Beauty of life
Life on this beautiful earth is an opportunity and a blessing to realize the spring of joy inside in one’s own . Human birth is the best and sacred. Infact, all types of lives are sacred. There is some uniqueness attributed to human birth only. Animals are not endowed with the power of discrimination and high thoughts nor can the angels or deities attain to direct freedom without human birth. The body is a wonderful and an unique mechanism with inbuilt tools like senses, mind, heart and brain, all illumined by a mysterious power or energy called consciousness.
The whole world is present in your body. All the five elements Earth,Water,Fire, Air and Ether can be experienced through the five senses namely Fire element associated with eyes and sight, Ether with sounds- ears and hearing, Air element with skin and touch, Water with tongue and taste, Earth with nostrils and smell. The beauty, variety, the healing touch, and orderliness in the Nature presupposes the presence of divinity in and behind it. The very reason for Nature’s existence is for the education of the soul.
The body is a fertile field. If you sow the seeds of good qualities, nurture with the water of good thoughts, not allowing or cutting the weeds of bad thoughts, you can reap the sweet fruits of Karma or actions leading to the discovery of joy outside as well as inside.. There is a seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.
Take care of the body. It’s the only place you have to live. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. There is a source of joy inside us. When we are connected to the source consciously, we will not be afraid of any task set before us. Every moment of life will be a moment of joy only.
If there is one essential ingredient for your successful quest for both wealth and happiness, it is discipline. Happiness comes from righteous living and the development of a noble character. You can observe this by noticing that people who are truly happy are honest, unselfish, kind, responsible and have a high moral standards, on the other hand, unhappy people are invariably selfish, lazy, irresponsible, and lacking of self-discipline. And the people who are miserable tend to be immoral, dishonest, greedy, cruel and in other ways dark in character.
Swamy Vivekananda gives an easy way to become a moral giant. “ In the first place, a man who can work for five days, or even for five minutes, without any selfish motive whatever, without thinking of future, of heaven, of punishment, or anything of the kind has in him the capacity to become a powerful moral giant.”
That was the time, when the man was not born on the earth,. The creator took some clay and shaped it into a beautiful body like a doll. Then the creator mixed the smile of the cool Moon, fragrance of rose , and sweetness of ambrosia, and put into the body shaped clay doll. The clay doll started glowing. He created more dolls out of clay and infused the same ingredients into them also. All the clay dolls started shining.
The deities, when saw this unique creation done by the creator, were wonderstruck and asked the creator about it. The creator answered, “ This is called life. This is my best creation.” One of the deities interrupted in the middle telling him, “ I don’t understand why you have given life to the body of clay. The clay or mud is the cheapest and most inert of all things. Instead of clay why no metal like gold, silver or even iron could have been taken which would have made it durable and long-lasting.”
There was a mesmerizing smile on the lips of the creator. He said, my child ! this is the secret of life. I have put all the beauty, fragrance, happiness and wealth into this body of clay, and infused the joy of consciousness into the inert clay. You can use it in any manner you like. One who gives importance to the body will experience the inertness of the clay body only. One who rises above, he will discover the layers of eternal joy and bliss. But these bodies like the clay dolls are not permanent. That is why every second of life is valuable. The one who sleeps without doing anything loses everything. You are looking at the superficial qualities of the mud, not at the unique qualities of it. Only the mud has the potency to bring forth sprouts from the seeds. I have made the body as a field of actions, there in the Karmas or actions sprout. In this way I have given the field and farming to the man into his own hands. He will reap what he sows.”
Thus man’s deeds are responsible for his happiness only by his good deeds and concentration of mind. No one can be held responsible or blamed for his deeds. The more we grow in love, virtue,and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Strange is our situation here on the Earth. Like a doll of clay which susceptible to destruction any moment, each of us comes here for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. But from the standpoint of daily life, from the various types of creatures and Nature at our service, there is one thing we should know that man is here for the sake of others. We should use the best of our life. Thus, Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Thus the body as a field is a treasure and the labor is its key. Man was deliberately planned, specifically gifted and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman. To sum up:
‘Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.’
