Doing something is easy, doing everything is
impossible, but doing a thing that we can do with the best of our abilities is
not easy. Further, doing consistently whatever we can do, with the best of our
abilities has ever been extremely difficult, if not impossible. The fact that
man cannot move with the same precision as the planets can move, although, they
both are the participants of the same divine, has ever been the subject of the
age old inquiry that has always remained not easily answered.
Is
it because we think about what we should not think about, we feel happy about
what we should not feel happy about and we worry about what we should not worry
about? We are so much flattered about our mind and intellect that we do not
even care to even regulate the adulations thereof. Having been born with the
ability to think and feel as living beings, it is our duty to know as to why we
are born and how must we live to fulfill the purpose of our lives. Maybe, if we
know sufficiently about these matters, our actions will become flawless,
consistent and accurate.
We
do know a few things about the movement of the sun and we have some knowledge
(not the entire knowledge) about how important is the sun’s regular and
restrained movement for our life. Perhaps, just as the sun’s flawless movement
is essential for the life on the planet earth, our flawless actions and
activities may also be essential for something on the planet earth or
elsewhere. While we do not know much about us being of immense value to
something or the other in this universe, we can, at least, say that we are not
as unrelated to and unconnected with this universe as we think ourselves to be.
The
theory that we live to achieve the state of permanent happiness in life has not
done enough wonders in human life, maybe, because the penance needed to reach
that state is too much of a restraint when small doses of temporary happiness
are available on enticing discounts.
Perhaps,
being less fun loving and more dutiful, can allow us to breathe more freely on
a path demanding many self-restraints and feel more important in the affairs of
this universe. Being an earthy entity the human beings would do better to learn
from plants, animals, birds, and fish, etc. instead of the sun which is devoted
to the life of unparalleled penance.
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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