Only a conscious, alert and dynamic person can get bored; a dull and inert person does not. If you get bored, it indicates you are more alive and human. It is a sign that you are growing, that you are evolving.
An animal, for example, keeps doing the same thing. It never gets bored. Cows, horses, birds do the same things over and over all their lives. People eat, watch television, change jobs, change partners to escape boredom. They become frustrated and this frustration takes them back to inertia and unconsciousness.
Only in two states does boredom not occur: in a state of total inertia or in a state of Divine consciousness. If you are bored, it indicates you are evolving. Boredom moves you. Be proud of your boredom and celebrate! Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form.
You can only seek that which you know and when you really do know, you already have it. You cannot seek something you do not know. Whatever you seek and whenever you seek it, it is always only One and the One is what you are already. So, you cannot seek something you do not know and when you know what you are seeking, you already have it. When you seek the world, you get misery and when you want to find the way out of misery, you find the Divine. A man lost a penny and was looking for it in a bush when he found a huge treasure. He was not seeking treasure but only for his lost penny. In the same way, when you seek something you may get something else.
The truth, or Self, cannot be sought directly.
-Written by: Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Courtesy: The Free Press Journal
