Get Involved in Life

 

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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.