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    Even the people who have given up the worldly pleasure taste life, they taste

    that life which

    is without the worldly pleasure. So, Life is a taste, a taste

    of living. The supreme taste, a

    mixture of different experiences and

    knowledge that is driven by hope. Experiencing and gaining

    knowledge are the

    sole purpose of life. If you don’t have hopes then you would not be

    living.

    Hope is a desire for something expected to come true. Trust always

    begins with hope. We trust

    something with the hope of benefiting from it,

    may it be spiritually, materialistically or may

    be to secure oneself into

    the relationship of friendship. Then when you trust it becomes a

    standpoint

    in life. Friends are people who have come together with an

    understanding so as to create a safe and secure bond so that one does not feel

    awkward to interact with each other. This mutuality when expanded becomes a

    society. A businessman lives his life from a business point of view. A player

    sees his life from a sports point of view. So, everyone has their own standpoint

    and they taste a mixture of different experiences.Other things being changeable

    one has certain qualities that remain the same over a long period of time that’s

    what a standpoint or identity is. There are people who come to you in the times

    of need and help you or they might come to you and allure you to change your

    standpoint. Say, if you are a Christian and someone comes to you and they help

    you and allure you to change into Hindu or vise versa. Do not change your

    standpoint in life. These are the earnings of your forefather that have been

    passed down through generations, the basic values that you have earned through a

    long struggle of life and you want to go to the land of the unknown.That is

    going to hurt you because you are new to that society and you will need a long

    time to adjust to it. Moreover

    you will be looked as a stranger by your own

    relatives and society.  Day by day your thoughts change but these

    basic standpoint change at a slower rate. So, your standpoint is a trust towards

    yourself, the identity that you have created. Every experience and every

    particle have their own identity and quality. Remember that living is about now.

    Now is where emotions run. Everything may it be of the future dreams or the past

    experience we always experience it in the present.So, what is important is now,

    the present. There is no single experience that fits exactly into another. If

    one lives

    just for a day everyday life will be wonderful. Remember that the

    rich class is always worried about tomorrow. So, they live for tomorrow. But the

    lower class is worried just to meet his needs for the day. They, the poor live a

    real life of being in the present. They know the ways to survive under every

    harsh reality. They are the ones who carry a true meaning of what life is.  We

    carry different experiences of the past and if you go into deep self-analysis

    you will find out how these every experiences govern us at present. Remember

    that today is about living, tomorrow is about dreaming and yesterday is about

    understanding. One always understands from ones past experiences. Present is

    about being and future is about directions you are to head towards your dream.

    We all dream but not every dream comes true. So, there is a way in which your

    dreams have more possibility of becoming true. That is possible when you self

    analyze in which field you have more potential then the others. We should learn

    to make compromises and move towards and set our goal towards what

    we can

    become i.e. what we have potential for rather than what we want to become. For

    you not to be depressed due to the lack of unsuccess one should just head one

    steps up, one should not head too high at once. If you head too high that is

    going to hurt. So, one should move upwards through a step by step process. Let

    me get into a bit of politics. What is democracy and what is communism?

    Democracy is about doing what you love and communism is about loving what you

    do. So,

    love has been displayed in two ways and the choices are all yours.

    Now let us come to love itself, something that is considered most precious. Love

    is a self-hypnotism of liking towards an attraction. As the saying goes beauty

    lies in the eyes of beholder. It is you that have found something beautiful or

    something that you can pay attention to and due to this one generates a want of

    having. Your wants of having something increases on as you are overwhelm with

    the desire, so it is you who increases the desire to possess something through a

    self-hypnotic process. Let’s take the case of one sided love; it is you who have

    hypnotized yourself through your dreams and longing. Similarly in both sided

    love, the case is similar but you have a partner, but the degree of love you

    feel is always up to you. Attractions are the key root of love. Attractions are

    of different type. Plain attractions are toward say your parents, normal

    attractions say towards friends and attractive attraction say towards ones sole

    mate or opposite sex. Prayers are medicine for self-healing. Living is an art,

    and we all create arts in different ways. No art is a waste, so everyone’s life

    do have a role in the society and you shall be there in the society by the

    knowledge you have put down to the society. Yours knowledge will influence

    someone and that someone’s concept shaped by yours thought will be passed on to

    others. That is how we remain in the society forever and to shape the society

    into the right direction is everyone’s responsibility. Remember that if there is

    a rotten potato then it does have its own importance. It is by these bad

    potatoes we realize the importance ofthe fresh ones. If you had no degree of

    disgust or bad then you would not have the measuring instrument for the fresh

    or

    good ones. It gives you knowledge of choice through comparison and serves

    you in an unknown ways. You may find someone talking nonsense that nonsense is

    not a waste because it just made you realize what talking sensible is. Remember

    what the motive factor of life should be when you wake up the next day is to be

    a bit better then what you were the previous day, it does not matter how bad you

    are but improvement is musk. Now remember that in a comparative sense you will

    always

    have a road open to something better no matter how good you may be.

