Hi Folks,

One of my favourite passtimes is to read something. This something can range from being a very spicy novel to an extremely illuminating spiritual discourse. The latter is definitely beyond my understanding, but I don't shy away from browsing them. It is my firm belief that reading is an extremely constructive habit which triggers you to think. Sadly, not many people use this faculty of thinking. It seems to me that we have forgotten to think. Anyways, I have something else in my mind to share with you all. I read an article "The speaking tree" in TOI (Times of India) and I wanted to share it with you all.
One day a sage went for his usual bath in the river and saw a scorpion struggling to come out from water. Sage was aware that scorpions cannot swim and tried to save its life by bringing it out of water. As he picked it up, the scorpion stung his finger and the sage instinctively flung his finger and off went the scorpion back into the river. This happened again and again but the sage was determined to save the scorpion.
A curious onlooker like me asked the sage that it was very clear that the scorpion would sting the sage everytime he picked it up. Why bother and just allow it to drown? The wise sage replied that it was the scorpion's nature to sting. It could not comprehend that he was trying to save it as that constituted of a higher conscious level beyond what its brain could percieve. As was its nature to sting, so was his nature to save. Why should a small scorpion deprive him of his divine nature which he had cultivated through years of sadhana.

For me, this is a beautiful story with a very strong moral. Translating this story into our lives, we encounter people who harm us, insult us, plot against us sometimes on our face and mostly behind our back. And what do we do to counter this onslaught. We happily join them and find ourselves engaged in cunning thoughts of revenge. In this process we injure ourselves more deeply than them by allowing our hearts and minds to darken. Our nature is to be kind, loving, honest and giving. Should we forego our inherent nature for others who in their ignorance and lack of understanding act with malice, deceit, selfishness and indifference.

This is a very tricky and sensitive question and each one should enquire within and find a solution for this very practical problem. Hope we will be earnest in our querry and will find a very reasonable answer to the problem.

Signing off for now,
Krishna

Hi Folks,

As always I have not posted anything here from the past few weeks. I was a bit busy as I moved out of my present location. I have come back home and feel pretty good about it. I am relaxing a bit now but I have to start finding ways to spice things up before life starts to get boring and monotonous. In this context a question comes up, why does life get boring?

Leading a very mechanical life can be extremely dull and sometimes even depressing too. When life does not have any higher ideal, our thinking narrows down to just ourselves and every other person becomes a competitor. We feel vey insecure and are cut off from reality. We therefore get busy in going through the daily motions of a very mechanical life which lacks inspiration. In short, we don't see things beyond the next meal....

On the other hand, the moment we think beyond ourselves, life seems to have a purpose. A higher ideal always gives happiness. In simple words, selflessness is the key to happiness. Sadly though, these basic values are not being passed to the youger generation. Education today has degenerated to mere bookish knowledge being transmitted from the teacher to the pupil without igniting the minds of the youth with a higher purpose.

Inspiration is the key to human existance and the highest inspiration is the thought of contributing something to the society. When one is inspired to serve life gets exciting and happier and most importantly one evolves as a better person.
Let us all think along these lines and make our lives more purposeful and meaningful.
Signing off for now,
Krishna.