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Life We Live
Since times immemorial the human being has oriented his energies for material prosperity and security.Prosperity and security are interlinked, whatever one acquires one endeavors to secure, for ones own self, family, society, or the Nation.Ego gratification and sensual pleasures makes one run around all one’s life.
Childhood is spent in acquiring education, youth for earning ones bread.Old age is spent brooding over how things could have been done better.Some say childhood is the best period in life; a few say it is the youth.In the childhood nobody can move an inch without parental interference, one is dependent for each and every thing upon the parents, how can it be the best period when nothing can be done as desired.During the youth, fulfillment of ambition and making a living preoccupies the mind and life.For some youth is enjoyable as they can indulge, but for most a struggle.How can a restless mind of a youth struggling for fulfillment of ambition and desires can be termed the golden period of life since neither all ambitions nor desires can ever be fulfilled, for most people youth is full of frustrations.Due to preoccupation of mind in other activities the body is neglected in the youth and when the old age arrives medicines start occupying the bedside table.Life becomes cumbersome; a listless affair either due to illness or due to dissatisfaction, only a lucky few can keep good health and be contended.
In the modern times of scientific inventions galore and discoveries, we feel the quality of life has been improved by sitting in fancy aircraft and cars.By having the houses centrally air-conditioned, by watching TV and carrying a mobile telephone, moving about with a laptop and other electronic gadgetry we think ourselves to be very modern enlightened beings.Being realistic, the improvement in communication system has certainly got the world closer and there is greater awareness amongst the people, living conditions have become softer and comfortable.This has also lead to certain problems of the mind and body.People used to air conditioners have a very low resistance to natural temperatures.The mind is preoccupied in unnecessary activity due to improved electronic communications and resultantly it is more restless. One is continuously exposed to electronic and heat radiations.Industries and vehicles have polluted the atmosphere.There are more burdens on the mind now.Horse riding was a lovely exercise for the body and mind, moving in cars etc on polluted roads is certainly not good for health.Tinned food and aerated waters may cause certain digestive disorders.It is not a pessimistic view; the faster moving life will lead to faster exhaustion of energies.There is very little time to recoup ones energies.Unnatural tinned and canned foods will cause problems for obvious reasons.There are more psychiatric clinics functional than ever before in the entire world.There are many other related problems of which most of us are aware.Faster life causes us to consume more breaths and it shortens life span.
One strives for comfortable living and works for it.There is nothing wrong in having amenities and other facilities to make life easy and happy.But there is a tendency to over indulge in comforts. In some cases we go against the nature, going against the nature causes problems of multitude dimensions, it is not easy to understand this aspect unless one has an exposure to the functioning of the nature.It should be plainly understood going in opposition to the nature causes disharmony in energies around ones self and have strong adverse effects on body and mind.Let us broadly examine what nature is and how it affects us.
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