Why is that we often run after a thing,struggling very hard to get it and after getting it we realize its side effects?Why is that what we want we never get and what we have we are never satisfied with?
What is that we actually want?Is it pre-written that we always have to suffer or is there a way out?
Do life have any meaning or are we just wanderers in interplay of happiness and sadness?
In all we often end saying in agony," why me?"
Maybe if we get to know our true nature,all our suffering would end.
First start with what do we actually want. All of us just want happiness.It is not our desire but our need.
We work day and night,years after years for it.
Just we don't know how to get it(- happiness which is everlasting-the causeless happiness). Some find it in achieving something which satisfies their ego and thus make them happy,some in things,some in people and some in animals.
But all these are temporary and are accompanied by fear-fear of loosing them and to resist this fear we work hard during which we experience sufferings.Strive for happiness itself causes suffering.
So,we need to look for happiness in something which we don't possess(as with possession comes fear of its loss) but something which is eternal and we are itself part of it.
These sufferings would end up if we realize our true nature.
Our true nature is divine,ever-present,permanent, infinite and zero at same time,non-dual,never-changing yet always new(sat-chit-anand).
We are beyond space and time.Words can't describe us as words create duality but we can experience our true self.
Now that we have come to know our true nature and that it can give us eternal joy,question arises how to experience it?
There are two ways of experiencing it:
1. Surrender yourself to life.Surrender all your desires(but not that need). Realize that you are a witness to
which worldly matters to whom these appear and disappear but never did you participated in it.Things just happens to you-they appear and disappear.
Remove your attachments with everything.You must not have attachment either with attachment or
detachment. Just witness.
When we watch a movie sometimes afterwards we get attached to the characters and feel us in them.We
start feeling all emotions attached with the characters according to the situation.But when we realize that
we are not these characters but the witness to this movie,all our emotions vanishes.Similarly,realize that
you are not participant but witness of these worldly matters.
Then, starting learning about your true self by any of yoga practices. To learn ,you need two things:
i) Surrender your ego.It would take some time.You need to know that you are not achieving something to boast about, or feel superior about.All of us have same 'I' just we differ in level of our consciousness.
Surrendering your ego also means while meditating sometimes you would experience some stable state while other times you won't be getting there.Don't start pressuring yourself about this.Be a friend with
yourself.Have patience.Learn from everyone.In the end ego will vanish and consciousness will dissolve itself in 'I'.
ii)Remove your ignorance.It is the greatest hurdle in this path.Start accepting things against your
beliefs.Just remember things which you don't understand right then.With time(just to say,,actually time is meaningless here),everything will unfold.Meditate on 'I' to which experiences are appearing through
consciousness and don't attach yourself with experiences.With time everything will dissolve and
only the cause('I') will remain.
Now we move on to second way.
2. Start any of the yoga practices which are just ways to focus mind and make it stable on one thing.
Experience everything around without analyzing anything.With time you will start having
experiences(miracles) around you but don't ever get attached to these miracles.Start reading Upanishads, Bhagvat gita, Quran and Bible. Read them from perspective of that eternal 'I' where ever there is talk
about god.What all these will do is that mind will surrender saying, "I am not the master,you are my
master".
In both these processes we are trying to get the real master in its place which is thinking itself as a servant.
The mind which is a servant but thinking itself as a master will get back to its place.
In first process at first we surrender mind and then meditate on 'I' and in second we feed the mind to surrender and then meditate.
(Note here that due to words it seems that mind is evil although not,and words are creating duality separating
mind and 'I' which are both one.)
At the end all (experience,experiencer,what is experienced) will dissolve and only 'I' will remains and you will "attain" causeless happiness. The work which we did to get happiness would hold no meaning.We would work but now to express this happiness.
What is that we actually want?Is it pre-written that we always have to suffer or is there a way out?
Do life have any meaning or are we just wanderers in interplay of happiness and sadness?
In all we often end saying in agony," why me?"
Maybe if we get to know our true nature,all our suffering would end.
First start with what do we actually want. All of us just want happiness.It is not our desire but our need.
We work day and night,years after years for it.
Just we don't know how to get it(- happiness which is everlasting-the causeless happiness). Some find it in achieving something which satisfies their ego and thus make them happy,some in things,some in people and some in animals.
But all these are temporary and are accompanied by fear-fear of loosing them and to resist this fear we work hard during which we experience sufferings.Strive for happiness itself causes suffering.
So,we need to look for happiness in something which we don't possess(as with possession comes fear of its loss) but something which is eternal and we are itself part of it.
These sufferings would end up if we realize our true nature.
Our true nature is divine,ever-present,permanent, infinite and zero at same time,non-dual,never-changing yet always new(sat-chit-anand).
We are beyond space and time.Words can't describe us as words create duality but we can experience our true self.
Now that we have come to know our true nature and that it can give us eternal joy,question arises how to experience it?
There are two ways of experiencing it:
1. Surrender yourself to life.Surrender all your desires(but not that need). Realize that you are a witness to
which worldly matters to whom these appear and disappear but never did you participated in it.Things just happens to you-they appear and disappear.
Remove your attachments with everything.You must not have attachment either with attachment or
detachment. Just witness.
When we watch a movie sometimes afterwards we get attached to the characters and feel us in them.We
start feeling all emotions attached with the characters according to the situation.But when we realize that
we are not these characters but the witness to this movie,all our emotions vanishes.Similarly,realize that
you are not participant but witness of these worldly matters.
Then, starting learning about your true self by any of yoga practices. To learn ,you need two things:
i) Surrender your ego.It would take some time.You need to know that you are not achieving something to boast about, or feel superior about.All of us have same 'I' just we differ in level of our consciousness.
Surrendering your ego also means while meditating sometimes you would experience some stable state while other times you won't be getting there.Don't start pressuring yourself about this.Be a friend with
yourself.Have patience.Learn from everyone.In the end ego will vanish and consciousness will dissolve itself in 'I'.
ii)Remove your ignorance.It is the greatest hurdle in this path.Start accepting things against your
beliefs.Just remember things which you don't understand right then.With time(just to say,,actually time is meaningless here),everything will unfold.Meditate on 'I' to which experiences are appearing through
consciousness and don't attach yourself with experiences.With time everything will dissolve and
only the cause('I') will remain.
Now we move on to second way.
2. Start any of the yoga practices which are just ways to focus mind and make it stable on one thing.
Experience everything around without analyzing anything.With time you will start having
experiences(miracles) around you but don't ever get attached to these miracles.Start reading Upanishads, Bhagvat gita, Quran and Bible. Read them from perspective of that eternal 'I' where ever there is talk
about god.What all these will do is that mind will surrender saying, "I am not the master,you are my
master".
In both these processes we are trying to get the real master in its place which is thinking itself as a servant.
The mind which is a servant but thinking itself as a master will get back to its place.
In first process at first we surrender mind and then meditate on 'I' and in second we feed the mind to surrender and then meditate.
(Note here that due to words it seems that mind is evil although not,and words are creating duality separating
mind and 'I' which are both one.)
At the end all (experience,experiencer,what is experienced) will dissolve and only 'I' will remains and you will "attain" causeless happiness. The work which we did to get happiness would hold no meaning.We would work but now to express this happiness.
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