Indian Spiritual Science

This is very much evident. If you can sincerely answer this question, then you'll understand this the way it is expressed. "What makes you love your family?", "Why are you attached to your family?". Lets understand this with very specific answers. We love our spouse because he/she earns, fulfills our desires, cooks good food, etc. This is a genuine answer. We might feel: "But, no I sincerely love him/her." You don't love your neighbor or a stranger. Just because they are not related to you. They don't contribute to you emotions. They are not giving you any ind of pleasure. So, simply the answer to this question concludes that we love our family because they satisfy our desires. We love our children because they are our extended form of ego, etc. We are attached to our family because they are ours. We are attached because, we find that particular entity interesting. "That particular entity gives me pleasure and so I love him/her....

Where there is position and possession there is no truth. This is because, truth is white and the former is black. If we begin decorating the truth, it no longer remains the truth. Because, 'decorating' is the quality of the ignorant. We decorate the truth with our ignorance, with our opinions, likes, dislikes, notions, etc. Our proccessings from the world cannot be termed as the truth. Because, it involves the mind, we are layered with ignorance. Position and possession are the goals set by the mind. This is what are mind has been craving for lifetimes together. We incessantly target this and end up in the grave. Naturally, we ourselves are impermanent, then how can we experience our desires forever.  The moment we feel that we are getting closer to our desires, the truth of life too comes closer to us. Death is inevitable, but truth is eternal. Position and possession are temporary but truth is eternal. Logically, temporary cannot hold the permanent.

Every person in the world craves for happiness . The true goal of man is to be happy, devoid of any sorrow or misery. Due to our vacuum within we have mistakenly equated pleasure to happiness. To some extent these two, pleasure and happiness seem synonymous but they aren’t.  Pleasure is momentary which can be derived through the worldly objects while happiness is eternal. It cannot be experienced through matter or perishable objects. Our boredom, loneliness and sorrow drive us mad. In this state we frantically desire for freedom and happiness. Thus, we begin our journey to find happiness. But, when we meet pleasure or momentary happiness we mistake it to be everlasting happiness. We start feeling we have achieved happiness. Next, we participate in the worldly activities which give rise to another set of desires like name, fame, wealth, respect, status, etc. We work harder to keep that ‘happiness’ alive. Just think: Can we ever keep happiness alive or is it the ...