    Problems are a part of life and we all need somebody who understands us, that is

    what a friend is may it be husband and wife or just friends. So, we all want to

    express in a secure ways. Expression is a part of life and if we don’t express

    we will be in pain. Understanding is not about self-imposition, self emphasis or

    self boasting. To understand one must learn to listen. Listening is a great art

    to earn friendship. With the vast expansion of every sector there shall be

    greater pain and greater expressers and one who know how to listen knows how to

    live. We should have a broader sense of understanding. The more degree of

    vastness the more knowledge is generated. If there was only one type of leafs

    then there would have been less knowledge generated.So the difference between

    the rich and the poor, good and the bad, tall and the short would generate more

    knowledge which increases ones understanding. Knowledge has its importance

    according to the society. Say for example when I go to my village my city’s mind

    proves to be less knowledgeable to the village environment. And my city minds

    says that they are

    backward where as they have there own complains of the

    defects of city environment. So, every knowledge has its own important in there

    own way it is just we just find something superior towards which we are

    attracted. Knowledge is hypnotic as every knowledge we take in governs us and

    our thoughts are influences by it. It governs us in an unknown ways. Say we may

    be using so many words that we learnt in our childhood days, but we may not

    realize when we learnt them.

    Experience and knowledge are the two key

    factors that drive a person So, when a decision in life is to be taken it should

    be a balance of the experience and knowledge i.e. the heart and the mind should

    reach a balance compromising point. If you feel good and go with the flow then

    you might land up in a wrong place say in drugs addiction just to make you feel

    good. If you follow the truth without caring about what is good then you might

    end up in troubles and difficulties. It is said that it is wise to lie for a

    good cause. You can know what is right as well as feel what is right so what is

    right is always the midpoint between truth and good. Life is precious, you have

    an opportunity to know and feel. As, the saying goes you got to be poor to

    understand money, for those who do not know the meaning of life one got to play

    with death then you will love living. Remember that understanding is what you

    feel and know. So,to understand something you must know as well as feel it. So,

    knowing and feeling are the two instruments of a civilization. To understand

    others first one must understand oneself. To understand one must be self aware

    of circumstances and environment. Remember that the universe for you begins from

    you and ends within you no matter how vast it might be. You from your point of

    view are the beginning and the end of the universe. You are such a key factor

    that without you being in the universe there would not have been a universe for

    you. Everything in this world is self-centered There is no work done without the

    motive of self-centeredness. There are cases where the self-centeredness may not

    be in any materialistic measure. Remember if you found a child fall down on the

    ground. You will pick him or her up. You do that because you are hurt by that

    incident or you feel uncomfortable with that. So, the prime importance

    is

    your satisfaction. You may do social works so that it satisfies you or you may

    believe that you can have heaven after death. So, self-centeredness is what the

    world operates on. Without you being existed there would have been no God for

    you. You are powerful enough to be an atheist and disvalue any God. Now remember

    that the big bang theory says

    that the universe has been formed due to the

    explosion and burst of a big mass that formed the stars and planets. Well, where

    did the big mass come from this makes the scientist believe there is God. So,

    God is a concept that comes where there is no answer to it and people have to

    surrender. Now remember that God being everywhere he is in us too.So, we all are

    mini-gods being a part of god. Then why can’t we act as God.You all wanted to

    play a game and have

    choosen your role before you ame to life Now remember

    that while playing a video game we feel as if we are a character inside the

    game. In the game we have limited power and we struggle with others in the game.

