Questioner: What is the secret of living a happy life?

Vishrant: Get enthusiastic about truth, get enthusiastic about love, about reality, put all your passion into it. Don't hold back any reserve. Go for it totally. Give it your all. Live life to its fullest.
Squeeze all the juice out. Have no backup plan. Burn all your bridges and just go for it.
This moment is not going to ever be repeated. Live it totally.

Be here now!

Questioner : How can I find inner peace with all the sadness I have in my life?

Vishrant: ( long silence ).......All our lives we tend to embrace what gives us pleasure and try to push away that which gives us pain . This leads to stress as there are forever things we don't like to experience . Many years ago while experiencing a bout of depression I found myself trying to say no , i don't want this , anything but this. I became aware that the attempting to push this experience away was actually causing more pain than the depression itself . On seeing this i decided to go the opposite direction and allow the depression to be present. To let it be without trying in any way to change it. The depression was a part of this mind that could not be separate even though i had wanted it to be. I started to see the depression as a part of this personality that really needed acceptance and love, not rejection. In so doing this brought acceptance and love to this condition that i thought had been a plague. To my surprise i discovered that even in depression there is a sweetness, a beauty, a peace. The door was simply acceptance and love. I soon found that this door included all the emotional states i had previously considered negative and not welcome. What a blessing something so simply has been , to totally accept all of the personality , not just the parts considered good. What a beautiful sweetness in all . Acceptance of what is, is the answer.

Questioner: I find that I am so attached to people and material things, do i need to give these up to experience Self?

Vishrant : ( laughter )For me it has been an ongoing adventure of seeing attachments and gleefully letting them go . It has clearly been seen that any attachment is a form of imprisonment . So as these latent tendencies of the mind raise themselves you have the opportunity for freedom . There is no need to get rid of things just let the attachment to them go .

Questioner: What is the best way to freedom?

Vishrant: Like the wind gently blowing through the trees , life gently carries on , the wind does not worry about where its been or where its going , it just keeps going , following the path of least resistance , what it can't go through , it goes around , no problem , just what is , life is just happening , let go , go with the flow , follow the path of least resistance . When there is no resistance life is beautiful . Accept everything.

Questioner: You say the devotional path is a beautiful way to go , what do you mean?

Vishrant: When heart is experienced all is beautiful . Heart does not divide , it joins , it brings everything together . When heart is present there is compassion for all . People are not judged on their merits they are simply accepted as they are , here and now . Seeing through heart allows all differences to disappear . Heart crosses all boundaries . Like the air in a room , it envelopes everything with kindness and care.

Questioner: I get so caught in worrying about the future , what is the best way to stop this worrying?

Vishrant : When you are attached to how the future is going to work out suffering soon follows . Let go of these attachments to how the future should be . Accept things as they happen , as what is happening, neither good nor bad , simply what is happening . This way you take the ongoing story of right and wrong out of your life . Life becomes more silent , more peaceful . More loving.