What is life? Is there a purpose? A goal? How can I make the best use of my life? What happens when I die? Is that the end?
We have all asked these questions. We ask our friends, our parents, teachers. We read books, looking for the answers.
My parents would always say, "Why do you ask so many questions?" They couldn't help me because they didn't know the answers.
As kids we spend our time doing what kids love to do, have fun. So, most of a childs life is absorbed in play. That's their meditation :))
As young adults we work. Sooner or later we generally get involved in a relationship and start to think about buying a house and starting a family. All of which takes money. This means that we spend a large part of our time at work. We may have some goals as mentioned before, house and family, or maybe plan for retirement BUT that's about it. During this stage of life, although fit and healthy, with money not being too much of a problem, we are usually time poor.
Finally we find ourselves in the sunset stage of life. The children have left home, we have all the time in the world. If we've been good planners we have money BUT now, NO or limited energy.
We find that life has gone by in a flash and we've spent the majority of time taking care of material responsibilities without paying any attention at all to spirit.
Theres a nice analogy about a bird in a cage which goes something like this.
There is a bird who sits in a beautiful gilded cage, so much attention is paid to polishing the cage that the bird is all but forgotten.
The point is, there needs to be a balance between material and spiritual. Without this balance there can be NO happiness.
We can live in this world, raise our families, hang out with friends without forgetting spirit. An easy way to accomplish this is by engaging in the ancient time tested practise of yoga meditation using yoga mantras.
This is a very simple enjoyable practise which will enliven you and bring you peace and happiness.
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Hari Om
Namaste
