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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