About the future, we do not know anything.
About the past, we can’t do anything. We say, only the present may be of some
consequence. However, we cannot make any decision about our life, relying on
any outside help that we may anticipate, are presently receiving or might have
received in our past.
Anticipated
outside help is as unreal, as our future is. We can learn from our mistakes of
the past; but, we cannot learn anything from the outside help we might have
received in the past on the basis of the outcome of the help we had received,
as that may lead us to draw erroneous conclusions. We might, then, undermine
the sacrifices made by others for our benefit if the net outcome of all the
efforts made by us, as well as the others, happens to fall short of our expectations.
The only enriching episode of any outside help occurs in the present when a
feeling of gratitude might get triggered. We can make this enriching experience
last longer if we dedicate a part of ourselves for helping others, which
happens to be consistent with the universal consciousness.
A
natural urge to help others, possibly, is a state of our minds. Whether others
help us or they do not, and, whether others should help us or they need not,
cannot be considered as the natural states of human mind; they may simply be ‘a
few of the many desires’ one surrenders himself to. Such desires may appear when one does not
sufficiently rely on his own efforts or has misgivings about natural human
limitations.
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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