Each of us is looking for something. No one ever finds what
they are looking for. Those who don't find it keep looking for it forever and
ever. And whoever finds it loses everything else. And once it is found, there is nothing else
they need to look for anymore. But what is it that we are looking for? Is it
solitude? Is it happiness? Is it freedom? Is it confidence? Is it love? Is it ourselves??
No. it’s not the same for every person. Yes, it is strange but true that
everyone looks for something that nobody else is looking for. Sometimes, it’s just one word that people are looking
for and they keep looking for it and even that one word is sometimes more
unapproachable than a lot bigger things. And sometimes, while looking for that
one little thing, we start losing bigger things that are already ours and do
not even realize! For that one little thing is as vital to us as cheese is to
pizza, or a little stone set in your favourite finger ring.
It is not that easy to get it, and sometimes, it is not that
hard to find too. Some get it even without searching, and some overlook it even
if it is right in front of them while they are looking for something else, and
do not even realize they just lost what they should actually be looking for.
And it doesn’t happen only to some people, but not everyone knows it. And some
do not even know what they want. These are the happiest people. For they are
content. Even if this contentment is the result of being unaware of the wanting
of something within them, something other than what all they already have. This
unawareness is something that is healthy, as such unawareness brings with it
freedom from all desires, which, in the spiritual world, is popularly known as Nirvana, which is known to be usually
unachievable, or mostly unapproachable, no matter how much experience on has
got, or however hard they try. One can call it nirvana when the soul is
liberated from all Karma and the physical existence of oneself.
And
that is not an easy thing to achieve. It can only happen when one reaches the
level of peace and satisfaction, where they achieve complete freedom from every
kind of feeling, all the sufferings, desires, wants, needs, wishes, sentiments,
excitements, indulgences, love, hatred, winning and losing, comfort,
discomfort, convenience, tiredness, all good, all bad, all kinds of emotions,
that exist. That, is the ultimate freedom, not only from one thing, or one
person, or from one desire, but from the vicious circle of life and death,
happiness and sorrow, from the thing that we all keep looking for all our life.
And this ultimate freedom comes only from and this ultimate freedom comes only when we find
the ultimate happiness. whatever we are looking for can be narrowed down to
mean only this one word, happiness. and for our whole lives we keep looking for
these big things that we think are big, but are not, and actually are bigger
than we think! i know this is hard to get and stupid as it sounds, but what we
think is bigger in short term is always smaller in long term..and what we think
is smaller in the short term is always bigger in the long term. So this
happiness is a bigger happiness than we can ever think. have you ever thought
how stupid is working over a project for the whole night is? but you understood
its importance once you were appreciated for that effort, when your work was
recognized and applauded for? had you ever imagined that this one effort which looked like the biggest till
then, seemed to be the littlest of efforts that you'd made for such happiness
and satisfaction? this is what we were talking about! small things turn big and
big things turn out smaller than we think.
and these small things bring happiness. not from where we try to get them
from, but only from within US! Yes. this happiness lies within ourselves. Yes,
what we all are trying to get from the world, from everyone else, looking for
everyplace else, but not within ourselves, is always there inside us, and we
never find it! Thus, I say, Whoever finds it, finds himself. and whoever finds
himself, finds the ultimate freedom from the vicious circle of life, death,
happiness, sadness, and everything else, that stops others from becoming one
with their souls. He is the one who has gotten what he was looking for, and
found it just when he stopped looking for it. He is the one, who found life,
who found himself, NIRVANA.
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