One can be blessed with the vision of God if enlightenment dawns upon him. But for a common man, truth is selective and he sees only that he seeks to watch. Anything that he doesn’t want appears to be an illusion to him. But the real freedom is not in acquiring power to procure what one wants or to reject what he does not like. Freedom is his right and he can choose what he likes or what he dislikes.
Most people are accursed as they forfeit their internal freedom to make choices to achieve external freedom, which is illusory. Freedom and liberation are states which man can achieve. Hence, man is said to decide his own destiny. So, if anybody is experiencing grief, it is his own making. We produce what we decide and we get benefits according to our merit. What an irony! When man seeks discomfort, he can heap misery on people around him.
For ignorant people or for those with a feeble mind, misery is an epidemic, which affects them easily. The people around such a person are also affected. Those caught in sorrow can never produce happiness. In his ignorance, he would have selected unhappiness. We can share only that we have in abundance and those wallowing in pain only succeed in adding misery to this world.
If a man prefers sorrow, he is doing so for others also. He goes around disseminating misery and misfortune, plunging the world into grief.
It can be even being termed as global suicide or collective suicide and slowly leads to the end of the world. Accidents, natural calamities, riots, wars and the rise of fundamentalism is an indication towards this end, the only outcome of such a process being destruction.
Such a grief, which has engulfed the world, has its roots in the mind of an ignorant man. Such a person neither realizes the melody of Krishna’s flute nor the power of Ram’s arrows. Krishna’s flute effused happiness and filled the world with exhilaration. But such happiness has resulted from a strong choice for the same. Krishna’s incarnation was to play the flute blissfully to immerse the world in happiness. It also led to the liberation of many people and became a source of their happiness. Krishna’s acts, his romance, his smile and more importantly, the sweet notes that he played still thrills one and all. Only those who experience happiness can achieve the status of a Yogi for God is happiness.
Healthy person is a spiritual person. A man who is happy can fill the world with happiness. He can bless people and he himself becomes a blessing on the world. Although Krishna was the very embodiment of happiness, the Kurukshetra war did take place. But Krishna’s flute has not stopped playing.
Likewise, wars have not ceased in this world. The peaceful notes coming from his flute has been lost in the din of the modern world. Man does not spread happiness as easily as he does grief. Until one repudiates pride, he can also never partake others happiness.