Just look and you will see the single message clearly printed everywhere - GET OUT OF THIS CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATH, GET OUT OF THIS MATERIAL WORLD!"The Eternal Message, by Master Daryl
The moment you were born into this world all the odds started going against you. You were met by helplessness, utter inability to do anything on your own, including putting food in your own mouth. As a child you struggled to learn things: walking, speaking, reading, writing and other skills that were in fact previously known to you in former lives. You keep on forgetting and relearning the exact same things; you keep on coming back. And now what are you doing?
Still you are clinging to a body that you know will eventually rot. Clinging to an intelligence that will eventually return to zero. You are endlessly hoping that perhaps next month or next year everything will improve, that life will eventually become "ideal" or at least better. You are afraid to face the truth, so you simply disregard it and instead poison your mind to believe that real happiness can be experienced through this limited body-mind medium.Why deceive yourself? Why act complacently? What are you holding onto? Your body is dying each and every day, it will eventually be buried. It will be consumed by worms and termites and will disintegrate. Your mind, your pride, everything that you thought are"yours," everything that you view as "your qualities" will end up as food for various parasitical organisms.
You cannot escape what's going on. It's a very tragic thing. And it is even more tragic to repeat the tragedy over and over again in countless incarnations, which is exactly what is happening to you and to everyone else like you. God said that as His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, so are His ways higher than our ways. As a student perhaps there were subjects that you found more challenging than others, those that gave you a hard time ... Physics?Calculus? The ones that you felt so lucky just to pass. But even these seemingly difficult subjects are preschool matters when compared to the matters of God. His logic is beyond the capacity of your puny reasoning; His majesty is greater than your grandest imagination.You were planted in this dimension to collect experiences, gain wisdom, expand and grow. But instead you are mindlessly obeying the whims and wishes of a material vehicle that is predestined to perpetual desolation. You are hopelessly stuck to an illusory concept of happiness due to fear. You are afraid to admit that you know nothing.
You think you understand God, you think you understand His Representation, but you don't even understand your own Self. Regardless of how you may look or feel, you are in fact nothing but a helpless infant at the edge of a cliff. The knowledge to save yourself from the cycle of suffering is completely absent. Like the others, you may be saving money, you may be hoarding objects. But even if you reach the age of one hundred, even if you prosper materially, you will still remain miserable because the nature of this life is misery, pain, anxiety, and frustration. Life upon life you behave like this, and so life upon life you stay like this. Why not turn this one incarnation into an experiment? You have nothing to lose, you still have an entire eternity to fall back on. Change the way you're behaving, change the way you're Thinking ... SURRENDER.
There are two main things to consider:
1. There is a God, One Great Power, the Primeval First Cause, the Source and Sustainer of everything that was, is and may be. His nature is bliss (the highest level of happiness) and eternal progression.
2. Life in this world is essentially miserable. Nobody who is trapped in mundane consideration is happy, not a single one. But they are all pretending. Everyone wants every other to believe that way.
These two considerations are related and teaches a very valuable lesson. In their connection you can find the healing balm for the core wound of humanity. The wealthiest person is not the happiest, nor is the most impoverished person. The most educated person is not the happiest, nor is the least educated person. Wordly achievement and non-achievement are equal. This world is a trick, it is a hopeless labyrinth. We are all in Hell and we don't know it, instead we hold on to everything it has to offer. You see your loved ones dying, but you refuse to reflect and learn from it. Somehow you still manage to hypnotize yourself that it won't happen to you. Death will happen to you, and it has happen to you many times. That is why you are so afraid of it. Inwardly you know how horrible it is to go through death. Your soul has somehow retained your memories of it. Who is the closest person to your heart? Your mother? Your love partner? Your son or daughter? That person too will die, and you might even be there to witness it. That is how brutal this place is. The place that you're so desperately clinging to.
