smplife

It is very difficult to understand that, life is simple. Simple life alone can transcend all difficulties in life. Our difficulties are that we don't want to be simple for the simple reason that our life is awfully difficult.
How do we simplify our life so that we can overcome all difficulties of life?
There are two simple ways.

1. Don't take Life Too Seriously.

Not taking life too seriously means refusal to react to people and problems in life. When we react we have accepted the people and the problems to be real. In fact, they are not. It is just a coincidence that we all have come together along with our idiosyncrasies and want to be together although we cannot. When we recognise this fact we stop being serious. Do we react seriously to the mirrors in a mirror-house? We see different kind of reflections in different mirrors, looking at our ugliness as reflected by the different curvatures of the mirror and come out laughingly.

We don't think of going to the doctor for having seen our reflections either as a tape-worm or a pumpkin. It is just a reflection. So is true in life. Life is a reflection of ourselves in the different curvatures, the mirrors of people around. Let us learn to live with them and not merely react. This method can give us the strength of wit and humor which can dissolve difficulties and don't waste time in solving problems. Simplicity contradicts seriousness and seriousness denies simplicity. Seriousness is an attitude in life where two factors are accepted as real :

(i) this little me is the Ultimate Reality of life, and

(ii) this little event, work or project is all that can be said of life which is not true.

Changing this attitude towards life is a simple method of overcoming the difficulties of life.

2. Live Life Sincerely.

Sincerity is an expression of integrity of our individuality in a disintegrated world around. Let us bring all our faculties, strength and abilities at every time, in every situation and in every place in spite of the people around us so that the best is brought out. That best need not be the required best, it can always be improved upon, yet we have done our best and let us leave the rest to the Lord to do.

When sincerity is not mistaken as seriousness, life becomes simple. When sincerity is meant to be serious life means living death at every moment. Such a living-death kind of people have all the complaints about everything in the world, be it an innocent mosquito or the international economic situation. They are helpless and constantly complaining about every one and such complaint boxes live in the life of contradictions. Essentially we are ever-present, but they live the life under the fever of constant death.

We are essentially the Pure Knowledge, but they are under the influence of solid ignorance. We are essentially an embodiment of Bliss. However they are constantly carrying a load of miseries. Thus our life contradicts our essence. Contradictions of our essence namely the Blissful Conscious Existence is making simple things difficult.

Therefore, to make life simple let us allow the essence in our being to flow in its own glow. Let us allow the essence in us to flow in its fully glory.
To allow this Pure Self to express through us fully is being simple.