Being Truly Happy - What does it mean to you?

Being truly, madly, deeply happy and what it means. 

A person is most beautiful when he/she can be him/her-self, without the ego or the roles forced on him/her. We all have a life story that we think shows the real us. We have learned the ways to express ourselves and maybe we found out new ones on the road which lead us here.

How do you want to be remembered? What is the thing - your special thing - that nobody else can do the way you do? Who are you for real? Why are you still here? What do you want from this human life? Why should people even care? What is your gift that you are willing to share?

Take off the mask of illusion and throw away all the mental burdens you have packed on over the years. What years, decades! Yes, we are that old now! Yes, even you, I know exactly!

2021 is here, today is soon be over, so is January. Crazily fast - that's how time flies and it won't stop. What matters only is how you use your time given. I could make jokes about it but I prefer to be deadly serious, for now. Relax, just for now.

Try to find and see the plan behind this world's creation. This can not be an accident, a 'big boom' or however people out of fear describe it. Your existence has a purpose and you are going to fulfill your destiny, one way or the other.

The mind is the key, if it works for you - you are happy, if it works for itself - you are stressed. Too many mind is lethal, just like no mind at all. There is a golden center where the mind is just as much as you need, working for you - the way you trained it.

Never doubt this: being happy or feeling stress 24/7 is caused by your reaction to this material world. You are just a tourist here so don't settle for more. You are a wonderful creature made of pure love, why would you accept less than eternal bliss? God is not a religion, God is not impersonal, God is not just energy. God has names, forms, and enormous fun in His pastimes. Do you want to be truly happy? Just start talking to God, whenever you feel like it.

your ever well-wisher friend,

Kata Varga

Journeys in human life

What is your journey at this moment? Inner or outer, pick one! Writing requires both because you can't go inside if you haven't been outside a lot. Obviously not just us - writers - have this quality. All of you had to live this human life to the fullest - whatever that 'fullest' meant to you. It still has a solid pressure on you, doesn't it? Social media, the friends and relatives - even the enemies -, like the whole world watching you. It's not - just for the record.

Relationships and attachments, reasons why we carry way too much baggage. Yet, we all want our lives to be easier. We do our best to become lighter - in every way. What is your perspective? How many roles are you trying to make work? I bet there are just too many.

As I see things now, at age 36 and in a woman's body - material conditions -, and as an eternal soul - spiritual condition, I can't remain silent. I have to write it down as many times as I can: we all must evolve. We all must find our faith and our way back home. I am aware that so many people deny their connection with God but it is there, waiting for them to open up.

The feeling on this important inner journey is like nothing else from before. You don't have to pretend nor tell it to anybody. Just try not to avoid it directly! Everything truly happens for a reason and it is hard sometimes to accept. Bad things also happen because they have to (call it karma, call it a lesson, call it the way you want). Human life is about suffering and enjoying, they are both happening with each and every living being.

What matters is how you react to them, how you think about them, how you speak about them. It all shapes your today and tomorrow. The past is the past, we can all agree on that. But the present and the future is still open, it can change everything for the better or it can push you to live hell. Your call. Reactions. Mindset.

Think about it!

your ever well-wisher friend,

Kata Varga

Sri Jiva Goswami - Krishna Prema Mayi Radha Yugalashtakam - What is pure love?

In life or in death - what is the meaning of pure love? Can you define that? Where can we all find our eternal shelter as Sri Jiva Gosvami's poem in eight verses telling us? Can we truly understand what he means?

Love for God is the only real and pure love anybody can feel. Each and every other relationship has a motive, a purpose, a little this and a little that. When a husband loves a wife - there are many reasons, even more of the things a man wants from a woman. Not going into details here, hopefully, we all know exactly what I mean. The same goes out for women, a wife loves a husband when he acts nicely, and despises him when he doesn't. Simple material life. The same happens between parents and their child or children, between friends and relatives. 

As long as we are alive, we have the chance each day waking up to love God. Not talking about any religion here, just pure love. But how can you love somebody if you have no idea who he/she is? 

First things first, you have to ask the right questions to the right people. Any person who you trust and has knowledge about God. The treasures are there, all you have to do is gather all your life-force and ask for the map.

Human life is a gift with limited access. I recommend you not to wait for too long to open it! Each and every day is taking from you, yet you live your life like it is there forever. Well, in another form it is going to be but human life has an end. Nothing can stop death from coming so better use what is given before he arrives.

Every mother knows what is pure love and service when it comes to her child or children. In a relationship with God, you have to learn how to act the same way. Unconditionally. Lose yourself! Lose the ego and the always busy mind!

We are souls, never ever forget that! Pure love for God is the nature of the soul.

your ever well-wisher friend,

Kata Varga

Surrender to God - what does it truly mean?

Surrender has many meanings but there is the only one that is truly needed. We have to give up our material way of thinking, the 'me' and 'mine' illusion. We have to see and understand things very clearly, cut to the point. What are the principles of human life, the principles of living a life for God's service?

To be conscious is the key. To become God-conscious, aware of spiritual life and daily duties that help us to get closer and closer to God. It's not hard, requires only an honest heart and determination.

True intelligence is to share what you have learnt with all the others you can reach. How can you tell if someone is qualified or not? Well, just look at how he/she lives his/her life, how he/she treats other living beings. What a person speaks about is telling you what is inside his/her mind. 

We need a clear understanding of who God is. How can we reach that state of mind? Only with pure devotional service. What makes it pure? I believe when you have no personal motive. Being devoted to God and His service feels superb. I can't tell all the flavors and colors you experience with human words.

Material life is limited. Not just by time but by karma and the false ego. How can anybody overcome them? Well, not by speculations of the mind. One must approach a pure devotee of the Lord. That is it.

your ever well-wisher in the New Year too,

Kata Varga