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"Our daily life must be conducted in such fashion that
we are perpetually sunk in the condition
granted to us by the Master."
Sahaj Marg is to be looked at, as a road that the Master has laid for us. We can
say it is a royal road through life. A journey is nothing but travel from the
starting point to the destination and all that we see on the way is nothing but
scenery, some good scenery, some bad, some difficult, some easy. Similarly life
should be looked upon as nothing but a field of events and circumstances
through which we pass, and if there is an easy road, accessible to all,
that life can have as little impact or difficulty for us as when we motor on
the autobahn from one place to the other.
So what is life? Because some people say, "Life is difficult," some
people say, "Life is easy," some people say, "Life is
enjoyable." Life can be all this, but life need not be any of this. Life
is difficult or easy depending on whether you walk across it or run across it.
And wisdom says take the easiest way through it. And the difficulty starts when
we get out of our cars and start wandering around, taking a swim, plunging into
the depths. Then, we find that life is a mixture.
You have seen school boys sometimes, in villages, going to school. In India they
walk, of course, sometimes five, six kilometres. Some never reach school
because there are the mango trees, the tamarind trees, every little distraction
stops them on the way, and most children reach school only after lunch time;
but inevitably when coming home, they rush fast, because it will be dark. So
that is another lesson for us, you see, that if we are going to be distracted
by every small thing which is on the way, we are never going to reach our
destination.
So if we look at life as a fixed scene of events, circumstances, hurdles,
then we will see that they really have no attraction. It is we who endow
them with attraction. Nature has nothing beautiful or ugly. That is
why you can see sometimes four people traveling together in one car:
one becomes crazy when he sees a lake, another becomes crazy when he
sees a mountain, the fourth becomes crazy when he sees a restaurant,
etc. Which of these are really attractive nobody can say, because it
is how we react to these scenes that makes it attractive, or non-attractive.
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