OUR SHORT SIGHTED GOALS

People around me are so focussed on their careers, their familieis, their own goals - small or big. Most of us go by through the years clueless as to what our destination is. Or if we have a destination, then its so unimaginably short sighted that its amazing to see ourselves waste our lives over trivialities - I want to have a few crores in my bank account, I want my children to study in good schools, I want to make a few properties, I want to see the world, I want to be famous, I want to retire on a very big post in an organisation and blah blah......... But none of us really think of what is the end of this short lifetime ? Why are we doing all these fleeting things when we have to leave it all one day ? Where is the permanence, the stability ? There is nothing like stability here. Life is fleeting and momentary. And inspite of this truth starting at everyone in the face, we choose to be blind to it and run after the daily things. People translate Maya as money. Maya is not money. This blindness to truth is maya, the delusion of seeing permanence in impermanent things and remaining blissfully oblivious of the underlying reality. What is the underlying reality ? Only a true Guru would be able to show, that too if you are prepared to understand. You would understand only if you are tired of all these games and want something else. But majority of us sadly are destined to be part of this, and a very very few who are tired of playing would look beyond the physical. I cant judge others I guess. As for me, I am going to tread the lonely way soon, on to my goal - Samadhi.
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