May 20, 2000 A Net of Jewels

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NET of JEWELS

daily meditations for seekers of Truth

RAMESH S. BALSEKAR

<http://www.advaita.org/>

 

 

May 20, 2000

 

Essentially, what the average person wants out of life is just one thing:

happiness.

It is in this quest that he goes through life day after day in the firm

belief that he will somehow,

someday find final satisfaction through the things and circumstances of his

world.

There comes a time, however, when man gets utterly tired, physically and

mentally,

of this constant search because he finds that it never ends.

He comes to the startling discovery that every kind of satisfaction has

within itself the roots of pain and torment.

At this stage his search cannot but take the turn inwards toward that

happiness which is independent of external things.

 

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When you are dead, you will be back in the primordial state of rest which

existed before you were born,

that stillness before all experience. It is only the false sense of a

limited, separate "me" that deprives life

of its meaning and gives death an ominous significance which it really does

not have.

 

 

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