Loneliness is lovely.

Supreme bestows loneliness on people to provide them with an opportunity to search for their true self and get connected to Supreme source of love and joy. In loneliness you can hear the sounds of true harmony, rhythm and perfection of Universal design. Use this loneliness to create something beautiful by developing a hobby that engrosses your whole attention. It may be reading, painting, gardening, music etc. May be through your hobby, you will get a friend or co-traveler of your own frequency. Me, My self, My God My Soul And My Tranquility I am Five I am not alone This tranquility is what God loves!

The main cause of suffering is the confusion about our own identity. Everyone suffers from some sort of inferiority complex or continuous feeling of inadequacy. All our worldly desires such as the desire to make money or to occupy an important position or to look beautiful are in the direction of an attempt to get over this feeling of inadequacy or smallness. But even after fulfilling these desires we thirst for more. This is so, because fulfilling desires is only symptomatic relief to cure the feeling of inadequacy; it is not a longterm cure. The long-term cure lies in understanding who we are and why we feel small. While scriptures reiterate that each of us is sat-chit-anand-atma which is changeless and pure bliss, we conclude that the Self is only body and mind. So, the limitations of body and mind become our limitations. Identification with body-mind, and not with Self occurs because of our emotional attachment with body. Body is actually bound to change and is mortal. But because of emotional bonding with the body we do not see body to be mortal and expect it to be the same always. When we have emotional bonding with someone, we tend to overlook the faults of that person. So also we tend to overlook the fact that body is mortal. Fear of death is therefore listed as one of the five reasons for sufferings in life by sage Patanjali. Because of ignorance about atma, we do not easily get identified with permanent status and blissful quality of our Self. How do we see that body is not Self? Two examples are given in Viveka Chudamani. Do we feel sad if our shadow is short? Or do we take bath if our shadow falls on dirty water in a gutter? Do we have feelings of

superiority or inferiority based on the comparison with the shadow of others? The answer is no. Why Because we know clearly that the shadow is not me. The second example given is of seeing our own reflection in a mirror. There are certain special mirrors available for fun in the children's zone, in which one looks very fat, very thin, elongated or stunted. We laugh when we see our reflection like this in a mirror; we do not start worrying, why I have become like this. So also one has to see ones body as mere reflection and not as the real entity. Defects in the body are only at a superficial level. The core inside the body is the changeless entity the sat-chit-anand-atma which is the creator of this Universe and an ocean of bliss. Sat means something which is the permanent reality of life, un-negatable and always present. Chit represents knowledge of the whole of creation. Anand stands for permanent bliss which is right there within us. Even when we die we merely change form just like moving from one hotel room to another during a sojourn. Let us not have complexes by the nature of the room we have got, but concentrate on the main purpose of taking birth, which is to remove our ignorance of Self. When asked, "How are you swamiji?" Swami Sivananda used to say, "Disease and I have decided to stay together peacefully in this body. What a powerful understanding of the distinction between body and the Self !