“Be content with what you have; rejoice the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
I often asked myself what can i possibly own, a car, a house or a fat bank account or may be all of them, but what will i do with them. Travel in a car alone, stay at home, or spend
money shopping, i am not built that way. I like to keep all my possessions in a backpack. I am 24 years old and there is not much that i owe besides my laptop and some traveling gear and some clothes. Most of my friends have jobs, nice phones, lives and routines and sometimes it bothers me ! And i feel like a giant failure walking on a path to nowhere. I start to think that how i've let myself and my family down. The fact really troubles me and i get depressed and start sulking in, until my mind screams, this is what makes me happy, this is what defines me, this is who i am. Whatever i have learned, whoever i am today is because of the choices that i have made.
Crossing over from the world that society expects you to live to one that is unconventional takes time. You have to train yourself to let one go and the other one in. Slowly slowly. The more you start to live life in its present state, the more you’ll start to understand that this is the only way we should be living and the only way that creates meaning in our lives. The stuff tends to fade into the background and you’ll realize just how easy it is to walk away from it all. Suddenly the smiles and the love is all that matters. It’s nice to have the nice things as well, and you can still enjoy them when they come into your life, but you are not a slave to them anymore and you can easily let them come and go.
Many of us spend so much energy and time trying to protect our identity in order to feel a sense of existence – our bodies, our memories, our ideas and inspirations, our relationships with others, all the material things we have: a house, a car, a company, a job, some money… etc. So much fear is based on the fear of loosing our identity; fear of loosing our “selves”, fear of loosing the reference point, fear of letting go of control.
The truth is, we don’t own anything in the very first place. It is only the appearance of owning, a false identification or sense that we are separated and alone, an unnecessary need to protect some illusionary fantasy.
Yes, it is scary to let go. It is scary to the mind. The mind is afraid to face the obvious fact that we don’t own anything in the beginning. The mind is happy with the little personal comfortable world that it has created for itself, where everything is familiar, repetitive, expected, and known. But there is a greater Will in play; It is forever, and is the only Will that is ever in charge. This life was never meant for ourselves or for the comfort of the ego; it is meant for excitement and adventure. It is meant to be open and to receive the unending river of Grace. Beyond our little perfect world is a Universe that is spacious and timeless, that is infinite and eternal. And it is by turning our attention away from our limited identity that we can finally have our attention available for the greatest part of the universe, the infinite part of our true identity.
It's easy to accumulate possessions, but relationships and people are what matters.
I resonate with every word written in this post by you, Aman. We are born alone, we live alone and we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion that breaks apart when we die alone. We realise none of this mattered - the job i have, the car i own, the house i bought, all other materialistic possessions. We also realise that we did not even own the friends and family. It is a very cold feeling, yet at the same time, we are connected to everything that is, that might not even meet our eye in our every day life. The lesson is not attaching oneself to possessions, places and people. The lesson is to find our life purpose and not a three-bedroom property in Mumbai. The lesson is not to drive an Audi, but to simply keep walking on the path that our soul chooses to fulfill the reasons behind its very existence. Great post there!
ReplyDeleteIt opened certain portals in my psyche that had gotten blurred in the bliss of being in the now! And now is the only time we really have, past is gone and future is yet to come.
Keep the flow of your expression high!
Excellent expression, great flow of words and substantial writing, meaningfully awakening :)
Critique: Needs a bit of editing!
Yeah i know it is a long road to walk...but i don't mind, i am used to walking long roads nd lofty mountains ;)
Deletethat is the only thing we need to linger onto.... all the good nd bad memories, i don't need to remember what my house or bank a/c looks like...i just need to look back in the retrospect nd smile, remembering every second of my life, remembering all the experiences, remembering every one i have ever known, remembering every place that i have ever been to.
it's nt that great but i dont need greatness too...i am simply obliged and humbled that you could resonate with it !
And yes i have just started, and i am gonna get better and better with people like you around
THANK YOU AVi :)
Sweet! Just believe in your writing and its individuality. :)
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We are born alone, live alone and we die with the same nothingness. Material(Moh & Maya) works in their own ways. Our connection and our learning matters. The school of learning is all what dual life has to offer. Duality comes from our physical needs. My brother Aman your selfless soul can be pampered and put at ease just by the presence of knowledge and imagination but with imagination, power to reason with knowledge(Our Mind)we automatically give birth to the needs of human body which is our dual physical self. This race of money making has never been so rigid but again 'man' ruined it with evolution, unbalanced financial system and ego. It is all a matter of balance. Excitement and adventure goes hand in hand when we start following our dreams. There has never been a need to protect any possession or anyone. It all gets stored in the collective consciousness i call cosmic library ;) When we try and protect, get hold of something, we develop the fear of loosing the same. The art of detachment is what remains the oldest and a vibrant teaching even in this Kali-yuga. Remember what Krishna said to Arjuna as stated in bhagvat Gita, '' Karm kar, fal ki chinta mut kar," Implies the same thing what you say in your own ways and words. We all have Krishna and Arjun inside of us... hidden somewhere. That spark is what we all are waiting for. Dream big brother. A balance of good health and a mind at ease is what we all can offer to be that change we talk about. Don't go with Critique.. your words envelop all to the paradigm of high thinking and shall elope many minds off their prison, to follow what they exactly want out of their lives. I'n Lak'ech Al'a K'in.
ReplyDeleteShambhoo!!
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