ARE WE REALLY LIVING THE LIFE WE HAVE

Life is the period lie before a person from birth to death. We do not know from where we born and where we go after death. There are many thoughts about life before birth and after death. The thoughts are in variance and differ from one to another. There seem to be no absolute truth of thoughts and most of them are hypothetical in nature. The thought of one great thinker says, “ Before birth, you were in the womb of your mother for 300 days. You do not know where you had been before 300 days. If one says that you had been in the body of your parents, it is not a lie. Before your parents born, you had been in the body of your grand parents. This way your presence recedes to your ancestor to infinity.After death, where would you live? You would live in the body of your children and thereafter in the body of grand children and this way your presence will ascend to infinity. You did not ask your parents to give birth of you. It was an incidence happened and so you came into existence of life to your parents. Your parents did not know that you will be born to them before 300 days of your birth. You did not choose your parents or sisters or brothers or relatives. You did not choose your body or complexion or face or hair. You got it yourself upon birth. In your life period, you can choose your food, dress, education, work, friends and husband / wife and relation. The period between birth and death is the life you will live and how to live is the task of life. There are hundreds of principles emulated out of experience of great scholars who lived and died long, long ago. You can choose whichever befit to your life style.Happiness and peace of mind is the aim of this life. You can choose your happiness wherever it lies thereby you will get peace of mind. Your knowledge and experience would help you to find out your path to reach happiness. Sometime, you may choose wrong path and end in misery. Never worry, you can always mend your ways to the right direction of life and make your life happy and peaceful”. Though the life starts from birth, the childhood goes with learning and playing. After teen age, after marriage, the real life starts until death. Three religious leaders Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed Nabi established living methods through preaching and they are widely accepted my many. Followers of all the three noble leaders faithfully practice their philosophies in their day to day life, live and die leaving foot prints about their life. After these three leaders, many persons emulated different philosophies according to their knowledge and experience. But those philosophies are not widely accepted and followed. Everyone is born alone barring twins and die alone. One has to choose his life according to his wisdom and practicality. One can not live as the way he thinks because he is not a lonely man on this planet as he has a family, neighbours and society. Society is governed by rules and regulations whether they are right or not, so, one has to live his life without affecting the society. This forces a person to live within the frame work of the society and restricts his own way of living. Despite the conditions thrusted upon a person, he can free himself from the clutches of the society and live his own way of life. If he copies the life of a leader or others, then he just lives not his life but following the life of other. One needs to find out his life where happiness lies without affecting others or society. The real life has no limitations or restrictions or borders, it is beyond out of all. Death is certain, however, living a meaningful and happy life is the aim of birth. Death is a natural process and everything has to die one day or other.

