"BE A MASTER"

We are all born as human beings: normal, average human beings. But, HOW CAN WE GROW as perfect human beings?

 ... Perfect-physically, mentally, emotionally, intellectually-to satisfy our myriad needs and desires? In short, how can we achieve total success in this world, in this society?

 It's often the case that many people invariably lead dejected lives. They are not happy with their achievements. Their needs and desires remain unfulfilled. Many even do loose hopes. There are any number of cases of suicides and there are any number of cases of people living a boring life, impatiently waiting for death to embrace them.

 Thousands of persons are living without knowing what life truly is !

 Thousands of millions of persons are sick, unhealthy, full of mental tensions, saddled with non-harmonious inter-personal relationships. Families are continuously breaking up.

 All the technology of the world is not making man happy. Why is all this happening? It is because man does not study himself or herself.

 We lead lives studying everything else other than our own selves-whereas, the first charge on our own Self is to study ourselves, to FIND OUT WHO WE ARE; to find out WHAT WE ARE. .

WHERE do we come from ?

What exactly is Birth ?

What exactly is Death ?

What exactly is Life ?

What exactly is the SOURCE of Human Misery ?

What is the permanent remedy for all Miseries in human life ?

Is misery SELF-INFLICTED, or decreed by God, over which we don't have any authority ?...

... These are all the fundamental questions which every person, every man, every woman, every child has to put before himself or herself.

And then, when we pose proper questions to ourselves, WE WILL FIND ALL ANSWERS. Without asking ourselves the right questions, how will we get relevant answers ? Without trying to look at the Sun how can we see the Sun? Without trying to climb the tree, how can we be on the tree and have a tree-view of things?

So, unless a person is bent upon finding the TRUTH about human existence-the facts that govern human existence, human relationships or human event formations-he is going to drift through his life aimlessly. He is going to grow without knowing what is growing up. He will go into samsara, family life, without knowing exactly what the value of samsara or family life is. He will die without knowing what death is, he will wait for death without knowing what waiting for death is. He will reap failures after failures in personal life without ever knowing the causes.

He will be unhealthy without knowing why he is unhealthy. He goes to doctors, goes to hospitals, hospitalizes himself, undergoes surgeries without exactly knowing why all this is happening. He visits temples without knowing why he is going to a temple. He does pranams to Gurus without knowing why he is doing it. All is a big oblivion for a normal, average person who does not PUT THESE BASIC QUESTIONS.

If somebody else has done graduation, we are required to do post graduation ! If somebody has built one house, we would like to build two houses ! That's how it goes on ! We don't do things because we want to. Because others have done it we wish to duplicate it, replicate it.