Why is my life so difficult? Everything is so unfair. I am so miserable because….! No one understands me. This life is stupid. What a terrible world. People are animals, worst then that, etc.
We all have thought similar thought one day. We all know the struggles sometime to be faced in a human life.
Is there a way out? Good question. Or do we have to suffer until the end, until our last breath?
Well, Lord Buddha said:” life is suffering.” He wanted to know the way out himself and started to examine the nature of life. He found an enlightened Guru who gave some initial guidance to him. We do not know the name but it is said that he came to Bhargava (Bhrugu) Ashram in a forest.
I thing, yes, we all need guidance to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I also think that it is exactly what we are ment to be for searching for that light. Certainly we all will get the guidance and will be shown the light.
In the Bible it is stated:” Knock and it will be opened.” To look beyond that, what we call day to day struggles or businesses, to eagerly try to find the meaning the truth and purpose of our life that is our knocking.
In ancient text of Patanjali, a saint of the past it is stated:” Tapa, Swadyaya, Ishwarapranidhanani…..”
These are Sanskrit words for:” Self discipline, self study and total surrender to the divine (god).”
What does he mean with that?
We experience the world through our sense organs. Body skin, ear, eye and mouth, etc.
With self discipline we can learn to get a little control about the effect the world has on our senses. We are not driven by the senses. We manage the senses. We know when to eat for example, how much to eat, when to stop eating. Similarly we know when to talk, what to talk and when to keep silence. All this we can learn by applying self discipline, self control. That at least gives us the feeling of been able to decide to be happy or not. But the decision is with us because we have mastered a bit of our sensations to the outside world. Great!
Self study means to see myself in the entire picture of this world as one part of it. But what am I in the picture? What is my position? What is my nature? What I am? Who am I?......
That is a nice and exiting search. It is like going trekking…., well you see beautiful landscapes and sometimes you come across a wild animal which makes your frightened.
But the direction of the search is within! We take the rout into the mind, into our inner selves. Like Lord Buddha, we close our eyes and start watching our selves. For that we are able to find numberless guidance through different spiritual schools; Franciscan, Benedictine and other Monasteries as well as Sufi, Buddhist and school of yogis.
This is essential for our journey to happiness and contentment. Self study!
Total surrender to the divine! Well first of all does something like that exist? Why did he say total surrender to the divine? He must have had the experience that this divine something, we may call it light, god, avatar, master, and saint, angel, etc. exist. Maybe it does not only exist; if we speak of existence we most probably look for something in a distance, outside…. Maybe this existence is within, this divinity is us, is actually that which makes us complete.
“We are made in the image of thy father,” states the bible. In this context father refers too as god divine.
Saints, mystics and hermits of all walks of life speak about similar experiences when they touch again the source of their existence within them self. What they refer too as self realization or god realization.
To surrender to the divine paves the way to the divine within. Lord Jesus, while he was praying to the Lord gave a very important message to all of us:” Father, please let this cup pas by me, but not my will thy will be done.” (skt: Idam na ma ma). He knew about the torture and physical suffering he had to face. He was able to escape also, but he gave us the direction what it means “surrender to god”, the direction to perfect Love.
The lives of most of us are not close to the suffering He had to take. Still some of us have very, very hart time to experience and want to get out! So, get out. Change your lifestyle, change our environment, and make the divine the center of your journey on this earth.
Knock and it will be opened. Become simple and unattached. Leave your desires aside, leave likes and dislikes. Remember Jesus, Muhammad, Guru, Divine Mother and Saints!! Surrender to the Lord, surrender to the divine according to your understanding and believe. Love and Light.
