Monday 24 June 2013

INTANGIBLE, INVISIBLE.. WEALTH AND PROPERTY





Everything in this world has some connection to every other thing that happens and we realize, understand some, but most of it we either fail to get the meaning or just ignore them. Most of us wonder as to why some people are subjected to some kind of experiences, be it good or bad. Why some people are constantly living in pain and misery despite not harming anyone.. On the contrary most people seem to have an apparently great life despite committing “errors, mistakes and blunders”. Its most often witnessed in people having wealth, power and fame.

The answer to such experiences is that, we expect the results to come in for all the efforts instantly or in some quick time. We do well and expect good to happen on the spur and we do bad and expect nothing to happen. This is the big contradiction which emanates from the fact that most of us feel that all the actions we do are justified and nothing is bad about it. Good and bad are used in this write up in the most general, child like accepted manner. All that, which harms the self or even one individual is bad and all those, which does not cause any harm to anyone is good in general terms. 


I could experience the contradiction of what can life can give, in the case of my parents and my sister who have undergone such tremendous pain, struggle that, it shattered their life no end and my father die the painful death. I always wondered what wrong have they done to deserve such excruciating agony in life? They have not harmed anyone in the wildest manner possible and at worse they were innocents not knowing the worldly wise tricks of the world.


All they did and are doing is the silent suffering without holding any blame on anyone. How much i learn from them is incredible. But more than that is the point of why someone should suffer when they have not done any fault? Isn’t it only right that they should reap as they sow? On the contrary, why should people who are visibly involved in crime, rape, deceit, and all forms of violence and tortures get away and have the decent life?  Is this all fair and mathematically right?

The answers to all these are very much enshrined in Karma philosophy and bhagwad gita .. The creator cannot be cruel, cannot be indifferent and surely can’t be unjustified and he has some design for all of us. His design is the reality of intangibility and invisibility.. of the wealth and property which transcends life after life.

 The return on investment is not meant for this life..It has got the recurrent account and is for several births. The cycle of investment is for the contractual births and deaths of which this body will not have any knowledge but is embedded in the soul which has got the memory of one million terra bytes or incalculably more. If the mind’s capacity is indeterminable, how can we try to gauge the power and capacity of the soul? Hence all our actions of all the births are stored in the soul and they come up as good and bad investments made in lives before the current life.

 Since we cannot understand the power of soul in quantifiable terms and since it is not even necessary to understand, the best we can do is to set our accounts right every minute and every day.. We are incapable of setting right the old accounts. But we can have a good balance sheet for this life and this will reduce the debts and liabilities of the past. Trust the gita and karma philosophy and this is the truth.

Only if we are short sighted, we plan for this life and crib on seeking for our actions.. But if we think of the soul and its journey, then all our actions have to be guided for ever permanent reality of doing only good. I know people, including grusha will offer a welcome and wonderful debate of what is good for you is not good for me and there is nothing universal about good and bad. Agreed hundred percent that, it’s all relative. But one request is do unto others what you expect others to do to you. Very simple, isn’t it ? this is good , that benefits the self and could benefit other souls too..

To cut it short, i feel its easy to follow the following and get maximum return on investments for ever,... and forget about the immediate benefits.  1) Think before uttering every word, and ensure it is in sync with that you think, say and do.. Then when u will actually mean it in all truthfulness, pause and ponder if that may hurt or cause any indirect harm to anyone or anything. 2) all actions should not cause any pain , hurt or  cause indirect loss or suffering to anyone .. 3) None of what is said and is done should harm the self... Better to postpone some actions and do it only if you inner voice says ok or else, in listening to someone, you would have damaged the fabric of life. One action has several chain repercussions .Hence every action and word from us has to be valued before its released.

Somewhere, the incident of uttarkand and deaths has made me think that we do not value human life in India. That is why, there is no detailing done on the possibility of what could go wrong? we are never prepared by eventuality . We think positive to avoid facing the problem and land up in most helpless situations. This happens 10 times a day in all situations for all of us.. We are over confident or negligent. This happens again because we only look for short term gain. I think all actions have be to be gauged for all defaults and mishaps in all means.

Long term gain will alone make us sensitive to intangible, invisible wealth and property and that is being good and doing well all the time. It is not easy but surely not impossible as all it needs is the courage to face the truth and understand life better in a more simple formula given by karma philosophy. Be a good banker and avoid feeling helpless.  Trust me, every silence before a thought uttered and every pause before an action in remembrance of god will help you avoid the wrong. I am trying and so request you to do ... can i ?





2 comments:

  1. I suppose Sir its all about faith , it is about standing firm in our beliefs in spite of how difficult the trial is or how painful the experience . Hence I feel sometimes what we go thru both joyful and painful is a only a test and they are nothing but passing clouds . Hence there will be moments that seem cruel and unjust but I guess thats what they are,just moments . And what we do in those excruciating moments determines whether we hold our head high when we look at ourselves in mirror or our eyes droop down in admission of our compromise and guilt.

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