Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Transient Things results in Disappointment

All worldly pleasures are transient and temporary. Very often they result in sorrow and disappointment. You often experience loss, depression and confusion and have no contentment. Know that lack of contentment is the real loss (Asantrupto nijo nashtah). There is no limit to desires.
One feels hungry, another is thirsty. If the thirsty man is offered water, he is not satisfied, he wants a cool drink. When he is given a cool drink, next he wants ice cream, and so on. He is not satisfied with anything. Realize that there is no end to desires for material things in the world. To get rid of these desires, one must turn their mind towards God. The purpose of human birth is to realise the inherent Divinity. That is the way to achieve contentment and lasting bliss. God alone is the source of enduring bliss.
Baba (thought for the day)

Because worldly pleasures are transient and temporary they result in sorrow and disappointment.

That fine feeling of inner joy is present in a lasting relationship. Baba said always where is you husband, but it was also wrong understood, it is not on the level of just a paper. If we are soulmates it is alive. It is real, it is friendship, it means it goes beyond birth and death. It is the principle of the yogi. Yogis are our friends. 
And if it is the husband, it has to be an ideal husband.
Yogis are our friends, but it is a friendship which is only positive and goes beyond all relativity. If there is an end to it, that is not real friendship and therefore, it is not based on joy. Therefore, parents are God, because they go beyond and the relationship is real. The background of yoga is alive as friends and being in such a relationship is joy.
Divinity has no limitation, but it is always present.
Joy is only real if 'that' is there and if we go for it, if we understand it.
It is the inner contentment and the inner realization in question. 
On the level our desires get fulfilled, it is inner contentment. If we remain on the level of relativity, there is no limitation to desires.

There is no limit to desires. One feels hungry, another is thirsty. If the thirsty man is offered water, he is not satisfied, he wants a cool drink. When he is given a cool drink, next he wants ice cream, and so on. He is not satisfied with anything. Realize that there is no end to desires for material things in the world. To get rid of these desires, one must turn their mind towards God.

God is our friend and it makes only sense when we realize it as inherent divinity and lasting bliss. What we want is ‘lasting bliss’.
If it is not lasting it is not fulfilling and it is not bliss.
I saw once that principle break in pieces and it was totally scary, but today I know why. 
Maybe that makes a difference knowing why it broke in pieces. It first had to be there to be able to break in pieces. 

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