While sitting atop of the park gate at 5 in the morning with the agony of a fractured thumb,
a friend approached me and consoled "Nothing is permanent neither this fracture nor the pain"
I knew what he meant & smiled back.
On brooding over his comments, I realized that they weren't just words of solace; in fact
they implied the very first law of nature. The law of change.
Yes, change is a law and we have no exceptions to it. Arthropods, animals, humans, day, night, time, nature, feelings, love, memories, faith, believes.......... sooner or later any and everything changes.
Nothing stays for ever, Dynamism is the word.
Its so true that nothing in this world is permanent. We confirm it on all levels:
Universally, stars forge and collapse.
Globally, continents shift and climates change.
Personally, each of us is constantly evolving & will continue to (be it mentally, physically, spiritually or in any other sphere) as we confront with the challenges of life. You will not think in the same ways as you used to think 10 years ago or will think after 10 years. This is because after 10 years u would have changed a lot depending on the situations you faced, people you encountered & so on. With flying time we observe our physical variation, mind shifts, changing relationships & our previous possessions wearing out & new coming in.
That is to say we live in a world of constant flux & when we refuse or ignore this knowledge it results in suffering as when we fail to acknowledge impermanence, we adhere to things such as our youth, to our health, our relationships, and our possessions. We cling to them as though they could provide lasting happiness, as though they will last forever. Eventually, reality intervenes. That to which we cling is taken from us, and we forced to face the truth of impermanence. Thus we have the pain of a stolen car, of an ended relationship, or the death of a loved one.
Even the word permanent here is itself used temporarily for the time which is so called exists.
Could you possibly cite an example for anything permanent?
Maybe change? Oft said change is the only constant.
Well guys as I also regard change as the only constant & mind you things never change, we change. But lately I started to feel that the world is far more dynamic & complicated for sometimes even change is not permanent.
Sometimes I feel stagnation is the way the world goes & somethings will be the same for ever like only females can give birth not men :p (I guess you are wise enough not to indulge the latest scientific developments.)
Well this will not change as it is relative. I guess we won't get up one fine morning to find that we have changed to a hippo :D , yet each morning we do change.
Even death is not permanent we will get a life afterwards. Behind every sucess their lies a faliure and behind every faliure there is a sucess so you see nothing stays the same forever.
Time make changes even time is not permanent it will come to an end. Even end has an end.
Who said "nothing is permanent"? My goodness there are still artifacts around from Roman times and before!
'Stuff' can certainly be permanent. But that's not what is valuable in life...we all know that.
Values, situations, relationships, status, ecology, cultures, language, mood, state of mind...and a myriad of other things change and flex, disappear and grow......stagnation is NOT a good thing. Change is often for the better. True progress is fluid.
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.
CHANGE IS INEVITABLE...
GROWTH IS INTENTIONAL!!
so learn to adapt with the changes that comes in our lives... live with it, be part of it and enjoy it!!! afterall, it is this changing world that makes us all who we are now...
Trust urself, u hav a lot of power within u, power to feel new things, like them and live them!!
If we go by the theory that nothing is permanent, then how can end hav an end??? End can only hav a new start right?
Its true that nothing is permanent, 'cos permanent is boring, its predictable...only thing it makes u feel is secure!!
We simply are not made to be stagnant. To be permanent. We can't be.
I would say nothing is permanent..,except change.
even the so-called "true love".
If you are speaking of love in the sense that people like Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Theresa spoke of then may be you are rite.., such love may be permanent.., I still don't know coz it's something which pertains to an entirely different level.
but everything else.., it's just that it hasn't faced a stern enough test to break it.., love survives on expectation and when expectations are not met it is bound to fail.., but for a person who accepts change expectations could be minimal.., well I guess he may not love too then..,
love is a relationship and relationship changes with the time i might end also but only thing which is always there is relation its permanent think about it
Change is also not permanent ,
every thing ends with the end of times
after that every thing remains unchanged.
Everything changes. Love never dies. But it changes. It transforms for newer things.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
What is the reason of our existence?
Since time immemorial, this question has been troubling man & will continue to do so. Actually the trouble with this question is, no matter how much we engross ourselves in finding an answer, the more we know, the more we come to know about how little we know......
Today when umpteenth time I encountered this enigma, I thought of penning down my notions.
I sincerely believe that everything happens for a reason. We our also here for a specific reason which we are yet to figure out. I feel that to get the answer we must transcend beyond the mere world of senses to grasp a more higher & sublime truth cause the answer is not meant for everybody.
