Enjoyment

This life is for enjoyment. The entire life is a drama of ever-changing scenario from playful childhood to confused adolescent state leading to dreamy youth and finally a responsible life- one of serious avocation for livelihood. It is no wonder that a poet rightly said, "If the life is full of wares, where is the time to stand and stare?" There is no time to take a deep breath, even!

   Now that, life has become easy with all modern gadgets, with an ease of press the button, there is  ample scope for enjoyment. Lucky are those who spend time in pursuit of spiritual solace. But alas, most of the people try to search happiness in mundane things, objects of transient world that are never satiable! In fact, disillusionment is writ large on the face of the earth. There is nothing to enjoy, gain or lose in this world, say the learned sages.

  As long as one depends on external objects, there is bound to be disappointment. Life should be totally free in order to be joyful, happy. Life should be nirupadhika, independent of all that exists! Life should be niralamba, totally self-supporting. As long one depends on the other, the other, an other, a hypothetical, non-existent object of the transient, ever-changing, leads to total misery. Nothing helps here- neither money, friends, relatives, power, or social status will ever help.

 So one has to retire to a secluded place and contemplate, meditate, say the learned sages. This is the best one can do in old age, say after 75 years of age.  Jnyan, viveka and vairagya leading to yajnya, daana, and tapas are advocated for old people to be happy, healthy, peaceful and joyful.    
   But, then, why should people aim at the impossible? It seems nobody will ever reach this 'brahmn' and there is nothing to be attained by reaching to 'brahmn'!
  Yes. Exactly. This is the point of the endless beginning and the end of the beginningless end! This is the state of absolute reality. This is the state of true existence, tranquility, equilibrium,state of no vibration. In the scientific parlance, this is the state of the jiva, a fermion before energy was transmitted to mass as boson, the atman. This atman is the fundamental particle that is manifest in all as the parana. prajnya (chit) and enters everything- akash, vayu, agni, jal, pruthvi, jivarashi.and all that moves and does not move!

  He said: I understand that the prana is Brahman, but I do not understand 'joy' (ka) and 'the akasa' (kha). They said: What is joy (ka) is the akasa (kha), what is the akasa (kha) is joy (ka). They taught him the prana (i.e. Brahman) and the akasa related to it.[Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad IV, X - The Story of Upakosala, 5]

Next the Garhapatya Fire taught him: The earth, fire, food and the sun are my forms. The person that is seen in the sun-I am he, I am he indeed. [Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad IV, XI - Instruction by the Household (garhapatya) Fire, 1].

   Whoever knows this will not be perturbed as to what goes on either to the world at large or the jiva! This is the highest knowledge, para vidya; thus, one can attain peace, harmony, and joy.