The Heaven and Hell You Create
Why is it so that a person... a failure in India succeeds in life in USA? In spite of his best efforts one fails to run an enterprise because of the bureaucratic interferences in India! In the US, it is the free enterprise system that keeps USA the number one country of the world. Hard-working and sincere people normally succeed in life... An almost perfect law and order always in standby!
Swarga (living in Heaven) is a relative concept. While in Swarga Heaven ... an atman the soul within is not expected to work ... it is but to enjoy the fruits of its labor. In the materialistic West ... it is normally observed that people are contented. It is not like India where people madly run after money. In India money is the goal ... in the West money is but a means to live a comfortable life.
In the West people do not engage themselves in gossip and look forward to spending their day wisely. For them it is a new life every day... A new birth in the morning and the death of their body when they go to sleep! They do not want to think of the past or the future! This habit of living day to day keeps them absolutely fit and fine. If they are contented with the materialistic trend then where is the problem. Black sheep always exist in the society. Some people are born only to break the laws... we need to take care lest we may suffer at the hands of destiny!
The people in the West are very cordial ... very hard-working ... no gossips ... concentrating on their jobs ... a satisfaction writ on their faces. People had no dearth of materialistic riches ... it is a different matter that most were immune to spirituality.
Whatever I have gained in life could have easily fetched me above a billion dollars by now. Money and comforts is never the goal of a true seeker ... such things are sought only by those who care for material riches, comforts and status in life. It is not that remaining all the time contented with life I speak in such a way ... even if the whole Cosmos and its riches are put at my command ... would I desire anything out of it other than two meals per day and an average life. Spiritual masters were never after the Midas touch!
The Indian traditions keep the children emotionally attached to the parents for a very long time ... totally contrary to what is practiced in the west ... not that the people in the west do not love their parents ... yet, they live their own life totally detached from what their parents may have expected of them to do.
The mortal frame of a person affects us Indians so badly that when it leaves it practically becomes impossible for us to continue with our life ... yet, life has to go on! We all know very well that one who has come shall always leave ... for life is not in our hands but we are to only perform our Karma within this life span.
Is that all to life we are supposed to live ... what of the values we attach to our relationships with our parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and our friends.
Why is it so that a person... a failure in India succeeds in life in USA? In spite of his best efforts one fails to run an enterprise because of the bureaucratic interferences in India! In the US, it is the free enterprise system that keeps USA the number one country of the world. Hard-working and sincere people normally succeed in life... An almost perfect law and order always in standby!
Swarga (living in Heaven) is a relative concept. While in Swarga Heaven ... an atman the soul within is not expected to work ... it is but to enjoy the fruits of its labor. In the materialistic West ... it is normally observed that people are contented. It is not like India where people madly run after money. In India money is the goal ... in the West money is but a means to live a comfortable life.
In the West people do not engage themselves in gossip and look forward to spending their day wisely. For them it is a new life every day... A new birth in the morning and the death of their body when they go to sleep! They do not want to think of the past or the future! This habit of living day to day keeps them absolutely fit and fine. If they are contented with the materialistic trend then where is the problem. Black sheep always exist in the society. Some people are born only to break the laws... we need to take care lest we may suffer at the hands of destiny!
The people in the West are very cordial ... very hard-working ... no gossips ... concentrating on their jobs ... a satisfaction writ on their faces. People had no dearth of materialistic riches ... it is a different matter that most were immune to spirituality.
Whatever I have gained in life could have easily fetched me above a billion dollars by now. Money and comforts is never the goal of a true seeker ... such things are sought only by those who care for material riches, comforts and status in life. It is not that remaining all the time contented with life I speak in such a way ... even if the whole Cosmos and its riches are put at my command ... would I desire anything out of it other than two meals per day and an average life. Spiritual masters were never after the Midas touch!
The Indian traditions keep the children emotionally attached to the parents for a very long time ... totally contrary to what is practiced in the west ... not that the people in the west do not love their parents ... yet, they live their own life totally detached from what their parents may have expected of them to do.
The mortal frame of a person affects us Indians so badly that when it leaves it practically becomes impossible for us to continue with our life ... yet, life has to go on! We all know very well that one who has come shall always leave ... for life is not in our hands but we are to only perform our Karma within this life span.
Is that all to life we are supposed to live ... what of the values we attach to our relationships with our parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and our friends.
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