Celebration - Your Way to Salvation

Man is always changing places. Either he is running or hiding from something or seeking something. Basically, man is trying to run from himself trying to find tits and bits of pleasure from here and there. In this mad chase, one thing which has been become constant to man is seriousness. Being serious has become his second nature. He will try to find thousands of things that can make him serious and will miss out on all those things that take him to laughter.

Man is the only mammal who can laugh, a blessing given only to him. No other animal on this planet can express emotion such as laughter. Ironically, for him it is easy to cry but difficult to laugh. When he laughs then he suddenly fears, that he has done something outwardly wrong. His very nature is so abundant, so limitless, and yet he tries to limit himself.

Small children when burst in peals of laughter, parents often scold them because; they find it something very unusual. Just observe them and see how much they laugh. They just celebrate and for no reasons. If you ask them, why you are laughing probably they will not answer. They will just laugh and run away and you will stand there trying to interpret why did they behave like this.

Such has become the fate of man that he has to watch antics of clown to tickle himself. Have you ever thought that is all that seriousness worth? You are missing out on life so much. Your lungs have become so choked, so blocked that doctors advise you to laugh to clear this lung blockage. But you always need reason to laugh.

‘Why?’ Has eaten up the whole mankind. Can't there be any reasonfreeness. Remember, celebration can only happen when there are no reasons attached to it. Because then it becomes a never ending process. If your celebration has a reason then if reason ends, your celebration will end too. You can be reason free only when you have delved deeper within yourself and touched the source. Celebration is always within you and around you just as ocean is within and around the fish. You are living in it but the problem is you are not aware if it. And because you are not aware of it, that's why you don't realize it.

Meditation or the art of delving within just gives you the glimpse of that celebration, that laughter. You experience it and you come to know that there is so much more to explore. When you see a serious person, just think of frozen ice that requires melting. The whole world is created out of celebration. When divinity wanted to celebrate itself, it manifested itself in the form of this world. Remember the theory that the universe is created out of one big sound. Well! universe is created out of one big divine laughter.

With laughter everything becomes so easy and simple because laughter is melting. You don't hold tight. You just allow things to go. Laughter is all about being natural and easy. You never know just by laughing you may find the truth. In the climate of laughter, salvation can happen and you know why, because now you don't hold on to anything. And when you loosen up, great things can happen. Mystics just sing, dance and laugh. Their faces are so lit up.

Once you have laughed enough, once you have touched the extreme level, then this very laughter will change into silence, into such stunning, reverberating silence where this silence too dissolves and all that is left is inevitability. From laughter to silence, from silence to inevitability.