All over the world, the military forces of all the countries are called defensive armies. Then who is offending? Every country claims that its army is an army for defending itself. Than who is offending? We then call our God to our defense.
Whoever has got a bigger army or more powerful arsenal, his God becomes mightier. With this approach we all lose. Understand clearly, no one's God is better or greater; all Gods are the same. All truths are the same.
When we differentiate between my God and your God, we are offending Divinity. Existence becomes our enemy! Imagine if the sun were to disappear on day, do you think you could be alive without the rays of the sun? If the air were to disappear, can you survive?
If you are dependent for your very survival on the sun which is billions of miles away from you, how can your boundary end where the physical boundary of your body ends? Or where your tribe or country ends? Please be very clear, you are deeply related to Existence one Existence one God. Studies on cells in organisms establish that each cell can only act in one of two ways at any given time. It can either focus on growth or it can focus on self-protection.
It cannot do both simultaneously. A cell placed in dish moves spontaneously towards a nutrient if it is place on another part of the same dish. If instead of the nutrient a toxin is place in the dish, the cell will move away from the toxin.
If both the nutrient and the toxin are placed at the same time in the dish, the cell is in a dilemma. When the mind body detects a threat, either external or internal, a series of actions are initiated to divert the energy flow from growth centers to the limbs for protection. As long as the threat remains, growth is sacrificed in favor of protection.
The mind body either fights or it flees the threat. When this happens repeatedly, your body destroys itself. Please be very clear: If you live with the attitude of enmity, even when you live, you will be dying. When you live with the attitude of enmity with the whole world, constantly, you will be tortured.
When you live with the feeling of friendliness, with the attitude that Existence is your friend, and all who coexist with you are your own, naturally, you will feel a deep sense of happiness. Happiness without reason Two friends met after a long time.
They decided to have lunch out. One was an actor, the other a psychiatrist. They were talking about what they had been doing after they had left college. The actor was a very happy man. He said, "I have never been worried about anything. By God's grace I am happily settled in life." The psychiatrist was listening.
He asked, "How long have you been like this?" Happiness is categorized with other emotions. We try to frame it in space and time. We cannot understand the emotion when someone says he is happy! It is difficult for us to believe him.
Great happiness and joy is ours. Enlightened masters are in this state all the time. Happiness is the core of existence, of nature that surrounds us. But man somehow needs a reason to be happy. If we are successful in say, business today, we are happy.
Then again if someone says something nice about us, we are happy. If we visit new places, we are happy. We choose to suffer because our ego is solid. When we are happy, our ego is threatened. When we are happy without a reason, when there is no suffering, the ego is under threat. So we go back to our suffering. The ego reviews.
We believe there is a reason to live when we suffer. Of course, each on of us has problems, but if you deal with them happily, in a grateful and prayerful mood, you will find that the problem simply disappearing in front of you eyes. Start being comfortable with what you have. Enjoy what you have acquired instead of hankering after what you do not have. Spirituality is not about renouncing in the sense of what you understand.
There is nothing that you have now that you need to renounce. Nothing at all. Just renounce what you do not have, your fantasies. You will see your life change in front of your eyes. When you focus on enjoying what you have now, you will have to focus on the present instead of wasting time speculating and regretting.
Your entire mindset will be on action. Because this action is not tinged with regret and speculation, you will automatically fall into what Krishna refers to in the Bhagwad Gita as the action without expectation.
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