Get Involved in Life
We have all taken birth to achieve a certain
objective in life. In fact, I believe, that all of us take birth only to attain
liberation and merge with universal consciousness. But from the time we take
birth till the time we die, there is a time span that has to be lived.
Apart from those rare souls who truly know the
purpose for which they have taken birth, the rest of us forget our primary
objective and get caught up in the day-to-day rut of living our lives. Some of
us go through the motions, some work to achieve certain goals, some aspire for
higher ground, but all ‘live’ their lives in order to raise the level of their
consciousness consciously or unconsciously. Everyone is progressing
spiritually, but most of them do not know it.
We are all living to fulfill our karmas, till the
time we meet our living Satguru or Master, who guides us on the spiritual path.
We realise that there is no true happiness in the material world, it is just
momentary, for real and lasting happiness the journey lies inwards!
Life is for those who know how to commit — how to
say yes to something, how to say no to something decisively, categorically.
Once we have categorically said yes or no to something, then we can take a
jump, then we can dive deep into the ocean.
People are just sitting on the fence. Millions of
people are fence-sitters — this way or that, just waiting for the opportunity
to come. And the opportunity will never come, because it has already come, it
is here, it is now!
Even if sometimes it so happens that we commit to do
the wrong thing, even then it is good to commit, because the day we realise
that it is wrong we can get out of it. At least we would have learned one
thing: that it is wrong, and never to get into anything like that again. It is
a great experience; it brings us closer to the truth.
Mind is vacillation. The discipline of a meditator
is to become so watchful of the mind, so alert to the mind and its stupidities
— its hesitations, its trembling, its vacillations — to become so watchful that
we are cut off. That is the whole purpose of watching: watching cuts us off
from the mind.
The day we realise, “I am consciousness,” we have
known the universal truth, we have reached our goal. Socrates says, “Man, know
thyself.” That is the teaching of all the Masters: Know thyself. How are we
going to know ourselves? If the mind remains too much and goes on clamouring
around us, goes on making great noise, we will never hear the still small voice
within. We have to become disidentified with the mind. Don’t be identified
with the mind.
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