Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Life is a cosmic joke

                                              
                                   Yes!!! The human life is a cosmic joke. The material life is a great tragedy for the materialists and the spiritual life is a comedy for the spiritualists. The mortal man involved in a saga of tragedies says," Human life is less than we deserve." On the other hand the spiritual man who considers himself  to be the happiest and the luckiest prefers to say, “ Human life is something more than we deserve.” The material life is a tragic saga of poverty, low self-esteem, unhappiness, discomfort, misery, innumerable wants, sexual perversion, money, sex, power,lust, luxury and the various relatives of  atheistic vices for the material man. While, on the other hand, the spiritual life is a boon of the effortless effort of your fully awake Soul or the field of Infinite Grace to have the power to manifest your desires for anything you want, absolutely for free and without having to invest a single penny, the state of total and complete freedom which enables you to get unshackled from the limited  boundary of the individual self and start functioning from the unlimited  field  of the Unbounded Self, making you totally fearless, not even fearing death, and the field of Power, which endows you with the gift of your vibrant Spirit to create any kind of reality you want to experience.



                            There is a stage in the spiritual life, the Cosmic consciousness state, in which the fully awake Spirit stays fixed and rigid even to the most strongest influences in your life in the form of tragedies, the greatest form of suffering, the most unexpected misfortunes, the loss of life  of the ones closest to you, the most embarassing failures or even a close encounter with death. The  awareness of the Cosmic plane forever gives you freedom form the attachment  with the persons you are attached to the most in life. The moment you are totally detached from the ones closest to you, there shall cease to be any sorrowful experiences from the cause of your most loved ones. The permanent happiness state no more makes excuses for you to be happy and you are abundantly happy without a single cause or reason. The state of Infinite Grace is  another factor to the end of  tragedies in your life and for the  entry of comedies as from then on your master card, credit card, bank account or your financial source to fulfill your minimum basic needs shall start being the effortless effort of your fully vibrant Soul and not plastic money, pay cheques or your financial deposit in your local bank.



“The material life is a saga of the most pitiful tragedies while the spiritual life is a comic strip of the most humorous comedies”
                                                                     -Ashwas Thapa

“The Self-Realized man still acts and the fruits of his actions still affect his body and mind, but since his identity is now derived from the inner Self, changes in the outer world are no longer threatening”
                                                                       -The T.M. Technique



                                       Any changes in the external world, whatever they may be, is no longer threatening to the Self-Realised man. Tragedies in the form of any threatening situations, loss of life of someone close to you, the most humiliating failures, embarassing defeats, plightful human suffering, a face to face  encounter with death, maybe a divorce with the love of your life or the witnessing of plane crash of an Airbus 380 right in front of your eyes are some  tragic examples which shall no longer create even a ripple in your awareness or consciousness. The fully restored awareness of the man established in Self-Awareness is immune or resistant to the most heart rending tragedies in the external world. The Soul awareness of the cosmically aware man stays permanently rigid and fixed, without fluctuating or wavering, devoid of a single ripple in the ocean of his consciousness even when faced with the worst form of tragedies. You  start playing the role of Archie and your soulmate the character of Betty because your entire life starts transforming into a comic strip of the most comical comedies as the most heart ripping tragedies stop affecting you point-blank.



“Attachment is a hellhole of suffering while detachment is a paradise of Eternal Bliss”
                                                                                                                -Ashwas Thapa



