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The illusion of reality – Dandavats.com
By Krishna Ragini Devi dasi

We all complain we don’t have enough time. So many schedules, so many deadlines, so many tasks to attend to, so many phone-calls to answer and make, so many demands we have to fulfill: our check-to-do lists seem inexhaustible. Absorbed in all these things, we do not notice that one of our most important resources in life–time–slips out of our fingers. This leaving us with a diffuse dissatisfaction in the back of our minds that we have no time for what matters to us.

Then a moment comes, unplanned and unasked for, when all the schedules fail, all plans are dropped or postponed for an undecided time in the future. A moment when we are left empty, without all the crutches we are accustomed to use in order to pass automatically through each of our days, just to contemplate for the first time the emptiness of our own life. A moment of awakening of consciousness to the reality of its situation. It may not be easy, but at least one has the guarantee of hitting the truth. A lot of questions start then to manifest in our minds. What shall I do now? Actually, what do I really want? In reality, who am I ? How much of what I used to do is what I truly want for myself, and how much is external, coming from an outside pressure which is alien to my own self?
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