Fundamentally we are all looking for the same thing...happiness. This pursuit of happiness can be wrongly channelled by surrounding ourselves with material possessions. It’s very easy to fall into the trap of wanting something to make us happy. We say to ourselves if only I had a bigger house, another pair of shoes or won the lottery that would make me happy but the reality is these things don’t give us lasting happiness. The sutras tell us happiness comes from the self-realisation of who we are. We have the capability for happiness within us but we have to liberate the mind from its complexities before we see our true Self, our Purusha. What makes this a difficult path to follow is our Prakriti which is ever changeable. From the moment we are born our Prakriti which encompasses our intellect, personality and ego grows changing all the time. In modern day fashion is a good example of something that is always changing. Women’s clothing has changed dramatically throughout history. At certain points, historians talk about women being liberated from their corsets in the 1900’s and the freedom that came from wearing trousers for the first time in the First World War. We changed the way we thought about the clothes. These changes made headlines at the time and were very much frowned upon by certain members of society. The Sutras teach us to accept that change is the only thing that is certain in life. We mustn’t hold onto it as this will allow our ego to surface.
Alison :-)
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