If we knew the very purpose of our existence, having free choices to make and understanding & interpreting our life, we could disrupt that purpose for Who/Whatever caused us to be in the first place. So, in order for that purpose to be fulfilled, we have been refused that knowledge!
Richard Bach in his book Illusions states,
"How do you know your mission in life is complete?"
"If you are still alive, it is not complete."
One of the plausible reasons one may think is that, we are here because we are somehow required to be in order that we may serve some purpose in a grand plan of some description or other, even though we may not know what it is. It is a nature's process to maintain every living being's existence. A natural cycle. Isn't it?
Or probably due to unremitting evolution of species right after the big bang took place.
Renowned author, Douglas Adams questions that:
Maybe we are just a minuscule part of some divine experiment in which humans were created and given a world to live in and are being studied this very moment.
Also Sigmund Freud cynically remarked: "The goal of all life is death."
So as you see there may be more than one reasonable answer but to believe there is no reason after our creation seems a folly. Did all of this synchronization, symmetry, concordance, variation, pattern & their harmony and infinite logical evolving happen all by chance? Do these systems serve perfectly and perpetually also by chance? No, of course not.
Ayn Rand explains this in her book Atlas Shrugged. Here is an excerpt from it
"Existence exists - and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness being the faculty of perceiving that which exists.
If nothing exists, there can be no consciousness: a consciousness with nothing to be conscious of is a contradiction in terms. A consciousness conscious of nothing but itself is a contradiction in terms: before it could identify itself as consciousness, it had to be conscious of something. If that which you claim to perceive does not exist, what you possess is not consciousness."
Try reading the book mentioned & also "Man's search for meaning" by Victor Franklyn.
Scientifically speaking, we exist because of some self-replicating chemical largely nucleic acid (which mainly comes along in two representations, DNA and RNA) has designed and created us as an instrument for the sole purpose of improving its success rate for self-replication. But there is a flaw in this concept. Try finding.
Spiritually speaking, as per Hindu sûtras, the goal of every being is Sûkha prapti and Dûkkha nivruti. Sûkha is loosely used for Sat Chit Ananda state that the realized souls experience. In other words every being is on path to destination which happens to be the source from where they came from.
Advaita calls this journey as maya, whilst Dwaiti call this journey as creation.
Moksha or Nirvana is the last stage, is actually for understanding purposes when the thinking is in the level of normal intellect. The Karma & reincarnation philosophy.
In simpler terms, it states that the reason for existence is "to go back to one's roots"
A book called "I am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj throws considerable amount of light on this topic. Many will challenge the Karma & reincarnation theory, for them, just grab a copy of Dr. Brian Weiss's - Many Lives Many Masters which is a true story highlighting the reincarnation & after death experiances of a patient.
Quantum theory suggests that space & time has no beginning nor an end. Instead, when you get to ‘the end’ you’re actually at ‘the beginning’. Like Richard Bach says in Illusions,
"What the caterpillar called the end of the world, the Master called a butterfly."
So without ever turning around a journey in one as long as you travel far enough, will bring you back to where you came from. Summing along the lines of quantum spirituality, I would say,
"Life is nothing but a perpetual circle of change, of metamorphosis."
After this thorough analysis, I came to the conclusion that presently a cogent evidence of reason of our existence is simply beyond the vistas of human imagination. You need to first understand what is this "existence". The understanding will answer itself to you on this question.
Speaking on much simpler & logical terms I would say: "the purpose of life is to have a life of purpose". It is we who give meaning to life. We create a purpose for our own self. Life is a purpose in itself & living is the purpose of life. And not only living, leading a good life, full of friendliness, good-will, compassion & equanimity for every being in the face of any problem is truly a reason to be reasoned.
Find your passion and pursue it vigorously. Make sure that this passion makes a difference to the people around you positively. Just take this life to its ultimate possibility. Go beyond all limitations and realize the ultimate possibility of who you are.
You live your life in the search of you, and its unfortunately true that before we get even a slight hint of what we are, we reach the end of our role in the drama of life in the stage called the world. So don't waste your precious time in the search of your identity, 'I' is a symbolic representation of something existing in the world, maybe too small for the world to realize...
Just be happy & enjoy life. Love life & it will love you back.
Today when umpteenth time I encountered this enigma, I thought of penning down my notions.
