Prabhakar reflections

प्रिय आलोक, सबसे पहले मैं आपको ये बताना चाहता हूं कि आपके प्रश्न मुझे कहीं से बोझिल नहीं करते; बल्कि ऐसे प्रश्नों के उत्तर की खोज करना व्यक्ति के life skill को और विकसित हीं करता है. स...

A little reflection would make it amply clear that this world would not have existed had there been no feeling of ' me','my' and 'mine' amongst us.  For this world to exist and enable us to lead the life of a गृहस्थ     (literally meaning an individual whose abode is 'house' i.e one engaged in household affairs)we just cannot do away with these feelings. We must appreciate that when we refer to the word 'house' it further gives rise to the consideration 'whose'?  It must be someone's; either mine  or yours or somebody else's. This explains the inevitablity of existence of subtle feelings of possession that drives an individual to keep going in this world. Otherwise you have to be an ascetic. But renouncing the world is not that simple. It is even being bound to the worldly bonds in a new way;I suppose. So denouncing the world by being escapist or deceptively ascetic is to be shunned. The existence of this feeling in so...