    It is of course that one likes to play a tough game and win a tough game rather

    then an easy game. Similar is the case, God has been playing a game from

    different angles being different beings. Life is tough because an easy winning

    game is boring to play.God as humans, animals and other being has limited power

    in the game to make the struggle and toughness of the game

    more. So, as an

    individual within the game like that of a video game we do not know what is

    outside the game and we struggle within the game. That is why we are not able to

    know what God is but we are all functioning due to his power and it is him who

    has been playing the game in different form where you become an individual

    inside the game with limited power to make the game more real and happening. The

    game is so real and because it is so real that it has the power to deceive us

    and make us feel that it is a reality rather than a game. So for happiness to

    exist there must be

    sadness and each one has theirown level of situation of

    happiness. Some may be happy with 10Rupees and some may be happy with 100 Rupees

    but the happiness is just limited to your  satisfaction and limit. So it is not

    that the poor are sadand the rich. A poor person might be very happy if he gets

    the food for the day so each and every day he manages to getthe food he is happy

    so the poor can be more happy then the rich. Now remember that passion which

    includes excitement, anger, sadness, happiness, love. Heaven is a dream work and

    this earth is the actual heaven. Just imagine you have never cried once in your

    life time even when you were a kid. Don’t you think that you missed something in

    your life?  Now if you were to laugh for a continuous 100 year how would you

    feel. It does not seem what we want. Just imagine if a smile comes to your face

    after a long time. How sweet and valuable is that? Very, right and what made it

    so sweet is the long

    days without a smile. For cleanliness to be valid there

    must be dirt right. Without dirt you would not know what cleanliness is. Without

    war you would not know what peace is. Without injustice being present we would

    not know what justice is.Without hunger you would not know the importance of

    food is.Without anger calmness would be meaningless. Without death living would

    be meaningless. Now see what pleasure you gain from hating Bin laden the

    terrorist as foryou all as for me I don’t see any fault in you.Its just the

    defect of his thoughts the kind of knowledge the society has

    injected in him

    It is just Ideas that are wrong.It is just the knowledge that you have

    hyptonised yourself with and made it your agenda is wrong.I punish you just too

    feel that you have choosen a wrong path and the movement you feel guilty your

    sins are washed away just then.Now remember for pleasure to exist there must be

    pain. Without pain beingthere pleasure can’t exist. If you walk 10km and are

    very tire then you would have the pleasure in resting. If you have been resting

    throughout life you would not have pleasure resting right. So the pain of

    walking has resulted in the

    pleasure of resting Now remember that if you are

    to drive a Ferrari car each day that would not give you as much pleasure as when

    you get to drive once in a while. If there was no failure then you would not

    know the importance of winning. So, everything is made to make the world a

    heaven. Ok now let’s go to your heaven. What would you do on heaven? May be in

    heaven you don’t need to eat. You don’t need to sleep. You don’t need to walk.

    You don’t need to talk.You don’t need to read. May be god does not want anymore

    praise from you as he had enough. Than what would you do on

    heaven? Ok say

    in heaven you always laugh. Are you ready to laugh for an endless time without a

    pause? Does not that sound odd? So what you want is a mixture of different

    experiences that is what the life on the earth is, a true heaven. Now you might

    wonder what enlightenment is. Remember that when you were a child you used to

    built sandcastles and play with your friends. If someone would destroy it then

    you would fight, cry and so on and again you used to built it up. Rememberthose

    childhood days without cries, struggle and happiness there would be no game.

    Similar is the reality of life. To know that this reality of life is just a game

    and what so ever may it be fair or unfair it is just a sandcastle game and

    everything ends within the game to know and remain aloof from it is

    enlightenment. But the other factor that is wholly responsible for enlightenment

    is the behavior. If you are still lost in the worldly and heavenly pleasure and

    you do deceive and cheat then you are not enlightened as to be enlightened you

    should be able to withdraw from the worldly pleasure .As long as you involve

    yourself in the worldly and in the longing for heavenly pleasure then you are

    involved

    in the game and have not withdrawn from it. So, to be enlightened

    you shall have to practice self-discipline and self analysis. It is a game but

    the game must be analysised in the right way. The game concept is just a step or

    trend towards enlightenment. It’s a long thoughtful journey. If you are

    self-disciplined and your thought processes are heading in the right direction

    then it won’t be too far. The aloofness from the worldly pleasure should come

    from within rather then a forceful one. Enlightenment is something that cannot

    be shared but one can only guide one towards it. It is a position where worldly

    and heavenly pleasures have no meaning. It is a blissful state of everything

    being perfect. As long as there is a dispute within self about why so and why

    not so such a state cannot be gained. Without self-centeredness and without the

    concept of self benefit and self promotion one must be able to make the right

    judgment It is a way of looking at things without the I-factor or the promotion

    of I-factor. As like in a video game you being an individual inside the game you

    are unable to know the you outside the game, so you are unable to know the

    outside you that is God and you will finally come to nothingness that is God is

    beyond descriptions in words and no shape or form or quality that we humans can

    describe. How do you describe something beyond your imagination or description?

    You just call it nothing right. This is how we come to the conclusion of

    nothingness and the final goal of life is to become nothing and be vanished.

    Only what matters to youis getting rid of the game and being set free. If you

    move the self-disciplined way then you finally come to idea of positive

    nothingness that is the beginning of the enlightenment process, a way to wisdom.

    But if you come to the point where you feel that the world is nothing and you

    can do anything i.e. if you don’t be self-disciplined then you come to the

    negative nothingness that is destructive. Rules are such important that without

    rules there would have been no games. So, you should learn to be kind, should be

    able to give forgiveness, nonviolence even with animals should be your

    path.Hanging around in the company of morally good and discipline people is a

    key factor. So, in the game of life the rules of nature and social laws are to

    be followed. If the God concept has been developed with an inclination towards

    it in a way that you expect something from it then it is wise to give up the God

    concept .There is no harm in giving up the God concept. If you are thankful

    towards God rather than you expect something from the almighty then it is wise

    to keep the god concept.Remember that satisfaction should not be gained but must

    be taken. God is God as well as the Devil. It’s just the two ways we look at.

