What to do with your life

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We aspire to the Peace of the beginning

Some persons suffer from a chronic pain that no cause can explain. This pain that nothing can relieve is the absence of Conscience. In Kindergarten you had this Conscience, Conscience of the instant. Because you forgot it, you cannot identify this absence and you look elsewhere for what is inside you.

You forgot this happiness but you aspire to it, 

looking for it everywhere without finding it. 

Nothing that the human society offers you, 

as to marry, to buy a house, to have a professional career 

can quench your thirst.

It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t mary and have children, nor it is vain to buy a house, to have a good job. But these things can only bring the satisfactions they carry. The quest of these things shouldn’t prevent you to aspire to a deeper, essential satisfaction. This quest is not the purpose of the living.

Loving a person and be loved from this person won’t bring you the happiness. This sentimental love will give you what it carries in it and it is very good, why not ? But the true happiness doesn’t depend on what is outside you. The purpose of the living is not to share it with an other living being. When we have the Grace to find a person with whom we can share our existence, it is very nice and very fulfilling but it shouldn’t replace the personal spiritual approach.

Two persons will never form one

Two persons will never form one. Each soul is unique with a personal destiny. It doesn’t prevent to meet a person with whom the relationship is perfect. But this person is not born at the same time than you did and will not disembodie at the same moment either. His soul won’t follow you where you will go at the end. Even if you disembody at the same time, you will go separate ways.

Do you want to be really clear ? Then give up your illusions ! It is not sad, the Truth of your life, of your condition of human being, at the opposite ! 

To enjoy the pleasures of this existence,

it is good to find and then to draw

from the Source of all satisfactions. 

Then, you can go and see elsewhere and enjoy this existence. 

Go to the source, then open you to the rest. 

This is the right order and not the other way round : 

go to the rest to find the source.

This source is inside you, it makes you alive. What does a seeker seeks ? The cure of the suffering. To find it, the solution is to be aware. A baby is aware. To be aware let you go back to this simple happiness. The path gives you the tools to reach this : the four revealed techniques of meditation, the Agya and the teaching of the living master.

You’ve heard surely from the light, from the Light, from the warriors of the light…this Light exists really and it is possible to see it with your eyes. This big white light, that some says having seen during a near death experience, is shining inside you all your life. You just have to know how to do to see it. One of the four revealed techniques of the path allows to see this Light, to see it really.

It is not enough to see this Light. Your life has a purpose, a reason. It is not just a question to live in order to accumulate good karma in preparation for your next incarnation as a lot of buddhists believe, nor to deserve the liberation of the soul from the samsàra chains ! What should you do with your life ?

I know what to do with it : live it in full Conscience and give thank to whom that gives it to you at each moment. There is no need to seek further, it is enough, believe me. God gives you this gift and doesn’t want something else as you to accept him and enjoy it. When a father offers a present to his child, his joy is that the child enjoy it ! It is as simple as that.

The chains that attach you

In your existence, there are others chains as these from the samsàra and these chains have hundreds of links. You know, the chain used on an anchor, it doesn’t keep the ship fixed. The weight of the chain, over the whole length holds the ship in place. There are two more important links than the others, the ones of the two ends : the one that attaches the the anchor to the chain and the one that attaches the chain to the ship.

The chains that attach you are made from hundreds of links and these links are your attachments. There is an attachment that is stronger than the others, it is the attachment to yourself. You are attached to a self-image, but this image is an illusion. If you would manage to get rid of this attachment, it would be as if the first link of the chain, the one that bind the ship, has been detached : the whole chain would sink and the ship could follow its way towards its haven.

"The attachment is made with burning and endless desires 

Which chain you to the fruits of your acts " 

[Bhaktimàrga 1-2-32]

But this attachment is the strongest, then begin, if you want to release yourself, with less strong attachments. But how can you detach ? It is impossible to detach yourself waking up in the morning and saying : «  I am going to detach myself today from this or that ». No, before detaching yourself, you have to attach yourself to something else, to something that frees you. It is the purpose of the original yoga : to give you this thing that frees you, this thing to which you can attach you.

It is necessary to know as well from which self you have to detach. How can you make the distinction between your true self and the self made by the others ? This is the purpose of the path too, to allow you to make this distinction, to have this discernment.

I often read on the web that it would be necessary to connect to our soul. 

But if we are not connected to our soul 

and it is necessary to do that, who is not connected ?

If you assume that you are your soul, 

who want to connect to it ? 

The purpose of the path is to allow you to see clearlier 

in all of these notions. 

You are mistaken the identity. You are not the one you believe to be but your soul. Your learned knowledge, your concepts are the fruits of the PC of your body, the brain and you are the operator. If you don’t master it, it goes literally freewheel. This is what causes the problems. Don’t let your brain without master, without Conscience.

