25th June 2006
What is life? Why am I here?
Certain questions indicate the maturity of our mind. Do you know what those questions are?
They are: What is life? What is the purpose of my life? Why am I here? What do I want?
If these questions arise in your mind, it is a sign of the mind or intellect getting matured.
Otherwise the mind is just in routine doing the same thing again and again, not even
introspecting looking into the source of life.
These questions are vital. Where am I? Are you aware you are on this planet Earth? Have you
ever thought “I am on planet Earth and this planet is in the solar system”? So, I am in the solar
system. The solar system is just a dot in the Milky Way. So, I am in the Milky Way. This expansion
of awareness to the macrocosm and being aware of where you are in this body is important.
Just sit with your eyes closed and ask yourself “where am I in this body”? Am I in the head, in
the nose, in the heart? Where am I in the body? Then the sharpness of the mind happens,
awareness happens. You are able to perceive that you are nowhere and you are everywhere
in the body. A shift in the quality of awareness happens instantaneously. And it is this
awareness that can eliminate stresses and sorrows from life. This awareness is called wisdom.
Every living being wants happiness, everyone wants to be in love. Everyone wants to be loved
and everyone wants to give love. Right? There is not a single creature on this planet that
doesn’t like love. And do you know that love is the cause of all misery also? Love is the cause
of jealousy, anger, hatred, fear, everything. The basis of all problems in the world is again love!
You have two choices. You can be indifferent or be in love and go through the suffering. Is
there any other third hope for being in love and not facing all the miseries? Yes. It is through
awareness.
When we raise our consciousness, we become more aware of the sensation that is happening
in the body and we see that the sensations change. An intense sensation that is pain and an
intense sensation that is pleasure, both become pleasurable. Love and pain, they are very
closely related. The symbol of Jesus on the cross means that the cross is pain and Jesus is love.
One is with the other. The transformation of this pain into bliss, the love into bliss is what
happens with awareness.
The same happens with doubts. Have you noticed doubts are always about something
positive? We never doubt anything negative in life. You never doubt someone else’s anger or
your anger.
You never doubt your depression. Nobody ever doubts his/her depression. But when one is
happy, one doubts, am I really happy? If someone tells you they hate you, you don’t doubt it
but if someone tells you they love you, you say: “Really? Are you sure?”
If we can doubt in the negativity of people, we become close to the reality. Do you see what I
am saying? We take it for granted that everybody is a hoax or a fraud and then we try to find
somebody we can trust. It becomes so difficult in the world. Sometimes you have a lot of
doubts in your mind. But when you increase the energy level in your body, you will see that the
doubts disappear. There is more clarity in the mind. Confusion goes away from the mind.
Without this awareness the mind shrinks. When the mind shrinks, the joy diminishes. Whenever
we are happy, we feel that something in us is expanding and the expression of sadness is the
contraction of mind.
Meditation is a technique where the mind expands and relaxes. And whenever we are
relaxed, we are expanding automatically. It is worth knowing this expansion because then
nothing can disturb us or take our smile away. Otherwise, some small things can throw us off
the balance. It is not worth letting your mind or your life undergo such suffering, such misery.
Do you see that?
Jai Gurudev
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