The challenge of life is to use the power of our intellect to realize the Truth. Because we are slaves of our own mind, we get carried away by our monkey mind, as it jumps from thought to thought. It does not let us introspect and contemplate and thus we live and die without realizing the Truth. The Truth is that we are the Divine Soul. We are not the body; we are not the mind. We are not even the ego. This is a myth, but we live with it.
What will we take with us when we die? Is it not true that we can't take anything? Nothing belongs to us. Still, as long as we live, we continue to say, 'This house is mine, this car is mine.' We live as if all our relationships are permanent. But this is a myth. The Truth is that nothing belongs to us. Nobody is ours. We come alone and we go alone. We know it, but we don't realize it.
We pray to our God as a statue. We know God is not a statue. But we get carried away by the mythology of religion. We follow rituals, superstitions which are not true. But because we are prisoners of Maya, the cosmic illusion, we see the movie that is projected on the screen. The screen which is the reality, is forgotten behind the projections. The Truth disappears because the myth is projected. There are several Truths that we must realize if we want to experience Peace, Bliss, and Joy.