Sunday, 6 July 2014

HAPPY ENDING OR RESPONSIBLE ENDING?

When we read fiction stories, many times the stories conclude with a  happy end.  
The reader breathes the fresh air and  feels relieved , their hero or heroine is  ultimately experiencing  an unending happiness.  
Even during a marriage the priest may ask the couples to take vows, "till death  do us apart"
However  observation of natural laws shows us something different from a happy ending, there is no problem with happiness, but to make  it ever lasting, sounds a  little out of space. 
There is some thing which is ever existing  or never ending  -
“the legacy of responsibility.” 
Every person has a different role to play in different stages in life  and responsibility changes according to what position  and role  the person is  in.
For a young baby  responsibilty  would be  getting into things,
For old men and women responsibility could be getting out of things ,
For adults  responsibility could be balancing  both side of things, while being engaged in  the present, and looking at the future .
A happy end shows us some kind of selfishness, either I am ending with happiness or once my happiness is over then who cares for the future?
That is the exact consciousness Duryodhana had when he was dying, He told the pandavas, "at least I enjoyed as long as I  lived, now you are living with all this blood shed."
He was so selfish and self centered, that  the future of others did not matter  to him .
On the other hand Pandavas when they were winding their life, they created  a legacy  of a  stable  future life and Pariksit took up  from where his ancestors left " The legacy of responsibility."
It is our choice if we want to be  like Duryodhana and think, “ I enjoyed life and  not care  for the future,”
But  will this attitude work?
Environment is calling and crying,  being brutally abused by our generation, as we die if we think, “wow at least I had great life.”   What a sad state of mentality that is.

Our inner misunderstanding creates a  shapeless world and our inner understanding gives shape   to shapeless  the world. 
What are we up to?

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