What is the most astonishing factor in anybody's life ?
This was the question that I encountered in one of the old tamil devotional books that I was going throgh recently.
I tried thinking for a while but the answer that I fould looked startling but true in a very logical way.
The answer was "even after knowing that the life is short and will end unexpectedly all the human beings are full of dream or desire packed future."
We plan for various things in future. We are aware that the house that we construct will outlive us. The plate that we use to eat food is going to live longer than us. And a definite uncertainity dangles over our head always that gives us no notice of whatsoever before the curtain is drawn on life.
The biggest uncertainity that becomes certain at an uncertain future date is DEATH.
No one likes it and no one speaks about it, except an insurance agent who tries to sell you an insurance policy.
Indian philosophy calls this phenomenon as "maya". A person with dreams, ambitions and passion to live the life which has the hidden uncertainity of coming to an end at any point of time without a slightest clue is illogical so it is called effect of MAYA.
When you stay in a hotel room for a day or two you don't try to care much about the things that are in the room. Because you know that it does not belong to you and your stay is temporary and for a price.
I may stay a longer time in the house that I built but it's too not permanent. Hotel room belongs to me as long as I am there in the hotel so as the house.
The conclusion is I don't sit and cry because I am going to die at a certain point of time in my life. I will try to use the opportunity called "life" for a better purpose called "living happily or living with a purpose worth living".
Everybody's future is dark (death) in some point of time in the future. But today is certainly NOT DARK.
This moment is not dark. Tomorrow might not be dark.
Life has given so many colors. One of such color is dark. A human being is by default painted with bright colors. Else the entire creation would have come to a stand still with adam and eve thinking of death and doing nothing further to produce us.
Let not the trivialities of life bother us day in and day out. For there is a day out for certain in future, let us not make the present DARK.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.... COLORFUL FUTURE... HAPPY LIFE....
This was the question that I encountered in one of the old tamil devotional books that I was going throgh recently.
I tried thinking for a while but the answer that I fould looked startling but true in a very logical way.
The answer was "even after knowing that the life is short and will end unexpectedly all the human beings are full of dream or desire packed future."
We plan for various things in future. We are aware that the house that we construct will outlive us. The plate that we use to eat food is going to live longer than us. And a definite uncertainity dangles over our head always that gives us no notice of whatsoever before the curtain is drawn on life.
The biggest uncertainity that becomes certain at an uncertain future date is DEATH.
No one likes it and no one speaks about it, except an insurance agent who tries to sell you an insurance policy.
Indian philosophy calls this phenomenon as "maya". A person with dreams, ambitions and passion to live the life which has the hidden uncertainity of coming to an end at any point of time without a slightest clue is illogical so it is called effect of MAYA.
When you stay in a hotel room for a day or two you don't try to care much about the things that are in the room. Because you know that it does not belong to you and your stay is temporary and for a price.
I may stay a longer time in the house that I built but it's too not permanent. Hotel room belongs to me as long as I am there in the hotel so as the house.
The conclusion is I don't sit and cry because I am going to die at a certain point of time in my life. I will try to use the opportunity called "life" for a better purpose called "living happily or living with a purpose worth living".
Everybody's future is dark (death) in some point of time in the future. But today is certainly NOT DARK.
This moment is not dark. Tomorrow might not be dark.
Life has given so many colors. One of such color is dark. A human being is by default painted with bright colors. Else the entire creation would have come to a stand still with adam and eve thinking of death and doing nothing further to produce us.
Let not the trivialities of life bother us day in and day out. For there is a day out for certain in future, let us not make the present DARK.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.... COLORFUL FUTURE... HAPPY LIFE....
