Words from the Master

Do you ever compare yourself with people who don’t have eyesight and thank God that you have been given eyesight? Have you ever spontaneously felt thankful for your eyesight? No! Why not? Because whatever has been given to you is always taken for granted. That is the reason. You think: It is anywhere there, let us go to what next.

We all function around these three axes: doing, having and being. Doing for having, without enjoying being, is the sole cause of all our misery. Doing never catches up with having! Every time we work hard and fulfill one desire, there are more desires to make us run.

Never think, Let me work now, I can enjoy later. Don’t think you can come back later and enjoy! I tell you, it will never happen. Every tomorrow comes in the form of today only. Doing should lead to being every moment, only then you are on the right track.

Don’t postpone living! Celebrate! Enjoy life – it is now or never. We all run throughout our lives thinking that we can enjoy later, but we land up finally running into the graveyard. When you get onto the running track, you lose your real capacity to enjoy. You forget how to enjoy.

As they say, There is more pleasure in the pursuit than in the attainment! Always, as long as you are chasing something, it seems that it is worth the whole world – but after you get it, somehow it is not important any longer! If you become aware of yourself and understand what exactly you want, and try to do that alone, you will never find yourself in this kind of a self-contradictory and fragmented situation.

Raman Maharshi beautifully says:
Adaivadar mun kadugey aanaalum malayaay kaatti
Adainda pin malayey aanaalum kadugai kaattum maya manam

It means: Mind is that Illusion which shows a tiny mustard seed to be a huge mountain until it is attained, and a mountain to be as insignificant as a mustard seed once it has been attained!

Comparison is the root cause for this kind of attitude. The mind simply sees everything around it and plays up. I am not asking you to renounce all your desires. I am not asking you not to compare. I am only saying: Bring clarity into your comparison. Bring clarity into jealousy. Be clear as to why you are running. Don’t run because someone else is running, that’s all.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.