Life

 It is strange to see that most people are silent in society when there is so much exploitation all around. Why would millions of Indians keep quiet when they are being enslaved by the British Empire ? In organisations, when an employee is being bullied , why would others keep quiet? Probably because the foundation of society as a whole is fear and isolation . All of us are individual units, fighting against each other for the maximisation of pleasure , and actually, there is a zero-sum game . The profit of one company is the loss of the other.  What if a person tries to treat the maid at home on par? If somebody asks what price he will charge for the same type of work and what conditions of service he will demand, I think he would immediately understand what's happening. However, the question is quite uncomfortable, and that's why we brush it aside. I once asked a relative, who is an industrialist, whether the labour class is getting its due share of the profit he earns, and...

Why do people refuse to grow in a country where Krishna , Mahatma Gandhi , Sri Aurobindo , Buddha , J. Krishnamurti , Kabira , and so many great personalities were born? There is a discussion on one or the other personality in each home. We learn about these people through our textbooks, and yet we grow as self-centered human beings operating within a very limited frame of life. Why do we refuse to grow as human beings? Observation reveals that there are three reasons for not growing. First, "intoxication of pleasure", Second, "laziness to act", and Third, "loss of awareness of the larger picture of life". Most people get intoxicated for pleasure. In today's world, the means of pleasure and entertainment are available in abundance. We can watch YouTube videos and movies on the OTT platform almost all day long. Social media is at our fingertips. The departmental stores are full of products of many types. Zomato is ready to serve the food at our doo...

 Today I was playing with a 3-year-old kid. It was fun playing with the kid. The most wonderful thing about playing with the kids is that they are open to life. I played many tricks with the kid like to hide a coin, to hide her hankey, and she was quite attentive to find out the coin and the hankey. Then I played another trick with her to make her feel that her little wound was being cured magically. She would pay full attention to all these things for hours without showing any sign of fatigue or boredom. She was curious to know new things and explore. I don't know where this curiosity disappears in the grown-ups. Probably, the biggest difference between kids and grown-ups is that the kids live in the present moment. They are open to all the possibilities. They observe the reality as it is. While, on the other hand, as we grow up, we start talking to different people and gather their "second-hand experiences". We talk to our parents, teachers, colleagues, and other member...