It is not difficult to understand the birth of a baby. The sperm of a male combines with the egg of a female to form zygote which multiplies and grows into a beautiful baby either in the womb of a mother or in a test tube in the beginning. The sperm has life and egg also has life. The sperm and egg are generated from blood and blood in turn from bone marrow. The sperm and egg have genes that carry the hereditary of the parents. Anything which can have mobility internally or externally can be said as living. Protoplasm/cytoplasm in the cells of animals including human and plants has mobility and said to have life. All elements in nature are made up of minute particles called atoms and they have sub atomic particles. Electrons are particles which vibrate and rotate around its centre in their designated orbits. Metals like Iron, copper, aluminium etc and non metals like carbon, sulphur, phosphorous etc have electrons and they are mobile. Can we say they are dead or nonliving? When the head of a human or animal is cut, death is caused. When the entire blood is drained off the body of a man or animal by a knife or by an accident, death occurs. When the lungs or kidney or heart fails to work due to damage or disease, death is slow and certain. What is death? The flow of blood or mobility of body ceases or lungs fail to breath, the body is said to be dead. Is there anything called as soul in the body? Where is the soul then? Is the soul - in the head or in the blood or in the brain or in whole body? The cells of the body live and die. When the cells live, they are active and their functions are controlled by commands from brain. Brain thinks and orders. When the brain does not active, it is said to be in coma. The life and death of cells depend on the supply of oxygen from blood. When the blood flow stops due to failure of the working of heart, oxygen is not supplied to the cells and the cells stop its functions, start decaying and finally die. When all the cells die, the body is said to be dead. This is happening in a living human or animal or in any living organism. Though the cells die, the elements in the body continue to be alive as the electrons keep vibrating and revolving around its nucleus of atoms. The Body is only dead but not the elements. Still there is life inside the body. One can lead life without hands or legs. One can not live without head. Brain may die in the head but the body is not dead. Inner organs such as heart or kidney if fail, death is not far. One day death will silence all organs. Soul is the good imagination and invention of spiritual people. Soul not enters and leaves the body. Life came from the sperm and egg and both came from blood and blood came from bone marrow and bone marrow from the cell and cell’s life by oxygen and oxygen from nature. Nature is the Supreme of all the things. One can postulate theories and hypothesis about the creation of nature but that need not be the truth. We don’t know what truth is and truth is beyond perception. Nature is what we see, feel, hear and it is there and will be there forever. One can not order or please or fight or surrender to the Nature. It exists of its own and the life of living things is a part of nature. One can not deviate from nature and always dependant. Death is a natural process and the cycle of birth and death continues until nature exists. To live a worthy real life, one need not choose to be a nomad or fettered to one place. The world is so big and tens of billions of people live across it. In those days, there were no facilities to migrate to a destination in mind as we have now. Inspite of availability of all facilities, one can’t migrate to his destinations due to need of money or in other words economic conditions. The economic conditions may be altered upside or down side according to one’s necessity if the aim of enjoyment of life is to be met. Enjoyment is nothing but happiness and this varies from person to person. There is nothing absolute happiness or enjoyment and what keeps the mind calm and provoking to feel good may be considered as happiness. So, the way of attaining happiness is necessarily need not be same with one and all. One has to learn to know what is good to his life and follow it cheerfully unmindful of others. Others may criticize or censure or dislike you for your way of life, never mind it, go your way because you have to live your life. World is changing every second, this change is time, what we saw yesterday is not same today because some change took place. Change is life and one has to understand the change concept. Without change nothing can exist in this planet. Our earth keeps on rotating round the sun and revolving around its axis, the sun is also doing the same and every heavenly body is rotating and revolving in the space, without this, falling and destruction is imminent. If we take an atom, for example, the electrons around the nucleus are rotating in its orbits. Even the protons, neutrons and other sub atomic particles are also vibrating within the nucleus. Though one can not see the movements happening within an atom by his naked eyes that can be shown by other means of techniques. A sapling keeps on growing and the change is seen by its budding, leaves, flowers, fruits, withering and finally dyeing. Therefore, a change is the truth and we must accept this change. The five elements of nature, water, air, fire, earth and space are not visible to our eyes. We don’t see water but we see the container and feel it. We don’t see the air but we see anything filled with air and feel it. We don’t see the heat (fire) but we feel it. We don’t see space but we see the heavenly bodies in it. We don’t see earth or anything if no light is there but we feel it. Light itself can’t be seen but we see things which receive the light. So, what we see is not truth, only hallucination. Our body is made up of five elements and the life is a fountain of changes. Understand the nature, life and living and try to live. Life is in your hand and you have to select your own way of living. Live, live and live. Fate, everyone speaks about it without knowing and understanding. When one can’t reason out or could not explain anything happened, conveniently call the help of fate. There is nothing like fate or destiny or somebody written in on our head. It is a false belief of escapism. The word fate is used to stop reasoning and probing or compromise ourselves. Belief and Faith are widely embedded in our mind knowingly or unknowingly. God is a belief; luck is a belief, which is not scientifically proved. Scientifically proved one is true. Faith is an experience of us to believe certain things that will take place as expected. If we do good things, good things will return to us, this is faith. Parents won’t deceive us, it is a faith because we are their children and their intension will be good always. This faith comes after our experience with our parents. Belief is a superstition without foundation. One can’t prove a belief scientifically because it has no basis. Belief is inserted into our mind since childhood. We don’t even give a thought about it. We don’t reason it out. We don’t experiment it. Simply we accept it because we are not ready to think or reason out or experiment. Fear invented belief and fear comes without reasoning. Rational thinking eliminates fear, belief disappears. Before you speak of a belief or trust a belief, think of it, reason it out and experiment and finally accept it. The human brain is capable of thinking from its experience and can make sure of what it perceives. Questioning, how, why will induce the brain to search the facts. Facts are truth proved by acts and experiments. Today’s life is so easy and comfortable because of scientific inventions. Someone spent time to think about anything, developed techniques to ascertain the facts and proved it to the world. The facts are beyond doubts. They are not belief or faith. We see it working and happening. Let us start to think, think and think. Thinking is the first step to search the truth. Truth is wisdom.

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