You are here basically
to enjoy yourselves.
Why should the Universe exist at all?
Have you not seen
Nataraja’s [Shiva’s] dance?
He is merely dancing isn't it?
It is the dance of creation.
He is simply celebrating life.
So each one has to find out
how to celebrate this life.
What comes your way,
accept it and enjoy it.
You have to create what you want.
Life could be divided into 4 phases.
In the first phase of life,
you are expected
to acquire knowledge
and maintain your body
healthy and strong.
In this phase of life,
you must be focused on education,
acquiring skills
and preparing of the future.
In the second phase,
you must acquire wealth,
get married, have children,
perform your responsibilities
towards your family,
enjoy the world
and fulfill your desires.
In the third phase,
if you are really fulfilled in your life,
cravings would have ceased.
In this phase,
you could be with your family,
but should feel detached from your family.
You must serve the world.
You must be concerned about people,
but nothing personal should be there.
In the Last and final phase of your life
you should not be attached to the world.
This is the phase in which you seek liberation.
You cannot just continue
in the first phase of life
because
it will soon become meaningless.
Therefore you must move on
to the second phase
and embrace its pleasures and pains.
This too will soon lose meaning
and therefore you move on
to the third phase of serving the people.
This too will ultimately
stop giving satisfaction.
It is then that you move on
to liberation.
Hopefully if you are awakened,
the same mountains, the same stars
you saw earlier
would look very different.
You could enjoy the world
and simply pass away from this world.
This is the game of life.
But on the other hand,
you are taking it very seriously.
There must be liberation from work.
It does not mean not doing work,
You don't see it as work anymore.
You see it as play.
So you must see everything
as a game,
you must know
everything is a passing phase,
everything will come to an end soon
because there is nothing permanent.
Order will move into disorder,
disorder will move into order.
Weak man may become strong,
strong man could become weak.
Intelligent people may become unintelligent,
unintelligent may become intelligent.
Love could become hate,
hate could become love.
This is the law of the Universe.
You cannot stop these things.
So, you have to accept them.
If you accept them,
you will start enjoying life.
You will be playing with it.
That is the thrill of living.
Everything ultimately
is like the onion,
if you go on peeling the onion,
you'll find there is nothing in the end.
Similarly,
if you go on peeling life's experiences,
consciousness, God, or anything,
in the end, you would feel
there is nothing but silence.
Life is a mystery to be lived,
not a riddle to be solved or understood.
That is all there is to it.
All things emerge from that silence,
and return to that silence.
You too will eventually
merge into that silence,
from which you emerged
in the first instance.