"Peace is not the highest goal in life it is the most fundamental requirement"
While listening to sadhguru ,when i heard him saying this quote, i felt it and thought to write about it from references from his points
What is Peace? It is a state of calmness. It is being in harmony and living a stress-free life. It is serenity and tranquillity. It is also the absence of worry, fear, anger, hate, and revenge. It is a state of non-violence, just as it is a state of love and brotherhood. Peace is the foundation of happiness. It is the very base on which the castle of our joy, our bliss, and happiness is built. Where there is no Peace, there can be no joy. Therefore, while the whole world seeks to be happy, what we seek in essence is Peace. Our original state of Mind is peaceful and blissful, but somehow, we lose this gift of tranquillity. As children, we have no stress and worry. But as we grow up, we create stress. It is just like throwing a rock in a lake of water which is absolutely still. We create ripples as we desire and we crave, and we lose that stillness, that Peace of Mind.
We are all taught that if we want to be happy, we must be successful, we must achieve our goals, we need success and achievement. In the pursuit of pleasure that will promise us joy, we destroy our Peace which is the very foundation of happiness.
Stop and look around you. What do you find? People want Peace. They dream of having Peace of Mind.
Therefore so many self help books gets bestselling awards,because they show us the path to leave peacefully.
What it requires to be peaceful is our presence of mind ,the state in which we take right decisions,its all inside us
All we can do to achieve it by just a simple thing - controlling our emotions, taking decisions in full coinusness while thinking all possible outcomes and not thinking to hurt others .
People are constantly chasing pleasure with the hope that these pleasures will give them their cherished happiness. But pleasures don't make us happy! Happiness doesn't belong to things. It is a state of Mind! We cannot achieve happiness. We have to be happy. Why is it that people are losing their Peace of Mind trying to a mass wealth which doesn't belong to them? Our Peace is our biggest treasure, but we exchange it for worldly things that have no intrinsic value. We get fooled by our own Mind that desires and craves and ultimately we go to our grave with a lot of financial resources, but when it comes to Peace, we are bankrupt.
The 'Paradox of Success' has not been understood by the world. We think that success is happiness, and we imagine that happiness will give us peace. We don't realize that we may be happy on the outside but stressed inside. As we work towards making our dreams come true, at that very moment, we lose our Peace. We consider the process of building our dreams to be very exciting. Little do we realize that all this excitement disintegrates our Peace into pieces.
There can be no joy, although we might experience success. Worst of all, everybody cannot succeed and all those who don't, become disappointed . But even the achievers are not satisfied. Such is the paradox of success. Though we may have achieved our goals, there is no peace. We want more. Although we have what we wanted, it is not enough...
Our craving for achievement robs us of contentment and fulfilment that create Peace and tranquillity. How many people are actually living peaceful lives? The whole world is chasing success. The definition of success is wrong. Unless we define it to be a state of Peace, not money in the bank, not name and fame, not gold and diamonds, cars and buildings, stocks and shares, women and wine, we will never be able to quench our thirst and we will burst with stress, worry, and anxiety. The most successful people in the world may have created a huge amount of wealth but pause for a moment and look at their health.
They live with heart disease and all those ailments that are the result of a stressful life. When will we make a U-turn?
‘Ashantasya Kutah Sukham’ – In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna gives this prescription for happiness to Arjuna. The meaning of these words is – without Peace of Mind, how can you be happy?
All the wealth in the world, pleasure, power, cannot give us happiness if we have no Peace of Mind. Unless there is Peace in the heart within, we will be like a boat, tossed in the waters of life, restless, anxious, and unhappy. The secret of happiness is havingPeace of Mind. Thus, prayers in India end with the words, ‘Om Shanti Shanti Shanti’, an invocation to Peace. Thus, if we want to be truly happy, we must first have Peace. Although every human being seems to be lost in the pursuit of happiness as their life's Ultimate Goal, they will not be able to achieve it until they first attain Peace of Mind.
Peace is the greatest wealth of life. It is sad that most of us lose our Peace of Mind in meaningless pursuits of things that ultimately will not matter. Ask a wealthy man in the dusk of his life what he wished he had done differently and he will tell you that he wished he had learnt to play the guitar, or climbed the mountains, or even watched the sunset. He will tell you that he missed doing things that would have given him more Peace and tranquillity.
All the happiness and all the pleasures that we enjoy in the world, will dissolve. What remains is our Peace.
Just like we don't value our life, we don't value our Peace. We lose it in the pursuit of things that don't matter, not realizing our loss. While Peace is the greatest treasure, we exchange it for trinkets of pleasure and we lose this priceless gift of life. We exchange our Peace for temporary pleasures, and in the end, although we may have a lot of pleasure and excitement, we miss the very essence of true happiness –Peace!
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