You won’t actualize your dreams by staying despondent; get up and get going.

शमथ। Samatha

You want to play with the stars without leaving this earth, and you end up settling for video
games. Your knowledge of the stars too will be limited to the programme in the virtual reality,
and so will be your experience. This leads to all kinds of fantasies developing within your mind
which are more and more disconnected with the reality around you.

Nobody is born to settle for a mediocre existence, but to blossom into the fulness of one’s potential. This is the meaning of self-actualization. Fulness is not determined by what you own or how much you possess. It is determined by how much you are willing to give yourself into the actualization of the fulness. There is no option for a virtual reality here.

In order to reach the stars, you have to leave everything you are familiar with and prepare
yourself for a different level of reality. Your perceptions and calculations, however perfect they appear from where you are, are challenged more frequently than you can conceive. Will you fight to prove your perceptions or will you continue your journey to the stars? Most often, this is the period you become downhearted and look for reasons to avoid the journey. The question you must ask is whether you will be content by avoiding the journey, or are you beginning an ego trip of cynicism with a smug?

Action cannot be avoided, but you can always embrace it. This leads to the right understanding in developing wholesome action, and let it be what you choose.

Feel Blessed
Swastham Shantam Sampurnam