ‘alive’ while taking the risk that takes the soul to a higher level. Once one realises this, understands this, not out of despair or helplessness, but out of meditative awareness – then one feels thrilled by the sheer beauty of its possibility.

It is a miracle that we are, that the trees are, that the birds are. We are a living planet, whereas the whole universe is imploding with millions and millions of stars and solar systems which are dying. We on earth, who are less than a tiny speck of dust in the entire cosmos are filled with the beauty of ‘life’.

Birds are singing, trees are growing, blooming, people are there, loving, singing, dancing. Something just unbelievable has happened. To become aware of it, to welcome it, to rejoice in it, is sannyas. To trust it is sannyas. To go with it with no idea where it is leading is sannyas. To be surrendered to it is sannyas.