We
can’t please everybody, including ourselves, all the time. This awareness keeps
us away from unnecessary ‘activities’ and helps us conserve our energy for
right ‘actions’. Our activities are generally meant for our survival in a
manner so as not to cause any harm to others, living or nonliving. The actions
are for aligning our conduct with what is right, for rectifying the mistakes of
the past and for making our lives meaningful for us and purposeful for the
others.
Our activities, maintain our individual lives and our actions
sustain the eternal, infinite universal continuum of which, we, being the most
intelligent element, are an important participant. There is nothing trivial
about our activities; and there is nothing great about our actions. Similarly,
we are neither insignificant, nor very important. All the crests and troughs
are for maintaining the flow, not just for creating any ripples. The conditions
of floods and droughts could be a part of some natural process to help the
rivers gain some experience so that they can flow uninterrupted for long times.
We have senses, mind, emotions and ego; we can’t altogether rule out
experiencing surges of energy and dips of depression. The detachment is not
death; it is also a process of getting rid of tiresome and confusing agonies
and ecstasies. We should not run after ecstasies to keep away from agonies. We
can’t create floods to avoid drought.
Those who have gone and settled in forests might be having
their own reasons for having done it. But, those who are much inclined to make
their lives full of events in search of sensory pleasures or even for reminding themselves and others of the
existence of the God, have either failed to realize or have forgotten that the
life itself is a big event where each moment provides enough opportunity to
live. Who needs ‘kicks’ when a big challenge such as life is before us? It is
more than enough for us if we learn to maintain the right balance of ‘activities’
and ‘actions’. If we do that, we would experience necessary ebbs and tides,
crests and troughs, events and ‘kicks’ and also our share of pleasure and pain.
Is it not strange that instead of working on our individual and collective
life, we have busied ourselves with working on our pleasure and pain?
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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