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Living Enlightenment Book
Page number - 293


With freedom and bliss there is no fear in the inner or outer world! Life is for enlightenment! The very goal of life is enlightenment. You may have other goals, but knowingly or unknowingly, they are just different names that we give to the goal of enlightenment. In the same way, whatever else you may seek, what you actually seek is sannyas itself. But you don't know it. That is the problem! You may think your goals are to have more money and more relationships. The truth is that even the one who searches for money actually searches only for enlightenment! See, there are only two things. One is money, and the other is name and fame. Name and fame mean nothing but to have more relationships.

Whatever experience you feel you are going to get through money or relationships, you will only get through enlightenment! That is why the soul never rests until enlightenment happens. No amount of money satisfies the soul. No relationship satisfies the soul. When money and relationships don't give satisfaction, it is called the depression of success. This is what happens after reaching the peak of our career. People come to me and say, I have achieved all that I wanted to achieve, but what for I wanted to achieve, I have not achieved. I feel incomplete. Understand that this is the call of your being that seeks no other goal except enlightenment. The response to it is sannyas. Not properly understanding the goal of life is the root cause of all problems.

Sannyas is recognizing the goal properly and integrating to achieve it. Whatever goal you may be running behind in your life, be it money or relationship or whatever, your end goal is only bliss. There is no other separate goal in life! There are only two types of people. One group knows the word bliss or enlightenment, and the path to it. They live their life according to that. The other group does not know the word or the path, so it comes around in circles. That's all! The former is sannyasi, the latter is samsari. You have achieved the human body You have which gives you the achieved the highest possibility human body to take the jump in which gives consciousness. you the highest possibility to take the jump in consciousness.

The glass is already reflecting the sunlight. Now all that the glass needs to do is to see the source of the reflection. That's all! Merging with the Source is what I call enlightenment. It is merging of the individual consciousness with the cosmic consciousness. If this happens, then the goal of life, the purpose for which the glass was created, is achieved. Then, even if the glass breaks, there is no problem. But without achieving that, if the glass is broken, it is the greatest loss ever. If the human body perishes before enlightenment, there cannot be a greater loss than that.


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