Sunday, November 10, 2013

The Art of Living

                                                     
                       Everything including planet earth and the entire manifested Universe is dynamic. Nothing ever remains the same and in a static position. Human beings are born, grow into teens, mature into adults, retire from their hectic schedule to earn bread and butter for their families, start graying into old age and finally shed their mortal bodies with merely, achieving anything of significant value, living a completely satisfied life  and evolving into  fully fulfilled beings.  Not even amassing a billion dollar fortune, owning the most expensive yatch, living in a multi-million dollar accomodation, gliding along the streets of Manhattan in a Ferrari and enjoying the company of the most stunning woman the entire world has ever seen can keep a man completely satisfied and fulfilled throughout his entire life. It is not the material but the spiritual  which is the only abundant life of complete fulfillment and this can only come about when we become successful in knowing our real nature, the soul or the non-material nature.


         “Sensory experience and social conditioning cause us to forget who we are.”
                                                                                                            -Dipak Chopra
                                                                                            (Book:Power Freedom and Grace)



                  The human senses and material conditioning deludes almost the entire world population into believing that sex, the conjugal life and wealth are the means to the greatest source of fulfillment on the planet which causes to forget who we are whereas the source to the storehouse of everlasting happiness and complete fulfillment lies into the field of exact opposite nature of materialism and the matrialistic world.



                   “Ignorance of our real nature causes the Inner Self to be obscured.”
                                                                                                               -Dipak Chopra
                                                                                              (Book:Power  Freedom and Grace)



                   The only tool or instrument for our obscured Inner Self to be revealed and reinvigorate it so as to live a life of permanent happiness and complete fulfillment without having to partake in a marshy quagmire of atheistic vices like sex and black money is meditation. Meditation helps us tap our vast spiritual reserve, energise the soul and establish us as fully awakened beings. As stated earlier, everything in the Universe undergoes constant change. All the major Art of Living courses in the world employ meditation as a technique to get ourselves acquainted with our real nature, the non-material nature. In fact, these courses teach us how to adapt to the ever growing changes around us to live in great harmony with ourselves, the community, the society  and the entire world. Let us look into some details about the various masterkeys a fully awake soul instruments  to make a spiritual aspirants  Art of Living a living reality.




                       The dawn of the fifth spiritual plane welcomes the restoration of a fully restored awareness which converts us into the most egoless individual because then we become aware that we are not the doer, that we are not the roles we play but only Divine instruments  of the  most Supreme Godhead in His Infinite and Eternal dance of creation. When we become aware that every thought, word or deed of ours is the Infinite Will of God and that God is Willing everything to be executed from the most minute sub-atomic details to the greater details, we learn to submit wholeheartedly to the Infinite Will of God and our fully awake soul instruments our awareness to be in a state of total and complete acceptance. Everything right up from the positive harmony down to the negative disharmony on the planet is imbibed in a neutral and balanced state of complete acceptance.



                       By the state of Self-Realisation  we shall have realised enough spiritual laws to be able to carry ourselves with great harmony with our own Self, the community, the society and the entire world. These laws give us genuine kowledge about the law of cause and effect, the Omnipresent Spirit of God, our real essence and the Supreme role of the most Supreme Godhead in our lives. The workings of the law of karma, the aspect of presence of God in every living particle, our true designation as a Son of God and the place of God’s Supreme Command in everything that exists are realisations that help us live a righteous life in a crooked world filled with strife, sorrow, suffering, violence, hatred, vengence, enemity, self-centred individuals, jealousy, competition, terrorism, wars etc. The laws of life that we realise along our spiritual growth process are meant for us to live righteously and applying the laws in our life as true messengers of God and setting a living  example is right living.



                   The quality of being a staunch adherent  of beauty that stands for great purity, the most purest, true, selfless and unconditional Anahatic love and the virtuous quality of goodness and goodwill expressed to all living creatures equally and alike gets grounded in our Self by being spiritually elevated beings. The authentic nature of goodness, virtuousness and righteousness are some of the keys employed by someone who knows the Art of Living and therefore such an aspirant is someone who has a presence of light and love radiating around him. The obscene and profane are not his usual words of vocabulary in his dictionary. You can all look back at the life of Christ and figure out what it is to be a true living Son of God.


                   Self-Realisation is a state of no-desires. One of the most genuine Spiritual Masters the world has ever come across, J.Krishnamurti, has clearly outlined the need to not to have a single problem on our lives. According to him, the only mandatory requirement to not to have a single problem in our lives is to live a life without a single desire because as long as there are desires in our life there shall always be problems. He says that the important thing in life is to live our lives without a single problem and this can come about by not getting identified with thoughts that keep on fuelling desires because it is the thought processes that gives rise to desires. I, by chance, realized something even more interesting by his most profound theory on living a life without a single problem and therefore without any desires. I realized that getting Enlightened is not the important thing but rather it is living a life without a single problem and therefore without a single desire, the most important accomplishment of a spiritual life . Living a life without a single problem and therefore without a single desire is another masterkey to the state of permanent happiness and to the great Art of Living as well.



                          The key to the Art of Living of the sixth state of consciousness would be loving the gentle aspect of all the inanimate things on the planet because even the inanimate are on  par with the animate because both the living and non-living things are composed of the very same particles which is pure energy, pure consciousness or God.



                           The seventh state of consciousness gets the Ultimate spiritual wisdom driven into your soul that everybody is a reflection of your own Spirit and therefore every single soul on planet earth is none other than a concentration of the Universal Spirit which is the last in the line of the wisdom of the bodily chakras or spiritual centres of your body and the concluding realisations of making living an art.



                             Getting grounded in the most Supreme Truth and thereby being the torchbearers of the Ultimate Reality, we all should realise and have a genuine cause to lead a life of service to God. Being selflessly dutybound to play the role of true messengers of God and spreading His Divine message to the inhabitants of planet earth should be the real objective of all devotees of God endowed with an Infinite source of wisdom by the Grace and Compassion of the most Supreme Godhead.
                                         (This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)
     

                             

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