Who am I?

[Guest guest]

The truth is that physically not a single

one of us has any chance at all for surviving

very long. A few decades at most and very

often most of that is spent in misery and

worries and knowing full well death will claim

us too on some day not far away.

 

So we have the choice:

1. We can fight and claw and exalt our puny

selves. We can seek to maximize the pleasures

of the senses. We can wallow in pride believing

ourselves better than the next guy. We can

hoard power and money and imagine that one

fine day when we finally have all our wants and

desires fulfilled, we can then finally be a true

success and know happiness. That's the

natural man's way but there is one huge problem;

it doesn't work.

 

Or we can choose option 2.

We are born out of that eternal power and drama

which just always IS. And we will fade back into

that timeless mystery in a few years. Or even

less. We don't know how much " time " we have.

 

So why not simply accept that Eternal Existence

that underlies Who and What we really are and

everything we ever can be? We cannot control

it but we can accept it; and it's in that acceptance

we finally are truly free and all our greatest needs

are met forever.

 

--Sri Terrananda--