26. Eternity Lives In The Moment

We are busy chasing things in our life. We are totally focused on goals, on achievements, on other things surrounding the goal. We forget the purpose of our goal.

Life is not a goal. Achieving lifestyle is a goal. Understand the difference between the two. When we chase a lifestyle we are following the norms laid by the society. We are trying to please someone else. Our decisions are influenced by comparison with others. We are constantly trying to better the other person in terms of finding a way to stay in the lead.

We also live in the fear that our position will be toppled any minute. We fight and squabble over little things. We are living in a rat race. Our life at this point has no satisfaction. We have no idea what peace is and we have never experienced it.

Even when we have so much we are dissatisfied with our life. We have lived our years but not added life to it. At the best we have lived our life superficially. Great Masters like Sankara, Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and others show us how to experience life. One more thing about the realized Masters- they all left their body at an young age: Sankara at 32, Vivekananda at 39, Ramakrishna at 50 and Yogananda. They had such deep satisfaction because they experienced life fully.

They experienced every moment with profound satisfaction. They focused on the moment yet lived in eternity. The fundamental difference between the way the Masters lead their life and we live through ours is simple, but deep. If we are centered on lifestyle we might add more more years to our life. We still need outside energy, attention, to carry on with our life. But if we are oriented on life we will continuously radiate energy. This energy radiates from within us.

Science offers no solid proof for this. It only has to be experienced. Like all great truths this one too is beyond logic. We cannot prove the presence of God through logic. The moment that is done logic will become greater than God! God is great because He cannot be proved by logic. In the same way life also is beyond logic, it is paradoxical. When you try to see it logically we miss life itself.

It takes constant remembrance to let these ideas sink into our being. If we let this consciousness and awareness flower in our self, we will experience life in eternal bliss, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. Let us.