I have a few vague rules for myself, for this life.
One of them is, never leave someone in the middle. Majhdhar main nahin chodna.
And here I am, at 8:45am on a bright Saturday Morning, in my office, fullfilling the precept.
Life I tell you, is hard if you are on the drug of morality.
My advice to you: never fall in love with your higher self.
And if you do Do, pray that there is after-life or karma and rebirth, otherwise, reason tells me, we are wasting our lives chasing useless morals, when we could be joyously committing sins, conceits and deceits
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Slave to Morality
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4 comments:
Hmm, you are betting on something(afterlife) that no one has proved; not sure how wise that is. However, as far as principles go, stick with what you want to follow because that is what defines a person. But, it is you who determine where the majdhaar ends ;-)
Smooth sailing!
snowy,
thanks for the comment (and the thought behind. I appreciate it).
I think for most people, morality is usually the social rules which they learnt in childhood (which can be as short as 4 years to as long as your life-span), and natural predilections. And the more strictly hard-wired these rules are, the more uncomfortable it is for the person to go against them.
So mostly, it is not about an after-life or anything else, it's just about avoiding that discomfort.
Same is the case with me, with respect to the posted rule (and no bets on after-life !), and as far as I can say, it has been a natural predilection for me.
came here through ur comment on Sagnik's blog. Ur dilemna sounded familiar :)
good point about the re-birth. Just attended a vedanta lecture that seemed to suggest that the philo of rebirth can be logically assumed to be true. So, don't fret ;)
tipsy topsy,
thank you for the comment and well, throwing tantrums is a birth-right, I think :)
I sure would like to hear the logic which can provide insights into the possiblity of rebirth.
Though re-birth if true, should confuse the common Hindu, because what is the guarantee that you'll be born as a Hindu again. And if not so, then what's the Auchitya(meaning/purpose) of faith in one-birth. Ofcourse, once you have this question you've to resort to Vedanta for reasonable explanation.
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