The Biggest Rascals of the World

The two biggest rascals in this world are the concept of time and money (currency). Both are man made. And these two are the worst enemies of man . With the growth of civilization man has created a number of methods, devices and traditions out of which money(currency)and time are the most notorious and obnoxious to him. Every man seems to be in the grip of these. I dream of the old golden days when people had no watch or clocks and no care for years, months , days, hours, minutes and seconds--they cared only for seasons, morning, day, evening and night. They had plenty of time to perform their jobs. But now people have created so many jobs divided by 24 hours that they are all the time under pressure to complete their tasks. The consequences are various diseases like b p, diabetes, anxiety, nervous breakdown, tension etc. Everyone is running short of time. People do not have time now. All are up and doing without being aware that the ultimate for them is the same as had been for their fathers and forefathers.
The next cause of worry for the humans is money(Currency). Throughout the world people are in mad race to earn money by hook or by crook to posssess the plethora of material objects displayed glamorously by the business world before them. In the past, when there was no currency, people used to be dependent on one another for their subsistence. All had a sense of eqality and the bonds of relationship were very strong. The farmer with skill of farming used to grow crops and would get, for instance, shoes from the persons who were skilled in making shoes, in exchange of grain. Both the farmer, and the cobbler, in this way,were dependent on each other. Similar was the case with other people too. This interdependence on the basis of skills was a great binding force in the society. But now, the person who has money (currency) is in possession of everything and can afford all the luxuries of the world and is known as big or great. The social parameters have changed. The person having currencey is head and shoulders above than others. Whereas the people,without currency ,in spite of having skills and ability, are treated as low, mean. Money makes the mare go in every sphere of life . It brings inequality among the humans. It dissociates, separates the individals. It breaks the bonds of human relationships. It causes frustration and rebellion among the people. Let there be no money (currency) and the concept of time to make this earth a beautiful place to live on. Minus money and minus time life is so beautiful!!

Man, as I Think

Man is a social creature . For his survival he is bound to live with and take the help of others. Herein lies the crux of the problems.One can never be social and at the same time have the absolutely true self. In other words man is bound to live in this false self. Out of this his survial is impossible. We first get the flashes of reality, or the real self, the real man whenever we see frustration, disaster, death, espcially the activities or events that carry us away from this society. But as the time passes we are busy with everyday world, in the world of give and take we become away from reality whenever we have the real self we are isolated alone, an outsider in this world. We cannot ommunicate then with this world wearin a false selves because only the real selves can communicate with each other, neither the real and false nor the false and false. Wearing or having the real self in this world means becomming a sadhu, sanyasi or a mad person. Because they are unaware of the world outside. Abnormal people , in fact, are more in touch with relality in the way and that is why they become unfit for the society.
We live in this society since we are born, rather it is essential for our being in this world. Right from the very begining of our stay on this earth we learn the manners of living in this society; rules we are to follow for being a gentleman. If we disobey these the society looks at us as we were very mean and lowly persons. People(society) do so because their parents and parents' parents did the same with them. By imposing rules , norms, codes of conduct and doing cruelty on their children they avenge themselves. This rule generalized, man imposes himself on the other man all the times.
The man with the real self has the true identity but if he is to survive he will have to lose his real self and so the true identity. So this loss of identity problem can be turned into a gain only when the man is real . So living in society , lack of ommunication, loss of identity, sel-crisis, all are interrelated. The man who faces the abovementioned problems is the person who gets the flashes of reality due to disillusionment.

Ways , to get rid of these problems:

1. keeping away from the world and live an unknown life and search the truth,.i.e., leaving the society yet surviving. Such a man will not intercourse with this world. By way of meditation, he is all the time aware of reality. He has no requirements except food. About such people very little is known as they don't want to appear before any other human being. Whether they even eat or not is not known. Perhaps such people require only the minimum for their subsistence.(sadhus , sanyasi, naga etc.)
2. Enjoy the world to the fullest so that all money, vigour, energy is spent and we become aware of reality. This will also lead to realization of the true self. If all coarser pleasures of man are spent, i.e., he has spent all his vigour and energy, he will be aware of what his life really is. Enjoy all the material physical pleasures of this world up to the maximum point, feel their insignificance. Unless one is not filled with physical and material pleasures up to the neck he wont vomit these.(Rajneesh)
3. Knowing the problems and causes yet living in this world maintaining a balance between the real and the false. (absurdists, Geeta, Kabir, upnishads etc.)
4. Live in the world having some belief and spending all energy constantly establishing and moving ever for the realization of that belief (Vivekanand, Ramkrishna Paramhans, Mahatma Gandhi, Aurobindo, Vinoba Bhave, Lincoln)
5.Suicide: putting an end to life thinking that death is the only solution to all the complextities of life.
Most of the world is heading towards realization throuh 2 but slowly and steadly not swifly. Rajneesh was a failure through 2.
Retrogression form 1,2,3,4 is possible , i.e., coming back to falsity from reality.

संगठन

छुद्र लक्ष्यों वाले व्यक्ति ही एक सीमित संगठन के दायरे में रहना पसंद करते हैं। डरते हैं , उससे बहार निकलकर भय है समाज में गुम हो जाने का। व्यक्ति के अगर लक्ष्य अगर ऊँचे हैं तो एक क्या दस संगठन बन जाएँ , उसके कार्यों में बाधा नहीं आएगी.

आदमी चलते फिरते सामान की तरह हो गया है, जिसकी कीमत क्रेता व् विक्रेता दोनों तय करते हैं। "मैन हैज़ बिकम ऐ कमोडिटी"। दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण एवं हास्यास्पद यह है की सामान(आदमी) अपनी कीमत स्वयं तय करने लगा है।
कुछ शेर जो मुझे पसंद हैं , अपने परम मित्र पंकज जी के लिए:

दिल की बस्ती भी अजीब बस्ती है
लूटने वालों के लिए तरसती है।

बेचैनियाँ समेत कर सारे जहाँ की
कुछ न बन सका तो मेरा दिल बना दिया.

खौफ आता है जिनको मरने से
उनका जीना हराम होता है।

अब यह भी नहीं ठीक की हर दर्द मिटा दें
कुछ दर्द कलेजे से लगाने के लिए हैं.

शबनम ने रोके जी ज़रा हल्का तो कर लिया
गम उसका पूछिए जो आंसू न बहा सके।

Teachers' strike

डिग्री शिक्षकों के
नेताओं की अदूरदर्शिता एवं छोटे छोटे स्वार्थो में लिप्त होने से दुखी हूँ.

Thinking is partial . Action makes an act complete.