Success in Life

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A wise person realising the real nature of earthly objects, that they

are impermanent, fleeting, empty of content, that they cannot give

happiness, such a person never stoops to reveling in these petty

objects of this materialistic world.

 

Yet lasting happiness must lie somewhere, otherwise the Creator would

not have put this inner urge within each human soul. Somewhere there

must be a source of eternal and unchanging happiness attaining which

all desires become at once totally fulfilled. Is there an experience

which grants at once total satisfaction and eternal bliss, which takes

one forever beyond all sorrow, pain and suffering? This is an

important question. It was to the resolution of this riddle of life

that an ancient sage and seers of India devoted their entire lives.

Relentlessly they pursued this quest until they ultimately achieved an

experience of inexpressible joy that took them forever beyond all

sorrow, pain and suffering.

 

These sages, being filled with universal love for all beings, did not

want to keep this experience to themselves. Therefore, they declared

to all: " O mortals, striving and struggling upon this earth plane,

weeping, wailing, buffeted by the vicissitudes of life here, we have

come upon a great discovery. There is something beyond these

appearances, these vanishing names and forms that go to make up this

universe. There is something beyond which forms the very source and

support of all these objects of the phenomenal world. Why do you

search in vain for happiness outside. Come, come, happiness resides

within. Stop your wanderings amidst this desert of empty earthly

objects, amidst this jungle of sensuality, and turn your gaze within.

Dive within. Happiness is within. God is within you. Meditate upon the

Reality within. "

 

They had discovered a Supreme Reality attaining which one goes beyond

all relative experiences, all duality, and enters into a blessed state

of Bliss Absolute, a state beyond all sorrow. To attain that state in

which even the heaviest sorrow is powerless to shake one is the

birthright of each and every individual soul.

 

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