You are not your personality. Your are the one that your are since your birth ! The personality varies according to the events but your nature doesn’t vary. Find youself. How ? Ask for more explanations on the contact page from the blog and you will get an answer. Then you are free to accept or not. Meanwhile don’t give to much confidence in your concepts, in what you believe to know and don’t hold so much on your opinion on things.

Satsang: for what purpose all this ?

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For what purpose all this ?

On the path, the purpose is to be centered 

as you possibly can the day long but for what purpose ? 

There is a purpose, a reason for all this. 

Beyond the Realization, there is a reason of being 

to your birth, on this Earth ! 

And this reason is the same 

for all the living beings 

beyond the individual goals.

In the eastern spiritualities, it is spoken about the samsàra, the liberation of its chains. But when you love the life, you have the Grace to live in a developed country and missing nothing essential, you aren’t keen of the liberation. However, in Truth, this life will have an end and its purpose is not only to live it.

The purpose of your existence 

is not only to live it

When you are born, it is not without reason. 

The purpose of you existence is not only to live it.

 If it would be only this, why would you be a human being, 

having hindsight, this intelligence and the free-will ? 

It would be enough to be an animal.

You are not here just to live. There is a purpose for your birth. One day you arrive, an other you go, between both there is a time room that is planned to do something specific : this is the purpose of your existence. As there is a Truth, good for everybody beyond the individual truths, there is a purpose to the life.

It is not only to build a house. It is crazy ! There is people whose goal is to build a house and they spend twenty or thirty years of their life to pay it in forthseeing of their old age. How many old people are spending their last days outside their house for which they consent so much sacrifices ? Then, what of these houses ? What of these years spent to pay them ? The purpose of the life is not to obtain a social satus. How many years lasts a career ? When you have been a lawyer, what are you when your are retired ? A retired lawyer ?

The purpose of the life, is it to marry and have children ? A child doesn’t stay a child, then ? What is the purpose of the life ? To work ? No : to work is a mean. To have an accomodation ? Of course, no !

There is a purpose for the life

 

There is a purpose for the life and the fact to stay centered all the day long participes to the fulfillment of this purpose. In the Bhaktimàrga (the book of the path), it is said verse 1-3-14 : "The reason of your life is to return to One in full Conscience and freedom ". By attending the inner Light, the day you will pass on the other side and where you will find it again, it won’t be unknow to you, you will feel confident. This is the purpose. The existence is the school for the passage.

 With the Conscience you recieved the free-will

With the Conscience you recieved the free-will. This essential freedom is consubstantial to your humanity. It is because of this essential freedom that the men doesn’t stay always in the beatitude, that he let the centrifugal force of the senses go out of it. If he would be obliged to stay in the beatitude, would he be free ? The freedom has a price and its price is the confusion, the absence of Conscience and of discernment.

The important thing 

is to live the present moment

The important thing is to live the present moment and to enjoy it, to be happy in the instant. All the ideas, the concepts that you can have about the life doesn’t help to enjoy the moment. To enjoy the moment you have to be aware of the moment and to do that you have the four revealed techniques of meditation, the Agya and the teaching of the living guide.

When you have received the four techniques 

and follow the Agya,

after a while you realise that 

when you are aware of the moment, you are happy, 

fulfill and when you are not is it the contrary, 

then you prefer to be in the Holy-Name.

That becomes your first motivation : to feel good. Your existence eases and become true. You don’t priorise any more the satisfaction of your desires. The Observance doesn’t require the impossible. Do according to your life. There are three degrees in the practice, for everybody the right one according to your desire, your need and your possibilities. It is necessary to practice regularly, this is the Constance. If you can meditate only half an hour every day, ok ! But do it every day. There is also the satsang of the blog in order to inspirate you and the guide to answer your questions.

essay about the purpose of the living

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The purpose of the living

Love is not the purpose

Love is not the purpose

Love between people is not the reason for being of your existence, in other words: you are not alive to love people nor to be loved. It is good to love and to be loved it is better that to hate everybody and to be hated but it is not the subject, the purpose of the human life.

I often read, on the social networks, the sharing of people who advocate the empathy, the compassion, love for others and praise the deserves of such Indian wise person, such guru which speaks about love, to develop your altruistic qualities.

This gurus are not spiritual masters. Doubtless these people are holy people, really but not gurus. A wise person who teaches you love is a beautiful person who deserves your respect and your affection and an example of the fact what a human being may be for the good of all, but the purpose, the reason for being of your life is not to love and a guru has to allow you to discover and to achieve the reason of your coming on Earth, not to teach you love. The saints are here for that and a guru is not necessarily a saint.

A holy person maybe an example not a spiritual guide. The purpose of the human life is not to become holy either a kind person or a lover.