    Without being God he cannot love you and without being the devil he cannot

    punish you. The basic point around which a revolution revolves around is that

    those who are suppressed will rise and those who rise will be suppressed and

    revolution is always continuous as one ends the other begins and its just a

    matter of time. Pleasure is something that one is never satisfied of .Pleasure

    is something that one wants more of it. Sex, cinema etc are what we don’t seem

    never satisfied with. Remember that satisfaction is always to be taken rather

    than gained. If you smoke a cigarette then no soonyou will need another

    cigarette to satisfy you so satisfaction is to be taken rather than gained.Some

    truth about God.Have you imagined what might come after that at the point where

    the universe ends, you might imagine a wall or somethingbut it never ends I am

    that vast. As love which is the soul I live inside your heart. So you are inside

    me the universe and I am inside you the heart the heaven and we are not concern

    about our whereabouts just like where the universes as

    a whole is . I am

    present everywhere but the point of knowing me is through the heart and

    knowledge is the tool. I love you all so much that I became love itself to love

    you all and resided in your hearts which is my heaven.I am always the light of

    the world not only Asia as in the game I direct you towards your chosen path, I

    show you that I am present even in vacuum or nothingness. My power is the Holy

    Spirit that serves me; my son is the crucified Christ that teaches you love and

    takes away all your hatred through the example of injustice done to me as the

    son due to

    hatred. And I am the father who forgives all sins even though you

    killed my only son. You all sin because you feel that it’s the right thing to do

    at the moment though you may see the only way out. Sins are what makes you feel

    guilty and when you feel guilty you are forgiven at the moment you feel.

    Discipline makes lives easier say if you don’t drink you might not be drunk and

    come into conflicts with somebody, or loose an arm or a leg while meeting an

    accident in the condition of drunk and drive case. Discipline is for your own

    easiness. I as the nature nurture, torturer  and kill you so that the remaining

    would know  the sense of living and importance of life. Hell is actually where

    you do not feel

    guilty over your sins cause if you don’t feel guilty over

    your sins you will carry on doing what you do and that may make you feel more

    guilty later on. So feeling of guilty is where your sins end and you enter the

    path to heaven. So feeling of guilty is the only punishment I give to you and

    that too leads you to heaven. After death you all come to me and live in the

    hearts of your generation next which is the heaven. I am everywhere so I am

    present in every cells of your so actually you are me and I am you so It is just

    a game that I play with myself in  different forms. As an individual youas me

    are lost in the game of knowing yourself that is me the universe, so it is just

    a research of meI am all the knowledge the science, the arts,the sense the

    nonsense,the good, the bad,the ugly and is one has a meaningand these are all

    for your entertainment. I am so powerful that if I know my power than at least

    my power is limited in my sense so my power is unlimited to the extent that I do

    not know my power and I do a research of it as an individual inside the game. I

    am so vast that the vastness is boundless the universes that I do a research of

    my self. I have so much knowledge that it is boundless; so vast that I am

    unaware of it so I do a research. I am so deep that the internal d

    epth the

    spirituality the feelings has boundless depth so i do a research of myself. I am

    so fast that I as the thoughtcan travel the fastest. I can reach from one corner

    of the universe to another within seconds. So because I am boundless and have

    many forms so I am an illusion the Maya that can be anything and everything. So

    the universe is the illusion seen by the unknown because the unknown you as me

    is so much lost in illusion that you can’t know who you are.An illusion is real

    only until it can deceive you so after life only you will come to know that this

    was an illusion and hence the world wont be a truth for you.I am somewhere

    continueously dreaming of being different beings and things so lost in the dream

    that I am unware of my whereabout and you are inside my dream.All the power it

    takes for me to create the universe is dream.I dream by a process so that you

    all can have a process to channelize your thought through a process of evolution

    so that the world may seem real for you. This all the form I come in as

    knowledge, power, animals, human, living beings and non living beings is just to

    find out who the unknown me is . I come in different forms animals, humans etc

    just to define myself and create an identity of me to satisfy my quest of who I

    am. I become the living, the non living and so on to find out and finally I come

    to the conclusion that I am the unfounded one that is god. Then I define god

    into different forms say the bible, Koran, Bhagavad-Gita and so on. So it’s just

    a quest for me the unknown.I am the fathe, the son and the holy spirit.I am

    buddha,I am Krishna,I am shiv,I am brahma.I am Allha

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