What are
the things you’d like to look back at when it’s the last day of your life and
you are on death bed? You might wonder why am I asking such depressing
questions. But I think sometimes its easier to figure out important things in
our life when we acknowledge and remind ourselves that we don’t have infinite
time here on earth as a living being of substance and soul. Maybe when we have
this realization that there is limited time, we will focus on the things that
really matter and avoid the frivolous. This could serve as an inherent
motivation for us to do things with full devotion as we realize that we don’t actually
have any time to kill or waste or throw away just sitting idle. If you really
want to experience life before death you will be fully engaged and involved in the
each and every experience of life that really matters to you. Now this postulate
can also be used in reverse, for e.g. If you want to know whether you really
want something or is some life experience really important to you, you can
judge it by thinking in two ways: 1) If you are finding it hard to be fully
involved in it from the very base of it and you are constantly procrastinating something,
maybe this is not something important to you. 2) Think about your last day of
life and try to analyze as that person on the death bed. Will this particular
life experience serve as a joyful memory or a regret or something unpleasant? If
it turns out to be a joyful memory then its worth doing it otherwise you are
just wasting your time.
Now, that
being said, you may ask what do I mean when I speak about not wasting time or being
fully involved or being fully devotional. Does that mean we can’t have leisure time
for ourselves, can’t we play for sometimes, can’t we sleep for say 8 hours some
day? Does that mean we need to work all the time like a robot?
The answer
is that you can definitely have and do all of those things and you don’t need
to be a robot. What I actually mean when I talk about being fully devoted to
your life experiences is that you should be consciously aware about the
experience that you are having. Anything you do should never be done
half-heartedly. For example, if you are a father sitting with your children and
just watching them play, be involved in that blissful experience, you created a
life which is blossoming with joy and try to become one with that joy internally.
Pay attention to the tiny little nuances of your children and the scene in
front of your eyes. It’s a life experience. Don’t do it because your wife asked
you to pay attention to kids while she cooks in the kitchen. Don’t sit there
watching TV while the kids demand your attention. You'll neither experience the TV nor your kids in its entirety. Its not them, it is you who is
missing the experience.
This is what
I mean when I talk about being in involvement with life with full devotion.
Apply this everywhere, be involved when you bunk a class and play outside, play
with full heart and live it as a fulfilling life experience. If you go on a
date, or watch a movie, don’t text ten people about it or don’t do it because
you’ll have enough stuff to gossip about with your friends or colleagues or
share on social media, do it because you want to experience it, that alone
should be the sole purpose of anything you do in this life. If this reason is
not enough for doing something, don’t do it at all. Be involved in these things as they are
certain experiences of your life that your life is showing you and its not a
wise thing to experience these with half of a devotion. When you’ll be completely
devoted in these tiny affairs, devotion will become your lifestyle and it will
reflect in your professional work also. If you do things half heartedly then
you will also do your profession halfheartedly, in turn you will live your life
without experiencing it in the most profound manner possible. It works like a
habit. If you develop a habit of doing things consciously and devotedly, it
will reflect in every aspect of your life and finally you’ll die consciously with
a conscious will without any regrets and with a sense of fulfillment. Afterall
death is also a part of life (I will discuss on this point in some other blog
though.)
When you’ll
apply this whole process of conscious and devotional living to your life, you’ll
live a way more profound life than you do now and as it will direct you towards
the path that is best suited for you. But if you think your life is trivial and
its just as good as a trash can, you can throw it in any direction you want without
any pinch of thought going behind it.
I think this is the best way to live life. You can
share your opinions and thoughts on this in the comment section below or reach
me out through email given in the about page. I would love to hear from you
people.
©MANJUL JAGOTRA
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