                                   Nobody, absolutely not a single human being is detached from birth. Everybody is attached to their parents, soulmates, offsprings, kins and friends after they arrive into the world. But the state of attachment is not what the reality about and the bitter truth is that our spiritual endowment or our divine essence bestows on us the truly religious legacy of being detached from everyone we are ever attached to. This is one of the realities of the Self-Realised state because in reality there are no relations like an offspring, parents, kins or friends. One of the most successful contemporary saints of our time, Mr. Dipak Chopra, has to say that all of us are nothing but recycled earth, water and air or mere raw materials of the Universe. Great responsibility lies in the role of responsible parents in guiding their issues to the Kingdom of God or encouraging their offsprings to start the spiritual growth process as many  may yet not be aware that it is only the fully restored awareness that inspires their posterity to love them unconditionally, selflessly, truly and devotedly. The superhuman quality of the Self-Realised state enables us to look at the various tragedies, misfortunes, sufferings, failures, misery, wants, expectations or loss of our loved ones with a detached observation or with the constant celebration of our around the clock awareness. It is not that there is absence of love and care, in fact, our affection to our loved ones comes with an endowment of no conditions attached, is even more selfless, is far more true, pure and with lots of devotion after we become spiritually elevated. And to reveal another reality to my most loved readers - Our state of constant celebration starts making us celebrate even imminent death. “What more of a comical life would my dear readers expect when even death starts putting on the nature of a great comedy?”



“Spending capital and punishing effort to get what you want is tragic and attaining the desired fruit with neither expending any effort nor capital is indeed very comical”
                                                              -Ashwas Thapa



                                         The material man expends effort and thus gets hold of plastic money in the from of credit and master cards, pay cheques, bank deposits to acquire his needs, provide for his wife and children, maybe to buy himself a new vehicle, purchase a Victorian bungalow, to pay his medical insurance or to hire out an expensive yacht to cruise around the world, even then is not satisfied and therefore lives a life of great tragedy but the most comical reality is that a spiritual being on the other hand just releases the notion of his desire into his fully awake awareness and  the desired fruit  comes to him without him having to spend a single penny or expending punishing effort. “Capital” is the need to fulfill the desire of a material man but the execution of the effortless effort of ones fully alive Soul without having to spend a single penny to get whatever one wants is the norm for a spiritual man. A soldier has to risk his life on the battlefield to earn his monthly salary, a stuntman plays with life and death to perform stunts only to earn a couple of thousand bucks. A Formula One racer speeds his racing machine at hundreds of miles per hour and has face to face encounters with death. For what ? Only to sustain  his relationship with his mistress who may be a Supermodel. Now look at the brighter side of life, into the lives of all spiritually elevated beings and you can yourself evaluate whether being spiritual and meditating is worthwhile. The spiritual man even conquers death and is endowed with the superhuman ability to get anything  he wants without spending a single penny by merely releasing the notion of his desire into his awareness! What more acts of tragedy can there be when the material man spends his lifetime of energy to sustain his life and even then dies an unsatisfied human and there can be nothing more comical when the spiritual being  neither has to spend any capital nor expend any effort to get whatever he may desire !!!



      “ To be abundantly happy without a cause or reason is to lead a life of comedy”
                                                                                                              -Ashwas Thapa

“If you have lost touch with your internal source of joy, if the happiness you experience always originates in circumstances outside yourself, then you are at the mercy of every situation and every stranger you meet. This kind of happiness is always elusive”
                                                                               -Dipak Chopra
                                                                               (Book: Power Freedom and Grace)    


     

                                  Ordinary materialistic humans need a cause or a reason to be happy but the spiritual beings who lead a life of comedy do not require excuses to remain in the state of happiness. Maybe a peck on the lips by one’s spouse, a non-vegetarian joke to break into peals of laughter, a romantic date with one’s soulmate, a sleek Porsche for a vehicle, rolling the dices at Las Vegas, a private trip to the Carribean beaches, a soothing body massage by a hot blonde or a quiet and peaceful trekking trip along the Himalayan ranges are some of the reasons that makes a materialist happy, but impermanently. Being  permanently happy independent of external circumstances or without a cause or reason demands the extreme necessity for your Soul nature to be awakened. The material life with occasional sparks of impermanent happiness amidst sorrow, sadness, failure, want, shortcomings, downfalls, suffering, misfortune, ill-fate, bad omens etc is tragic and means to lead a life of tragedy but living from your Source and attaining the state of everlasting happiness and being permanently happy without having to depend on the mercy of every situation and every stranger you meet or without any excuses, reason or a cause is comical and implies leading a life of great comedy.

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