The man made no mistakes in learning and
realizing that he cannot make appropriate use of his intellect, a precious gift
given to him by the God, unless he shared the natural resources and all what he
received from this physical world, his efforts, his sufferings and pains with his
fellow beings. Within no time of his arrival on this planet he began to learn
the art of living with others. Those who deeply contemplated about the ways of
striking the right balance between man’s Pravritti (man’s thoughts and
conducts dedicated to his physical (bodily) and intellectual efforts for his
happy survival on this planet) and Nivritti (man’s thoughts and conduct
dedicated to knowing the truths of the things and happenings in this world and
about the meaning and purpose of his life), were revered by all others as the wise
people. The compilations of the outcome of
their thoughts are generally termed as ‘the Scriptures’ and referred to
by the man to find answers to many questions that appear in the human mind.
Everything
changes in the universe. Perpetual change is a universal law. The human race
itself has the ability to effect many changes in the circumstances the man has
to live in. The scriptures also have to be ‘live’. They cannot be allowed to stagnate;
otherwise they would lose the ‘ability’ to benefit the mankind and his
surroundings that may extend to any extent, even to the extent of becoming the
entire universe. However, the thought that cannot change is that there has to
exist the right balance between human Pravritti, Nivritti and the
thought that the man, notwithstanding his insignificance on account of his
abilities, is a significant participant in the affairs of the universe. The man
can never view himself as an individual entity detached from the human race,
all that is animate and inanimate in ‘his’ universe and the entire universe.
Of
the three, human Pravritti, Nivritti and the essence of our collective
existence with all others, nothing can be undermined. It is not difficult to
understand that the major cause of our sufferings in modern times is that we
have failed to achieve the right balance of the three in our life.
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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