What is it to excel, to
be excellent and live with excellence? Most of the unaware World population who
are swamped in a quagmire of illusion perceive that achieving success in the
Worldly life is to excel, that a materially affluent lifestyle is excellent and
a lifespan that fulfills the satisfaction criteria of mortal life is achieving
excellence. Why are most of the World population stagnating without fulfillment
and why aren’t they satisfied and permanently happy by getting endowed with
material abundance into their lives? The material nature which has a habit of
seeking the source of temporary happiness from Worldy pursuit has not left any
mortals fulfilled till date because of their ignorance and incapacity of
not getting to tap onto their real nature. As long as mortals cling onto
the transient and unreal, seek means of gratification from the impermanent
sources of satisfaction such as luxury, sex and decide that that
relationships, sex and the conjugal life are the greatest sources of
fulfillment in the Worldly life, the door to an everlasting reservoir of
permanent fulfillment is closed forever. Till that very moment when we depend on
the human senses for an illusory means of fulfillment and that time when we get
blindly conditioned through social conditioning to believe that the rituals of
mortal life are a permanent medium to the state of happiness, getting to
experience even an ounce of joy which is real affluence is only like dreaming
oysters producing that magical pearl lying in the midst of the scorching sand
beds of the Sahara.
Our real nature, the
soul nature, and the immense necessity to restore it with full awareness is
realized by the wise who after experiencing immense suffering in their lives
see the need for a spiritual exercise, by the blessed who inquire into their
worthless and meaningless lives and opt for a spiritual overhaul and the inborn
devotees of God like Paramhansa Yogananda who are fully aware about the
existence of the most Supreme Godhead early during childhood and start the
eternal quest for God. The mortals have the necessity to realize that our
real nature is soul nature, that the only worthwhile journey in the entire
manifested Universe is a spiritual one and that uniting with God the only
existing and Ultimate human objective. To be the World’s richest man and not to
be spiritually awakened is to live the life of a beggar which is a curse. Not
to have a single penny but at the same time to be spiritually elevated is to
live the life of an Emperor which is a boon. The one and only Ultimate task in
our lives is to awaken to our deepest Self. To realize our soul nature, the real
human nature, to start our eternal quest and evolve into spiritually elevated
beings is to excel, to be blissfully and permanently established in God is to
be excellent and not having an identity crisis and not making an effort to prove
that you are an Enlightened Being but
living the perfect example of a spiritually elevated Being like J.Krishnamurti
is to achieve genuine excellence.
If you ask why we can
only excel, be as much as excellent and mere strive to achieve excellence and not
reach the state of perfection, well!, I would like to declare that not even Enlightened
Beings are perfect. Only the most Supreme Godhead or Brahman is perfect, who
empowers the atheistic materialists to enact the role of fools and instruments
the anti-God spiritualists, the superstitious Non-Being saints, to play the
role of idiots and puppets. No human beings, not even Enlightened Beings except
in an exceptional case like that of a J.Krishnamurti have yet excelled to reach
the state of perfection. Brahman, God, The Divine Mother or the Infinite Being,
whatever you may call the most Supreme Godhead, only the Infinite and Eternal
is the only existing perfectionist in this vast expanse of the entire
manifested Universe. Nobody else.
“What is it to live a life of excellence?”
It is in being able to
comprehend the sub-atomic structure of Higgs Boson(The God Particle) on par
with the atomic make up of every fraction of oxygen you inhale as well as with
the mega atomic structure of the huge balls of mushroom created by the atomic
bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagashaki. It is to feel that the essence of the
giant nails that punched Jesus onto the cross, the guillotine that snapped the
French King’s neck is the same in significance as the sleek metallic Jaguar in
which Sri Sathya Sai Baba used to take rides around his Whitefield ashram and
very much in equal importance as the silver palanquin in which Sri Shirdi Sai
Baba used to be hoisted for a great procession around Shirdi. It is to know that
every drop of water that flows down the Ganga is as holy as every drop of tear
that streams down the eyes of an inmate at Death Row.
Living a life of
excellence is in making frequent telephone calls to someone who considers you
his greatest foe like you regularly call your greatest companion and never
bother about the hike in telephone bills at the end of the month. It is
that Anahatic love you have for a woman
just because she is a great devotee of God and not because you feel like
enjoying great romps on the bed with her. It is in the energy radiating equally
for an alcoholic lying unconscious in the sewage, for a sub-conscious prostitute busy
exchanging sexual favours for her late night client as well as for a conscious meditator meditating somewhere in the Himalayan caves
or a superconscious God-like Being like J.Krishnamurti.
A person established in
excellence may be in an Anahatic love with a devotee of Pashupatinath just
because of the out of the World beauty she carries around her solely due to her
devotion to her adored Lord and he ponders
what an added source of inspiration and blessing it would be by her inclusion
into his life. A spiritual aspirant who has excelled in his life is someone
whose whole persona enters an area of mental stillness and quietness when he
captures the majestic sight of the Himalayas and the beautiful lakes and who
gapes in wonder at the moonlit and starlit sky pondering how indeed beautiful
God's creation really is.
To live in excellence
would be carrying with you an aura of a thorough gentleman or a perfect lady,
radiating a blaze of goodwill not only with your family, relatives, friends or
colleagues but even with the strangers and adversaries you meet in your life.
A humble and genuine
soul nature potrays excellence. Excellence is defined by the tenderness and
gentleness one has not only to the animate but also to the inanimate. A person
who strives to lead a life of excellence is not someone who tries to show off
that he is an Enlightened Being but someone who constantly reminds himself to follow
the life of a perfect living spiritual example. It is tough and needs a lot of
spiritual discipline to radiate a blaze of light like Sri Sathya Sai Baba,
J.Krishnamurti, Sanjaya Sai Baba or a Paramhansa Yogananda but a genuine
Enlightened Being never strives to prove that he is Enlightened but
tries to shy away from being claimed an Enlightened Being and instead lives the
perfect living example of an Enlightened Being . Just like J.Krishnamurti. Lastly,
a person established in excellence realizes, cultivates, develops and magnifies
the Unitarian theory-“Everybody is a concentration of the Universal Spirit.”
There is only one existing path
of genuine endeavour to excel, be excellent and live in excellence and that is
the spiritual path because the Ultimate goal of human beings is to get to
realize our deepest Self. To realize, travel and make that magical sojourn onto
the superconscious states is to excel, to be established in God awareness is to
be excellent and it is in living the perfect example of an Enlightened Being
the real essence of being established in excellence. May we all excel, prove
our soul nature excellent and live a life of great excellence by exercising the
only worthwhile endeavour in human life- A Spiritual Adventure.
(This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
(This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
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