The Path to Absolute

This is true that hope is life. But we should also remember that every coin has two sides. If you will see deeply, you will find that day is one with night, darkness is one with light, and life is one with death. It cannot be denied. If you believe that hope is life, you’re bound to accept that hope is death too. Man wants to be immortal – want to be free from death – but also want to cling to the life. But only he/she is free from death, who is free from life as well – the one has to be free from both life and death.

Hope is the inherent cause of bondage. Hope creates relativity, relativity of view – and then you see only those things what you want to see. Absolute truth disappears. We build the world in accordance with our own hopes, thoughts and desires. And in this way, hope creates resistance with reality, struggle comes into existence.

I’ve just reminded of a story. There was a boy who had recently completed his school and got admission in the college. All of his friends used to go to college by cars, but this poor fellow didn’t have a car and he had to walk to his college with inferiority. He has only this hope in his mind that someday his daddy would consider his problem and get him car. But he observed that it wasn’t going to happen as his father never pay any attention toward it. One day he went straight to his daddy and told him about it. Daddy shouted – “you fool! Your college touches the wall of our home and you insist that you’ll go by car only. God has given you two legs, for what?” – Daddy hadn’t become millionaire automatically; he had the PhD in greed and knew how to squeeze each and every penny very well. He had this hope in deep recesses of his heart that his son would learn this quality too, but he was just opposite. He answered – “God has given me two legs, for what? You asked a good question daddy. One leg to put on accelerator and the other to put on break.” Both have valid viewpoints. But this is not just a joke. This is a real struggle that comes into being when hopes, desires collide and we can see our own side only.

Hope is the root cause of all problems in life. The one who hope for requital, he’s bound to be sad. He’s bound to be troubled. A husband loves his wife in the hope that she’ll love him too, and when he don’t get the love or say that kind of love that he hoped, he feels sad. Somebody does something hoping that he’ll get something in return, but when he doesn’t get, he becomes unhappy. If one wants to get free of sadness, struggle, problems; he must also break free of hope. Because hope and hopelessness are two sides of a coin, if you’ll hold one side you cannot the other.

But I don’t mean that you should stop loving. It’s not intelligent to leave the rose due to fear of thorn. Love – to your wife, to your children, to the world – but don’t hope for anything, don’t want anything. Actually, only those who are hopeless can enjoy the life fully. Only the one who doesn’t want anything can play with kids in rain, can dance with sheer joy, can sing with ecstasy. Whatever that’s divine in the world is the outcome of desireless state of mind.

This is the secret. If you want to enjoy the world, want to feel the blessings; you must have the mind that is empty, like a white paper without any spot of ink - desire. The one who can break free the chains of hope and desire can feel the divine bliss, he reaches to the absolute or to put it more correctly, he becomes absolute, and this is the state of complete freedom. There is nothing left for that person to achieve.