" Be content. But not satisfied!" the late Swami Rama Bharati used to tell me. He was reiterating the old truism that the wealthiest person is the one who's content with what he or she has. Constant craving for more things, more success, more sex, and more premium grade ice cream transports us out of the present into a continual uneasy relationship with a fantasy future in which we hope things will be better. But God-in the form of the deepest states of consciousness-can be experienced only in the present moment. When the mind stops being distracted by what it hasn't got, it can start attending to what it does have-living presence of divine being within itself.
Yet complacency is also a spiritual pitfall. So the swami warned against feeling smug or self-satisfied, feeling that you'd gotten as far spiritually as you need to go until you've actually reached the final goal. Enlightenment is an attainable goal to those who sincerely strive and connect with divine grace, according to Hinduism.
"You can do it! You will do it! Do it now!" Swami Rama would shout.
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