Life

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...