Seconds turns into minutes, days into week, young
into old, new becomes obsolete, that is a law of nature. Many of us look
sublime to these change by not contemplating, did we leave something
productive behind for our younger generations. It is good to think about the
saying, “The world we are living in is not owned by us, we are simply the
caretaker of it to pass to our younger generation.” We feel eager and hurry to move ahead
hurriedly to obtain ones greed without the glimpse of thought to turn back and
see what we have done.
Humans race are so deceived by the foul call of
being permanent. As stated in the book of Sogyal Rinpoche, ‘The Tibetan book of
living and dying’. He said, “The birth
of man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives the more stupid he
becomes, because his anxiety to avoid the unavoidable death becomes more and
more acute what bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His
thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the
present.” Its worth to say that the foolishness of self has made us conditioned
in living, as if nature is going to change and we are not.
Note it from the day we started exposing ourselves
with the world around us, we had been foreshadowing our thoughts and ideas with
interrogative pronouns, where we tediously work to sabotage the gift of nature
and forget ourselves to live the life of a day. We strive to accumulate the
materialistic wealth for so long that we forget the purpose of us being
different from other creatures. Why we are not content with what we have? Are
basic goods not enough for us to breathe the air on the earth?
What are that we doing by accumulating the wealth,
if we are subject to the change and decay. Why should someone live the day
by thinking of what is out reach?
It will be wiser for us to look to this day and live the life by enjoying the varieties and realities of our existence with right actions. As said by Azhi Nangsa, " We are born to die, we accumulate wealth to exhaust, we meet to apart." knowing the clear scenario of our kind, why should we centered on me, mine, i and self , after all every one life ends the same way.
And Gandhi rightly said, " Live as if your were to die tomorrow and learn as if your were to live forever". If we follow this wisdom of great Gandhi, no doubt we will make meaningful living.
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