leo-j said: I want someone to just be there.. and be my friend for the longest time.. I need that person in my life.. I keep getting hurt by lies |
This is the way of modern life... All people here will feel as you do at some point, and then, due to insanity, will plunge head first into their meaningless lives of sense gratification. Thus, forgetfulness will impell them to convince you that life is great. By the time you have your next steak or sleep with some meaningless woman, you'll think life is sublime again.
My personal emancipation from this endless cycle of depression (and you bet your ass any intelligent person should be depressed about the raw deal of material life) and elation has been Bhagavad Gita - especially one of the final verses:
Text 66
sarva-dharman parityajya
mam ekam saranam vraja
aham tvam sarva-papebhyo
mokshayisyami ma sucah
Translation
Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.
This being the internet though (and heaven knows why I still occasionally come here), my advice will be ridiculed and blasphemed. But you are desperately asking for help and even though I have no cedibility here, I am telling you that a serious uptake of spiritual life is the solution to all problems of life.
Krishna explains that one of the four types of persons who surrender to these teachings is one who is in distress. Some notable personalities have taken advantage of this knowledge:
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"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of lifes wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion." ~ Herman Hesse
"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do you want to just forget about the pain and then guarantee yourself more of the same in the future, or would you like to come face to face with the cause of suffering for the real self?
http://vedabase.net/bg/