The body that you're using, it is growing old, isn't it? It's becoming ugly not only in your eyes but also in other people's eyes. It has certain diseases that are beyond your control, causing you pain. This is the body that you worship. It will sooner or later expire with so much pain, then numbness, then blackout. And again you'll find yourself in the body of a helpless suckling. You'll go through the entire cycle of defecating in your nappies, familiarizing with language, learning to walk, to read and write, to work with numbers .. . and then you start growing old again. You were not created to suffer like this, all scripture states that our Maker is loving and merciful and compassionate—but you keep on resisting Him and insisting on your old ways. Why don't you try something different and dedicate all your might, mind and strength in this incarnation to be Free? Give up your pride, your vain sense of "I." Liberation is the only worthwhile goal. Learn your lesson and leave this place for good ... and, while you're still here, live in a state beyond it."
And now, my own take on the issue. I'm saying the same thing, but I'm pointing to a solution or at least a starting step.
Life is chance to discover who God is and who you are.
The mundane things in life like earning money, marrying, having children and eating food, are extremely unimportant and in fact useless. All these things are only for keeping the body happy. The life force (soul) inside the body is the real you and needs love and care as much as dry feet need moisturizer.
So take care of your soul, feed it its needed diet, give it the care it needs. One way to start would be to find out what the Life Force is. For this there is no other book in the world that explains the Life Force in the most true and real way than The Bhagvad Geeta As it Is. It is the one and only strong and authorative book on the matters of God and Soul.
Happiness in the material world is a temporary respite from pain and misery. When the pain and misery become relatively less, we call it happiness. Like achieving something great, winning, enjoying thrill rides, falling in love. It is only a matter of time before the misery takes over again. Misery comes in the form of birth, old age, disease, death, catastrophes, bad health, anxious thoughts, etc.
To free yourself from this temporary world and its misery make efforts to satisfy the needs of your soul. Your soul needs internal balm, externally satisfying the body will not help. So go ahead and discover the truth, work for your future, beyond this life. What you are involved in right now is only for this life, this short duration of your stay in that temporary body of yours. When you die you will come to realize that you are indestructible, you are immortal, and you have a goal to accomplish before the Kali Yuga ends. Either book a place in the real permanent home, where there is only knowledge and happiness; or wait until the end of Kali, living in various painful bodies, going through the most horrific events and all sorts of torturous catastrophes and tsunamis, till its time to be sent to a lower planetary system to restart your progress as a soul.
The Kali is filled with crazy people, sick actions and dirty lifestyles. The hearts of people are filled with poison and bad thoughts. Just observe the world around you going to tatters. Look at the once clean temples, one beautiful locales, the waters have gone putrid and the cities are full of gamblers, intoxication, prostitutes, gang wars, sex crimes, blah. There is fighting, jealousy, murders and other such negativities. To escape from this you must use the Geeta as an instruction manual.
Once your chance to learn who you are and promote yourself to the spiritual sky is over, you will have to go through the worse kind of life, below the standard of Earth, in order to learn and value the real things of importance. Believe me, life as a lower astral plane entity is disgusting and very difficult.
We are in a school, and we have reached fifth standard, now we have a choice to promote ourselves to sixth standard, or fail and go back to fourth standard. That's the deal because at the end of Kali this fifth standard will be completely destroyed.
Prepare yourself for the future.
Human kind has proved very little to itself. A lot of questions remain to be answered and verified. But if we use some other methods to find the truth and come to conclusions, we will realize that this short cut method is very useful and does not lie to us. The only thing is we need to try. Its not about faith, its about trying out the method to see if it works. Especially because the way things are going, no scientist is going to come up with answers about why we are here and what our final destination is anytime soon. Time, although it doesn't exist in the spiritual world, is the enemy of the material world.
Keep planning, buy five six homes, buy cars, buy insurance, buy pets to keep you happy, marry to become happy, drink to be merry, eat tasty things, sleep more than you need, study further to get a higher paying job, keep trying. Just go on doing all the things you think you need to do to be happy. All you will get from the planning is some temporary respite from unhappiness, little bit of elation when your kid learns to walk, when you get promoted, when you go for a second honeymoon. Drown yourself in wine and try to keep remaining happy.
If you think that happiness is always something that comes and goes then you think so because no one told you it was possible otherwise. Because you never thought permanency was a reality, you never considered wondering whether permanent happiness was possible or something you could ask for and obtain somehow. Then find out now, forget everything else, find out what real happiness is and how to get it. And hurry.
