What is more important? How we live or why we
live? Even a big landslide may change the way we have been living for years,
but we can never escape from answering the biggest question, that is, why we
live. Perhaps, it is because of our failure to find answers to all the
questions beginning with ‘why’ that we have surrendered ourselves to the less
relevant or irrelevant issues of life.
We
talk about ‘work culture’ in organizations and spend much money, time and
energy to make our ‘work’ work for us. Even the keenest of the experts,
cleverly avoid the question, why we work; and try to find new ways to explore
how an organization must work.
We
have spent hundreds of years in designing, defining and arguing about many ‘cracies’
and ‘isms’ for the benefit of the man, but have failed to develop a strong
conviction that a man cannot live a meaningful life by thinking about and working
for himself, instead, he has to dedicate his life to the benefit of the
collectivity of living beings, which, obviously, does not exclude him.
How
is it possible that the man, which is a part of the nature, has disassociated
himself from the laws of nature that are not founded on ‘selfishness’ and ‘resolution
of conflicts of its components’, instead are founded on ‘each component
complementing the other’? Is it because, that the man out of his ‘unnatural
anxiousness’, has given undue attention to exceptions rather than the laws.
In
short, is it the ‘exception-phobia’ of the man that has developed in him the ‘how-mania’?
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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