It is incredibly easy to lead a trouble free life!! Here is what you need to know.

Life is not a misery as proclaimed; for if it was true, no one will work to overcome it. On the other hand, the assertion that human being is the glorious bequest of God to this planet is not true, until man learns why he was born a human. In the meanwhile, he shall remain interlocked in idiocy, waiting to be redeemed by his correct understanding of life. And that seems highly improbable given the 8 billion definitions we have for life based on individual experiences with some variations and some similarities.

There is one definition though that fits all; one that is applicable to every human being in the world-Life is nothing more than a series of ‘action and reaction.’ That’s what we do all the time. And our own experiences tell us that antipathetic actions and impulsive reactions boomerang, causing emotional stress.

So if we learnt to handle these two functions, our life should be trouble free. Thankfully we have the knowledge to keep us out of trouble. But only a few are ready to pay a price for the divine knowledge of truth, which is freely available. It is not what you gain with your sense organs, for they only provide functional knowledge of the empirical world, which is reality of a lower order. What we need is the knowledge of the subjective world, of the non dual truth, which is reality of a higher order.

Verily, no one has any grievance against life itself, because the modern man knows what is needed to survive. His problem really is his desire to live the life of others and his inability to accept the fair dispensation to the karmas he performs in life, particularly when he sees competence and triumph placed at the two ends of his fate.

That’s why ‘real beings are animated contradiction, absurdities brought into action’ wrote a philosopher. Sadly, this true because man is essentially ignorance wrapped in intellect. Philosophically speaking, he is asleep in all three states of waking, dream and deep sleep experiences. Sleep here denotes his ignorance, which results in several erroneous perceptions, chiefly about his infinite nature and therefore his attachment to his body, limited by time and space.

According to the doctrine of Vedas time is a myth, as it is the ‘counterfeit relationship between ignorance and knowledge of the truth’. Thus when ignorance is purged, misperception goes and with that goes time. And when there is no time, space becomes redundant and you claim your infinite status, the only truth above and beyond this universe. This will put an end to your false belief that the world, the people and various objects actually exist. You stop lending reality to them, without disregarding their physical existence and therefore not affected by their responses to your actions. At the same time, you develop the empathy needed to think before thinking, acting or reacting.