New Year Resolutions.......
In this vast existence, there is no such
thing as “Old Year” and “New Year”. These are all demarcations that we
as human beings have made. Why we have made these demarcations is
because we need some measure to our life, some guide, some milestone to
tell us whether we are going forward or backward. Now I am this many
years old – have I moved forward, have I moved backward? So now this is once
again a new year ......2016, this is time for you to measure, in the last one year
have you moved forward as a human being? May be your business has gone
forward, maybe you made more money, you got your daughter married –
that’s not the issue. Have you become a little better human being in one
year’s time? So for the coming year, for the New Year what are you
going to do? You make up your mind, what you are going to do. Some
marker to tell you that in one year’s time you will be a much better
human being than you are right now. More joyful, more peaceful, more
loving – a better human being in every possible way. This is something
that you have to decide.
If you feel the world around you – when saying about "the world", it meana the human part of the world around us - aournd you – you will
see your experience is a cacophony of voices, thoughts and emotions.
These voices, thoughts and emotions are all an outpouring of confusions
of many different levels and states. With a very distorted perception of
the current reality, these voices, thoughts and emotions are formed and
expressed. When man is in this level of confusion, when he is
subjugated by the misconceptions of reality around him, the pain and
suffering that he creates for himself and the people around him is very
unfortunate.
We are always trying to create our life
based on the current reality that exists around us at this moment. This
moment whatever may be with us is not the point. Where we want to go
tomorrow need not be connected to where we are right now. What we want
as the highest in life, it need not have anything to do with our present
situation. If we enslave our visions to current situations, then it is
once again settling for what is attainable, what is easy, what you think
is possible. It is not in terms of thinking what is possible or not
possible. It is just in terms of seeing what is your vision, what is the
highest that you can seek in your life.
If man has a vision of what he wishes to
do with himself and the world around him, it is not beyond his capacity
to create it. It may happen in this lifetime, it may take a couple of
lifetimes but what we want will definitely come. For that person, for
whom his vision of life is clear to him and he just seeks it every
moment of his life, the highest things will come and fall at his feet.
It is only because man is a bundle of confusion, it is only because man
is most of the time seeking what he doesn’t want – things that he really
wants never come to him. This lack of vision and will in his life is
fundamentally because of a distorted understanding of the world around
us.
What you know as the highest, you just
seek that. It doesn’t matter whether it is going to happen or not,
simply living with that vision itself is very elevating, is itself very
liberating, is itself a very joyous process for any person. Whether it
is going to happen tomorrow or after hundred years is not the point. But
you have a vision and you are not concerned about whether it is
possible or not possible. You are not concerned whether it is easy or
difficult, you are not concerned whether it is attainable or
non-attainable, or in other words, you are not concerned about the
result in the end. It is just that you have a vision and you give your
life towards it. This is one of the easiest ways to attain the highest
also – to simply give yourself to what you want, not caring whether it
is going to happen or not. It is a spiritual process by itself.
Vision is an important way of transcending
limitations within and outside ourselves. If one wants to live here
without being burdened by vision, without being burdened by will, then
that person should be absolutely innocent. Such a person can simply live
here – he does not need any vision. He does not have to have a will
about anything, if he is absolutely egoless and childlike. If it is not
so, it is very important that man lives with a vision.
It is time to really create a vision
within ourselves as to what we really care for, not just for today. If
you look deep enough, your vision will be the universal vision. Whether
everything else happens or doesn’t happen on the way is not the point –
whatever you have known as the highest, simply seeking that with
undivided attention. That is a simple way of knowing life here and
beyond.
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