Dying to Live

 

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Dying to Live

Everyone has twenty-four hours in a day to utilise the way they think is best for them. Some wake up early and try to maximise the available time to suit their lifestyle, while others wake up late, missing the glory of the early morning sunrise. We try to make ourselves capable of packing as much as we can in our daily schedule without becoming tired or exhausted.

At work if we feel we are creating what we really care for, and in the course of doing that we get exhausted, that is okay; if we die of exhaustion just for trying to earn a living, that will be really stupid.

Please understand, if we spend our lifetime trying to earn a living, it is tiring. Whether we work twenty hours, ten hours, eight hours or five hours a day, it will be tiring – whatever we do. However, when we do something that really matters to us, it may be physically exhausting, but life is not tiring because we are constantly doing what matters.

If we work five or ten years for our security, that’s okay. But if we are going to work all our life for our own security, we are seeking death because death is the only secure thing in the existence. Life is never secure. We are trying to live while unknowingly working for death. Now we are dying to live, as the lady appropriately said. The man actually died a few years later.

There was a person who would always be agitated and his wife would say he is dying to live. If a person who lives his life in this manner – always agitated, always in continuous state of turmoil – that is not living, that is actually dying in a very tortuous manner. God has given us life, all we have to do is live it, live in the best possible manner, in harmony with all that is there in existence. But what do we do, we agitate, we think, we try to over-achieve and die knowing that we did not reach the goal that we aimed for!

Humans are blessed with limitless intelligence; we just need to tap into it. Meditation helps us merge with universal consciousness, that is the source of infinite wisdom.

Once we reach that state, then we just live our life in harmony – we won’t be dying to live, as we would have attained a state of liberation or moksha – the ultimate goal of all those who take birth on earth.