Every human being aspires toward a life of wellbeing, prosperity and happiness. We desire to have a long and healthy life of limitless possibilities, immense wealth, and loving and harmonious relationships with others. Such a state of emotional, spiritual and material fulfillment is described as a state of abundance.
Yet the world is full of scarcity, weakness and broken dreams. Attaining money, success, ‘name and fame’ appears to be an insurmountable task. Moreover, once attained, these easily slip away. Money can be lost. Businesses fail and jobs are lost. Relationships break. Happiness becomes fleeting.
From a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset
From the Buddhist concept of dukkha (life as suffering) to the Hindu idea of maya (entrapment in illusion), various spiritual systems describe the world as a place of deep dissatisfaction, perpetual struggle and great sorrow. Gurdjieff spoke of the earth as a ‘pain factory.’ Meher Baba described the human life as a constant journey ‘from one disappointment to another.’ The Old Testament referred to the ultimate pointlessness of life as ‘vanity of vanities’. It comes as no surprise that The Rolling Stones’ 1965 music hit ‘[I can get no] satisfaction’ has officially been recognized as one of the greatest songs of all time, due to its lyrics’ strong resonance with a popular culture in which anxiety, disquiet and feeling of futility remain salient traits of a modern (wo)man’s life.
But for all that, the spiritual science recognizes a fundamental truth – that it is this life, as we know it, which we experience as dukkha. To this, Buddha offers a solution, the Noble Eightfold path – and the anapanasati meditation – as a way out of this suffering. The world remains a net of illusion as long as we are stuck in our sanskaras (habits, mental impressions and behavioral patterns); yet the yogi knows there is a way to become a master of one’s own destiny. Mystics and spiritual teachers identified the restless and wandering mind as the source of great misery and perennial failure. They found methods to grow through awareness, to overcome self-limiting attitudes and discover the key to a life of peacefulness, grace, gratitude and fulfillment. They showed that it is, indeed, possible to lead a life of purpose, success and unlimited abundance.
Tapping into the great Universal Mind
There is a great universal source of unlimited energy, wealth and success. To manifest abundance means to tap into that source; to attune one’s body and mind to its vibrations, so that unlimited flow of prosperity becomes reality. We are all creators, capable of reshaping our present circumstances into a life of everlasting abundance. We deserve to be happy.
The Universal Mind is the all-permeating superconsciousness, from which the individual, human consciousness also arises. Mystics, seers and masters have said that the Universal Mind contains the collective memory of the Universe; that it is not time- or space- bound; that it transcends nature; that it is limitless; and that it contains all knowledge and wisdom. Re-uniting the individual mind to that energy field, to that cosmic ocean of truth and consciousness, enables us to manifest abundance effortlessly. Once attuned to the Universal Mind, all wishes come true. In that state, “Ask and it will be given to you” becomes an everyday experience.
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