What You Seek is Seeking You!
The
universe is always waiting to help us reach our goals. The trouble with us is
that we keep changing our goals. When we go to management school to set short,
medium and long term goals; or even if we go for a job interview, we are asked –
what are your goals – please briefly state your short, medium and long term
goals. This allows the interviewer to assess whether we will be able to fit
into the organisation culture and whether our goals are more or less in
alignment with the organisation goals. This is fine when it comes to jobs – but
what about our life goals? Have you ever defined them? Have you ever in your
wildest dreams had liberation (moksha) as one of your goals? Because, if that
is not your ultimate goal then you have missed the purpose for which you have taken
this birth!
From the
moment we take birth the universe is conspiring to take us to our ultimate
life goal that is liberation. We lose our path – in this competitive world our
parents feel that earlier the child starts learning the better (we have schools
for 1.5 to 2 years old toddlers) – education starts that early – meaning we
have already started going contrary to the universe’s goals! Even then the
universe keeps sending messages to each one of us, but we keep missing the
messages or misinterpret them to suit our own ideas of life and we get stuck in
this birth-death-birth cycle!
Over
several births and several Gurus, we ultimately reach a birth which could be
said to be our last birth – this is after we have lived all our dreams,
satisfied most of our desires and realised for yourself that we are not happy
in spite of having everything that life can offer. That is when we start
looking for spiritual guidance, start turning inwards. Once we do that, we actually start correctly interpreting the messages that the universe is sending
us. The Guru-energies then direct us to a realised Master who becomes the
inspiration for us to turn inwards. Once you turn inwards, you find peace and
solace which all the material wealth, education, power, post-position could not
give you all these years. You then slowly start understanding the world of
illusion in which we live, one realises that what we had been seeking all our
lives had been seeking us over several births. We ultimately find that divinity,
peace, silence, joy and bliss right within us while we had been chasing all of
this outside in the material world. Ultimately, we find our own true self and
become one with nature! Self-realisation at last!
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