TWO MAIN WAYS

 

TWO MAIN WAYS

We live our lives by two main ways:

Things we can touch, and

Things we can feel.

Of the first there can be a storage, an accumulation, a spending,

a giving ; and therefore a measurement and account .

How many clothes

How many cars

How many houses

How much bank balance

And though we take a full lifetime to build these desperately,

in the end, the things that we can touch do not go with us anywhere, when we can no longer touch them:

At the time of death, with the end of our body,

these end their association with us.

This is a Universal truth.

We accumulate the things we feel also, throughout our lifetime.

Love and hate

Admiration and jealousy

Respect and indignation

Friendship and rivalry

These accumulations cannot ordinarily be 'seen'

but they never ever leave us.

Even after death,

they cling to us as our inherent traits

and are the FIRST to accompany us in our next birth.

This too is a Universal truth, but a lesser believed one

since these things cannot be touched.

But they are always felt, over and over again, in every life, in every incarnation, easily outliving the houses and cars and clothes.

So too, the wise do not invest in hatred and jealousy, rivalry and indignation; and loosen their bonds with these negatives in this very life with devotion, and awareness,turning towards positivity of thought and mind and heart instead.

Aum Namah Shivaye.

~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.