Duties and Responsibilities

We frequently hear people talking a lot about duties and responsibilities, which, I know, they themselves have not been very careful about. Here I want to say that life is not a jungle of duties and responsibilities. If we just exhaust our lives in fulfilling duties towards others, then how can we manifest our own nature? If we cannot manifest ourselves, our life goes in vein. Having a sense of priority is of paramount importance in this respect. We must develop the ability to look at things from a higher perspective, to ascertain what to do when, what comes first and what comes later.

It is sufficient to make our lives a success if we have faith in ourselves. We must not pretend. We must not ever try to be someone else. Life is not mimicry. We must know and understand our own selves and thus prepare ourselves to face all the externalities.

Sense of duty and responsibility comes from within. It can never, never be imposed from outside by anyone.

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Get Together

I am a fine artist, a man who loves art. I draw and paint what I see. Maybe others do not see things the way I see. On a warm summer afternoon last year I set out for a nearby place where there were vast stretches of barren land and a blue sky above. There are some hillocks too. Bushes and shrubs had grown here and there. I spent the whole afternoon at the foot of a hillock.....and I was alone. I painted a picture of that place later. Yes, I was alone. I enjoyed those few hours of loneliness. I completed 52 in July, 2012. During all these years I have met many a people, within the closed circles of my family, as well as in the wider circles.

During all these years there is one thing that I have realized very clearly. People are all so deeply engrossed with themselves. But people cannot live without others. Loneliness becomes unbearable. So people get together. But that too for his own peace and happiness. This is totally my personal view in general, and there may be and are quite a few exceptions to this. There should not be any room for misunderstanding.

As one moves along with age, he starts becoming lonelier and lonelier. Even within his family, with his spouse, children and others around, he sort of feels left out. Things change. We also have to change ourselves with time. The togetherness that I used to experience within the society about 25 years back, it is no longer there. By togetherness I mean togetherness for the sake of it. Now people have so little time for others. So each one of us is moving forward in an isolated manner. I remember during the late seventies and early eighties we friends used to get together almost every day in the evening and spend some quality time among ourselves. Those days are no more. With age we drift apart. And we drift apart because a lot of differences have developed among our thoughts and views. We mostly disagree.

People do not get friendly easily these days. Somehow we all seem to have become confined within ourselves and our routine lives. Our needs have been multiplied several times. We do not want to share our thoughts and feelings with others. We are very, very busy. We have no time to stand and stare. A kind of veil seems to have been put upon each one of us, which prevents us from interacting with others. We try to move away from the unknown. Our quest for knowledge has gone down possibly. That is affecting our peace and happiness. We are seeking peace within materials. We are getting disheartened.

So I have a desire to bring like-minded people together from everywhere, so that they do not feel lonely and do not suffer emotionally. I am looking for people who still honour the age-old values of life. Even if I come across one such person, I will be happy. I have a Facebook group

http://www.facebook.com/groups/thewisefinch/

under which I intend to bring such like-minded people together to share things and find peace. I myself won't be having a big role to play except bringing a few ( or many) people together, and sharing things with others. Bringing like people together is a big job as well as satisfaction in itself.

My Facebook link is http://www.facebook.com/chandra.b.gupta

Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheWiseFinch
Don't you want to do something good, want to contribute for a good cause? I think you do.
So do not hesitate, join now! You are most welcome! I will be so happy. Have a good day. Thank you.

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The All Important Spiritual Need

Why we have come out in the street? Is it for our bread and butter, and clothing and shelter? The answer is "No". Our need is far more extensive and deeper than these basic needs for subsistence. Then what is that most important need? That is our need to know ourselves, and thereby to get ourselves. Until and unless we know and get ourselves, we will never be able to unify ourselves with the Universal One (The Divine Soul of God). That is why we are constantly striving to transform ourselves into a purified, magnanimous, perfect and complete form.

Through the teachings of the master, one has to know himself first. Once a person knows himself, he can feel the presence of God within his heart. That is the essence of the religion of humanity. At some time or other, everybody will have to give his/her best efforts to know himself/herself, and thereby subscribe to the cause of the religion of humanity. The root of this dictum is there within the eternal truth that is embedded within the heart of every human being. This only can help us to move from death to eternity.

Thus every person is moving towards a direction of completeness. He is revolving around a point with which he has an inseparable connection, from where he is constantly deriving the juice of life.

Right from childhood we keep on trying, almost unknowingly, to educate our nature and to refine, reform and restrain our behaviour. Around each of our bigger aims and objectives we keep on building up smaller practices and try to regularize them. Incorporation of such special practices in our lives clearly show our comprehension that life is not just pushing through the days and performing all our social and economic practices in a religious manner. We constantly want to see us in a transformed state, which ought to be of the highest degree, which surpasses the present time, its surroundings and circumstances, our nature and all our aspirations.

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