When you are old, you are dependent. When you are weak, you are dependent. When you are sick, you are again dependent. And when you are poor, you are dependent. If you can become independent of these four dependencies, you shall taste paradise on earth.
This is my Christmas and New Year 2015 Wish that All of you attain this independence in your lives.
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CARMENSHANTIPRIYA NANU
May you show us how to become free of the first one of those "dependencies" ??
December 27th, 2014
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Science, Technology and one's own effort to be least dependent.
December 27th, 2014
Exactly. Its impossible to combat these "dependencies". You never know when the tables turn and we are plunged into absolute poverty. Everything is transient.
Had we the power to combat them, paradise wouldn't have been a distant dream like you said. At present, all we can do is stay contended with hell. :)
Had we the power to combat them, paradise wouldn't have been a distant dream like you said. At present, all we can do is stay contended with hell. :)
December 27th, 2014
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This explanatory note is for both Nanu and Smriti. Hell or heaven is in our hands. Either of the two is what you feel. As you gather experiences, you will see all that. I am here confining to physical level. For the vast majority of us, freedom from the dependencies under discussion will go a long way to get what every one wants to have, namely a good and joyous time. Old age dependency is more to do with suffering than anything else. Through scientific advancements which are going to come in this century itself, we can make the old age far more pleasurable by reviving appetites and capabilities for food, love and more positive emotions and a healthy outlook - not vanity or imagination - on life.
December 28th, 2014