What IS...

“He did not do the right thing.”

“She betrayed my trust.”

… and we feel hurt.

The question is, what are we actually doing: feeling hurt, or hurting ourselves? Behind the veil of our suffering, lies our idea of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, ‘moral’ and ‘immoral’.

Does a new-born feel hurt because so-and-so betrayed his trust, told him a lie, or not do the right thing? A new-born does not have the conditioned notions of black and white.  The world is one of acceptance and truth, of what is.

What is?

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The Gita has some beautiful, logical statements for the human mind to understand life. One of them is the fact that we arrive in this world empty-handed, and that is exactly how we will go. In light of this truth, possessions and possessiveness is an illusion.

Most of what we call evil is ignorance. Hurting someone’s ego, feeling shattered at the mirage of failure, is like resigning to the illusion. Experience tells us that happiness is independent of possessions and situations without. It is a complete function of what lies within. History is witness to the fact that the cycle of craving and achieving does not lead to bliss either. Ask Bill Gates and Narayan Murthy as to why fulfillment comes outside the closed curve?

What is?

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Truth is One. It is omnipresent.

When one sees that the cause of misery is but an illusion, wouldn’t life become a journey through unending valleys of Joy?

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