OPEN YOUR GATE TO ETERNAL BLISS
We allow ourselves and our minds to get attached to all material things and we feel the need to possess them. Behind all this craving is our need to feel happiness.
We get so addicted to these tendencies that we are performing these desire quenching activity in our minds without awareness or discrimination. It’s happening all the time. It’s a trap we have set for ourselves and we have allowed ourselves to suffer from it.
This whole process only increases Greed, Attachment and Expectations and of course, this leads us to expect Eternal happiness from all these insensitive and meaningless actions.
Our blissful self is forever waiting to please us, to envelop us into its bosom and comfort us that everything is ok. We seek its grace only when we feel let down by situations, circumstances, events or from the actions of fellow human beings. But do you notice, when you surrender so desperately to your inner self, the comfort is so genuine, so reassuring and so deep that it relaxes us immediately?
The truth of Eternal bliss is felt by all of us. Yet we are foolishly going after temporary sense gratifications. It’s so small and irrelevant, so minuscule in comparison to the huge rush of an incomparable Spiritual euphoria.
If all the negative emotions were to be truly elevating in experience, we would not have any greed or lust left in us. We would be forever unconditionally happy. But the truth is, we are left feeling incomplete and empty. A sadness dawns in us and we seek out to an instant Spiritual gratification that can quite our minds, settle our breathe and reassure our ego. We attend a discourse, watch a video and do some satsang. We feel truly elevated.
It is now that our ego tells us that we are elevated beings. We start preaching Spirituality till the next wave of greed and lust takes over. And then, we are back to square one.
This madness that leads to sickness needs to end. We need to stop punishing ourselves and stop taking the hypocritical Spiritual pill. We should instead surrender to our blissful self and genuinely seek it’s ever existent blissful balm of comfort that soothes our minds and our senses.
EXERCISE – Bring your awareness to your breathe. Let go of all your thoughts, your mental chatter, your biases, your prejudices, your judgements and your lofty thoughts of righteous indignation and self importance. Truly observe your breathe with complete focus and wait for your blissful self to guide you.
This experience is truly elevating. If you practice has sincerity and diligence, you will soon find that you are in fact transported to the world of eternal happiness. And this will become more and more “You” as your practice gains momentum and strength.