ONLY DEATH BRINGS PEACE
It seems that the only time in our lives when we will ever experience true everlasting peace occurs when life itself ceases to be. When death arrives (for an enlightened person at least), eternal peace ensues.
I have found only two methods by which peace and joy may be attained in the meantime (while still alive)
The first occurs during meditative trances so deep that the actions of the heart and lungs cease, right along with the endless monkey-like wanderings of the mind. If this sounds like death, I agree, and so does every master yogi who ever lived (and died). This is a masterful state of mediation all should aspire towards.
It sounds like a paradox, I know. How can one experience death while alive? Nevertheless, it is a real occurrence that anyone can achieve with practice. Deep meditation at least gives us a glimpse of this eternal peace. But as far as I can tell, it is the Will of the Almighty that determines if you ever leave that trance and come back to ‘the living’.
The other method by which I (and others) have discovered by which one may experience peace of mind while still conscious (awake) is to follow God’s Intuition-advice for your life, to do that which God truly wishes you to do with your life, i.e., follow your bliss. It may sound like another paradox in most people would think that “doing what God wants me to do is not the same as doing what I want to do”. All I can say is trust me…you are made in the image of God, and if God wants you to do something, then by virtue of your connection to God, it is also what you want to do. Stated another way, if you yourself are confused as to what to do that would make you happy and you therefore consult God within, then how can the advice be wrong, especially since you are One with God? Go ahead and try to disprove that one!
When one is totally occupied with following Divine Intuition, doing whatever God wills, with doing what truly makes one’s soul happy (read—unselfish activity), then there is little or no room for one to feel unhappy (while consciously awake) if for no other reason that there is always some joy-making activity going on. And when the mind is totally occupied by such meaningful activity, then all the negative things that could otherwise cause a disturbance to one’s sense of peace have no doorway by which to enter.
To repeat, deep meditation and doing one’s will are (respectively) the passive method and the active method for attaining Peace and Joy in life.
No one in the history of the world (to my knowledge) has ever found any other methods by which Peace and Joy may be attained whilst still alive in a physical body.
