Fearing to ride the roller coaster after going to an adventure park

Today, while walking in the park, certain thoughts struck my mind. Mother Earth is giving mass to different living beings on this earth. Our life on this earth starts at a micro level with the meeting of the sperm and ovum. We gain the entire mass, till the time we are born as a baby, from the food taken by the mother. After birth, we gain mass further by eating different kinds of food. When we die, the entire mass of our body again becomes part of Mother Earth as our bodies are burnt or buried. Soil gets recycled in the form of the mass carried by different beings. It takes the form of plants, insects, birds, animals, and human beings to again become soil.

Similarly, the large pool of consciousness keeps moving from one being to the other. It enters the body of one being and experiences life along with that being. With the death of the being, the consciousness is again freed from that body and starts operating in the body of the other being. 

Between birth and death is the grand stage of life. We come on the stage of life to live life. There is always an outer limit to the show. We can not perform perpetually. Different resources are made available to us to perform different roles with the body being the most crucial resource. We are also given wealth, power, and positions to perform our roles. We perform our role on the stage with the help of these resources and go back to the source after the role is over. 

Since we all know that we are on the stage for a limited period of time, it makes complete sense not to get attached to the resources given to us to perform the role. The resources have to be taken good care of. However, at the same time, we need to remain aware that they are just resources to help us perform the role. This understanding gives us complete freedom to perform our role. 

Somehow, most of us live life quite the contrary way. We slowly and gradually start getting attached to the resources. The more we get attached the more we get anchored in fear. We start fearing to lose these resources. We fear getting ill and dying. We also fear to lose positions and power. We also fear the death of friends and family members. With fear being our anchor, our attention is by and large occupied by the fear hardly leaving any scope to focus on the role. Thus, the very purpose of coming to this life gets defeated. we end up living a very dissatisfactory and meaningless life. 

 Awareness brings not only freedom to live in this world but also makes life meaningful and full of exploration. There is no fun going to an adventure park and sitting on the side of a fence fearing to ride the roller coaster.