How to remain more Affectionate

[Guest guest]

My dear friends and like minded persons

 

I do not know whether you would consider this as a part of “The Art of

Managing Fear”. There are other parts to be still compiled in the series. Now

I desire to caption this mail as “HOW TO REMAIN MORE AND MORE AFFECTIONATE AND

HOW TO CHANGE THE ATTITUDE”.

 

When I desired to write on this subject, there was a serious question in front

of me whether it would forever be possible to change the Basic culture of any

human being (the hard disk of any human being). I am convinced that I have an

answer.

 

I present an example, one wife and husband are living together each finding

fault in the others and this continued for years. Age and time passed on

amidst all in-fights. Suddenly one day, the husband died and the wife could not

digest the situation that she has to remain alone and alone in the same house.

She started remembering those days and started finding the good deeds of her

husband though she was to search for them with great difficulty. She tried to

recollect only such of those pleasant deeds of her husband and shed tears as she

has to pass the future time alone.

 

This is a common example as we come across such situations in our life very

often. Sometimes we do not believe all this. I go for another live example,

take for instance we entered a desert or our place is effected by drought and we

struggle hard even to get drinking water.

 

This position can even now be witnessed in a few thousands of villages of our

country. I recollect those days of my stay in an un-electrified village where

people especially ladies used to walk to a kilometer distance to collect a pot

full of water from the deep wells. I observed that 80% time of the housewives

was wasted only for collecting water which otherwise would have been utilized

for some productive or income generating activity. Way back 1976 these

incidents gave rise to a heart burning article “The Reforms I expect in India –

The Next Generation” and the series of articles were placed in front of you from

time to time through this mail system. We got Independence sixty years ago and

we fail to provide drinking water in most of the villages, and of course, this

subject is out of the topic.

 

Back to the topic, we understand the value of water and we do not allow any

one to waste water. In other words, we show more and more affection to the

water. Human tendency is such; we do not recognize the boons we enjoy. We do

not realize practically the value of eye; only a blind man recognizes; we do not

understand the value of ear – only a deaf can realize; we do not respect our

parents for having granted us a healthy body – only an ill fated patient can

realize and this list is never ending. How many of us conveyed our respects to

HOLY MOTHERS on the recently ended Mothers Day? Did we realize that a Mother

anxiously waits to listen to her children – more particularly – an affectionate

voice? Perhaps we have not called her, since we do not realize the importance

of her as long as she physically exists.

 

When we go to Tirupathi for Darshan of Lord, we turn back repeatedly to have

one more – one more darshan, as if we are missing an opportunity and all this

amidst rough pushing by the guards. The value of Darshan increases at that

moment, don’t you agree?

 

Now, let us assume for a while that the other person whom we talk is not

existent in the next minutes, the way of approach surely changes and our

behavioral attitude unintentionally permits us to remain quite soft and polite.

 

In the day to day routine, let us practice that all that we come across or

interact, pro-act, react, are not permanent in nature. Surely we try to change

our attitude and we remain more and more affectionate. I have no intention to

create a fear psychosis, but my intention of writing this letter is to mention

that we remain more and more attached when we make up our mind that “nothing is

permanent” in this world.

 

I do not know, intellectuals of high caliber like you, accept this or

otherwise. As a student of life-time, I stand for correction of my ideas

always and forever.

Yours more affectionately

HARA HARA MAHADEVA

DR P V SESHA SAI ASWAMEDHAYAAJI

 

Vedanta Visarada, Adhyatmika Ratna, Sri Yaaga Vidya Praveen

Dr P V Sesha Sai Aswamedhayaaji

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15th May 2008