Beyond New Year Resolutions
In this vast existence, there is no such thing as “Old Year” and “New Year”. These are all demarcations that human beings have made because we need some milestone to tell us whether we are going forward or backward. In the last one year, maybe your business has gone forward, maybe you made more money, you got your daughter married – that is not the issue. This is a time for you to measure if you have moved forward as a human being. In the New Year, what are you going to do so you will be a much better human being – more joyful, more peaceful, more loving – than you are right now? This is something that you have to decide.
Distorted Perceptions of Reality
If you feel the human part of the world around you, you will see your experience is a cacophony of voices, thoughts and emotions, which are all an outpouring of confusions of many different levels and states. With a very distorted perception of the current reality, these voices, thoughts and emotions are formed and expressed. When people are subjugated by the misconceptions of reality around them, the pain and suffering that they create for themselves and the people around them is very unfortunate.
Lack of Vision & Will
The lack of vision and will in one’s life is fundamentally because of a distorted understanding of the world around us. We are always trying to create our life based on the current reality that exists around us. Where we want to go tomorrow need not be connected to where we are right now. What we want as the highest in life need not have anything to do with our present situation. If we enslave our visions to current situations, then we are once again settling for what is attainable, what is easy. Do not think in terms of what is possible or not possible – just see what is the highest that you can seek in your life.
Create a Vision of Life
If a person has a vision of what they wish to do with themselves and the world around them, it is not beyond their capacity to create it. It may happen in this lifetime or it may take a couple of lifetimes, but what we want will definitely come. For those whose vision of life is clear to them and they just seek it every moment of their life, the highest things will come and fall at their feet. It is only because one is a bundle of confusion and is seeking what they do not want most of the time – things that they really want never come to them.
Live With the Vision
It is time to really create a vision within ourselves as to what we really care for. If you look deep enough, your vision will be the universal vision. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not; simply living with that vision itself is a very elevating, liberating, and joyous process.
This is one of the easiest ways to attain the highest also — to simply give to yourself what you want, not caring whether it is going to happen or not. It is a spiritual process by itself.
