"Self restraint is manifest of great power than all outgoing action" - Swami Vivekananda
Last night i was in chandigarh at my buaji's home.At night, after dinner she was telling me about how our generation is indulging towards diminishing moral values, carnal desires, excess control of our body on our mind etc etc.
She is a religious women whom I really respect a lot and listen to every word that comes out from her . She told me "beta, all the activities your generation find amusing right now, will make you suffer in the long run." I understood that what she was pointing to the ongoing trend of how young boys and girls fall in love every week just for the sake of fun( Its Just from my vintage point) . Even I too feel the same. This discussion ended shortly because she had to do her night prayers, in which i am not kind of interested.
While sleeping i was pondering over it and ended up with the conclusion that-yes she is right and what the heck i am doing. Just chatting with my frnds which is of no use, Showing excessive care for someone which i do not mean (frankly speaking) and pretending to be someone else which i am not and i am sure all of us do like this.
then i remembered one of the lectures given by swami vivekanand that the goal of mankind is knowledge, not pleasure because it comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that man foolishly think pleasure to be the ultimate thing to strive for. After a man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge,towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are the great teacher. This world is a like a gymnasium where we have to make ourself stronger and stronger.
Most of us cannot see beyond a few years just as animals cannot see beyond a few steps. Just a little narrow circle -that is our world. We do not have the patience to look beyond, and thus become immoral and wicked. This is our weakness, our powerlessness.
Thats what i concluded and decided i will be true to myself, no matter what happens to me and there is a long way to go.
Last night i was in chandigarh at my buaji's home.At night, after dinner she was telling me about how our generation is indulging towards diminishing moral values, carnal desires, excess control of our body on our mind etc etc.
She is a religious women whom I really respect a lot and listen to every word that comes out from her . She told me "beta, all the activities your generation find amusing right now, will make you suffer in the long run." I understood that what she was pointing to the ongoing trend of how young boys and girls fall in love every week just for the sake of fun( Its Just from my vintage point) . Even I too feel the same. This discussion ended shortly because she had to do her night prayers, in which i am not kind of interested.
While sleeping i was pondering over it and ended up with the conclusion that-yes she is right and what the heck i am doing. Just chatting with my frnds which is of no use, Showing excessive care for someone which i do not mean (frankly speaking) and pretending to be someone else which i am not and i am sure all of us do like this.
then i remembered one of the lectures given by swami vivekanand that the goal of mankind is knowledge, not pleasure because it comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that man foolishly think pleasure to be the ultimate thing to strive for. After a man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge,towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are the great teacher. This world is a like a gymnasium where we have to make ourself stronger and stronger.
Most of us cannot see beyond a few years just as animals cannot see beyond a few steps. Just a little narrow circle -that is our world. We do not have the patience to look beyond, and thus become immoral and wicked. This is our weakness, our powerlessness.
Thats what i concluded and decided i will be true to myself, no matter what happens to me and there is a long way to go.
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