Happiness is living in the now

Paramahamsa Nithyananda

-Staff

By Staff

Friday, April 25, 2008, 12:36

For many of us having more choice is a good thing. We believe we have more freedom and more freedom of choice. One of the choices that most people who come to me are struggling with is to choose between material life and spiritual life.

To such people, material life which represents all that they have in life, physical, emotional, economic and intellectual, appears to bring them unhappiness.

On the contrary, spiritual life is the greener grass that beckons, that they do not have, and which seems to represent all that is missing in their life.

I tell them they need not choose. They can, and should be all right leading both lives together.

Doing one's duty, one's dharma well is the key to spiritual progress. That duty, that responsibility, can be your material life as well.

You need to be aware about everything you do; you need to be 100 per cent involved in whatever you do, in order that you carry out your dharma properly. You are what the scriptures say a 'trikala jnani'; one who knows the past, present and future, one for whom the universe holds no secrets.

You will be a Master of the Universe.