Nature is all about using what is needed for one’s survival and leaving the rest
for the use of others. What happens when one keeps to himself what he does not
need? Is it not wasting much time and energy for taking care of something that
is of no value to him? Is all the effort put in to safeguard something useless
not a net loss? In addition to this, what about the neglect being caused due to
one’s undue involvement with the useless, of those things that may be of real
use to one’s life? It means there is a loss of opportunity also.
The nature has a tradition of giving away, and, has been
living happily since time immemorial. The man has been shying away from giving
away, and, has been failing to complete the life term allotted to him. Further,
even the cut short life term has rarely been without miseries. Amassing health,
wealth and happiness, all together, is not without many contradictions; one has
to share them with others, if one is able to possess them beyond his needs.
All living beings, in their lifetimes, get an opportunity to
live with the nature; but, the man is gifted with the rarest of the rare
opportunity to intellectually analyze his relationship with the nature and,
thereby, learn what is worth learning. If he fails to use his intellect for
this purpose, undoubtedly, the right purpose, he gives away to his world, his
precious life in exchange of piles of miseries for his own consumption.
The antidote of misery is not happiness; it is unburdening of
piled up miseries due to ignorance; and, happiness is avoiding miseries by
giving away all that is not really needed.
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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