How do you want your life?

John Lennon once told his teacher when asked what does he want to become when an adult, "I want to be happy."

How many of you live your life without thinking of the dreams you live for others? Your parents ask you to get hold of a degree because Mr. Xs' son had done the same and is 'earning' more than you can think of. Your friends stretch you along the same path because their friends and neighbours and relatives only talk about getting hold of a good degree. So what is a good degree?

For the free souls getting hold of a degree sounds like a trap. A bondage of chains where there freedom to think how they perceive the reality is at risk. To them education is all around. Getting knowledge from the books of Geography, History, Civics, Chemistry etc. is either a waste of time or not understandable. To them knowledge from all spheres, from Nature, from Self, from like minded people, that is real knowledge to have known.

That which comes from the books at school is something that keeps their focus away from Nature and self- experience. Nature, teaches us more than anybody or any university. Once you learn to learn from it you go nowhere else but come back again and again to it.

Alas! This does not give you a specific degree to satisfy the burning desires of appreciation and self loathing of your parents and so - called loved ones. They want to see you acquiring a curriculum vitae complete with names of various known universities along with capture of useless trophies.

How aptly can you define your life based on these degrees? I have come across men and women from Oxford, Trinity, IIT and Harvard who know all about the techniques to make money but nothing about the technique to look inside themselves even for a single moment of the day. How beautiful is there life? Do you desire one like it, where you know all as per the society and nothing as per the reality?

Yes, you will earn a lot of money once you gain these degrees and find a job that suits your pocket and unnecesary useless desires, but at the end even the big shots never die a happy life. Why so? They got all they need, they have money to purchase anything and anybody for that matter. Haven't we heard of many known rich people giving up their treasures for the sake of peace? Why couldn't they be peaceful if they had so much money?

Still want to get hold of a degree to jump in the pool full of portfolios, assignments and lectures? I'll say if you want to get laid go to college, if you want to learn go to Nature!

Peace and Light!