A central concept in our path is Farrah. What is Farrah? It can be translated to the word "bliss". It is a feeling of exaltation, a sense of happiness and a presence of knowledge and spiritual current. Indeed, it is a connection to Divinity which produces all these feelings. It is the very joy and happiness that everyone is looking for and everyone is missing. It is that mystic necklace the ancient kings were searching for, a necklace whose beads were joy, peace, state of no anxiety, inspiration and all the exalted states. It is that spring of life in search of which Alexander travelled to the edge of the world, and in between two mounts and in a time between two sunrises found the spring and bathed in it.
In daily life people seek Farrah by various means and methods. Some seek it by listening to music, eating good food, travelling to beaches and other sensual activities. Some others seek it by intellectual activities: by reading books, by pursuing science, by practicing arts and others. Those with spiritual tendencies seek it by rituals, chanting, theology, meditation, mindfulness and others. Verily all of these are forms of Farrah, but limited forms, and their effects vanish soon like ethanol in the air.
For true Farrah is obtained only by "life": a life dedicated to goodness and virtue, and in particular, a life dedicated to one's mission in establishing goodness in the world and eliminating oppression. Such life is all Farrah.
You do good works, you improve your behavior with people daily, you care about virtues, you consistently increase your knowledge of morality and ethics, and apply them to your everyday actions, you have realized your mission in life and actively opposing the oppression and injustice around you as part of this mission, then you will feel Farrah from the moment you wake up in the morning until the time you sleep in night, without having to do any special action, any ritual or any meditation.
You are not diligent in doing good work, you are not taking any action in establishing justice and eliminating oppression, but instead you do three hours meditation in the morning, study bible regularly, chant worship songs, listen to mindfulness radio, or if you are not spiritual-inclined you may go to hot yoga classes everyday, watch movies, participate in every party and dancing around you, but after all these events you barely find any peace, any Farrah.
And if any Farrah induces it will fade away the next day like shadows that disappear in the morning. Still the stress and anxiety ghosts go before you like welcoming waitresses. You feel amazed and puzzled as to why, and it is because the way to Farrah is through pure and holy life only. It is about the whole life and its direction, and not about a single act.
So "life" becomes prominent in our path, and how we conduct it and participate in it. In our path, life in this world is not a vain event, it is not something to escape from into meditation or cloister colonies, or replace it with rituals, or replace it with movies and other forms of fantasy. It is indeed a way to Divinity and the most sought after happiness, and some in our path would say it is the only way. Otherwise why this world was created in the first place?
The myth narrates that Ahura Mazda (The Great God) created the world as an agreement with Ahriman (the Great Evil) so that Ahriman can be defeated and banished in the battle of light-darkness. And the center of this battle is human, who is to choose between Ahura or Ahriman, and his choice shapes his final destiny. Thus, human fulfillment is to participate in this battle by following the law and wills of Ahura which are summarized in the primeval religion of "Good thought, Good word, and Good deed". Farrah and true happiness only happens when participation in this good-evil battle happens. The wheel of fortune turns once you step on this battleground.
Neither by religious rites, nor by reading scripture, nor by meditation, nor by belief in certain dogmas, nor by church membership peace and spirituality will be achieved. Neither by watching movies, nor listening to music, nor by traveling to tropical areas, nor by reading best selling books "how to achieve happiness?!" happiness can be achieved.
Even if you constantly travel from here to there in a first class jet, depression will come after you in its own jet. The more you try to achieve happiness in this way the more it flees from you, and thus the paradox and dilemma of happiness that they talk about. All these approaches are wrong. The way to Farrah and happiness is by a life dedicated to a high and holy goal, dedicated to the mission of raising affection and rooting oppression out.
Farrah becomes most intense when one does the work he is intended to. A man is given the talent in science, so his Farrah is perfected when he engages in scientific activities and discoveries with the goal of service to humanity. He would gain less Farrah by other good works. Another woman has talent in communication, and her Farrah is complete when she does work in social service or political activity. Another person has no special talent and Farrah is complete when he does rough work of sweeping or other manual work. Each person has a mission, a holy mission, in life. Realizing and following that mission leads to Farrah in its most glaring form.
Therefore critical to the concept of Farrah is the concept of Mission. Mission is the key to Farrah. Mission is what you are created for, your role in this world. Find your mission, there are clues to that: your talent, your path of life, opportunities coming your way, and more important than them all is your inner call. Listen, your inner angel is calling you to your mission, what is that thing you were always dreaming of?
No one is without a mission and purpose. Life is purposeful and so is everything in it, and so are human beings, every single of them. Each person is given talent and opportunity to do his mission, but it is up to him to do it or not, and in fact many people don't and, and so they become barren.
There was a bazaar in the old days with many stores and many precious products. And a man was walking in it with lots of gold in his hands. But he did not buy anything, and just passed through and at the end dropped his golds and left the bazaar. This is the story of people who do not do their mission in life, and live in the world empty hearted and leave the world empty handed.
Different people have different missions. Some have small missions as sweeping the street, and some have magnificent missions as leading the world. This is not an unfair matter, for greater the mission greater the trouble and stress. You might covet why that man is to lead the world, but at the same time that man secretly wishes his mission was to just sweep the floor.
There is absolute justice in distributing missions, and obtaining Farrah is equally easy and hard for all. No one has more advantage in obtaining it than others. Farrah is for everyone, but the way to obtain it is different for everyone. For some it is by manual work, for some it is by scientific work, for some it is by active political life. Everyone has a path, follow your path.