In the world today, two items everyone is trying to get hold of during the short span of life are:
1. To reduce their problems, worries and sufferings.
2. Enhancement of their joy and happiness.
The materialistic world together with our body ensures for us to face problems continuously. On top of that it is mandatory for all human beings to keep toiling to cater to daily simple necessities. Thus, to us the definition of happiness becomes nothing more than forgetting our problems for a short period.
Surely we cannot consider this to be real happiness. So man is perpetually seeking answers to the following:
1. What am I supposed to do in this world?
2. Where is real happiness?
3. Is life merely a series of events to do the best I can with only death waiting for me in the end?
4. Why am I restless?
5. For what do I engage myself in actions?
6. What is the purpose of life?
7. Who can make sense of it all and give answers to these questions?
8. Where were we before we were born?
9. Where will we be after death?
Materialistic philosophy of life is based on 'let us not torture ourselves by undergoing austerities, fasting, mental and physical restraints. There is no need to get involved in the philosophy of Gods and demigods. Let us give free play to the mind, desires and the body and have a good time. After all, life is but of a short duration and the period of our youth even of a shorter duration.
Our body is composed of various material elements such as earth, air, water, etc. There is also the subtle body (soul) composed of the finer elements of mind, intelligence, consciousness, emotions and senses. Our body indeed is a tool with which we can successfully perform various tasks in life. As long as we are alive we shall continue to have desires. It is not possible to completely eliminate them.
However, our body will one day cease to exist and everything related to it will also end. After death the body decomposes as dust, if buried or becomes ash, if cremated. Hence, we should seriously deliberate whether for ash or dust, is it worth to exhibit so much anxiety?
What possible justification can be for this? It is due to the fact that we become attached to our body and our desires. The more we identify ourselves with the body, the more we limit ourselves. This attitude makes us become fearful of events that could jeopardise our expectation of material happiness.
"God is inscrutable. He cannot be realised in the outer objective world; He is in the very heart of every being. Gemstones have to be sought deep underground; they do not float in mid-air. Seek God in the depths of your self, not in tantalising, kaleidoscopic nature, and the body is granted to you for this high purpose, but you are now misusing it like the person who cooked his daily food in the gem-studded gold vase that came into his hands as a heirloom.
Man extolled God as omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, but he ignores His presence in himself? Of course, many venture to describe the attributes of God and proclaim Him to be such and such; but these are but their own guesses and the reflections of their own predilections and preferences. Who can affirm that God is this or thus, Who can affirm that God is not of this form or with this attribute? Each one can acquire from the vast expanse of the ocean only as much as can be contained in the vessel, he carries to its shore. From that small quantity, he can grasp but little of that immensity.
Each religion defines God within the limits it demarcates and then claims to have grasped Him. Like the seven blind men who spoke of the elephant as a pillar, a fan, a rope or a wall, because they contacted but a part and could not comprehend the entire animal, so too, religions speak of a part and assert that their vision is full and total. Each religion forgets that God is all forms and all names, all attributes and all assertion. The religion of humanity is the sum and substance of all these partial faiths for there is only one religion and that is the religion of love. The various limbs of the elephant that seemed separate and distinct and distinct to the eveless seekers of its truth were all fostered and activated by one single strearn of blood. The various religions and faiths that feel separate and distinct are all fostered by a single stream of love.
The optical sense cannot visualise the truth. It gives only false and barren information. For example, there are many who observe my actions and start declaring that my nature is such and such. They are unable to gauge the sanctity, the majesty and the eternal reality that is 'ME' the power of Sai is limitless; it manifests forever. All forms of "power" are resident in this Sai Palm. But, those who profess to have understood me - the scholars, the Yogis, the Pandits, the Jianis (those who have spiritual knowledge).
all of them are aware only of the least important, the casual external manifestation of an infinitesimal part of that power, namely, the "miracles." They have not desired to contact the source of all power and all wisdom that is available here at Brindavan. They are satisfied when they secure a chance to exhibit their book-learning and parade their scholarship in Vedic lore, not realising that the person from whom the Vedas emanated is in their midst, for their sake! For the need has arisen. But what I am doing now is only the gift of a "visiting card." Let me tell you that emphatic declaration of the Truth by Avatars were made so clearly and so unmistakably only by Krishna. In spite of the declarations, you will notice in the career of the same Krishna that he underwent defeat in His efforts and endeavours on a few occasions, though you must also note that those defeats too were part of the drama, which He had planned and which He Himself directed.
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