"Dust thou art, To dust returnest...Was not spoken of the soul..." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
Must be wondering why i started off this post of mine with one of Wadsworth's verses...thats because the basic principle of life IS this...
life is a mere illusion...and when we take a sneak-peek into life with a wee bit of greater detail, we shall even discover that pain itself is false...suffering is just mind-sets...inferiority is nowhere in the picture...but where did all this start???
we go millions of years back...to the beginning of the animal era...after algae finished establishing the mammal population...where from did we humans come up and out??? it was perhaps the lowest and the bottommost species of one particular family of apes whcich lacked even the power of a donkey to carry load...but what made them rise forth???
God felt bad for his partiality and slowly...he implanted the circumstance for these handful of ape-hopefuls to use something He gifted them with...the BRAIN. at this stage, God did this in a very smart and liberal way - he knew every other organism had a gift...he was happy to grant this one special gift to these ape-hopefuls.
but was only the bestowing of the gift enough??? every other organism had the same mechanism...but what was so special in this bunch of "ape-hopefuls" that they could manipulate through??? competition and the urge to do more, the fury of being the lowest, the agony of not having a gift[they hadnt perceived the gift God gave them yet at this stage] and the disgust of dependance made them break away form the usual trends.
the discovery of fire and wheel...yes, we all know that...but did we study about the discovery of anger? the invention of fear? the rise of jealousy? the urge for over-achievement? "survival of the fittest means competition!!!"-you will protest...but is it competition in terms of helplessness and the need for survival or competition in terms of greed, envy and selfishness?
perhaps everything went well till humans were "Homo erectus" and "Homo neanderthalensis". when these 'humans' reached "Homo sapein"-ship was when the actual problem began. new to the society and ammateur at heart, who could teach them the art of meditation???
perhaps everything went well till these bunch of "special" organisms started a definite method of communication. when they started judging each other for the appropropriate jobs they did and segregation of jobs to make life easier, they actually sowed the seeds for their difficulties of mingling against discrimination today.
after a period of time, they began taking pride in their work and started discriminating the other folk of the jobs they did, though, on comparing efforts, everything seemed to show practically minor differences. they became so staunch, that there were the formation of umpteen sects, divisions, clans, families, and many more!!!
sometimes the end-result of curiosity leads to pain...pain inculcates fear...fear leads to dread and disgust...disgust leads to superiority and inferiority complexes...complexes leads to discrimination...discrimination leads to non-cooperation and today, the world's greatest problem is non-cooperation and war. what started off as a minor mistake becomes so huge that it reaps world-wide attention...may look hyperbolish...but i am afraid it's true...
we humans were capable of something as great as evolution from a low-bred primate to the highest and the most honoured and looked-up-at organism today. but why arent we capable of peace and harmony? satisfaction and contentment? joy and serenity?
why?
i repeat the clause i said at the starting of this post of mine..."God sent us here to live a happy life"...is this the human's idea of happiness??? when we were gifted with so great a brain which can manipulate straight into another organism's functioning and working, why do we use these powers only for negative things? work towards a happier life and cooperation for peace. our world is breaking up and is almost confetti for the birthday of setan's wrath on earth...we humans could go to this extent of destruction, we can reverse it. impossible is nothing and what we perceive is what we see. when we think the world is dead, you're right. but, we humans are known for our hope...there is always a small flame of hope, which is VERY feeble...but EVEN HARDER to extinguish, and this flame will not extinguish until the end of days. its upto we powerful humans to make up our minds...
think positive, work, pursue, protect, cooperate, lead, love, save, and believe[not in pixie dust, but in you], go green, thereby rekindle the flame of hope...and see this weeping mother's tears be wiped away.....
Friday, August 21, 2009
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