Enjoy Life
- To exist without utilizing the God-given gift of blissful energy; This is self destructive behavior.
- What do we expend for the sake of money, power, name and fame? Our body, life and mind!
- ☆ In what way is it just and fair to spoil our body, life and mind just for the sake of money, power, and name and fame which are ready to desert us at any moment? Think for a little while.
- If we know how to enjoy life, even for a beggar, this world will appear as heaven. If we do not know that, even for a rich man, it will appear as hell.
There were two great thinkers in the last century who actually shook the western hemisphere: Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud.
Out of the various statements of Marx, I like his statement, 'Which one do we lose, to get which other?' Oh what potent words these are!
Just think for awhile. As we rise up in the morning, we have no time to enjoy the beautiful rising sun. We don't have a mind to water the rose plants which are in a beautiful bloom in the garden and caress them. We have no time at all even to interact, converse and play lovingly even with our own children.
Money ... money ... .money ... Just for this sake, we lose all types of joys and wonders and suffer and struggle right through our life. Even if we continuously run, run and earn money in thousands and millions, what is going to remain with us ultimately?
A few cars and a few houses.
Do we know what we are giving away as a price for these lifeless objects? The valuable and great God-given gift of life! The blissful life force given by Him!
Even if viewed as a sort of bargain, we will come to realize how unjust it is to give away the joyful life just to acquire some lifeless objects.
Once there was an old man aged about sixty years sitting on a beach and was expecting something. A young man sitting beside him asked him, 'Sir, what are you expecting so eagerly?'
The old man said, 'Oh, nothing ... I have decided to marry a girl who is perfect in all respects. I am just waiting to see if any such girl is coming."
The young man again asked, 'Even after waiting for so many years, were you not able to get a beautiful and perfect girl?'
The old man said hesitatingly, 'When I was thirty-five years old, I came across a perfect girl.'
The young man hurriedly asked. 'What then? You could have married her.'
'The problem is, like me, she was also searching for a perfect man', said the old man.
Like a blind cat jumping over the loft, people just hang on to some sort of principles, etc. and totally ignore their joyful living.
Those who start their lives thinking to achieve greatness, even after achieving, continue to go on and on and on. Then, even after achieving much, they feel not fully satisfied, and begin to lament, saying thev could have lived a very normal life without straining to achieve anything at all. The reason: they have not enjoyed life at all.
I will tell you a story as told by Jesus Christ.
There lived a rich man who wanted to live happily and indulged in wine, women and mansions, etc. Opposite to his house there lived a beggar who was suffering from some disease. He used to live by eating whatever wasted food was thrown from the rich men's houses, fighting with street dogs in the process.
Since the methods adopted by the rich man to live merrily involved using excesses of everything, what remained for him ultimately were only a diseased body and a dis-satisfied mind.
At last, both the rich man and the beggar died almost the same day.
After death the conditions were topsy-turvy. The rich man was in hell. He was suffering too much with thirst, struggling for even a drop of water.
But the beggar was lying happily on the lap of Abraham in heaven.
The rich man begged, 'Oh Abraham, I am very, very thirsty. Please give me just a drop of water.'
Abraham said, 'No, it is not possible at all.'
The rich man now in hell, said, 'If so, at least send that beggar to the earth and ask him to tell everybody about my sufferings in hell; let my brothers at least escape from these.'
Abraham said. 'No. Even that is not possible. Even if the beggar goes to the earth and tells about your sufferings, nobody would believe or listen. They will mock him."
What is the meaning of this story?
It is not the purpose of some people to preach and say that rich men go to hell and beggars go to heaven or such as that. One cannot get joy and contentment by being rich or leading a life of pomp.
A person will be a proud owner of joy and satisfaction, if, and only if, he is able to think. 'Oh. I have this present moment available to me, it is enough if I utilize and enjoy the present moment.' By this thought one can enjoy himself and his surroundings as well. This story is only to reveal this great truth to one and all.
The life of the beggar is to be noticed. In spite of the rich man having all luxuries and pleasures, he did not possess some particular thing which the beggar possessed. It is the quality of life which the beggar relished and enjoyed. He was in unison and perfect harmony with his surroundings and environment.
You are a person, who is able to devote sufficient time and money to read this book and so can never be a beggar.
'If one is able to know enough to enjoy and live life happily, even a beggar can realize heaven.' If that is so, why can it not be possible for us? We must earn to respect ourselves and our environs. We will realize.... heaven is within us.
Even though such great truths have been revealed by many great seers and avatars, many people continue to do what they think is right and then, when they begin to suffer, then only they begin to realize these great truths.
Before such a state sets in, let us just ponder this ..... Without wasting time, start to respect our surroundings, enjoy and begin to live accordingly. We will not get caught or struggle in life. We will love and enjoy life. We will simply celebrate!
'Life is a big and continuous festival.' The hidden meaning of this statement of our forefathers will become the meaning of your heart and soul!
Enjoy life and live blissfully!
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