Learn To Be Joyful With Your Own Self

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

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Friday, February 5, 2016, 17:45

Our mind dies when we are alone. Mind, ego and personality are norms of society. They thrive only in relationship with society. In reality, our individuality is aloneness: that is our true nature. Our personality has a social basis. The mind starves and struggles, when we are alone. When we project our personality, we are setting ourselves up for loneliness. Personality is an external covering. It is not natural.

Personality is a title hosted by society; what others think about us, what we have learned, what comforts we have accumulated are all part of our personality. Personality thrives on attention. Personality makes no distinction between good or bad kinds of attention. For a personality to thrive, any kind of attention is sufficient. In all our social roles we are constantly seeking attention. We act to seek attention. We lap up attention. We demand attention. We beg for attention.

However, sooner or later, there comes a time when we are alone. There will be no one to praise us or blame us: our ego and our personality will be shaken. Then we grasp that we are not the personality we project to the outside world. We realize that we are more than a spouse, much more than a doctor or a driver, and even more than a citizen of a nation. All these will seem to be parts of our total being.
We feel alone and uncomfortable. So, we fill our life with parties, shopping, or television. Old people, with married grandchildren read matrimonial columns in newspapers for vicarious pleasure!

Entertainment is a way to run away from individuality. Why? Because, we are terrified of being alone. We do not know how to be with ourselves. We believe we will be joyful at some point or other. By the time we are about forty years old, we have everything we want. But we still don"t understand what for we wanted them. We continue to be unhappy.

It is time: listen to the cry of individuality. It can be heard above the clamor of our personality; it is expressed as the pain of our loneliness. Individuality is our natural state. We nurture our
personality and ignore our individuality which is internal. Listen to the joy, the deepest silence. In it are the seeds of enormous power to transform us.

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