The state of peace – mind beyond miseries and pleasures.

The state of peace – mind beyond miseries and pleasures.

Beyond the first three conditions of mind- happiness, sorrow and indifference- is the state of peace. Very few people reach that plane. Those who have money and health and satisfying relationships – everything is they really need or want may say: I am not happy or unhappy or indifferent. I am contended; I am peaceful. After a period of turbulence, such a condition is welcome. But if for a long time one has peace that is merely the absence of joy and sorrow, he will say, Please knock me on the head so that I feel that I am still alive. Such peace, being a negative state in which excitation has been neutralized is not lastingly satisfying.

Now let us come to the positive aspect, the last or fifth state of consciousness: The attainment of ever new joy. That state is found only by contacting God in deep meditation, through the practice of such techniques as those given by the masters of India. That all fulfilling joy will never grow stale. How to describe it? if for ten days if you are not allowed to sleep and after that you are allowed to sleep the joy you feel at that moment, compounded a million times over would not begin to express the joy that I am speaking about. Jesus and other divine ones spoke of that joy.

Saints like Saint Francis and Sri Chaitanya knew that joy. Why else would saints deprive themselves of material gain, except that they found something greater? This path of self realization does tell you case aside everything of this world but it does urge you to give lesser, obstructing things for the superior, lastingly fulfilling true joy in life.

The time has come for you to know and understand the purpose of religion: how to contact that supernal joy, which is God, the great eternal comforter. If you can find that joy ad if you can retain that joy all the time, no matter what happens to your life, you will stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.

So that is the first law of retaining youth: You must have a happy state of mind, a state that is untouched by the events of lie. In that joy, not even death can shake you. How could Jesus say, in the face of crucifixion? “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do “unless he had that inner joy which even the tortures of the flesh could not take from him? In that steadfast mental foundation, he could, with his dying breath express love for those who were the instruments of the death of his body. That is the invulnerable state you must strive to cultivate.

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