Sri Amma Bhagavan: Phases of Life

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You are here basically

to enjoy yourselves.

Why should the Universe exist at all?

Have you not seen

Nataraja’s [Shiva’s] dance?

He is merely dancing isn't it?

It is the dance of creation.

He is simply celebrating life.

So each one has to find out

how to celebrate this life.

What comes your way,

accept it and enjoy it.

You have to create what you want.

Life could be divided into 4 phases.

In the first phase of life,

you are expected

to acquire knowledge

and maintain your body

healthy and strong.

In this phase of life,

you must be focused on education,

acquiring skills

and preparing of the future.

In the second phase,

you must acquire wealth,

get married, have children,

perform your responsibilities

towards your family,

enjoy the world

and fulfill your desires.

In the third phase,

if you are really fulfilled in your life,

cravings would have ceased.

In this phase,

you could be with your family,

but should feel detached from your family.

You must serve the world.

You must be concerned about people,

but nothing personal should be there.

In the Last and final phase of your life

you should not be attached to the world.

This is the phase in which you seek liberation.

You cannot just continue

in the first phase of life

because

it will soon become meaningless.

Therefore you must move on

to the second phase

and embrace its pleasures and pains.

This too will soon lose meaning

and therefore you move on

to the third phase of serving the people.

This too will ultimately

stop giving satisfaction.

It is then that you move on

to liberation.

Hopefully if you are awakened,

the same mountains, the same stars

you saw earlier

would look very different.

You could enjoy the world

and simply pass away from this world.

This is the game of life.

But on the other hand,

you are taking it very seriously.

There must be liberation from work.

It does not mean not doing work,

You don't see it as work anymore.

You see it as play.

So you must see everything

as a game,

you must know

everything is a passing phase,

everything will come to an end soon

because there is nothing permanent.

Order will move into disorder,

disorder will move into order.

Weak man may become strong,

strong man could become weak.

Intelligent people may become unintelligent,

unintelligent may become intelligent.

Love could become hate,

hate could become love.

This is the law of the Universe.

You cannot stop these things.

So, you have to accept them.

If you accept them,

you will start enjoying life.

You will be playing with it.

That is the thrill of living.

Everything ultimately

is like the onion,

if you go on peeling the onion,

you'll find there is nothing in the end.

Similarly,

if you go on peeling life's experiences,

consciousness, God, or anything,

in the end, you would feel

there is nothing but silence.

Life is a mystery to be lived,

not a riddle to be solved or understood.

That is all there is to it.

All things emerge from that silence,

and return to that silence.

You too will eventually

merge into that silence,

from which you emerged

in the first instance.