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“When we are not controlled by our desires, when we have controlled all our vices, when we have taken ourselves beyond time and when there is nothing ahead or behind us, then we are free, we are peaceful and we attain Nirvana.”
     What actually peace is? Where does it lie? And how can we achieve it? With these questions, I would like to start exploring philosophical aspects of peace and its relevance in modern beings life. 
Peace makes us stable throughout life
“When we are stable, neither happy nor sad, neither angry nor sympathetic, neither excited nor dull, then we are peaceful.”  Peace is something which is neither mortal nor bound with any time limitations, that means once it comes never goes, it stays perpetually. One who attains peace finds himself above all and comes to know the real truth of life. Peace cannot be bought from outside or won by competition because it stays within us and in enough amount that it cannot become a scarce good ever. But ironically, most of us are interested in things that are scarce and temporary, further can only be gained by harsh competitions.
           We work very hard or even indulge in immoral acts for winning these competitions. But why do we do it? Because these competitions in our present world are a source of money and material. We all know what does money and material means for this globalised world. They yield happiness, enjoyment and pleasure (HEP) for us. All three are subsets of peace but they have a huge difference.
           HEP cannot transcend the boundaries of time and hence once they are over, we again start running the race. It means HEP cannot satisfy us fully, after some time, we get bored and then again we want more and more and so on. On the other side, Peace stays throughout our life.
Peace and its inverse relation with Desires
Peace can only be attained when we would understand that the desires are the main cause of sadness and all desires can never be fulfilled. Hence better to get out of desires.
         Theory of Karma emphasises on working out of influences of desires. We can religiously follow Karma theory to attain peace. For instance, If I want to be an Indian Administrative Services (I.A.S) officer, then I have to work for it but without caring for whether I will be selected or not. Otherwise, I would get extremely connected with my desires and when they won’t get fulfilled, I would get depressed and even like in my small town many young boys and girls sadly commit suicide. Hence it's better we should bind ourselves with the work rather than a goal or any desire.
        Our happiness and sadness are connected with our desires. When desires get fulfilled we feel happy otherwise sad. This cycle of happiness and sadness is driven by desires. When desire goes, peace exists. 
         Suppose, my desire of becoming an I.A.S. gets fulfilled. Now does it mean that all my desires are ending up here? No, instead desires are starting from here and now big desires would come. I am happy not because of just becoming an I.A.S. rather the various things connected with it like fame, money, power etc and if any such thing couldn’t happen as I desired, I will again be sad. An I.A.S. officer needs good job location, on time promotion and much more. Further going one step ahead, one day I will have to retire and the way my graph raised exponentially, it would come down the same way until I die. Hence these desires would have no meaning then.
How can Peace be achieved?
    When a person dies, he doesn’t have anything to acquire or lose, hence peaceful. The same way we have to train our mind to the level that we could understand whatever we are/want to acquire/lose is temporary and we have to focus on something which is permanent. Meditation can be a beautiful tool to train our brain to such level.
  Meditation as a tool:  The best way of practising Meditation is to first silence yourself, sit in cross-legged posture with spine comfortably erect, keeping your arms upon thighs with palms facing upwards, eyes closed. One has to keep mild focus between two eyebrows for at least fifteen minutes twice a day to witness adventures of Meditation.
    Meditation won’t let desires drive us and destroy real motives of life. It empowers us to understand and adopt this beautiful quote, “Every second you throw away, every minute of every day, get caught in a myriad because life won't wait for you.” 
         Meditation would not give happiness rather give us peace and takes us beyond time. It’s like a heavenly ray of light, neither getting reflected nor absorbed, just trapped inside us, acting as a lamp to guide us through the difficult path of darkness, until we met with enormous amount of light signifying our permanence dissociating us from all temporary evils i.e. happiness and sorrow, and we attain Nirvana.
    At Last, I would like to say that our desires themselves show us the way to get out of them. Just try to find out the duration until a desire can make us happy or sad, surely we will find a couple of minutes or hours, after which we are again the same. Hence, why to run behind such temporary cravings and why not to find out something which stays perpetually.  
   Is it not beautiful to see ourselves anger free, calm, stable and aware of many mysteries unknown to mankind. Why life is only on earth, why do we live, we die, why things are created if they ought to be destroyed. A myriad of such questions will only have answers when we understand what is permanent in the earth, what is permanent in us, can only be achieved by attaining Moksha.