The lust for and the goals
of the material or external World and the temporary means of happiness or
satisfaction are interconnected. The constant chugging of the human physical
engine to earn that extra dough to provide for our wife, children, ailing
parents and sustain the wheel of life gives us no fulfilling dividends than
stress, exhaustion, hopelessness, suffering etc with an occasional sense of
temporary happiness. The lust and the goals of all material pursuit which is
directly guided by the illusory human senses shall keep us spinning in the
circle of suffering because the material life and the external World are the
exact opposite of our real nature, the soul nature or God nature. As long as
the human senses makes us cling onto the material World for an external means
of fulfillment we shall never be established as genuinely blissful beings. Since
the material life and the external World are a temporary disguise, the
happiness we achieve from the mortal realm is also impermanent. At the end of
the day, when we sit down to think and rewind the entire affairs of the day, we
notice time fleeting by with a mixture of sadness, happiness, disappointments,
satisfaction, elation and depression, which makes us think if the effort we put
into our lives is really worth it and we
relapse into a state of total unsatisfaction with constant anxieties about meeting
the demands of the future.
“Why does the material
life and the external World leave us temporarily happy and not permanently
satisfied?” or “Why is it that any external or material medium cannot give us
permanent means of fulfillment?” The satanic human senses clings us onto the material World making
us believe that the external World is a boon because it fulfills the demands of
everyday life, provides you money to live a life of luxury and sustain the
wheel of life with your partner who provides you sex. And as long as the
demands for the two main demanding attractions on the planet, money and sex,
are met, no one would even give a second thought about taking that quantum leap
onto the spiritual field, which is the only reservoir of permanent happiness
and bliss. Since the material life and World is not what reality is all about,
since it is the exact opposite of our real nature, the God nature, the by-product of it is also impermanent
happiness which can never settle us as permanently happy and blissful beings. How
can atheistic vices, money and sex, and addiction to it which is the exact
opposite of our real essence leave us permanently happy and blissful when it is
not our authentic nature? Do we think we can feel fulfilled when our material
pursuit for happiness has a face to face confrontation with our real essence? The
total alignment of our endeavour with an eternal or spiritual quest is what
produces genuine and permanent happiness.
Our search for
happiness through the material life and the World only leaves us temporarily happy. The source of temporary happiness, the external World,
produces all kinds of polarities of human emotions like sadnesss, happiness,
elation, depression, joy and sorrow etc. At the end the collection of
bitterness, sorrow, despair, dissatisfaction with an occasional spark of
temporary happiness gives in way for the thirst for more happiness and
satisfaction. The thirst for more happiness and satisfaction and the
inefficiency or incapacity of the external World to fulfill each and every
demand for material abundance creates frustration, tragedies, addictions and
great suffering in the lives of human beings. Desires, the source of the hunger
for material fulfillment will go on
creating problems as long as one has the intention to collect, achieve, amass
and horde. The desire for material pursuit and the incapacity of the mortal
realm to fulfill each and every human
want is what creates moments of great unfulfillment. Therfore, the state
of temporary happiness comes, but with a price tag, that of having to churn in
the wheel of constant suffering.
Temporary happiness,
because it is short lived cannot reach us to an everlasting state of
fulfillment. Some of us may want to own a fast car, a slum dweller may have
dreams of building himself a bungalow, some billionaires might be thinking
about taking a vacation to the moon, a concerned husband might be worried about
his decreasing libido and tensed about how he is to satisfy his wife and still
others might be motivated to invest in stock so that they can be millionaires
many times over. Since all these material goals we have in life does not give
us permanent satisfaction and a state of fulfillment, there is no other way but
to remain temporarily amused by impermanent happiness. Meeting material
objectives may take us as far as getting temporarily satisfied with life but it
comes with a heavy price of
disappointments, despair, hopelessness, anxieties, stress, exhaustion and the
constant chugging of the human physical engine to sustain the wheel of life
which inevitably invites great suffering into our lives. The truth is that the
only affluent and abundant life is that of a spiritually awake human being. It
is because only tapping onto our real nature, the soul nature, provides
permanent happiness and starting our individual endeavour with the end of
human evolution, a spiritual one, and
reinvigorating our dormant soul with full awareness establishes us as genuinely
Sat-Chit-Anand’s or blissful beings.
Mr.Dipak Chopra says
that the ultimate goal that human beings have through material goals is to keep
themselves happy. Human beings pursue material goals because they want to be
happy. He says, happiness is the goal of all material goals but people seek
happiness through an indirect manner, a roundabout way. Mr.Chopra says he
discovered something even more interesting when he pondered about the idea of
making happiness a primary goal instead
of trying to attain happiness through material means or the indirect manner. He
has stated a quote of Christ which declares,
“Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven,
and all else will be added unto you”
-Jesus Christ
We may spend our entire lives in
search of material pursuit to achieve happiness but our Worldly objectives
would only leave us temporarily satisfied. Genuine abundance and affluence is
garnered only when we become permanent residents of the field of everlasting
happiness and not by seeking fulfillment through secondhand means like
stressing and exhausting the human physical engine to get that meager ounce of satisfaction
into our life through material means.
(This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
(This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
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