Life has been on this earth for ages and will continue to be here for times to come. Man is a traveller. He is a movement. He is in continuous change and keep changing his environment, thus making difference in his life and in the life of others. He is looking for a difference, which will be able to help him to gain comfort, enjoyment, freedom and control over others and his environment. He has an undying urge to make a difference in his life. This journey never seems to come to an end until he gets the ultimate perfection.
Let us start from where we are and what we are.
What do we call life is a sequence of experiences. The quality of those experiences determines quality of our life. If they are pleasant, we say life is pleasant. If they are miserable and struggle, then we say that life suffering. All our efforts are in the direction of moving from pain to pleasure, sadness to happiness and failure to success. Life constitutes of these pairs of opposites like day and night, hot and cold. Our laughters is always accompanied by tears, celebrations accompanied by void, music and dance and partying accompanies paying bills at the end, paying doctors too.
And, it is such a sorrowful sight to see, right?
In this dual and unstable life, man searches for something different, that which is stable, secured and constant. This is the secret chase of every human being. Man wants to have love and peace, that stays for ever, a freedom that makes him independent , a joy with out no reason.
Let us now see more closely, how can a person make a difference in his personal life. Without making difference in one’s own life, bringing difference in other’s life is impossible. Only a rich person can make another rich, isn’t it?
The first requirement to make a difference in one’s life is to start living intelligently. What does an intelligent person do? An intelligent will observe himself honestly and asks himself authentic questions.
How do I feel?
Why I am often lost?
Why do I always want to belong to a community?
Why am I afraid of others?
Why am I bored all the time?
Watch all that the mind is doing. Watch your fears, insecurities and hopes. Watch the mind mechanically always doing something.
Your daily life is what you must observe, not somebody else’s life. Your own life, one single precious life - Observe it. Just observe what is happening in your mind, unbiased, what is this whole drama about.
You do not realize how deeply you are conditioned. A script has been written by external forces such as parents, society, education, media and you are merely a puppet who is just enacting a pre-decided role, whose life is entirely predictable. You have taken this as a regular routine of your life. You have understood that life is like this only. Can you look at it honestly, intelligently? Observe it just like you observe in Science.
When you understand, the quality of your life totally changes. The kind of decisions that you are taking totally changes. There is now a brilliance about it, an energy about it. You are not stupid anymore. You will not act due to the influence of others. You will not act in a programmed way. You will not be a slave to your mind conditioning. You will be acting on free-will and intelligence.
You have a life to live. You deserve to understand. Only then, there is good fun in life. Real joy! All that you know is a little bit of pleasure, which amounts to nothing. That joy of freedom, that vitality, you can know only with that intelligence. You deserve that. Don’t deny yourself.
That makes a real difference in life. That is the difference between conditioned life and intelligent life.
