Watch, and thou shalt live forever!

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Thursday 28 June, 2007

17:25 23/Jun/2007
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All of us are alive. And we experience. They say we can experience everything, even near death, but not death. Do we really die? All religions believe in an after-life. In fact, Hindus believe in life after life ad infinitum. They also say what spoils life is our fear of death. Not just physical death, but death or end of a situation or circumstance that we like. And therefore we try to hold on to what we like or love – and prevent what we dislike from happening. Maybe the antidote is to let-go. This we can only if we turn from being possessors (of what we like) to simply ‘watchers’. Let’s watch life and its impact on us and let it be. Maybe in the watching, fear would drop off. And we shall know that we are deathless.

Sandil Srinivasan said...
7:57 PM 27/Jun/07
Contrary to popular belief that Indians are generally spiritual, it''s a hard fact, but Indians -- generally -- are more materialistic than Spiritual. It would take a lot of reconditioning to shift focus from the micro to the macro.

Dear Sandil, It might be that more Indians are material rather than spiritual. But spirituality (as opposed to the religious) is such a rare thing in other countries that spirituality seems to be overwhelming in India. About your usage of the words micro and macro, spirituality is actually about the micro and not macro solution if by these words we mean individual and social respectively. That is to say, the solution to the human problem is at the individual level and not social level.