{"id":36968,"date":"2017-02-14T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=36968"},"modified":"2017-02-14T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T10:48:08","slug":"stop-destroying-yourself-with-fact-based-living-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=36968","title":{"rendered":"Stop destroying yourself with fact-based living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Context is decisive.\u00a0 When we live our life based on facts, we are stuck with fear and greed.\u00a0 When we live our life with a \u201creality-based\u201d cognition we will live by radiating grace, power and abundance.\u00a0 This article deals with our current plight of fact based living and what\u2019s possible when we shift our cognition to a reality-based living.<\/p>\n<h2>The trap of fact based living<\/h2>\n<p>If your every-day thinking and feeling is based on the so-called \u201cfact\u201d, you will be stuck with more fear, greed, incompletions, bondage, suffering, and torture.\u00a0 Food is required for living.\u00a0 If you are spending twenty-four hours on food, that same food will kill you.<br \/>\nFacts are required for simple, smooth running of life.\u00a0 But don\u2019t be obsessed with the fact-based life.\u00a0 Don\u2019t judge yourself, gauge yourself every day based on the bank balance you have.\u00a0 Obsession with facts will destroy you.<\/p>\n<h2>The reality test<\/h2>\n<p><em>Anything which was not there yesterday, cannot be there today.\u00a0 Anything which is not going to be there tomorrow, cannot be there today.\u00a0 <\/em><br \/>\nWhen something is not going to be there tomorrow, how can you say it is there today?\u00a0 A stone may not exist in the same form tomorrow.\u00a0 This means, the stone may be factual, but not real.\u00a0 Today if you take this stone and throw it on somebody\u2019s head, they will be hurt.\u00a0 This is not to deny its power and existence.\u00a0 But it is not real, because, tomorrow it may or may not exist in the same form.\u00a0 If something cannot exist tomorrow, it is not real even today.<\/p>\n<h2>The root of suffering<\/h2>\n<p>Your whole life, you are centering it on \u201cfactual\u201d.\u00a0 That is why there is so much of suffering.<\/p>\n<h2>The way out of suffering<\/h2>\n<p>Let your cognition be established on \u201creal\u201d.\u00a0 A person who centres his cognition on \u201creal\u201d, lives a non-serious life.\u00a0 Non-serious life is what is called \u201cCelebration\u201d.<br \/>\nEstablish yourself beautifully in the space of Completion and reality.\u00a0 When more and more of your bio-memory and muscle-memory become Completion and reality-based thinking, you will LIVE.\u00a0 It is not that you will not bother about facts; but you will handle them intelligently.<br \/>\nFor example, driving is a basic lesson for you to reach your office.\u00a0 But, to run your office, you need a different cognition.\u00a0 If you think, \u2018Oh, driving itself is a big, great thing I learnt\u2019, then be a driver your whole life.\u00a0 You will never become a CEO.\u00a0 Fact-based cognitions, understandings, calculations, are like learning to drive; but reality-based cognition is learning to LIVE.\u00a0 Please learn to LIVE.<\/p>\n<h2>What does it look like to live a reality based life?<\/h2>\n<p>Reality based life is living enlightenment.\u00a0 The grace which comes to you when you learn to live the courage, beauty and grace of enlightenment, even kings will feel jealous of you.\u00a0 Celebrities will feel shy looking at your grace.\u00a0 And kings will feel jealous of the power you are radiating.\u00a0 Businessmen will feel guilty of the abundance in which you are living.\u00a0 In a life with reality-based cognition, no one can torture you.\u00a0 All those who try to torture you will finally torture themselves and disappear.<br \/>\nLet your life be reality-based.\u00a0 Let your bio-memory and muscle-memory be more and more built on reality-based cognition.<br \/>\n<em>Based on satsangs delivered by rare Living Incarnation <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/srinithyananda.swami\">Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/lifeblissfoundation\"><em>http:\/\/youtube.com\/lifeblissfoundation<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/nithyananda.org\/video\/life-has-no-hypocrisy\"> Morning Satsang<\/a> with Paramhamsa Nithyananda<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>23<sup>rd<\/sup> January 2015<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context is decisive.\u00a0 When we live our life based on facts, we are stuck with fear and greed.\u00a0 When we live our life with a \u201creality-based\u201d cognition we will live by radiating grace, power and abundance.\u00a0 This article deals with our current plight of fact based living and what\u2019s possible when we shift our cognition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1954],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}