Living to the End

Life's Lessons - Joseph Mattappally

I once heard a friend humorously stating the difference between the words 'complete' and 'finished'. He said that when you marry the right one, you are complete; if you marry the wrong one, you are finished; and when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are completely finished. In a sense, each human being lives as if eligible to be completely finished; they are always caught with the wrong one, the wrong attitude. Some say that human greed for things are confined to just four things: the Mobile, the auto mobile, the TV and a wife. This is not true; the inherent human craze is not restricted to just a few things only; they basically believe in competition and hoarding. They are frantically after every sustainable and non-sustainable thing as if they are destined to live as long as the earth or the universe exists or are responsible for a long chain of lineage, that is to come. But unfortunately, I have never heard of anyone who has crossed even 150, save those fancy stories from legends and myths. Just like ‘more Whisky you have the more you start feeling single’, the more one has the more is the human greed to hoard more. Is just this not the cause of all struggles on earth? I think it could be.

For a reason, people generally say that this or that I do is found good for me (as far as my future is undisclosed…..this is my only option). As I understand it, nothing is revealed even a minute early, not because it will damage the universe but because it will spoil the charm of living. With future revealed wide open, never will our deeds be the same. As on earth, the upper world also is ruled by the laws of cause and effect and any being is responsible for that changes which it causes in this universe, because of him. They sure will spoil themselves, riding away from the purpose.

According to Vedic texts of India, super human powers are classified into thirty two; grace of prediction is only just one among them. The more we go deeper into the higher levels of consciousness the more we get access to consciousness ranges of universal knowledge, irrespective of past or future. Everything is stored in the akshic records. There are two paths – we can reach these levels artificially or naturally. It is like a man on meditation for forty years having levitation experience and another getting the same experience on a single dose of marijuana. Even religionists resort to artificial short cuts that lead to psychedelic experiences – this is the most dangerous approach of all because they are presented in the disguise of pure spiritual path. They can never be genuine realized souls, even though they might claim to be so.

            I don’t mean a conclusion to this mysterious riddle of predictions and omen reading; just I wanted to say that knowing the future not only spoils the charm of living but also pushes off anyone away from the purpose proposed in this life. The man, who lives in future dies in it; the one who lives in the present is ever present.

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