Can you accept the realities of life?

Out of excessive desire to acquire various things for which we don’t have that requirement and also to possess more material comfort, we invite pain in our life.  The main reason for this is our ignorance and non-acceptance of our true self which is a complete integration of us with the physical form and outward behavior.  We give tremendous importance to our body, the natural and material aspects of our existence. After that, we knowingly give preference to mind. Instead of controling, we are always controlled by our mind.

Because of the propensity of non-stop radio thinking guided by our mind, we seldom practice to give it rest.  In the process, we cannot take our minds in a ‘no-mind’ zone.  In this state only, you can connect with the absolute power, and you can come out from the greed of physical and material comforts. You have to remember our bodies are impermanent though you love it like anything.  We are not the bodies we wear.  The body is like your shirt or pant which you wear to protect it and provide comfort when we live on this earth. Instead of mind and body, we have to concentrate on the power of the soul.  The soul only guides you in the right direction and provides you spiritual comfort. 

Who gives you desire for your attachment to your body? 

It is your inflated ego. It creates in us the illusion of separation, making us identified with the body.  Once you overcome ego, you can attain the level of wisdom. Further, when you can control ego, you can curb your urge for sensual pleasures. When all our exciting related activities can be monitored, we become aware of the truth of the soul within.  We have to come out from the clutch of the vicious cycle of the influence of the body and mind combination as we give too much importance to it. 

Because of this, we rarely understand the signal of God which comes to us through the soul. Have you ever pondered why some people become sages and scholars?  Anybody can become so provided he is ready always to learn to shine the lamp on what is “Atman.” It is covered in the midst of three layers.  The mind is the first cover which people use to do this or do that. Not necessarily, every time the mind guides us in the wrong direction, but it is a fact that we mostly fall in the illusion of excessive desire for money, fame, name, and comfort.

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The second cover is the sense where the third cover is the flesh outside.  When the mind is not at all aware of the signals of the Atman within and when it thinks egotistically, that is I am only the ‘doer,’ it faces all the grief of the life because it is ignorant to face the real prospect of the life.

Because of business, mostly in the frivolous issues, we ignore this precious truth.  We give enough value to physical and material when we observe our physique in the mirror; we surprise why wrinkles on our forehead.  We become very cautious and put all efforts to eliminate the lines and also the gray hair on the forehead. But that much time has we been eager to spend to attain the call of Atman; our lives would have been blissful.

Our attachment with the bodies and the consciousness thereof stumble block on our spiritual development. We show so much attachment to our body which will wither one day, but your paradox that if you tend not to care much, it will lose its shine. Many people stand in front of the mirror many times a day just to ensure that they are not losing the glamorousness. 

But they seldom try to illuminate their power of inner self which is the main criteria to give glow both to your mind and body.  The majority percentage of the human beings considers bodies as an instrument of service and uses it to glow with health and radiance.

One must dissociate the inner self with the body.  What does it interpret?  You must get away from the allurement of materialistic world and its influence.  Our urge for getting more will increase when we cling to our bodies.  The more we crave, the more we acquire and then, more we will be in the slough of illusion.  Your great love for the body will provide a feeling to possess enough power, and pleasures of the world to become a joyful person. 

It is a wrong interpretation of life’s reality.  The more you possess, the more you will be in the bondage of captivity of ignorance.  Then your actions, speech, behavior and feeling for others will be nothing but a fragmentation of ideal living of life which is the wrong code of conduct.  Once you get yourself free from this bondage, you will move towards God-realization.

The human beings will be habitually interested to keep on accumulating many things.  Just question a wealthy person that what he is going to do with the millions, he possesses?  He will reply that one must have millions after millions and when the time will come to think how to spend the same, he will do so. Alas! He would know that, by the time, he will need those millions for his expenditure, he is no more means he has ended the journey of life.  All of us have a fixed period of survival. The time is limited for all of us.  You never know when death pounces on you. 

Leaving everything to remain intact; you have to bid adieu to the world.  Then you will realize that you have spent so much time on accumulation is of no use.  You show urge for your physique, and you love your family members, but in the end, you cannot come out from the slavery of your mind and body.  Your precious wealth is to find out the truth of life which only provides self-realization and awareness.  So, face a reality of life and don’t be in the claustrophobia of an illusion of grandeur.

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