This idea is well an inheritance of the Christian religion: "Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another" [John 13:34] but really the Christ did not address to all the people but to his very rare disciples and he sent them this command so that they stand by and examples in their mission of sermon.

The exact quotation of the Christ, as it was passed on to us by the Gospels is: " My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come. I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another. By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another ".
[John 13: in 33.34.35]

A spiritual guide, a guru has to bring his disciples, his Chela to the Liberation of the Samsâra chains - the cycle of the incarnations- by teaching them a "method", or Sàdhana allowing them to go out of the illusion, the confusion.

This true, deep spiritual approach takes place inside the disciple and the others are not concerned at all. Your relation with the others is not taken into account in the deep Meditation, or dhyàna. The biggest mystic isolate themselves from the world and dedicate themselves completely to the quest of the Liberation.

You are not all intended to live in hermits and doubtless have a social and a family life, and a loving one, and for this kind of relationship love can be conceived and can even justify itself. it is not bad to be altruistic or full of empathy but this quality of feelings, once again, will not take you forward one millimeter towards the fulfillment of your reason for living, the Liberation.

"Each incarnation gives to the soul a little bit more Conscience"

[Bhaktimàrga 1-2-14]

The Christian religion teaches, on the contrary, that to cultivate these feelings, these virtues and this behavior makes you go to the steps of the Christ and, so, win the Celestial kingdom. Nothing in the teaching of the Christ, which I know and which I respect, does not really say that and the Kingdom to win is inside that he said it !

" If those who guide you tell you: well, the Kingdom is in the sky, then the birds of the sky will anticipate you. If they tell you: it is in the sea, then fishes will precede you; but the Kingdom is within you and it is outside of you. "
[Thomas, logion 3]

The purpose of your life is either to love nor to be happy.

Love and happiness are certainly more pleasant than the hatred or the indifference and the misfortune and if you have the choice, it is not stupid to favor them and to look for them but nothing prevents from loving, from being loved and happy while working at your Liberation.

What I want let you understand is that they are different things. If you are seeker, eager to find the real, fundamental reason of your life, why it has been given to you, then the search for the well-being, the sentimental love should not divert you of your spiritual fulfillment.

A guide, a guru which commend love between people attracts a lot of people because this speech pleases them and corresponds to their convictions but a guide is not there to flatter the people. Are you sure that a guru, that a guru which attracts most people delivers the most spiritually and coherent teaching ?

The purpose of the life is either to love or to be happy. The purpose of your life, as of any lives, is to return at the source of everything, where your soul comes from, in full Conscience. To achieve this, there are things to do and love is not a part of it even if it isn’t prohibided nor unpleasant to love when we are loved in return by another person.

There is a reason, a purpose

The human being is not the fruit of imbecile energy that would have been delirious. All the Creation has a purpose. In all things and in every human being lives the same energy. The believers give to it the name: God. This name is worth an other one, even

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There is a reason, a purpose

A so big force !

 
 

God has no name which can be pronounced.

Others give it other names.

God is not a man living in the sky

and tilted on the humanity

distributing it good and bad points. 

 

"The Humanity, the Earth and the sky live by the Grace of One, 
But One exists by Himself "
 [Bhaktimàrga 1-1-48]

In the macrocosm, in the star systems, the nebulas, in the "space" which separates them, as in the space between the core of the atom and its electrons, there is the same energy, this energy which the physicists pursue by means of huge cyclotrons, this energy exists and it lives in you as in all things. 

We settle down for ever

 

The human being consumes, consumes and still consumes material goods, when he can, love which he often confuses with sex, nevertheless he does not find long-lasting satisfaction and the desires take the management of his existence. He lives his life as if he had to stay there for ever. He runs after a career, wishes to buy a house, gets into debt then becomes older, sick, bitter and frustrated.

When we are poor we can hope that once rich we shall be happy, but when we are very rich and not happy, what shall we do ? We joins in the upholders of the cabbala, the Scientology ? We are involved in saving the planet, what shall we do ?
 

It is necessary to assume

To have a good job, good income, a house, a family 

is not a bad thing but there is something more important to do with our life: 

to realize the cause of our coming, 

to reach the real detachment and to assume our dharma. 

 

What proceeds of the dharma are things as: working, living in couple, getting children, being useful for the others, not hurting, respecting the laws, the habits and customs of the community, getting involved for worthwhile causes etc. But to do these things shouldn’t let forget the first cause of our coming. 
 

We are not in one block 

 
You have inside you numerous bodies, on different planes. There is a human body, which was born, which grows, ages, then dies. It is your terrestrial vehicle, with its sensors to percieve the physical world. These sensors of the body are the eyes to see, the ears to hear, the sense of touch, the sense of smell, the taste. Then there is a mind, which is the operating system of your brain. 




