sushil soni
03-Nov-2009, 09:35
This is a harmless piece, but I think it is provocative...so, without prejudice, I just wanted to share my views on this forum. If you find it worthy, then I'll be happy to have your views, else you can just throw it away... Sushil Soni.
When was the last time you saw the stars on a clear night? How much are you close to nature now than you were a few years ago? You are glued to your television sets endlessly watching the soaps that dull your mind and the news channels that do not in any way trigger your imagination, apart from putting into your brains with stories of more violence, more violence and more violence. These electronic instruments are taking you away from the world you live in, from your very own self.
The trouble is that all these bites are taking you away from reality, the real you, the real world, the real universe we live in and the real thinking process. All that you are doing is soaking in facts and statistics from this information technology revolution that seems to have chained you. You are bound, unable to move away, unable to get the freedom that your heart is seeking. Your school education, your college degree, your office environment, your home, your relationships with all the people around you has no meaning at all, because you have become a mere robot, with no sensitivity. All that you do is work like a machine and die like a rusted machine. You put into your body medicines, you put into your body foods and intoxicants that do not suit you and you confidently say that your body is now well oiled to work for eternity.
We tend to forget that this body in which we have come to live is going to stay with us for ever. That's why we become insensitive, that's why we have become callous. We do not care what we do because we think that nobody can touch us, nobody can punish us, nobody can dare us. So, we can do whatever we like, whether it means abusing anyone, killing anyone, beating up anyone, or robbing anyone. Because we think that nobody can harm us, we tend to harm others.
This is not living.
We live in ignorance and bask in the glory of self-created egos that prevent us from seeing the reality of things. The reality is that we are idiots living in an idiotic world that we have created ourselves!
Look around you. How many people are happy? How many people are healthy? Go the hospitals, go to the clinics, go to the spiritual retreats, go to the banks of the rivers in India during festivals, go to the places of worship. And you will know how many happy faces there are in this world!
I believe that the ultimate purpose of living is finding about ourselves and about the world around us. I believe that the ultimate goal of life is to spread happiness and health and not to create situations where others suffer. Look at the animals in the wild. We are always glued to our television sets. Watch Discovery and National Geographic channels and see how the animals behave. How many tigers have killed other tigers to gain just money? And what would you do with that money after killing the person and stealing from him?
We are victims of your ignorance because even after having been educated, you have not been taught to look into yourself. There have been many great people in this world, who had been highly educated but who created great difficulties, who misused their powers, who killed and maimed and who were instrumental in the great wars that killed millions of people and destroyed many wonderful man-made marvels.
I'm reminded of what I wrote in one of my poems:
"We have still not found our vision, though
Centuries of struggles have wasted deaths."
Yes, have you ever thought that all these millions of people who have died in the past for this idea or that ideology - all these deaths have simply been wasted? Whatever happened to those Revolutions? Whatever happened to Afghanistan or Iraq? How much have they changed for the better? What will happen to our world if such people are going to spread their wings? We just saw the maps of Central Asia change. Are we going to see the maps of other places change? What for? And for whose satisfaction????
Has all this happened because of education or a lack of it?
What surprises me is that I have stopped seeing the housebirds - the sparrows - visit my window in the morning and wake me up. Where have they dgone? What surprises me is that the winters that I used to experience during childhood have gone forever. And we are sitting like ducks. Let's wake up to this reality!
All we have to do is: Think about it.
When was the last time you saw the stars on a clear night? How much are you close to nature now than you were a few years ago? You are glued to your television sets endlessly watching the soaps that dull your mind and the news channels that do not in any way trigger your imagination, apart from putting into your brains with stories of more violence, more violence and more violence. These electronic instruments are taking you away from the world you live in, from your very own self.
The trouble is that all these bites are taking you away from reality, the real you, the real world, the real universe we live in and the real thinking process. All that you are doing is soaking in facts and statistics from this information technology revolution that seems to have chained you. You are bound, unable to move away, unable to get the freedom that your heart is seeking. Your school education, your college degree, your office environment, your home, your relationships with all the people around you has no meaning at all, because you have become a mere robot, with no sensitivity. All that you do is work like a machine and die like a rusted machine. You put into your body medicines, you put into your body foods and intoxicants that do not suit you and you confidently say that your body is now well oiled to work for eternity.
We tend to forget that this body in which we have come to live is going to stay with us for ever. That's why we become insensitive, that's why we have become callous. We do not care what we do because we think that nobody can touch us, nobody can punish us, nobody can dare us. So, we can do whatever we like, whether it means abusing anyone, killing anyone, beating up anyone, or robbing anyone. Because we think that nobody can harm us, we tend to harm others.
This is not living.
We live in ignorance and bask in the glory of self-created egos that prevent us from seeing the reality of things. The reality is that we are idiots living in an idiotic world that we have created ourselves!
Look around you. How many people are happy? How many people are healthy? Go the hospitals, go to the clinics, go to the spiritual retreats, go to the banks of the rivers in India during festivals, go to the places of worship. And you will know how many happy faces there are in this world!
I believe that the ultimate purpose of living is finding about ourselves and about the world around us. I believe that the ultimate goal of life is to spread happiness and health and not to create situations where others suffer. Look at the animals in the wild. We are always glued to our television sets. Watch Discovery and National Geographic channels and see how the animals behave. How many tigers have killed other tigers to gain just money? And what would you do with that money after killing the person and stealing from him?
We are victims of your ignorance because even after having been educated, you have not been taught to look into yourself. There have been many great people in this world, who had been highly educated but who created great difficulties, who misused their powers, who killed and maimed and who were instrumental in the great wars that killed millions of people and destroyed many wonderful man-made marvels.
I'm reminded of what I wrote in one of my poems:
"We have still not found our vision, though
Centuries of struggles have wasted deaths."
Yes, have you ever thought that all these millions of people who have died in the past for this idea or that ideology - all these deaths have simply been wasted? Whatever happened to those Revolutions? Whatever happened to Afghanistan or Iraq? How much have they changed for the better? What will happen to our world if such people are going to spread their wings? We just saw the maps of Central Asia change. Are we going to see the maps of other places change? What for? And for whose satisfaction????
Has all this happened because of education or a lack of it?
What surprises me is that I have stopped seeing the housebirds - the sparrows - visit my window in the morning and wake me up. Where have they dgone? What surprises me is that the winters that I used to experience during childhood have gone forever. And we are sitting like ducks. Let's wake up to this reality!
All we have to do is: Think about it.