When I was 16 I started meditating daily.
I read books on spirituality and religion.
I even watched YouTube videos of spiritual gurus who talked about God, the nature of reality, truth, etc.
But I didn’t understand most of it.
But what little I understood was that there is something beyond what we see in life.
All the money, fame, success, pride, etc. is only temporary.
What’s more permanent can be found through spirituality.
So I started meditating.
Although I messed up big time trying to meditate without guidance, I think what it taught me was more than any course or book could teach me.
That teaching is that normal life is not as bad as we think.
I learnt from meditating wrongly that meditation isn’t necessary to attain nirvana or moksh.
What’s necessary is self-honesty and good behavior towards others.
If you can be honest about your intentions and behave well to others in a way that is just, I think that’s a good start.
So as you might know I had to go through a few episodes of psychosis as I wrote about it in my other mental health blog posts, that’s a topic for another blog post.
What I want to tell you through this blog post is that there is hope.
Mundane life isn’t all that there is. There is a truth beyond life that can set you free.
It can make you realize the divinity that lies within you and all other beings.
I like to ask myself this question,” What is God?”
We might think we know what God is- a supreme godhead, or an impersonal power or absolute infinity or nothingness.
But I just like to think that I don’t know what God is.
This lets me think beyond the preconceived ideas of other people about God.
So yeah there is hope.
I’m not asking you to believe in God. But I’m asking you to ask yourself what’s beyond all this.
Thanks for reading this line! It means a lot.
