Today I am going to write something very interesting, a combination of love and spirituality. I hope you will enjoy it.
Till 25 years of age, we pass through number of heart breaks and break ups. Each time we fall in love with someone, we often fail to accept the inevitable part, that is the break up. Starting from 14 years of age, we feel an emotional volcano towards a specific person what we call as our CRUSH. It all starts with a small cute smile, sweet voice and colors of life suddenly turns bright. Everything seems different, everything seems merry go round. You feel so much blessed with angels. Your entire life changes, suddenly your playlist has more love songs, you take more time combing your hairs, you start demanding bike from father... everything changes.
Once your life is smooth going with your love, suddenly something happens and you don't find love that much interesting. The colors start fading. Love talks become quarrels. The feeling of surrender turns into feeling of domination. Suddenly, you find other girl more interesting. You stop giving time to your present love and a day comes when break up occurs. Break up is all sudden and your life becomes no better than hell. Your playlist has more sad songs, you stop dressing up well, you spend most time sleeping, crying...
After short span of time, the sun shines again, the meadows appear greener, your eyes again meet with someone and get bruised by the arrow of love cupid. The air around you becomes cooler, you feel violins playing around you, you start smiling without any reason. You fall in love again. This time you feel that yes she is the one. You start dreaming of spending entire life with her, you start thinking of having kids with her, you start desiring to grow old with her. But your dreams never get fulfilled. Misunderstanding, feeling of possession, ego, takes root and you start getting closer to break up. After quarreling, patch up, quarreling, patch, you get frustrated and finally decide to break up. Again the sky becomes dark, your smiles fades, the roses die.
After many such cycles of love and break up, you realize that nothing remains permanent. Everything changes. You start searching for meaning of so many changes in life. But without the company of Enlightened One, you fail to understand anything. You get in trap of so called Guru in search of peace of mind. If your search is genuine your Guru searches you, if not then you search your Guru. In more than 80% cases, the latter ones regret of their selection and many poor fail to differentiate between the right Guru and the wrong Guru. Frustrated by life, people go to Guru and if the Guru is not right, their condition gets worse.
In my life too, I had gone though the cycle mentioned above. And right now also I feel trapped in that cycle. Sometimes, even if your know that you are trapped, you do not wish to come out. Maya is such a powerful ghost. Mighty hearts are held in slender chains. But this time in my love affair, a miracle happened. When i asked her that will we continue flirting with each other till the end of time? She replied, NOTHING REMAINS PERMANENT. EVERYTHING CHANGES. Time, place, situation, people, priorities, everything will change with time. This created a tsunami in my life. Does she meant that I am bound to loose her one day? Does she meant that I am going to be Mr. Nobody for her? What about the sweet memories in my heart of her? What about my feelings for her? What about my life without her?
Something inside me answered NOTHING REMAINS PERMANENT. EVERYTHING CHANGES. With this inner voice, second tsunami of thoughts hit my mind. IF EVERYTHING CHANGES THEN WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE? WHY AM I SENT ON EARTH TO FACE SUCH HEART BREAKS? WHY AM I SENT ON EARTH TO GIVE SUCH DIFFICULT EXAM PAPERS? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE ON EARTH?
This question made me restless the whole day. But fortunately I have got good friends in Art of Living. I asked same question to them about the purpose of my life. They gave me very satisfactory answer. They narrated me the answer of same question asked by a devotee to Sri Sri Ravi Sharkarji, my Guru. Sri Sri told that the things around you are changing for a reason. The reason is that you can know about the thing which is witnessing these changes. That thing is not changing. It is observing everything through many cycles of births, life and death. That thing is what I have to discover. I am fortunate that I got glimpse of that thing. On asking how can i discover that unchageable thing in me, the answer was THROUGH MEDITATION. The difference between Prayer and Meditation is... In prayers, you talk to God... In meditation, Gods talk to you...
I now realized why did i have so many love affair and break ups in my life. I realized what was the purpose of so many girls in my life? It was just to give me glimpse of THAT which is not changing in me. I guess this is the real start of my spiritual journey, my journey to my source, my journey to inner peace, my journey to indestructible joy !!!
I also realized that in order to know the purpose of life, one has to willing enjoy the life to the full. One has to willing go through love affair and break, one has to go through good health and diseased state, one has to willing go through all the pains.... then and only then he the need of real joy will arouse in him. Without being devil, you won't know the joy of being Enlightened.
