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Our life unfolds into a continuous succession of experiences, expectations, and achievements. This process is getting quicker and faster in the present times. Every day has enough opportunities and challenges of its own. But a common shift we can observe today is, if you meet anybody, he has one or the other unbearable problem or stress in life. We rarely find a person who has no complaints for life, be it on a personal level, social level, professional level, or political level. Sometimes I feel that life or the whole surroundings have become a complaint center. We clear one problem today and ten others stare the next day for their disposal. If we compare today’s life with the life fifty years back, we will find that, although the kind of facilities we have today were not available in those days, still people had harmony, serenity, and a component of fulfillment in life. Today despite the availability of all kinds of physical comforts in abundance, all that harmony, serenity, stability, and fulfillment in life has been missing. What is it which has brought such a change in our lives?
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Fight for existence is one of the basic instincts every living being is possessing since its birth. The very basic requirements for our existence, or our fundamental biological needs are, breathing clean air containing sufficient oxygen, qualitative and quantitative adequate water, and food. There’s a second line of our basic needs which contains Shelter, Sleep, Clothes, Sanitation, and other Social requirements. As humans have evolved to interact in community settings, build relationships, created cultures, and developed an ever-growing consciousness the social, cultural, technological, and all kinds of developmental evolution is the result of how the brain works. In addition to it, all kinds of emotions, sentiments, feelings, assessments, and judgments germinate here in the brain only.
The feeling of pleasure and pains are also the natural component of our brain. They are that part of the feelings, which in the situation of non-fulfillment of our vital needs in life, our brains respond more effectively, quickly, strongly, and intensely in a short as well as in a prolonged manner depending on the situation. Pain and pleasures are the outcomes of the intensity of our quality and the number of our needs. Now, those meticulously created and crafted needs have become the career path and ultimate objectives and target of life. Today they have become the parameter and benchmarks of growth and development and converted while the manifestation of corporates, governments, and other agencies with the only interest of taking complete control over everything including fellow beings.
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It is being done at such a vast level, that human has enslaved themselves before these needs and ever-growing requirements. Subsequently, pain or stress has become the permanent companions of people. We have been paying a heavy price for these extrapolated needs or consumption. We have been mining natural resources at a perilous speed and insanely cutting forests. We have been cruelly destroying the natural habitat of other life forms without realizing the damage we have been doing to humanity. Consequently, each one of us is paying a heavy price for this in the form of the quality of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. We have also triggered the unstoppable process of inviting extreme climatic conditions which have already reached a tipping point.
A mystical and illusionary mirage of more and more comfort has been created by the Hawks in societies and the world. Now the tool of technology is being used so effectively that the very purpose of life and humanity has become meaningless. A virtual world is being created to create a different reality where life has been confined to “How is life’ only? We have forgotten that we are part of a seamless web of life that exists and extends to the cosmos. We forget that “All civilizations become extinct before becoming technologically mature”.
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A philosophical principle states that “manifestations” are always for the benefit of others and not for themselves. Unfortunately the prime concern of humanity today is to address the question “HOW THIS LIFE SHOULD BE”? Whereas the basic question remains unanswered “WHAT IS LIFE AND WHY IS LIFE”? We have to fix our priority between the conflict of two How and ‘What is and Why’. While how confines life into means only, why and how indicates the very purpose. The purpose is the core thought while the means is just a small part of it. It is only the accomplishment of that which makes life meaningful. Life is much more than we can think of it. In my opinion, LIFE can be defined as “Lightening of Infinite Fire Eternally” in service to all, and not confining it to self gratifications. We are to attain ‘life’ in its fullness not a life of fullness.
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