TIPS TO HAVE A HAPPY LIFE

 

   

                                  THE FIRST QUESTION

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                      TODAY YOU SAID THAT THE WAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT IS LONG AND ARDUOUS, AND ALSO THAT IT IS HERE AND NOW, NOW OR NEVER.

                         AS IT IS HERENOW, HOW CAN IT BE LONG AND ARDUOUS?

                   THAT'S WHY IT IS LONG AND ARDUOUS-BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT HERE-NOW. YOU ARE FAR AWAY FROM HERE NOW. YOU WILL HAVE TO COME, YOU WILL HAVE TO JOURNEY.

                   WHEN I SAY TRUTH IS NOT FAR AWAY, I MEAN TRUTH IS HERE-NOW I DON'T MEAN YOU ARE NOT FAR AWAY FROM TRUTH. YOU ARE FAR AWAY FROM TRUTH. TRUTH IS NOT FAR AWAY FROM YOU, GOD CANNOT BE FAR AWAY FROM YOU. GOD EXISTS IN YOU AS YOU. GOD EXISTS AS ETERNITY, NOT AS PAST OR FUTURE. GOD SIMPLY IS. HOW CAN GOD BE FAR AWAY? THERE IS NOT PLACE FOR HIM TO BE FAR AWAY. HE IS ALL OVER THE PLACE. HE IS EVERYWHERE... IN YOUR BREATHING, IN YOUR HEARTBEAT. BUT YOU ARE NOT THERE.

                      GOD HAS NOT GONE AWAY, YOU HAVE GONE AWAY FROM HIM. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THIS. FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE NIGHT YOU SLEEP AND YOU DREAM-YOU DREAM YOU HAVE GONE TO THE MOON YOU ARE HERE, BUT THE DREAM HAS TAKEN YOU FAR AWAY. IN THE MORNING WHEN YOU AWAKE, YOU WILL NOT FIND YOURSELF ON THE MOON-YOU WILL BE HERE IN POONA. BUT IN THE DREAM YOU WERE FAR AWAY FROM YOUR REALITY. YOU HAVE TO COME BACK FROM YOUR DREAMS... AND THE JOURNEY IS ARDOUS BECAUSE YOU HAVE INVESTED SO MUCH IN THOSE DREAMS, AND YOU ARE HOPING TO GAIN SO MUCH FROM THOSE DREAMS, AND YOU HAVE LIVED IN THOSE DREAMS FOR SO LONG THAT THEY HAVE BECOME REALITY, YOUR REALITY.

                   THE EAST CALLS THIS DREAMING STATE OF MIND MAYA-ILLUSION. AND THEN YOU CAN GO ON SEARCHING FOR GOD IN YOUR ILLUSIONS AND YOU WILL NOT FIND HIM. YOU HAVE TO AWAKE. AND TO BE AWAKE IS ARDUOUS BECAUSE A THOUSAND AND ONE DREAMS WILL BE SHATTERED. AND IN THOSE DREAMS ALL YOUR JOYS, ALL YOUR SO-CALLED SUCCESS, AMBITIONS, ARE INVOLVED. YOUR WHOLE EGO IS INVOLVED. THE EGO WILL BE SHATTERED.

                   YOU ARE HERE  BUT THE EGO HAS GONE TO THE MOON-AND THE EGO CAN ONLY LIVE THROUGH DREAMS, IT CAN ONLY LIVE THROUGH ILLUSIONS. IT IS NOURISHED BY ILLUSIONS. THE MORE ILLUSIONS YOU HAVE, THE MORE GRANDIOSE AN EGO YOU HAVE. THE GREATER YOUR ILLUSIONS, THE BIGGER YOUR EGO. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO RENOUNCE THOSE DREAMS.

                        IN THE EAST THIS IS CALLED SANNYAS, TO RENOUNCE THOSE DREAMS. WHEN IT IS SAID, "RENOUNCE THE WORLD", IT IS NOT MEANT THE ACTUAL WORLD-THE WIFE, THE HUSBAND, THE CHILDREN, THE HOUSE, THE MARKETPLACE. NO, NOT AT ALL. WHAT IS REALLY MEANT IS THIS DREAMWORLD IN WHICH YOU GO ON CONSTANTLY MOVING AWAY FROM YOURSELF AND AWAY FROM REALITY. RENOUNCE THE DREAM! AND THAT IS ARDUOUS.

                      NOW, LET ME READ YOUR QUESTION AGAIN:

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                       TODAY YOU SAID THAT THE WAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT IS LONG AND ARDUOUS - IT IS - AND ALSO THAT IT IS HERE AND NOW- IT IS . AS IT IS HERENOW, HOW CAN IT BE LONG AND ARDUOUS?

                       THAT'S WHY . YOU ARE NOT TO GO ANYWHERE, YOU HAVE TO COME HERE!YOU HAVE ALREADY GONE SOMEWHERE. YOU HAVE MOVED AWAY FROM YOUR INNERMOST CORE. YOU NEVER COME HOME. AND GOD EXISTS THERE, BUT YOU KEEP GOD AT YOUR BACK. YOUR EYES ARE ROAMING FAR AWAY IN DISTANT STARS, THEY NEVER COME BACK. FROM ONE STAR TO ANOTHER YOU GO ON HOPPING. YOUR MIND IS A VAGABOND.

                       SO IT IS ARDUOUS AND YET IT IS EASY. THE CONTRADICTION IS ONLY APPARENT. IT IS ARDUOUS BECAUSE OF YOU, IT IS EASY BECAUSE OF GOD.  IF YOU THINK OF GOD YOU CAN IT VERY EASILY, YOU CAN RELAX. IF YOU DEPEND ON YOURSELF, IT IS VERY ARDUOUS. 

                        THAT'S WHY I SAY IF YOU DEPEND ON YOURSELF, IF YOU DEPEND ON YOU EFFORT, YOU MAY NEVER BACK BECAUSE IT IS THROUGH EFFORT THAT YOU HAVE GONE AWAY. YOU HAVE TO SURRENDER. IN THAT VERY SURRENDERING, GRACE DESCENDS.

                       AND WHAT CAN YOU SURRENDER?WHAT HAVE YOU GOT? WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF SURRENDER? YOU HAVE GOT ONLY DREAMS AND NOTHING ELSE, JUST SOAP-BUBBLES.

                     SURRENDER YOUR DREAMS AND THE TRUTH IS HERENOW. THAT'S WHY I SAY NOW OR NEVER .. BECAUSE EXISTENCE ALWAYS EXISTS IN THE NOW, AND THE MIND EXISTS IN THE THEN. EXISTENCE IS HERE AND THE MIND IS ALWAYS THERE, AND THEY NEVER MEET. HERE AND THE NEVER MEET, NOW AND THEN NEVER MEET . HERE AND THERE YOUR MIND, IT IS VERY RARE TO COME ACROSS A CONTEMPORARY.

                     SOMEBODY IS LIVING FIVE THOUSAND YEARS BACK, HE IS STILL PART OF THE DAYS OF RIG VEDA. HE IS STILL READING RIG VEDA. HE IS STILL FOLLOWING THE VEDIC RITUAL. FIVE THOUSAND YEAR HAVE PASSED, BUT HE HAS NOT COME HERE NOW. HE LIVES THERE IN THE DEAD, IN THE GONE, IN THE MEMORY.