Tuesday, November 8, 2011

In search of the master?

Most people search for a master, guru, swami or trainer in their quest for excellence or enlightenment. Who is this master, in school it is our teacher in life it is someone who advertises his virtues as an enlightened soul. Isn’t it a paradox that these masters in school or life remain rooted in the same spot even though they claim that they have attained Nirvana and crossed over to the other side? If they can make it why are they trying to teach us if the actual inner power is within us cant we tap into it with our insight? We have always been told that the quest for truth is never ending, but a grand journey and we keep on learning bits of wisdom en-route. No true seeker can ever stop seeking wisdom because it is infinite and therefore one can not become a master of the universe. So the claim that they can make it happen is like empty rhetoric and we will be watching nothing happening. Life is always a mixture and combination of many things and one can never arrive at an ideal perfection of the truth. We must enjoy the journey and cannot be happy throughout the course of our voyage in life and this experience, helps un unravel little things which surely will add up to the larger experience. No man can be an island by himself or a judge of the ultimate truth or knowledge. At best we are all shipwrecked souls trying to reach the island of joy. The important lesson is that patience, forbearance, tolerance and empathy should be the cargo you carry in the hold of today’s materialistic world.

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