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Saturday, April 21, 2007

A trice to impugn apostasy

What a weird title? Yes, it is framed in an impromptu fashion. I took three words from last dictionary.com's word-of-the-day and made it a working title for this post.

We are creatures of habit. Our actions are manifestations of what we learn and imbibe from working environment. Any diversion, even it is for better, is not usually well digested. This paves way to what we require to quantify Happiness --- a state of mind where we get what we desire, not what's best for us. Needless to say that any schedule designed to take accommodate only one's interest is selfish. One's principle or faith should be tailored towards not himself, but in the interest of others. We feign common cause and usually all our actions and reactions are chained towards satisfying our ego. No self worry has ever been useful. It is hard to acknowledge that we are all ephemeral, and what we feel is of no consequence in the days to come. It reminds me of Gandhiji's talisman.

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."





1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

I had to go three times to google to figure out the meaning of the title :-) Lets see if I got it right:

A short period of time to challenge ones religion

Is that what you meant ?

A pretty good post, and a truly philosophical one. I think you should label it under philosophy. And a rant it certainly is; why, if I dint know you, it would have taken me a lot of time to figure out the import of the post. I have a pretty huge comment in mind, so I think I'll make it a post on my blog :-)

S.Vidyaramans

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