Ref: The book Encounter the Enlightened - Commentary by NC
1. Human beings wants
be happy 'some day in the future' and believe that they are not happy at
'present'. This 'some day syndrome' will never arrive. It is a good recipe for
postponing our Happiness.
2. Human beings
believe currently they are inadequate & empty and hence unhappy. This
feeling of emptiness and inadequacy leads to finding a way of 'Gathering'
thinking to fill their emptiness.
3. Human beings
believe that the happiness lies in external things which will make them happy
and goes on "Gathering" endlessly.
4. Hence they gather
material things, people and knowledge which fulfills their physical, emotional
and intellectual emptiness respectively.
5. In spite of
gathering they are still not happy as the 'gathering' has no ability to ooze
out happiness. Also the very gatherings themselves poses innumerable new
problems. I gather an Audi car for happiness and once taken delivery, I am worried
some one will scratch it - a misery generating phase.
6. Then they conclude
life itself is a challenge & a problem and teach their children to prepare
to face problems. The poor child goes to the World to fight like the Alexander
the Great who started killing people when he was 16 and won half of this world
after killing one million people. He died at 32 and his great contribution was
slaughtering one million innocent people. Is it greatness? He should be called
"Alexander the Great - fool".
7. This approach for
happiness is called "External Mortgage" where we search for happiness
through wrong means - interest paid on trouble before it is due. The gathering
for misery and not for happiness.
8. The root cause of
this misery starts from the belief "Happiness is in the 'future' and needs
to be procured through "external objects & events"
9. External objects /
people / events won't happen as per our will and something will go wrong
everyday and this will rob our happiness as we have no control over them. Knowing
we cannot control external situations still we try hard and become more
miserable.
10. When happiness is
our true nature why are we searching outside? It is like searching for a black
cat in a dark room when it is not there.
Now reverse
everything:
"Start with
happiness & bliss which is your true nature and do things in the external
world because that is all you are here for"
"Stop searching
externally and turn your attention inward and you will soon realize you are the
monument of joy"
The search can be
'External or Internal' - The external is in the wrong direction and internal is
the right direction. Close your eyes and search inwardly and one day you will
find who you are?
This process of
searching is called self-realization because the deluded self needs to realize
it's divinity"
Jai Gurudev
With whole of my heart
NC