For a long time now my mind has been brainstorming about what is this peace of mind,when do we get it? How do we get it.What is Peace the basic question? Does one get peace when he sits and meditates or when we just stick to our daily chores of duties,spend with our families and do not care about the external world,or donating liberally to orphanages or old age homes ? These are few questions which keeps pondering over every human's mind in this materialistic world. One cannot read the word "Peace" peacefully if his mind is not in peace.
Peace the ultimate thing which everyone of us aim to have in our lives and search for innumerable methods to achieve it ,but alas! hardly few are successful in this attempt.The life of a successful man is not a life of peace. But in failure, too, there is no peace.For an aware person, it is all the same. Success comes and goes, and so does failure. He remains untouched and aloof. All of us know about Midas who was gifted with the boon of turning everything into gold.Poor chap did not know he would lose even the existing mind of litte peace he had.Midas could not eat because whatever he touched turned into gold. He could not drink because by the time his lips touched the water, it would turn into gold. His family left him, his friends stopped coming to see him. Midas was alone, hungry, and thirsty. Midas's palace turned into gold, as did all his furniture. He suffered despite being one of the richest men in the world. A man of awareness, a Buddha, also has a transforming power: whatever he touches becomes blissful. Misery comes to him and he finds in it something blissful; sadness comes to him and he finds something immensely beautiful and silent in it. Death comes to him but he finds only immortality in it. Whatever he touches is transformed, because now he has the transcendental perspective. And that is the greatest power in the world - not power over anybody, but simply your intrinsic power.Is Bill gates in peace or Mittal in peace.No.The life of a successful man is not a life of peace. But in failure, too, there is no peace.Moreover, they have no private space; everyone wants to meet with them and there are some who are engaged in the task of "overthrowing" them.Those who pursue power suffer even in success - they live in the eternal fear that they might lose it. At first they suffered because they were not successful; now after being successful, too, they are suffering because of a feeling of insecurity.
It does not matter to a man of awareness whether he is successful or unsuccessful, well-known or absolutely unknown, powerful or just a nobody. To a man of awareness, these dualities don't matter at all, because awareness is the greatest treasure. When you have it, you don't want anything else. You don't want to become the president or prime minister of a country. Thus one can attain peace even in the materialistic world when you are more spiritually inclined ,when your Body,Mind and Soul becomes one.This peace is the ultimate success,the success of life u,me and everyone in this world is longing for.
