Just a Brief Life

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Just a Brief Life

You’re just a piece of life, aren’t you? Are you?

Yes.

No. That’s not true. You’re a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions and prejudices right now. Not a piece of life. If you sat here, just as a piece of life, not as a man, not as a woman, not as this, not as that, not as a thought, not as an emotion, just a piece of life, this would naturally reverate with the rest of the existence. Right now you’re invested too much on little things. Like earning a living, and having this, and having that, and missing everything. Oh! Should I not have this? Should I not have that? Having is not the problem, clinging is the problem, isn’t it? Having is not the problem. What you have, you become that after some time.

Say suppose this was your vessel, it is not. Suppose this was your vessel, and let us say this you inherited from your great grandfather and it’s made of gold. None of this is true right now, but suppose it is so, if I have to hurt you I don’t have to come and beat you, all I have to do is this. Life will go. It’s happening to you. Maybe you have not inherited a golden vessel from your great grandfather, but every little thing that you acquire is taking your life in some way, isn’t it? All these things we acquire thinking that these things will make our life. We got this gadget because we thought it will make our life. Right now this gadget has become a nuisance, we can’t keep our hands off it. We’re doing such, some messaging somebody. Communication of course, but not a communion.

Once you come here, you should not leave this place without knowing the full depth and dimension of what this life is about. Isn’t it? Nobody should leave without knowing this, because other things are subject to various realities. We do not know whether you will get to run 100 meters in 8 seconds, or you can do that. We do not know whether you will climb Mount Everest or not. We do not know whether you’ll earn billion dollars or not, but this much is possible, you can explore the full depth and dimension of what this is, because you don’t need anybody’s permission. You don’t need any kind of anything. If you are willing, it’s there, isn’t it?

You may be willing to climb Mount Everest, but your lungs may not be ready, your legs may not be ready. With this it’s not like that. It is not demanding any particular capability. It is not demanding any particular situation. Only your willingness. You see your willingness comes in installments.

Nothing wrong if you added 10,000 to your lifestyle. Nothing wrong. Fortunately, you don’t have that, because if you hang around for 10,000 years, what a miserable world this will be. You may think whatever you want, but it’s good you have come with an expiry date. Is it not good? Have you noticed on a particular day when you’re very joyful 24 hours just went off like a moment? You’re miserable and depressed 1 day goes like a eon. Only miserable people have a long life. Joyful people even if they live to be a hundred, it’s too brief. Before you know what’s happening it’ll be gone. Really. It gets over too fast, but if you’re miserable you will live long.

It’s a very brief life, and whatever is of paramount importance to this life must happen at the earliest, not day after tomorrow, isn’t it? It must be today. The life process doesn’t wait. You need to understand your life is just a sudden combination of time and energy. Energy we can manage. Time you cannot manage. It’s going away. It doesn’t matter. You’re awake, you’re asleep, you’re okay, you’re not okay, you’re happy, you’re miserable. Going, going, going. As I am talking, you’re 2 minutes closer to the grave. Time you cannot manage, it’s just going. You can only manage your energy. You can manage your activity. How you make use of the time you can manage, but you cannot manage time it’s slipping away, isn’t it?

If you recognize that your life is just a certain amount of time and energy you will definitely invest your energy in a way it is most meaningful to this life, isn’t it? If you do not understand this, if you intentionally forgetful about the briefness of life, and you go about as if you are eternal, yes? You are eternal aren’t you? On a daily basis you’re not aware that life will end for me. It could be today. Not to be terrified, just to be in tune with the fundamental facts of life, that it is possible, that our lives could end today, isn’t it? Possible?

Yes.

We’re not intending. We’re not seeking that, but it’s possible, isn’t it?

Yes.

If you miss this, then you will miss your whole life, if you do not understand that you have an expiry date, and it is not even fixed like a pharmaceutical product that you have another 2 years to live, it could be just about any time. If you miss this one fundamental fact you’re sure to miss your whole life, because everything that’s vital will be tomorrow, and tomorrow never happens. There is a superstition on South India. Maybe it is here also, particularly in Karnataka, where on all the village homes, in red paint it will be written, “Nale ba.” “Nale ba” means, “Come tomorrow.” They write it in red paint because devils will come wanting to enter your house, and they can see only red. You didn’t know this? Because they’re looking for your blood. They can see only red color. It’s painted in red paint, “Nale ba.” Devil comes to your house and sees, okay this house is tomorrow, and goes away.

The fact is, most human beings have done this, not to the devil, but to the divine, “Nale ba.” If you’ve done it to the devil it’s okay, but you’ve done it to the divine. Tomorrow. We’ll meditate tomorrow. Yeah?

Knowing life is not some superhuman effort. If you stop being some other rubbish and just become life, which is what you are. Knowing life is not far away, is right here.