Why are you not satisfied and ask for more?

                         

                                     

If you have an inquisitive mind, then you can visualize that people are not contended at all. Whether you are rich or poor, whether you are a celebrity or a common man, you always insist for more.  Your inclination and the urge will provoke you to acquire more wealth, more power, more status and more of everything. You will say, “I am dissatisfied with everything.  What shall I do that will make me content?”  The spiritual gurus, monks and saints will say that as long as you are in the slough of desire to acquire ‘more’, you will never be satisfied.  Your lust for material comforts and other trivial issues will ensnare you in the confinement of discontentment.  The thought of having itself is a dangerous compassion for which your mind will be always full of undulations and you will never be able to focus on any issues with attention.  This discontentment arises from your greed for the things you do not possess and this greed only makes you to walk in a swirling path in your life.  You will chase and continue to chase, but it won’t be possible to get everything in your life for which you express tremendous  inclination.  Discontentment will be the end of your life.  Think that you are blessed with so much.  You have all comfort.  But your greed makes you blind and you are incapable to see as you have developed false ego.  Just rejoice and value your life what you have.  Be grateful to the creator that many things you possess. Discontentment will lead you nowhere.  You will be under illusory control throughout your life and fail to understand the real worth of life.  You won’t be in a position to enjoy the life.  Death will not wait and one day, it will knock your door and you will be taken away feeling discontented.  So, don’t wish for more and live with contentment

One who is very contented, he feels that he has everything.  His countenance will be always full of smiles.  He feels happy all the time.  He feels that abundance of everything in his life is because of God.  This sense of acceptance is the spirit of a seeker.  He gives his life to God without any greed.  He prays to God, not for his own welfare, but he wishes for the other’s welfare.  He does not keep any choice of desire for his own.  Acceptance is blissful.  Nothing external can dampen this bliss.  When you don’t put any precondition means things happen on its own, you are always contented, you don’t murmur, and you take the acceptance as blissful.

If you don’t have any choice, you don’t demand anything.  So you have no anxiety or fear.  In that case, the mind has no cause for disturbance.  The seeker is always at peace for everything that happens around him.  He is not bothered to check whether any event is soothing him or causing disturbance.  There is an indifference towards the event itself.  His liveliness is not dependent on any person, place or situation because he is completely aware that happiness or sorrow does not come from the external.

People always complain of various shortcomings in their lives.  Despite everything under their possession, the rich fraternity complains that they have no mental peace, the poor section murmurs as they always live below the poverty line.  So, our society is full of discontentment.  If a man gets hurt and fractures his hand, he feels severe pain and he complains.  If his hands were so important, why didn’t he express thanks to God when the same was normal. You complain no sooner your hand gets fractured, but you have not expressed any concern of gratitude all these years, when your hands helped you to perform so many works.

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If you decide to remain in depression, become always sad and discontent, any good thing happens to you, it will be of no use to you.  Infinite bliss have been bestowed upon you, but you remain unaware of it.  Contrarily, if you develop a habit to feel gratitude, you will remain content and jubilant all the time.  So, increase your inner capacity to show gratitude.  The more you will be gratitude the less will be your desire for more.  The spiritual person believes the theory of “art of gratitude”.  He transforms his way of thinking and living by performing this art continuously. He is steadfast and does not deviate from this principle in whatever he sees and whatever he gets.  He never shows any discontentment. He does not become gloomy.  He does not demand, does not show any preference for anything and he is always blissful.

To remain content and happy is an art itself.  If you are able to content in all the circumstances, say in standing, sitting, eating or drinking, you are bound to get an invitation or blessing from the supreme self.