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  • Writing by Rajveer
  • On October 26th, 2011 at 1:09 pm

A human can be extremely happy and extremely unhappy – and everyone has an option to choose. This freedom is risky and dangerous, because with this freedom to choose, one becomes responsible. So much has been going wrong with this freedom. So wrong that it seems we all are standing up side down.

You can spend a whole night sitting on the rock thinking about past and worrying about future, only to make things more miserable. In reality it just needs one deep dive in to your soul to start separating the misery from your life. To understand that an unrealistic perception of life is the basis of misery. At most the misery and fear is simply because we are not living with our life but living in our mind.

What we call happiness depends on the individual. If there are pleasurable sensations around us we feel happy. But in reality we are no more than a sleeping person who lives from one sensation to another sensation. Living life for thrills which depends on outside world. Pleasure is dependent on the other. If you love someone, if that is your pleasure, then that person becomes your master – because you feel despair without that person. When we are so wrapped up in seeking pleasure we can not love – because deep down in reality the person who seeks pleasure uses the other as a means. If one really needs to respect the word “love”. It must be part of internal joy. Joy is totally different from pleasure. It has nothing to do with outside world and its consequences. Joy is not dependent on circumstances – it is our own. A state of peace, silence and a meditative state – it is spiritual.

Pleasure is momentary, it belongs to the time. Joy is timeless – it is our innermost nature. It has been there with us since the beginning. Anything that we respect and love should be joy. If it is not joy then it can not be what we pretend to name it. All this can be realized in extreme situations only. “Let go” is the first step to come out of what we feel is lost and experience life with joy.

Emotion is capable of being a higher intensity than intellect in many ways. Intellect has a certain coolness, intellect has a certain penetration. But emotion can embrace just everything. But still a devotee looks like a fool to the intellectual. Not matter which one you are. Important thing is to realize what you are feeling as love or any other emotion. Is basically sweetness of your emotion. You can sit alone and you could feel love about somebody who is not even there. So it’s got nothing to do with outside world or circumstances. Once a human being becomes more and more aware of his own nature he understands to experience love and blissfulness. It’s your body, your mind, your own chemistry – and you are the one who is creating all the experiences of your life.

Whatever you do, you do it because it means something to you. Every human being is interested in his well being. For one person well being can be just he being well, for another person it may be him and few more, for another person it may be entire humanity. Only the scale is different – they is no one who is not concerned about well being.

Jesus says: be like a child, only then you can enter the kingdom of God. He is right! Pleasure seeker can not be innocent like a child. Do whatever happens to be with us in the moment, but don’t be possessive. Don’t try to claim that is yours. Nothing is yours – all belongs to existence.

One time you might find yourself surrounded by many friends and family people to celebrate good times. Sometime you might be alone. If the celebration is about life then it must go on. You are not alone – the whole universe is yours.

Too much we do to fix the house, car, job, marriage, and so on. Fixing the outside does not change the experience of our life – it only makes our life convenient and comfortable. How peaceful and joyful we are – that is the quality of our life. Not much we do to fix the internal. And internal is not about the body and mind. Body and mind are something that we have slowly accumulated from the outside. The very way we think and feel about life is just an impression taken from what kind of society you have raised in.

Our mind is always craving for something new. Mind always keeps us tied up to somewhere in the future. It keeps us hoping, but never delivers the fact – it never can. It only creates new hopes and desires. Pleasure keeps us in restless state. We remain a victim of a crowd of insane desires – insane because they are unfulfillable, and they go on dragging us in different directions. At most it’s all outside.

If you have decided to be happy then meditation will follow you. Happiness occurs and stays as long as we fit with our life – fit so pleasantly that whatsoever we do becomes our joy. If you love the work you are doing, if you accept and love the way you are living then you are meditative.

Call it enlightenment or self-awareness, it is not about escaping from pain but understanding of pain. Just an insight into the misery brings a freedom from misery. The moment you decide to be joyful and let go anything that belonged to existence at some point of time. You will separate misery from your life – you will feel it was never there. What happens within you is decided by only you, no one else but you. What happens outside of you hundreds of people decide, you never decide 100 percent. You can just try to manage it, manipulate it the way we want it till some extent. But that’s all! At least in there ‘soul’ if you are deciding what should happen within you. From the root level you have only two options to choose – Misery or Joy!

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