Beyond Mirage: Personal Blog

Oh look, there’s some water over there! It looks so serene. The sun falling, the water shimmering. It looks magical! But will I be able to make it that far?!

Yes, I think I will, this is it! And who knows what I might find there?

Wait! I can’t see any water here. I traveled miles to get to this place. And it's nothing like what it seemed from that far! How do I quench my thirst now?! Where do I go now?

Maybe that’s how my life will always be. Unfulfilled, disillusioned, and incomplete...

Well, now it's time to look beyond the mirage. The illusions that have been bewitching you and pulling you into the trenches for so long. The chimera of desires that have made you reach nowhere, or maybe somewhere. The magical waters that you thought would quench you, fulfill you, but never did. It's time to go beyond and tap the real waters.

All our lives, the pursuit of finding that little drop of happiness has kept us fueled to run after infinite mirages. Haven't we been looking for it everywhere, every second of our lives? In different things, accomplishments, innumerable places, and a thousand faces? Some seem to find it in money and luxuries, some in food, and some in relationships.

But sadly, the hollowness and the impermanence of everything will eventually find us and slaughter our ignorance one day!

We came on this planet. We took our first steps, said our first words, drove the first bicycle, took up the first job, got the first pay cheque, and before we could even comprehend, we got entangled in this web of endless accumulations. We grew from a happy little kid to a stern grumpy adult, fed with norms, guidelines, belief systems, structures, and deadlines. We became everything but happy!

Probably cause all this time we've been chasing to make it to the finish line, but unfortunately, the truth is that the line never ends!

The money heist has kept us so beguiled that we've completely forgotten that, ultimately, there's nowhere really to reach!

Where do you think a billion dollars will take you if all it gives you is a desire to make just a little more of it?

Life as we know, it is really just happening inside this little mastermind. The tiny brain that makes you feel, gather and perceive everything. If you’re miserable right now in your head, you’ll surely be miserable at the Mount Everest too! If you’re suffocated here, how do you think you'll find air anywhere else on the Earth?

The mirage exists; it does. It looks beautiful. It’s enticing. And before you know you’ll be long lost in its glory, with no way out.

But THERE IS a way out! There exists a realm of compassion. A realm of endless joy and love. A place where all your desires will lose their meaning, where you won’t remember the next thing to do because it's a realm beyond time and space. And just a little glimpse of it has the power to make the clouds of ignorance in you disappear forever.

That place is beyond, but it is Here and Now! And I am here to walk with you. It's time to travel Beyond Mirage!

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