Inner truth: Be Truly Life-Oriented

A significant thing that every human being has to do is to structure their psychological and emotional framework around the most fundamental fact of their life — their mortality. Only when you do this will you naturally become eligible for a spiritual process, to a dimension beyond the mundane. The nature of your logical mind is such that it would like to eliminate death completely from its scope of thought. This is why most people are structuring their psychological process around a nonsensical idea of immortality — as if they are forever. Right now, it takes a lifetime for people to understand that they are mortal; they need a heart attack or the appearance of a malignant lump somewhere to remind them.

You need to celebrate and enjoy every moment of your life because life does not wait for you even for a moment. So it is extremely important that you turn this into a joyful and fantastic process. You will be truly life-oriented only if you know that life is for a very limited amount of time. So there is no time for frustration, depression, anxiety and anger. 

You can truly enjoy and joyfully walk through this life only if you know that you are mortal. You will want to experience everything. You will become super-alert. Your life will naturally look for something beyond. A spiritual process will become a natural aspect of growth for you.

The author is a yogi, mystic and visionary, and founder of Isha Foundation.www.ishayoga.org