Its Really Stupid to Suffer

Its Really Stupid to Suffer

It's really stupid to suffer when we can be enjoying unlimited bliss at every minute. And that is the foolish mistake we are making right now. It is especially stupid when we consider that there is a readily available oasis in this vast desolate wasteland of material existence, a place of shelter where we can be fully satisfied far, far beyond our wildest imagination. The difficulty in finding this oasis is that there are thousands and millions of mirages to divert our minds. Fooled by mirages, we are misled down a one-way path to death, and we become trapped once again in another term of imprisonment in the devastatingly miserable cycle of repeated birth and death.

If we want to attain that oasis we must accept the shelter of a qualified guide who will personally take us there. If we try to make it on our own we will never be able to distinguish the mirage oases from the real oasis, and we will surely end up once again as statistics, more of that huge number of unfortunate souls who could not get it together spiritually and were obliged once again to glide down to the animal species in their next lifetime to fulfill their material desires.

We could easily accept the shelter of such a qualified guide, but the problem is that we are far too proud to take the guidance of anything other than our own minds. And following the dictates of our highly illusioned minds we remain illusioned lifetime after lifetime with no hope of ever being liberated.

Our only hope is if we somehow or other are fortunate enough to meet such a guide and at the same time are willing to open our minds enough to non-prejudicially hear what he has to say.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari