Guest guest Posted July 15, 2005 Report Share Posted July 15, 2005 !!! HARI AUM !!! It has always been a very confusing state-TO BE or NOT TO BE? To ASPIRE or be CONTENT! If all remain content the world would not be as it is today. Who would stretch and do those inconvenient things? Why should Edison fail 10000 times to invent an electric bulb? Who would go that extra mile? Would there be EXCELLENCE at all ? (forget perfection) We tell children to study well and well and well and bring more and more and more marks. How about wealth? Do we tell them to create more and more of it? One can always tell them to make it legally, ethically, morally and spiritually. Still one is tempted to allot a very lowly state of aspiration to such urges. Does our 'satras' (the vedas, Upanishads, Puranas etc) promulgate prosperity or poverty and scarcity? Has any bad blood got into the interpretation of our scriptures? What is glorified in them? SUCCESS or Failures? So how do we go about it? If one is having a Maruti 800, aspiring for a Merc is perfectly alright or something is wrong? Is it possible to have unending ASPIRATIONS and limitless CONTENTMENT? To work without contentment is STRESS. Lifelong STRESS. Why not be content with my present situations and aspire for more? How do we do it? What causes agitations? ASPIRATIONS or to see HAPPINESS only after acquiring/possessing those things which one think will give him Happiness. Can someone spare a thought on these? PS. Prompted by an article by Janki Chopra of Vedanta Institute ,Delhi in the Economic Times circa July 05. ________ Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messages Only in Mail: http://in.mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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