Dangerous Thing

Yesterday I was chatting with Seetha. We were remembering our past years. The way we used to roam in Shimoga.

I am in Bombay from almost 2 years. Now I am bored with this city. In Shimoga there is only one straight road which has been partitioned into Durgi gudi, Nehru road and Gandhi bazar. Shopping means only these three options. But I never felt bored with that city.

We(Me and Seetha) were doing a lots of shopping. But every time when spending money so carelessly we used to feel that guilt. Feeling that we are doing some wrong thing.

Then suddenly our discussion took philosophical turning. We all do certain things which we know are wrong. If someday someone tells us that you are doing a big mistake then how we will react?

Here we come across two ways. First category of people accept that it is wrong. They may try to correct themselves. They may even fail in that :)

Second category of people tell "I am like this. I do because I get pleasure in this. It's my life after all".

You may feel that taking first path is the job of coward people. And second category people are very straightforward and bold people.

According to me, taking first path is the most difficult thing. It comes with simplicity. Second path is the way of coward people who are not true to themselves. Who doesn't have the guts to say "yes I was wrong". They fear that if they accept the truth people will laugh at them. Still somewhere in the deep heart they know they are wrong.

Most dangerous thing according to me is when we keep on making mistakes saying "I am like this".

Story Time

Today let me tell this story which ones my ajji told me.

There was one god, who came to earth just to see it's beauty. He saw sea, mountains, rivers, deserts,falls.......... Then he saw her! One beautiful girl taking water from river. She was not as beautiful as Apsaras of heaven. But he loved her from very first sight.

He asked her to marry him. She tried to convince him that she is very small compared to him. There can't be a match between god and human. But he insisted.

They married and lived happily. After few years he observed wrinkles on her face. She said "See, I am human. I am becoming old". He said "Oh! you are looking so beautiful. I love you so much". She became old and his love for her increased each year.

One day she became sick and said "My time to leave this world has come". He held her tightly. But rules are rules. Her soul left her body and for the first time that god cursed himself for being immortal.

What is the use of life where love is not there? Love will make your life very beautiful. It's loss can make life a miserable journey.

WHO IS WRONG?

I read this somewhere....................
"The nobler the man the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others"

We spend 90 percent of our life in talking about others about how wrong they are. But this statement made me check myself. If I am noble, I am all correct then my heart will be so pure that I will never find wrong in others. I am talking bad about someone means I myself am having impure heart.

Most of the time we try our level best to prove others are bad just because we somewhere feel inferior to them. By proving them wrong we satisfy our ego. Once again I read this somewhere,

"Speaking ill of others is a cheap, dishonest way to praise ourselves"

Let's see

Have you come across this situation?
Whole world want you to act as they want. But you feel "Let's see. I will not do this. Let whatever happen"

I read about this character 'Saraswathi', from the novel "Dharmarayana Samsara" by Shivaram Karanth. She has been married to a person who is very cruel. For him favorite game is killing any animal. If he doesn't find any animal for killing, he will set fire to his dog and enjoy the scene.

Saraswathi never accepts him. Every day he will come with a new woman to his house. Saraswathi never asks him "why? " People think she is having high level of patience. Few men even try to give her example to their wives.

But actual thing is, Saraswathi reaches the state "Let's see!" from the very first day of her marriage. Anyway she can't get out of this marriage(No education). so she decides to stay there and all she want is to see her husband having a very horrible death.

When her husband comes with any other woman she feels happy because as long as that woman is with him he will not come to her. He will stay away from her.

But destiny has some other plan. Nagappa comes to her house as manager. Nagappa's father was a very rich man. But Saraswathi's father cheats him and he dies because of that. Nagappa try to hate Saraswathi for being the daughter of that cheat but unknowingly he will be attracted towards her. It takes no time to find out that she is living in hell. He try to become happy for that but he couldn't.

Unknowingly they fall in love and Saraswathi's stone heart starts to melt. Finally when her husband dies a very horrible death(One of his servant kills him when he misbehaves with that servants wife) she realizes that love of Nagappa has changed her so much that instead of feeling happy for her husbands death, she is feeling sympathy for that pain which he went through.

Love makes us human. It is the only feeling which is capable of heeling all the pain of this world...................