During my childhood days, i was an extremely carefree guy. Although I used to stand first in the class, but frankly speaking i never tried that hard. All through the day and the evening i used to play. i used to study for the sake of the joy of learning... i didn't have much ambition. i used to live the life to its fullest potential.. but when i went to do my engineering, the carrot of the social awards came to play in my life. it was the award that if i do well in the BE i will lead a better life... if i do well in the GRE and TOEFL, i will be able to avail better education in USA which will give me more carrots.... and after i passed, BE i started "Getting to Live... But not living..."
these days i have understood that an engineering degree comes in a package.. with it comes the ambition of a "better life" (in the materialistic sense), a better life partner,a big house, a bigger car, more power in the society...although none of these contribute anything to a person's quality of life, but most of the time a person gets entangled in achieving all of these things till one day the bathroom mirror shows few grey hairs...
the Hindu philosophy says these things very clearly... it says there are two kinds of ambition... the first is for more money, more power, more promotions in the job, a bigger car, a big house.. it makes a man listless...
and the second kind of ambition is for knowledge, truth and wisdom... it makes a man happy...
these days when i read some books, i read it just for the joy of learning without the ambition that it may lead to a fatter pay package... this attitude is giving me enough pleasure to spend my days blissfully...
i have started "Living the life".. and left the "Getting to live ... but not living" syndrome far behind...
Monday, June 1, 2009
Ganapati temple at my locality
There is a beautiful huge ganapati temple at the place where i stay. i visit that temple almost regularly. it has become an habit for me. this is the way we the Indians grow up. so somebody can ask "OK... whats the big deal...."
its all about faith in religion... had this temple been a kali temple and not a ganapati temple, i can bet that people would still flock to it.
i think most of us grow up in an environment which instills this faith inside us from childhood. in my childhood, i have seen my Mom going to Kali temple every tuesday and saturday, i have seen her watering the Peeple tree. My dad used to offer incense sticks to the God at his small shop. After my marriage i have seen my mother-in-law going to Hanuman temple on tuesday, and i have seen my father-in-law visiting temple everyday. i have seen my wife offering puja to her own set of God and Goddesses everyday at one corner of my small apartment. And i regularly water the small Tulsi plant at my home.
There is an adage in Bengali which goes like this "Biswase milaye bostu.. Torke bohudur.... "
What it essentially means is that if we believe in something, it becomes easier to achieve.. And if we disbelieve, it becomes unattainable.
in distress, my wife earnestly calls Sankatmochan as if she is talking to Him. in distress, i earnestly chant the Gayatri mantra. Now a logical mind may term it as a superstition. But it has nothing to do with superstition, its just plain faith that, in distress we have a friend to fall upon.
This is our Indian philosophy. i think along with other goods and services, we must export this to the outside world. this is the best thing we can actually export...
its all about faith in religion... had this temple been a kali temple and not a ganapati temple, i can bet that people would still flock to it.
i think most of us grow up in an environment which instills this faith inside us from childhood. in my childhood, i have seen my Mom going to Kali temple every tuesday and saturday, i have seen her watering the Peeple tree. My dad used to offer incense sticks to the God at his small shop. After my marriage i have seen my mother-in-law going to Hanuman temple on tuesday, and i have seen my father-in-law visiting temple everyday. i have seen my wife offering puja to her own set of God and Goddesses everyday at one corner of my small apartment. And i regularly water the small Tulsi plant at my home.
There is an adage in Bengali which goes like this "Biswase milaye bostu.. Torke bohudur.... "
What it essentially means is that if we believe in something, it becomes easier to achieve.. And if we disbelieve, it becomes unattainable.
in distress, my wife earnestly calls Sankatmochan as if she is talking to Him. in distress, i earnestly chant the Gayatri mantra. Now a logical mind may term it as a superstition. But it has nothing to do with superstition, its just plain faith that, in distress we have a friend to fall upon.
This is our Indian philosophy. i think along with other goods and services, we must export this to the outside world. this is the best thing we can actually export...
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