Do you want to be free from suffering...?
Can someone change his face by looking at his face in the mirror and breaking the mirror? If you want to be free from suffering you have to change yourself radically, and he who is ready to change himself radically finds that life is a blessing, a gratitude. Is. Our heart should be filled with gratitude towards God, then we will know that life is so beautiful and wonderful. Life is an art.
My aim with the art of life is that our sensitivity, our awareness, our receptivity should develop so much that whatever is beautiful, true, Shiva in life can reach our heart. We can experience all that. But the way we behave with life does not make the mirror of our heart clean. Rather it is dirty, and full of dust. It becomes even more difficult to create an image in it.
First of all, to experience life, an authentic mind is required. Our entire mind is formal, not authentic. We have never loved authentically, we have never been angry authentically, we have never hated authentically, we have never forgiven authentically. All the revolutions of our mind, all the forms of our mind are formal, false. Now how can one know the truth of life with a false mind? One can connect with the truth of life only with a true heart. Our whole mind is false and inauthentic. It is useful to understand this. In the morning you have left your house and saw someone on the road and you greeted him. And after meeting him, in your mind you think, 'How did this evil man's face become visible early in the morning?
This is the 'Authentic Mind', it is the beginning of the inauthentic mind. If we live 24 hours a day in such a double manner, then how will we relate to life? Then they blame life. Duality creates bondage. There are no restrictions in life. Bondage arises from the duplicity of man. We are living in a double manner. There is something inside, something outside. If there is a double method then that is also fine. We are living in a thousand ways. There are a thousand things going on inside us at the same time. There is no authenticity, no truth in our personality. The whole personality seems false, it seems dramatic.
But who are you cheating? In front of whom is this act taking place? No one else will be deceived. In this deception we will be deprived of knowing ourselves, we will be deprived of connecting with life. There is every kind of deception that the man is giving. The deepest deception lies at the bottom of the mind, where nothing of ours is any longer true. Have you ever truly loved? Talk about love, never love. All our feelings have been limited to words. We have never lived any experience of life so intensely that we would live for it or die for it. There is no essential, no authentic feeling in our lives. Even when we are angry, there is no power in that anger, no strength. How can one who cannot be angry authentically forgive? Only the one who is capable of getting angry can forgive. Only the one who is capable of being an enemy can be a friend. But we can be neither enemy nor friend. We are standing right in the middle. We are totally confused. There is no emotion left in our life. Because we live inauthentic lives. If we want to live life authentically, our heart should be filled with gratitude towards God, and for that we need meditation.
Vibhuta