 

"The mind leads the body and the soul to dream, to feel the beauty of the Creation"

[Bhaktimàrga 1-2-21]

There is your soul which generates the subtle senses, as the talent of the artists, the love, the compassion, the generosity, the hope, etc. The soul is your true person subjected to the cycle of the incarnations.

The important thing in the life

The important thing, in this life is, while assuming as good as possible your dharma, to look inside you for the door which opens towards the freedom, somewhere else, beyond the karma, beyond the cycle of the incarnations, the duality, the pain and the vanity. 
 

"The evil has so many names, it is false-ego, unconsciousness, evil and the separator "
[Bhaktimàrga 1-4-31]

You have inside you an ally, the Holy-Name or Verb. There is also an intruder, the false-ego, the aberration of the ego caused by the absence of conscience at the same time as its counterpart according to God's will (Lilà¹).

The human-being is incapable to fight against the vanity, the duality, the doubt and the suffering. Is the ant able of diverting the course of the cannonball on which it is put and which is thrown by a cannon ? The Grace that flows in him is needed all the time. To put yourself under the Grace it is necessary to go to the place where it flows. This place is here and now and the purpose of the original yoga, the path is to give you tools to go and see there and to remain there.

1/Lilà, God's game.

The spiritual life

The spiritual life is a life in full conscience

The spirituality is the life such as it must be lived.

It is not reserved for an elite

and requires no particular competence.

Nevertheless it is necessary to face the facts

that the majority of the humanity

is not living a life of harmony and Peace.

The fact of believing in God, in a religion is not a criterion of spirituality. By the people who have a religion, there are people who are spiritual and others who are not. The intolerant extremists, full of hatred are not spiritual people.

 

 

" The spiritual life is a life spent in full conscience respecting all the parts of us:

the body, the mental and the soul ".

[Yoganand, alias josé]

The spiritual life is not in addition

We don’t let enter the spirituality into our existence,

we let our existence enter into the spirituality,

so it becomes fully spiritual.

But it is not necessary to give up whatever it is,

to live an exclusive asceticism.

"A life without Conscience is a day without light "

[Bhaktimàrga 1-3-3]

Nevertheless, if your existence consists in injecting you toxins, tearing away the necklaces of the ladies, a change of life wouldn’t be a pity ! But if you work, you have a family and friends, it is not necessary to resign nor to leave your close friends without news.

The Conscience

The Conscience named the couple formed by the soul and the ego. It is your real identity. Even if the mind also defines you, through the personality and the souvenirs. You are also this body as long as the soul is embodied there.

It is necessary to specify that the words ego and mind

designate nothing negative:

the ego is this principle which individualizes the soul

so that it can say I.

This faculty makes the Conscience.

The mind is the intelligence and the memory

whose head office is the brain.

The intelligence is useful.

But it is necessary to keep it under control.

"The soul comes from One the Grace gives it flesh by the ego

Offered in present so that the body has a conscience"

[Bhaktimàrga 1-2-12]

Each living being is alive, this tautology to express that life is well the common denominator of every living being, what unite them. This life is not a concept, something virtual, of philosophic: this life is a reality and it is energy.

Who does live this life ?

In putting your Conscience inside, by an appropriate practice, it is possible to deepen it. To do that, there are four particular techniques revealed to those who ask for it. They are techniques of Meditation. Some are practised in sitting, others while doing all that we have to do.

In some the spirituality aims to cause confusion. They slice the human being and rank them and even bring them in opposition. So all what is physical will be considered incompatible with the spirituality. They put in this slice the human body, its desires and its needs: the food, the sex, the pleasures, the comfort.

These material things will be grouped under the word Màyà, that is the illusion. Some upholders of the esotericism count more than ten different slices. There will be a causal body, an etheric body, an astral etc.

The body and the mind are essential

All the various parts which make you up have their utility and proceed of the same creator. The physical body is the temple of the soul and the spiritual life is made with and by it. Without it no life. It is necessary to respect it and to treat it respectfully and with love. As for the world, it is the creation of God and a Grace. The illusion is not in what we see but in the look that sees. 

"The sight in conscience sees One in everything,

The one of the illusion sees only the forms"

[Bhaktimàrga 1-1-5]

Do not neglect the intelligence. Some consider the thought as a parasite of the Meditation. It is true in the deep Meditation, dhyana, but it has its utility on a daily basis. Others put it on a pedestal. These last one spend their life to study the mysteries of the esotericism. For them the knowledge of God passes by the knowledge taken from the scriptures.

Everything in its place

You should neglect no component that makes you up, the body, the mind and the soul, but each part has to stay in its place and act in its field of expertise and Knowledge is not learned-knowledge.