Jai Gurudev :)
Till 25 years of age, we pass through number of heart breaks and break ups. Each time we fall in love with someone, we often fail to accept the inevitable part, that is the break up. Starting from 14 years of age, we feel an emotional volcano towards a specific person what we call as our CRUSH. It all starts with a small cute smile, sweet voice and colors of life suddenly turns bright. Everything seems different, everything seems merry go round. You feel so much blessed with angels. Your entire life changes, suddenly your playlist has more love songs, you take more time combing your hairs, you start demanding bike from father... everything changes.
Once your life is smooth going with your love, suddenly something happens and you don't find love that much interesting. The colors start fading. Love talks become quarrels. The feeling of surrender turns into feeling of domination. Suddenly, you find other girl more interesting. You stop giving time to your present love and a day comes when break up occurs. Break up is all sudden and your life becomes no better than hell. Your playlist has more sad songs, you stop dressing up well, you spend most time sleeping, crying...
After short span of time, the sun shines again, the meadows appear greener, your eyes again meet with someone and get bruised by the arrow of love cupid. The air around you becomes cooler, you feel violins playing around you, you start smiling without any reason. You fall in love again. This time you feel that yes she is the one. You start dreaming of spending entire life with her, you start thinking of having kids with her, you start desiring to grow old with her. But your dreams never get fulfilled. Misunderstanding, feeling of possession, ego, takes root and you start getting closer to break up. After quarreling, patch up, quarreling, patch, you get frustrated and finally decide to break up. Again the sky becomes dark, your smiles fades, the roses die.
After many such cycles of love and break up, you realize that nothing remains permanent. Everything changes. You start searching for meaning of so many changes in life. But without the company of Enlightened One, you fail to understand anything. You get in trap of so called Guru in search of peace of mind. If your search is genuine your Guru searches you, if not then you search your Guru. In more than 80% cases, the latter ones regret of their selection and many poor fail to differentiate between the right Guru and the wrong Guru. Frustrated by life, people go to Guru and if the Guru is not right, their condition gets worse.
In my life too, I had gone though the cycle mentioned above. And right now also I feel trapped in that cycle. Sometimes, even if your know that you are trapped, you do not wish to come out. Maya is such a powerful ghost. Mighty hearts are held in slender chains. But this time in my love affair, a miracle happened. When i asked her that will we continue flirting with each other till the end of time? She replied, NOTHING REMAINS PERMANENT. EVERYTHING CHANGES. Time, place, situation, people, priorities, everything will change with time. This created a tsunami in my life. Does she meant that I am bound to loose her one day? Does she meant that I am going to be Mr. Nobody for her? What about the sweet memories in my heart of her? What about my feelings for her? What about my life without her?
Something inside me answered NOTHING REMAINS PERMANENT. EVERYTHING CHANGES. With this inner voice, second tsunami of thoughts hit my mind. IF EVERYTHING CHANGES THEN WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE? WHY AM I SENT ON EARTH TO FACE SUCH HEART BREAKS? WHY AM I SENT ON EARTH TO GIVE SUCH DIFFICULT EXAM PAPERS? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE ON EARTH?
This question made me restless the whole day. But fortunately I have got good friends in Art of Living. I asked same question to them about the purpose of my life. They gave me very satisfactory answer. They narrated me the answer of same question asked by a devotee to Sri Sri Ravi Sharkarji, my Guru. Sri Sri told that the things around you are changing for a reason. The reason is that you can know about the thing which is witnessing these changes. That thing is not changing. It is observing everything through many cycles of births, life and death. That thing is what I have to discover. I am fortunate that I got glimpse of that thing. On asking how can i discover that unchageable thing in me, the answer was THROUGH MEDITATION. The difference between Prayer and Meditation is... In prayers, you talk to God... In meditation, Gods talk to you...
I now realized why did i have so many love affair and break ups in my life. I realized what was the purpose of so many girls in my life? It was just to give me glimpse of THAT which is not changing in me. I guess this is the real start of my spiritual journey, my journey to my source, my journey to inner peace, my journey to indestructible joy !!!
I also realized that in order to know the purpose of life, one has to willing enjoy the life to the full. One has to willing go through love affair and break, one has to go through good health and diseased state, one has to willing go through all the pains.... then and only then he the need of real joy will arouse in him. Without being devil, you won't know the joy of being Enlightened.
Jai Gurudev :)
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