Happy New Year!!

 New year !!

Life is an opportunity bestowed on us to make good. To make for happiness , of others as well ourselves.

The biggest stakeholders in this business are ourselves, none others.

it follows that a measure of responsibility be displayed by us while living it and while forfeiting the right to it.

i am not intending to be cruel when i say far too people are giving up easily,too easily the sacred gift earned over several centuries of living in various forms.

Saint or sinner it matters not, we are here and we have to make most of it.

As the saying goes , a saint has a past and a sinner has a future.

meaning , at any point of time there may occur a turnaround.

that is why patience is so much commended .

we live in the world of dualities.

health, disease, prosperity, poverty, success, failure, friendship, betrayal, love, neglect , hatred are all facets of this phenomenal world.

it is as real as we think, as unreal as we may make it.

the first line is adopted by people who think this world is everything, the second line by people who think beyond this apparent world.

unfortunately there is  no school which teaches us these basic truths.

comparisons ruin us.

comparisons with others as well as juxtaposing our present with the glorious past we may have gone thru.

or stupidly thinking that the night of despair we are going thru will last and last for ever.

What after death is a question not for theologians alone. It is for all of us.

Our past was the base for our present and our present will shape the future.

Commonsense suggests the action is in the present, the results in the future.

Again, if we were to focus on  results  our work style alters and we put a brake on nature’s flow.

Stripped of rhetoric this is what Nishkamakarma , propounded by lord krishna , means.

Ours to work, HIS to reward.

A simple truth twisted out of shape.

It pains me to see so many lives lost thru suicides, and worse.

Life is a continuum , so is death.

Many mistakenly think that by ending their present lives their suffering would end.

The wise say the effects would be carried forward into whatever future form we may have.

There is evidence to support this. Theists or atheists or agnostics, we have to face this truth, that we are in large part responsible for our present condition.

It follows that we do have the time and the opportunity to reshape it and rebuild it.

This is optimism at its basest. This is positivity in action.

This is the path of happiness, of ourselves as well as others.

What we have not created , in the physical sense, we have no right to terminate.

It pertains to our families  also.

What right have the adults who are parents to destroy the offspring ?

And who gave  them the right .

It is time the civil society wakes up to this threat as a threat to extinction .

#newyear #life #philosophy #responsibility #karma #2023

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The Miracle Worker

 

This is the case of a Miracle worker. Unlike others he was a Reluctant one.

A government servant in a South American country , He was a faithful follower of Christianity , A householder who upheld higher values, and little known to wider  society.

He suffered from searing headache . No doctor could cure him. He would hear a voice, agree, agree.

He knew  not where it came from .

In a fit of defeatism he heeded the voice.

And the headache troubled him no further.

One of the family friends was suffering from terminal cancer.

He went along with his wife and stayed there for the night.

Earlier he had offered the usual consolation  to  the patient .

In the middle of the night he woke up and entered the kitchen.his wife was a silent observer.

She followed him.

He picked up a knife, went upto the patient’s bed, and plunged the knife in the region where the tumour was.

He lifted it , went back to the kitchen, placed the offending flesh in a glass jar and returned to his bedroom.

His wife , who was the witness , was too stunned for words.

Next morning she checked up, and the tumour was in the container.

The patient was taken to the hospital . surprisingly , the doctors found the tumour missing from her body.

Bar a small cut in the flesh which healed by itself there were no complications.

Thus started a healing mission that startled the medical community, gained him massive publicity and of course such negative attention that he was jailed for quackery.

A sympathetic politician supported him to the hilt and he was freed.

Thus ends the first phase of his mission.

We will take up the second phase later.

#healer #spirituality #philosophy #journomurthy