ordinarily human beings are in search of happiness or pleasure and in their search or in their journey towards happiness they realize ,soon or late,that happiness is always accompanied by its shadow -misery. pleasure , though one may experience for some time but soon one has to live with it's friend -enemy pain and moments of pain always seem longer than the moments of pleasure.
to be with and meet your loved ones is a joyful event and parting or separation is the cause of sorrow. fulfillment of a long cherished desire brings smiles and mirth but is soon followed by boredom and dullness and further creation of new desires whch leads to a new chase ,a new hope.,anew goal though the cycle remains the same.Big money,name and fame,prosperity all bring short lived happiness and disease,fear of death and poverty create conditions of misery.thus ordinary life is like a see-saw where one dances on the waves of pleasure and pain,like and dislike,love and hate,profit and loss hope and despair .Like day and night or summer and winter ,these pairs of opposites are intertwined in such a way that to avoid either of the two seems to be an impossibility.
since ancient times human beings have lived in clans,families,groups,communities,nationsand have enjoyed and suffered accordingly due to these pairs of opposites.whether society was rich or poor,literate or illiterate,matriarchal or patriarchal,monarchy or democracy the fate remained same,,people found no way to escape from this world of duality.civilizations came and went,nations rose and perished but the world of duality remained the same.
IN every age and epoch some people tried to move beyond this world of duality ,struglled against these pairs of opposites and succesfully discovered a new world of non dual state which they declared was the perennial source of infinite happiness.they drew infinite energy from this source and tried to goad the human society on the path which would lead to this perennial source of happiness,the ocean of BLISS. such lovers of humanity were the seers or drishta or Rishis who were able to succesfully weaken the iron chains of the dual state and moved freely from dual to non dual state and vice-versa.
To come close and get drowned in this OCEAN OF BLISS is what these RISHIS say ,in true sense is the goal of human life.
