Is this enough?

What is life? What is contentment? Is it possible to live without fear? Is it possible to experience absolute contentment for even an instant? The sense of having no more wants?

It seems as though at every instant, there is this background of incessant dissatisfaction. A sense that things are somehow not right. A sense that change will come. Change makes it impossible to remain satisfied.

Today your situation is one way. Tomorrow it will be another. What then can one rely on? Death is continuously stalking.

Fear of poverty, of illness of being left alone, of dependency dominate the recesses of the mind. How does one guarantee the stability of any emotional state.

Certain thought trains have enormous influence on your well being. Certain intense thoughts keep playing over and over again. There seems to be no relief from these intense thought trains. What fuels these thought trains? What fuels regret? The expectation that things could somehow be different. The belief that things could somehow be different had you made a different choice. The belief that things as they stand at this moment should not be this way. The belief that you could have acted differently in the 'past'.

That which matters cannot be affected by any action, past present or future. Certain variable interact among themselves and an 'action' is performed. Who is the performer of these actions? Who is the thinker of thoughts?

The costliest mistake

Foolishness is the costliest thing in the world.
One moment of a foolish decision can cost you a lifetime of merit.

Just an instant of foolishness, an instant loss of discrimination, a moment of loss of rationality is enough to destroy the gain of lifetimes.

All the dedicated efforts of a lifetime can be lost in a single instant of foolishness. Only intelligent discrimination can protect from foolishness.

Thus, pray for protection from foolishness and blindness. The only protection that is required.

The only protection that is needed is from foolishness.

Foolishness = Blindness = Ignorance

The I is God

What is this world and who am I?

The I is the light that is ever shining and all revealing.

Looking within, all that is found is the I. The I is God.

God is all there is.

Raw energy of life

So many desires and torrents gushing underneath. So many primal animal instincts. There lurks within us a hungry beast, a beast that wishes to devour. To have violent sex. There lurks in the dark a primal violence.

This is nothing but the raw energy of life. This energy is the movement of life and needs to be channeled into an outlet. It cannot remain still. You need to work with it. Channel it. Not repress it. Else it will get perverse.

The good life

Lets imagine for a moment the best thing that could happen.

The best thing that could happen is that I become fully financially independent i.e. don't need to worry about money the rest of my life and share my life with people I love where we have mutual love for each other and have a life free of illness.

That my parents have a peaceful retired life and that the entire universe stays happy.

And the realization of God does not leave at any time. I wish this for all creatures.

1. God realization at all times (No deceptions)

2. Illness free (No physical and mental pain)

3. Share life with loved ones (No loneliness)

4. Financially independent (No worldly concerns)

Know only this

The only thing that needs to be understood is what is real.

The core identity has to be realized and lived. Only this is important.

Only the real matters. All that is other than real is irrelevant.

Control the mind. The only discipline is to control the mind. When the mind slows down, clarity is revealed as the only reality.

"God alone is Real. All else illusory" - Ramakrishna Paramhansa

Only this needs to be realized without doubt. With every cell in the body, the truth has to be realized. Then alone will conflicts and misery cease.

Unless the truth is realized, no peace is possible in a million lifetimes.

The greatest action that can be performed is to enable another to realize the truth for himself. The only real service.

Remembering spirit

Living life, a normal ordinary life itself is challenging. Unforeseen situations can occur. Stability of mind is the most important requirement. Your partner needs to be calm and stable too. There are dark recesses in the mind. These can expand into depression.

Remember awareness. The body is an abode of disease. The mind too can be infected. The spirit is purity and cannot be touched by impurity.