It seems if you have money, are prosperous, have good health, and all that which you most sought after, you shall be happy.
Should I then infer that the wise saint never knew happiness?! That Buddha was an imbecile to give up his kingdom because he could not stand an other's pain; that Gandhi was insane to have walked half naked just because more than half his country men were so poorly clad?
Greatness comes from within, just as happiness does. He who finds eternal happiness is great, for he is not stimulated by what the world so intensely is amused by.
We are so trivial that it doesn’t occur to us if helping an unfortunate one, really gives us happiness or if spending a saving for the delicacies and luxuries that the carnal mind so lusts for. We are stimulated by the stimulating, infatuated by the infatuating, and tempted by the tempting.
I shall with the greatest of gratitude thank God for the wisdom he gave me through my experiences; no, I am not complacent, I am no where near perfection, for I am only experimenting with truth. But I feel I have the ability to examine both sides of a coin with care, and hence regret the least. Should I by any reason be the most ridiculed, the poorest in terms of this worldly possession, I shall still find happiness and marvel at man who exchanges heaven for earth.
I despise the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like the mirage. To quote Anton Chekhov:
'You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.
Man has lost reason and taken the wrong path. He has taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like sweating horse.'
I hence don’t want to understand man...
-Jesh
2002
Me neither!!!
ReplyDeleteI perfectly agree with you brother but not the Gandhi part. Buddha was a great saint and had the best soul but Gandhi was selfish ignorant and an auxiliary to murder. Do not believe my words? Investigate into the hidden chapters of Indian history. He was solely responsible for the murder of Bhagat Singh, Suk Dev and Rajguru. The only reason why he did this was because he was scared of them and knew very well that if these honest freedom fighters were alive he would not have even a single soul to represent. Congress had already started loosing their grounds in fact the young Congress activists had already started speaking the language of HSRA ( Total Indipendence). Gandhi is an advocate of ahimsa. In Hindi if you add a in front of any word it becomes negative. How can your philosophy be good if the foundation of it itself is negative. The biggest question which even great saints like Shankaracharya and Gautam Buddha failed to find an answer to was “who am I ? ” However Gandhi never had any issues in judging the caliber of a nation. With this statement that he gave to press and radio after the chauri chaura incident “ Our country is still not ready for Indipendence” he clearly proves the point. I am sorry but the truth never sounds good.
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