Why are you still waiting?

I am thinking aloud on the reasons for the difference between people who are getting what they want and those who never get anything.

I would like take my focus away from the first category of people and talk to the second category that comprises most of the mankind who have firmly concluded already that their life is on hold and that is why they are not manifesting anything they want.

On a further analysis of this majority of people, I sense 50% of them lack motivation. They seem to be waiting for something or somebody to place them on the first category of successful people.

Tell me,

· Are you waiting for an angel or someone to come along?

· Are you waiting on a great job to fall into your lap?

· Are you waiting on winning the lottery to plan your retirement?

I would like to cite an example here. One of my very close friends sought my help to start a blog on spirituality. I obliged him, taught him the basics of blogging and helped him to publish his first blog post. This happened in the year 2008. That's it! Not a single word was further added to his blog. He is simply waiting for a cosmic force to reveal divinely the art of blogging.

He is a grand example of people who wait for something to unfold instead of reaching out to pull a string that would unfold the life’s surprises. The only difference between him and the people, who are getting what they want, is that they kept moving and he didn’t.

Stop waiting, move man, move!

How to be perpetually happy?

Happiness-isn't that what we strive for throughout our life time? But, we are not happy at every second of our waking time. Happiness are very elusive. It is difficult to hold on to happiness like to trying to hold on to the fish you just caught with your hands.

Why so?
That is mainly because we always try to achieve something that is beneficial to us. Yes, the result is happiness of course but it doesn't long! In my opinion, it is because, the ulterior motive for most of our actions is to derive material benefit to self.

"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."-Leo Rosten

If only we practice the above philosophy of life, then, there is no other way for happiness to escape from our clutches. We will be perpetually happy-isn't that what we strive for throughout our life time?

To transcend desire.

It is absolutely natural for human beings to have desires and it is so very natural. Every contrasting situation gives rise to new desires. When those new desires are achieved, another contrasting situation is born and it again makes to project a different set of desires. The cycle goes on and on!

Now, do you want this cycle to go on for you do you want to stop it?

All the desires no doubt will give you enormous pleasure but also pain. The moment a material or a person or a situation disappears from your life, you grieve the loss putting yourself into considerable stress and depression.

Is there a way out?
Yes and yes. If you don't cling on to your pleasure giving material, persons or circumstances, it is possible to avoid depression when they leave you. Nothing on this planet is permanent and nothing can be claimed as yours.

Just allow all that appear in your life, use them as long as they stay in your life and let go when they are taken away from you to complete their cycle.

When you thus detached from everything, you are free. This freedom from attachment is the real freedom for mankind.

Contemplate on this idea.

Gratitude to all my mentors who know that I am gratified to them.