We, human beings, spend
the most relaxed nine months in our mother’s womb, get born, pursue a sound
education, start a career, fall in love with a soulmate, get married and have
children, start graying into old age and finally shed our mortal bodies without
achieving anything of significant value. The essence of being born as human
beings, the transition from the mortal to the immortal or the channelling a life
of suffering to one of no-suffering is not thought about in the least as we are
ever consumed with an intense desire to succeed materially and amass that mass
of wealth to piece our life together. But is being financially efficient, being
a multi-millionaire, owning a fast car, squandering money in the casinos,
satisfying the voracious sexual appetite of your partner, mistress or wife real
success? Tell me of one human being apart from spiritually elevated beings who
says he or she has been completely satisfied throughout their entire sojourn on
planet earth and I shall end my life right in front of you with a bullet
through my temple. Let’s think about it , better than this, start a debate
amongst yourself and try to conclude why is it that any means of temporary or
external means of fulfillment hasn’t left any human beings satisfied till date
and consigned them as permanently happy.
There is sadness where
there is happiness, one does not have ecstatic moments always but one starts crying
when one starts giving in to pangs of
emotions like despair, hopelessness, suffering or sorrow. Life is a mixture of
tragedies and comedies as well as elation and depression. We can say this is
the way life goes for a tiny tot who is extremely happy with his toys and
starts lamenting when a bully thrashes his playthings to pieces or to Tiger
Woods who directs his wife not to smile when he win’s a tournament because he thinks he is always
born to win and experiences a great downfall in his career due to his encounter
with women when God sees the need to tame his ego. Human beings who are consumed with attachment to toys and
chocolates during childhood, the passion
and the intense libido to satisfy their partners along the prime of their life and the unpleasant
cacophonies into retirement age when they are uncared for, do not feel
fulfilled and have that spark of impermanent fulfillment because of
the play of the opposite polarities in their life. Here, the play of the
opposite polarities imply the role of the pole and anti-pole emotions.
The transition of
temporary happiness into a permanent one shall not be a reality as long as we
continue to rotate between the ruthless rotation of the play of the opposites. Transiting
into the permanent field of happiness from a temporary one would mean having to
be in a spiritual position to be independent to the play of the opposites. The
moment we transcend the field of the opposites and be independent to the play
of the opposites is that significant dawn of everlasting bliss,
joy, happiness, contentment and fulfillment in our lives. To be permanently
established as such beings is thought to be in the state of Sat-Chit-Anand. So
what then are the hindrances to be removed to reach the state of Sat-Chit-Anand
or obstructions to avoid to make that
heroic transition from temporary to permanent happiness? The role of the human
senses obstructs the light from the dark, clinging onto that which is transient
and unreal slows down realization and finally social conditioning gets us forever
swamped in a quagmire of the false rather than establishing us as torchbearers of truth.
The power of the
human senses can get you addicted to sensory experiences not only throughout a
single lifespan but getting overpowered by the human senses and the objects of
its attraction can make you go on circling in
the wheel of suffering for innumerable lives in the Cosmos. Instead of
realising our essence as Divine Beings and opting for a spiritual overhaul we
will not be able to evolute into the Ultimate evolution but spend innumerable
lives counting flies and swinging to and fro between two strokes of life and
death like that of the clockwork of a
clock’s pendulum. The human sensory tools which
are the eyes, ear, nose, mouth and hands are only modifications of
energy and the sensory experiences it creates are instruments to get you
attached to the mortal realm. The illusory external World which is converted
into material reality by the villainous senses has to be disidentified with,
which is the only way the door to an
everlasting reservoir of happiness is opened and union with the Self-Realisation state established. As long as
we are drawn by the material or external World we shall never awaken to the
field of everlasting happiness and spiritually elevated states beyond this
level.
Things which are
transient and unreal cannot fetch us permanent happiness. The happiness
garnered from the source of transient and unreal are like leaves withering in a
tree during Autumn. The leaves may sprout again the following Spring but the
dawn of yet another Autumn wither’s the leaves again. The happiness or soul nature which blossoms out of the
identification with the real cannot develop by getting identified with the
external or material medium which is temporary and a total unreality. The
destiny to the permanent and real can only manifest by getting ourselves identified with the everlasting or the
realistic medium. Many human lives have gone waste by petty efforts for some
useless gold rush and countless life energy has been squandered by chanelling
it unwisely only to suit one’s sexual pursuit. The chanelling of valuable life energy
from stressing oneself out to meet the multi-million dollar mark or to squander
it only sexually to one of total command over the transient and unreal and
complete mastery over the human senses is what is recommended for human beings.
Identification with the transient and unreal directly signifies the disclosure
that the attainment of the state of permanent happiness is closed forever.
Social conditioning
sticks us to the belief that relationships, sex and the married life are the
greatest source of fulfillment in human life. It is not so but the complete
opposite way around. Unrealistic aspects such as relationships, sex and the
conjugal life are not the source of fulfillment in human life, rather, it is
the exact opposite of it which is God nature the only fulfilling criteria of a
mortal coil. Finding fulfillment in God and therefore uniting with the most
Supreme Godhead is the only means of completeness in our lives.
To conclude, the
chanelling from temporary happiness to
one of extraordinary happiness can only be chanelled by
disidentification with the human senses, the transient and unreal and social
conditioning. If you perceive that you
shall pass away a pauper or die the death of a lonesome virgin, let us give
some thoughts to the following saying,
“But seek you first
fulfillment in God, and live righteously,and all these(material and
circumstantial) things shall be provided for you.”
-The Gospel
According to Saint Matthew6:33.
(This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
(This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
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