There is no goal. Life is the goal in itself. There is nothing beyond life that you have to get or achieve. All achievement is the projection of the thoughts of human being. The very idea of achievement is ambition. What you achieve or aim for does not matter – power, money and knowledge. But these are not in any ways going to give you life. In fact in achieving money, prestige, power, knowledge or any other ambition, you are losing your life, you are giving away your life, sacrificing it. You are involved in to stupid things and life goes away slipping from your hand.
You will realize it only at the time of death, with a shock that i have been trying to achieve the goal of life forgetting life itself. The goal is always in future and life is always in present. The goal is always far away and life is always in the moment. Trying to achieve it, you will miss it. You do not need to try to achieve life, you are alive. Only dead people can have goals- living beings live.
You are given only one moment at a time. And you are wasting that moment in planning or worrying about the future and the future never comes, what comes is always present. It is a series of present moment coming one after the other but you are always living in present. And what can you worry about the future. It is because of this kind of worrying and planning for future there are certain proverb existing in all the languages, that man goes on desiring planning worrying for the future and god goes on disappointing you. God never disappoints any human. It’s in the very planning you are sowing the seeds of disappointment. In your very worrying about the future you are wasting your present and slowly it becomes your second nature to worry about the future.
So when the future will come it will come as present, but because of your habit of worrying about the future you will waste that moment also for worrying and you will go on worrying about future for the entire life eventually wasting it. You could have lived but you kept planning. Live intensely and totally now as next moment will be born out of this moment. And if you have lived this moment totally and joyously, you can be certain that the next moment will bring more blessings and more joy.
Amongst all living being its only human who are different from others, not because of the intelligence but because of the consciousness that they bore. It’s because of this consciousness used wrongly man wander between the past and present. The entire nature lives life to the fullest and happiest cause they live in present. Carnivores don’t worry about future and store food for floods and famines killing other animals beyond hunger. Animals never lament nor get worried of tomorrow but live the life to fullest and in the moment.
It is the miserable man who plans for future because his present is so miserable that he wants to avoid it, he doesn’t want to see it. He thinks about tomorrow hoping for good days to come. He is utterly impotent to transform present moment into the best moment and the long habit of transferring always for the future, postponing living for the future will take away your whole life from your hands. There is no other ways.
In fact present is the only time you have, and this moment is such a meaningful life. The present extends from your birth to death but it’s always in the form present, nor the past -nor the future. Live life in present and spontaneously otherwise life goes sleeping of your hand like water or sand. Soon you end up facing death with empty hands, which is utter failure. Meet your death with full of joy, silence and serenity. Meet death with your hand full of ecstasy. With such ecstasy and happiness even the death dies and you never die. Your present then continues forever and ever.
Akshay Kothari…Silence Spoken
