Peace of mind and contentment

Starting from common man to the famous film personalities, to popular sports personalities, to the people who are doing pooja in Temples, we search for the ever intangible fortune like real pleasure and serenity. Most of us reach the unsatisfactory goal, because we catch wrong directions. Why we chosen the wrong path to attain to find the heaven within us? We are looking endless peace in short term external happiness. This external happiness is short lived one. Paramahamsa Yogananda is a world famous saint. He said and taught that “Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake”.

Internal peace and joy are associated with the life style and the path you are going in your life. You have to ignite the self discovery and should be loyal to spiritual concepts and should be honest and follow the principled life to find the inner peace. If you are lucky enough, you will get the genuine friends, associates and family who will guide you in the correct path and may indicate if you go in wrong direction. All these points look simple but not so simple in practical life. We are attracted with excess of tasty foods, variety of fragrance, lovable music and mixture of feelings in our routine life. We heard a lot of success stories, list of new latest items they bought recently from our friends circle and family circle. Immediately, our mind starts comparing the things with us and with them. We never stop comparing and think wisely that we are not looking the things possessed by others. Many of us including me think foolishly that the things reached by others will make us glad and work towards it. Actually we are not clear in our goal, just copy from others and working for it under the wrong assumption that the same goal will bring joy to us. We understand the reality and that goal are not meant for us after achieving the goal. Spend time in your leisure to identify what YOU wish and who YOU admire. After you find out answer to the two points, you can start your distinct inner trip. During the path you may find lot of spiritual thoughts and they will make you feel proud and give you more energy to your legs to move fast on your life journey.

You will get tremendous pressure from various quarters like work, family and friends. At some point you can not tolerate the weight and looking for liberation from them. At least for a small interval, you need some diversion. Many people find this temporary relief from alcoholic drinks or from drugs. Some may go to new sexual partners. They remove the ache from you for short term and after some time; situation will be back to square.