DUALITY OF LIFE
Everybody is enjoying whatever they want, thinking that the world is going to give them enjoyment. And every time a person goes after the world for enjoyment, he gets into more problems. Because by doing something, you are never going to be happy. Enjoyment, whatever that comes out of this kind of phenomenon, anything that you think; all pleasures that come from outside will have an equal pain to be paid back for later.
“An action and reaction are equal and opposite.”
On this basis, pleasure and pain comes in equal dosage.Anything that you go after pleasure, you have to pay in pain. There is no matter what you do, this is the law. So you went after pleasure, you lost money. No doubt you had enjoyment during that time when you were gambling. But if you think that gambling is going to give you enjoyment and you gambled, then that is a trap.
So anybody who is trying to do anything to be okay in this world will never be happy at all. Because all of them are focused on doing something (Karma state) they are stuck in the bondage of dualities (karma bandhna).
Only a person who is totally fulfilled within himself; now if he does something without expecting then it is flowing out of him. Happiness is flowing out of him into the world. That is an altogether different phenomenon. “It doesn’t bother me” means my happiness doesn’t depend upon the result of this action, I am not dependent upon it. It means whatever is the result of the action of this, is not going to affect my life.
Only a person who is totally fulfilled within himself; now if he does something without expecting then it is flowing out of him. Happiness is flowing out of him into the world. That is an altogether different phenomenon. “It doesn’t bother me” means my happiness doesn’t depend upon the result of this action, I am not dependent upon it. It means whatever is the result of the action of this, is not going to affect my life.
As long as you are going after something for enjoyment and you say - I am doing this because it gives me enjoyment, the same damn thing is just going to give you lots of pain. It is just waiting in the corner. You will get a lot of cancer or lot of blood pressure, all these problems. It is just waiting and you will get it. And whether you will like it or not, it will come to you.
-by Guruji Rishi Prabhakar
