It's All about Inner Peace

When there is nobody at my house except myself especially during the time between late evening and night, I will switch off the lights inside and outside my house, open the windows slightly to get the minimal amount of light from the surroundings and lay off on the bed and try to feel the tranquility consciously surrounding me.

Yesterday was one such kind of evening. My cousin left to stay in his brother’s house, my neighbor had not arrived to house yet, my owner did not switch on his TV, the kids of the neighborhood were not playing on the streets, the guy who plays flute in the apartment in front of our building is also silent, weather outside was cool, no vegetable vendors on the street, no babies were crying; it is as though the entire neighborhood was pondering or tied of routine work and were sitting ideally. There is no voice or noise anywhere where my ear can identify or can reach it. Whatever sounds (droplets of water coming out of the tap, cool breeze coming due to slight movement of the trees, the whistle of the pressure cooker) I was able to hear were coming so rhythmically . What a moment to get lost into tranquility. But for some reason I could not able to do so. There was something that was refraining me. I searched. It was my own mind. Contrary to the silence outside there was lot of hullaballoo in my head. When I concentrated, I heard lot of noises and voices and then the entire solitude was gone. I was unable to enjoy the precise moments of the silence. Then I realized “It does not matter however and how much beautiful things are outside your body; if there is turmoil inside you it all over.” This means the quality of life is not determined by the outside circumstances it is determined by your state of inner peace and Joy.