Truth of Life

We all want to know what the truth of life means. When I think of this I think of a Lata Mangeshkar’s song ‘Tujhse naraz nahi zindagi….’ which essentially means - Life I am not upset from you but confused because of the various innocent questions that you put across. Truth of life is a very big and kind of a vague question that we are trying to find the answer for.

As the advaithan principle says the truth of life is to find essential identity between Brahman and atman where Brahman means the source of everything and atman means the self and the quest of life would be find a relationship between both. This reminds me a story where an emperor sent his scholars the most knowledgeable people to find the answer to the truth of life. The scholars went in all different direction and came back after centuries and told him that the answer is. For today even I wonder what does that mean. It means the answer to the truth of life is 42 but we have to realize for ourselves what 42 means which will truly give us the answer for this question.

All this means it is for us to realize what “the truth of life” is for us. People may come and tell you, you might now but realization is what will give you satisfactory meaning to it. For me the real truth is to find happiness within me and spread it if possible worldwide. Happiness which comes from within, which gives you the ultimate satisfaction, and, realization of your importance as a being.

My friend always says the truth of life is to do what you are doing because that is what you are here for which is Karma and while doing that if you have questions as in why you are doing that in your mind then it is Maya. So the truth is that you are just stuck between Karma and Maya so just do whatever is that you are doing as a part of your karma and don’t worry about the consequences or result. This is what Krishna said in the Bhagvad gita “karm karte jao phal ki chinta mat karo”. So just follow the karmic principle and be happy and feel happy with what you are doing and this is what the truth of life is. Doing this you will see that everything you are doing has a cause and effect and some person doing something somewhere will have an effect on you.

For example the terrorist attack that we had recently in Mumbai which cost many lives and have left a certain amount of fear in the rest who live. But if we were to sit and think about what and why things went the way it did all it would give us is pain – a negative energy and we would be spreading more and more if we continue to think about it. So let go of it and accept it as Karma and then you will see that all this is not affecting you in a negative way but brings in a positive vibe of being able to do what you are suppose to do and this would help you in spreading more and more positive energy in and around you and this is the truth of your life.

So feel good and spread more and more positive energy around you. Be happy and spread happiness around.