I sincerely believe that everything happens for a reason. We our also here for a specific reason which we are yet to figure out. I feel that to get the answer we must transcend beyond the mere world of senses to grasp a more higher & sublime truth cause the answer is not meant for everybody.
If we knew the very purpose of our existence, having free choices to make and understanding & interpreting our life, we could disrupt that purpose for Who/Whatever caused us to be in the first place. So, in order for that purpose to be fulfilled, we have been refused that knowledge!
Richard Bach in his book Illusions states,
"How do you know your mission in life is complete?"
"If you are still alive, it is not complete."
One of the plausible reasons one may think is that, we are here because we are somehow required to be in order that we may serve some purpose in a grand plan of some description or other, even though we may not know what it is. It is a nature's process to maintain every living being's existence. A natural cycle. Isn't it?
Or probably due to unremitting evolution of species right after the big bang took place.
Renowned author, Douglas Adams questions that:
Maybe we are just a minuscule part of some divine experiment in which humans were created and given a world to live in and are being studied this very moment.
Also Sigmund Freud cynically remarked: "The goal of all life is death."
So as you see there may be more than one reasonable answer but to believe there is no reason after our creation seems a folly. Did all of this synchronization, symmetry, concordance, variation, pattern & their harmony and infinite logical evolving happen all by chance? Do these systems serve perfectly and perpetually also by chance? No, of course not.
Ayn Rand explains this in her book Atlas Shrugged. Here is an excerpt from it
"Existence exists - and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness being the faculty of perceiving that which exists.
If nothing exists, there can be no consciousness: a consciousness with nothing to be conscious of is a contradiction in terms. A consciousness conscious of nothing but itself is a contradiction in terms: before it could identify itself as consciousness, it had to be conscious of something. If that which you claim to perceive does not exist, what you possess is not consciousness."
Try reading the book mentioned & also "Man's search for meaning" by Victor Franklyn.
Scientifically speaking, we exist because of some self-replicating chemical largely nucleic acid (which mainly comes along in two representations, DNA and RNA) has designed and created us as an instrument for the sole purpose of improving its success rate for self-replication. But there is a flaw in this concept. Try finding.
Spiritually speaking, as per Hindu sûtras, the goal of every being is Sûkha prapti and Dûkkha nivruti. Sûkha is loosely used for Sat Chit Ananda state that the realized souls experience. In other words every being is on path to destination which happens to be the source from where they came from.
Advaita calls this journey as maya, whilst Dwaiti call this journey as creation.
Moksha or Nirvana is the last stage, is actually for understanding purposes when the thinking is in the level of normal intellect. The Karma & reincarnation philosophy.
In simpler terms, it states that the reason for existence is "to go back to one's roots"
A book called "I am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj throws considerable amount of light on this topic. Many will challenge the Karma & reincarnation theory, for them, just grab a copy of Dr. Brian Weiss's - Many Lives Many Masters which is a true story highlighting the reincarnation & after death experiances of a patient.
Quantum theory suggests that space & time has no beginning nor an end. Instead, when you get to ‘the end’ you’re actually at ‘the beginning’. Like Richard Bach says in Illusions,
"What the caterpillar called the end of the world, the Master called a butterfly."
So without ever turning around a journey in one as long as you travel far enough, will bring you back to where you came from. Summing along the lines of quantum spirituality, I would say,
"Life is nothing but a perpetual circle of change, of metamorphosis."
After this thorough analysis, I came to the conclusion that presently a cogent evidence of reason of our existence is simply beyond the vistas of human imagination. You need to first understand what is this "existence". The understanding will answer itself to you on this question.
Speaking on much simpler & logical terms I would say: "the purpose of life is to have a life of purpose". It is we who give meaning to life. We create a purpose for our own self. Life is a purpose in itself & living is the purpose of life. And not only living, leading a good life, full of friendliness, good-will, compassion & equanimity for every being in the face of any problem is truly a reason to be reasoned.
Find your passion and pursue it vigorously. Make sure that this passion makes a difference to the people around you positively. Just take this life to its ultimate possibility. Go beyond all limitations and realize the ultimate possibility of who you are.
You live your life in the search of you, and its unfortunately true that before we get even a slight hint of what we are, we reach the end of our role in the drama of life in the stage called the world. So don't waste your precious time in the search of your identity, 'I' is a symbolic representation of something existing in the world, maybe too small for the world to realize...
Just be happy & enjoy life. Love life & it will love you back.
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