Precisely How All Humans Completely Waste Their Lives
Imagine a man
That has a terrible cough.
The cough varies
From day to day.
And year to year.
Some days
The cough becomes so bad
That he vomits blood.
Some days
The cough becomes so harsh
That he becomes light-headed
And cannot think straight.
Over the years
The experts have given him many treatments.
The blue pill
The red pill
The yellow syrup
The green syrup
And so on . . .
Some days
The blue pill lessens the cough
For a few hours.
Other days
The yellow syrup
Alleviates his symptoms
For an afternoon.
He tosses between
Each of them.
This is how his life goes
Until the day of his death.
On the day of his death,
With his final gasping breaths,
He prays,
“Lord, all of my life I have suffered from this cough. It has consumed my entire life. And naturally, I had to use the various treatments and methods I was given simply to make it through the hours. But before I die, perhaps you can grant me one wish. Kindly grant me the wish of knowing exactly the true cause of this cough. No treatments, no managements, no improvements, no methods. I’ve been dealing with those all my life. And I’m dealing with thousands of experts. One telling me that it’s from this, another telling me it’s from that. Before I die, I simply wish to know the exact cause of this cough. Before I die, I simply wish to know The Truth about this.”
Imagine that The Lord
In his wisdom and mercy replied,
“A mile and a half to the south of your house lives an old man. The old man burns his garbage each Tuesday. He has a habit of eating a particular oil. When he burns the cans of that oil, the chemical in that oil is released into the smoke that arises from his yard. The prevailing wind in your part of the country is to the North. The smoke is slight by the time it reaches you. Practically invisible to the naked eye. That smoke, and the oil that it carries, has caused you the cough for all these years. If you had moved even a quarter mile south of him, or to a different location altogether, your life would have been completely different. This was The Truth that you never came to realize. Not necessarily by any fault of your own.”
Man suffers from various elements.
Anxieties
Conflicts
Confusion
Indecision
Insecurities
Fear
Worries
Dilemmas
Failures
Struggles
A massive and unbearable load . . .
And a constant stream of problems . . .
Throughout birth to adolescence to adulthood to old age to death.
All of his life
He follows the prescriptions
Of the experts.
Chasing one method
After another.
Suffering one ailment
After another.
Never curing Anything.
Never being given the True Cause
Of anything.
At this moment
There are many smokestacks
1.5 miles from every man’s house.
At this exact moment
There are many Truths
That are available and Ready
For him.
A slight adjustment
Would solve most to all of his problems.
And he would Have
What he has always sought.
He would live
The way that Nature intended
For him to live.
Free
As Nature itself.
Free
Of an ocean of problems.
Because he never walks the steps
Toward those Truths . . .
Because he is never informed
Of the old man and the smokestack . . .
He complete wastes
The opportunity that this life provides.
He lives in ways
That Nature never intended for him to live.
For the life that he lives
Is so irreversibly consumed
And saturated by
The advice he has been given
And the beliefs he has imbibed,
He has neither the time or the opportunity
To look anywhere else.
He runs closer and closer
Toward the edge of the cliff
Each day of his life.
Precisely where the experts
And the ways of society
Have led him.
The Truth does not care
If man comes to it or not.
For The Truth
Has Everything.
And needs nothing.
Unless a human
Is willing to give everything for it
He cannot have it.
It does not stand to any logic or reason
That he should not be willing to give anything for it.
For what can he possibly have
Without it.
Truth
Is the only thing
That Works.
And works consistently.
That is why
It is . . . The Truth.
Without it
It is a life of lies.
Thus,
A life of problems.
Thus,
A tragically wasted life.
Namaste.
Kapil Gupta is a personal advisor to Kings, Queens, CEO’s, Professional Athletes, Celebrities, and Performing Artists around the world.
His books include:
Atmamun: The Path To Achieving The Bliss Of The Himalayan Swamis. And The Freedom Of A Living God
A Master’s Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living
Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive truths to the enduring questions of life