What does “having it all” mean to you? Is it attainable?

If someone says that I have achieved everything then it is just a false statement.Because man today can never achieve perfection in this dazzling world. What is the meaning of life? How can I find purpose, fulfillment and satisfaction in life? Can I find something of lasting significance? Many people never stop thinking about these important questions. They look back for years wondering why they feel so empty even though they have achieved everything they set out to achieve. In our humanistic culture, people pursue many goals thinking that they will find meaning in them. Some of these pursuits include business success, wealth, good relationships, sex, entertainment, being good to others, and so on.  People have testified that even when they have achieved their goals of wealth, relationships and happiness, there is still a deep void inside them, a feeling of emptiness that nothing seems to fill. You can achieve almost anything in life as long as you focus on achieving one thing at a time. It’s a time-tested strategy shared by many successful people.

As long as a man considers his relationship with the world, he considers it to be from the pleasures of his senses and from wife, son, family etc., satisfaction and contentment from wealth. But his love, satisfaction and contentment in this is neither complete nor continuous. When a man is satisfied, only then he can recognize how much he has got and as a result of this feeling, a feeling of gratitude awakens in him. Gratitude and self-satisfaction are called devotion towards God. Lord Shri Krishna has said in the Gita that the mind is called fickle because it is never satisfied. As soon as one satisfaction is achieved, double dissatisfaction stands in front. This breaks concentration, we reach the goal and start wandering in the middle. To tell the truth, sorrow and happiness are the experiences of the mind. Those who accept this world as happiness, such people remain happy throughout their lives. This is because such wise people accept that the world is as it is.  No change can be brought about in the world by someone’s wish. We cannot change the world.

In life, we all must have experienced that despite having all kinds of pleasures and luxuries, the mind remains restless. Happiness and peace are not found even in wealth, property and prosperity. There is more unrest. The reason for this is that the nature of matter is of pleasure and happiness, while the quality and nature of the mind is of peace and satisfaction. The mind will be peaceful only when it is satisfied. An unsatisfied mind cannot be peaceful. When we move towards peace through sadhana, then our connection with the objects of pleasure is severed. Just as a tortoise withdraws its limbs into its shell, similarly when we withdraw ourselves into ourselves, then we experience peace.