Saturday, May 2, 2009

Why bad things happen to gud people?




Happened to listen to a lecture on role of spirituality in the field of rehablitation.A very enlightening oration by a swamiji who was an alumni of our college.20yrs before in his so called "purvashrama"as apart of his Msc dissertation he happened to meet a person who was "deaf". He was in search of a professional who can give him speech so tat he can preach...
The result was that the professional himself got hablitated by his client in the spiritual world...The man opened all his senses which was spiritually closed so tat he can sense that divine power with all his micro structures.


Many concepts rather issues which knowly or unknowly comes to our mind were raised.If u think of those many times its like just unanswerd.Since its the world of internet and not of vedas and puranas we are least aware that the issues has been answered in a most auspicious ways 1000 of yrs ago n our literature.Todays oration really touched my heart and soul I felt very bad as i never tried to peep into any of our ancient works with an urge.
I tried to concieve the whole essence of the talk so tat i can convey them to my friends..but its just not an easy task.Just try to jot down whatever i remember probably in an organized way and wish i ll be able to convey them in a proper manner

Why bad things happen to good people and vice versa?
The first questn he adressed .Relating it to rehabilitative field we usually face such situation where parents of children with disability when we take them for counseling ask us.
why my child only???why not others???
Reason..........frankly i couldn't fully infer the facts explained as it was a bit above my cognizance..
Still the essence was that based on vedic literature there are 5 main elements that control every existence
Ishvara -god
Jiva-living entity
Prakriti-materialistic world
Kala-time
Karma-work/duty




Nothing can happen "by chance".If a small watch cannot exist without a creator how can complicate human body,the nature ,the galaxy...etc exist or came into existence without a creator.The supreme power ,the so called "god"exist and all the existence in this universe are the parts and parcels of that supreme power..

So he gave existence to jiva ,the living entity nothing but the "soul".
Does soul exist ,if yes where is it.why cant we see it?
The natural questn to arise
Then a counter questn would be where is the mind?
where is the intelligence?
why cant we see them..but still we believe in its existence.
They are all subtle..physically u feel the air the wind but u wont see becoz its subtle ..
The same way the most intricate entities in nature exist the subtle form and among them the smallest is the soul,which can be compared to a spark or one in 1000 small as the tip of hair.
we can't see it but we will feel its presence if we are concious.



what is the nature of soul?
"desire"
The soul has desires..this strong desire makes the soul alive.It needs a body to full fill its desire ..it uses the body until it feels that the body is capable of fullfilling the desires.If it cant it will leave tat and by tat time another body is ready for its acceptance.so does the soul die ???never..

prakriti,the nature ,the environment,the materialistic world which alwys fascinate us..ther are some laws of nature and we are owed to follow that ..if we follow we are promoted ..if we ignore /doesnt follow we are demoted .
kala is the time during which we are assigned certain karma which if we doesn't do we will face the consequences and doing this is related to motivation of ur soul,or desire of ur soul...but if we have to motivate ur soul there should be a desire to do that..
Its just like a frog in a snakes mouth with a desire to catch the insect flying in front of him.
So ultimately every soul has a desire which is the root of our existence and watering that root rather than the branches and leaves leads to our ultimate accompolishment of our goal of life.

so what is the ultimate goal?

Love to that supreme power thereby getting connected to all his loved ones which are his parts and particle...

love can be due to
fear of god
passion
goodness
pure love

Its difficult to develop pure love...but in alife one must aspire to have that pure love to god,the love which is unconditional and love which attach u to him even after u having thousand reasons to abandon him......the eternal love........

so inshort to conclude its not the physical senses that matters,its the person itself matters,the soul matters
Even having gud hearing sensitivity with no understanding of fellow beings cry u are handicapped
Gud vision and u cant see others pain u are handicapd
2 hands and cant lend a helping hand to u r people then u r handicaped

without knowing the essence of love &god u r handicapped
In essence if the soul has a desire it will uplift the body the person and the focus of the rehabilitative effort should be holistic rather than considering only the disability.

A deaf and dumb ,so called handicapped person has given such a vision to a professional who thought himself to be blessed and pitying on those unfortunate people to realize himself as having severe handicaps....


Its just a gist of that wonderful talk by that towering personality. Lots and lots he talked about but just tat i cant express them fully...a free flight of thoughts flying through my mind ....it was just wonderful and has inspired me a lot....
.Just tat it should remain and hope i ll improve myself atleast as i have a big duty assigned to me by that almighty and my soul is in constant urge to full fill his desires, may be my destiny....

Stopping with a small thought undoubtedly its also plagiarised




why do we say "I love u"/I have done it etc touching ur chest or may say hand on heart...u could say it keeping hand on ur head/or arm etc.....

Its becoz it says our soul exist in our heart....and it shows that the referred"I" doesnt refers to the body or the person ,but its the soul situated in that region.......

If my soul urges ll have more thoughts on this.......

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Appu dear, I missed the seminar because of exam preparations,you were discussing about it with manju, i was just passing by ur room and missed that too !!
so, thank you,this post, i guess, would partially compensate for the seminar i missed!

Well,my mind is processing slowly, so pls clarify my doubt: You wrote,"strong desire makes the soul alive" okay.if soul is equated to desires, does a person who live without any desires can be said soul-less?

(i request you to reply here rather than directly and other visitors may also contribute.)

deeps said...

An existential question that gets to the human core and rambles …

Well, looks like all those who missed that talk, you have made another opportunity to savor every thought of it …

I am not one of those who believe in karma theory ..
I think whatever bad happens mostly because of human folly or selfishness …

Well, life of Beethoven, hellen keller and such people are another extreme that tell us where we must put our attention ..

Yes, human beings are not mere body alone, nor can their soul be without a body!! Though it s debatable …

Looks like you had had a wonderful time attending the talk .. it s truly reflected here and it s worth reading and pondering upon ..

Akshay S Dinesh said...

My question is whehter we can purely love someone whom we do not know

Aparna V.S said...

reply to u hasna
"To live without a desire" itself is the soul's desire.so inshort there is no such soul without any desire..it's the desire in a way or other that makes the soul

Aparna V.S said...

thanks deeps ....
ya every thought in this realm is debatable...but i feel as far as they help us to think,and lead a better life it serves its purpose.......

Aparna V.S said...
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Aparna V.S said...

hi akshay happy 2 see your query.i guess you are refering to existence of god.....
.but frankly am not a person to answer this as i myself use to cogitate on this....
i can just discern my thought....i think it all depends on ur belief in the creator and his creations...if we believe that we happened to came 2 this world not by chance and with someones intention who has supreme power,as we dont have that power then we have belief in "god" .like a mother who start loving the child in her womb just feeling its presence our love to god egresses the moment we realize his presence.when u start loving him and as it grows u urge to know more about him and this leads to eternal love which is so unconditional......
if u can believe in that power who gave u wonderful human life and all soughts of fantacy around so that u can lead that beautifully u ll start loving him.....it may be through loving all his creation which are his parts and parcels.........
i believe "achieving" the pure love to god is the ultimate desire of the soul and if it has achieved that soul can be said to be alive in all its means....

Aparna V.S said...

i hope the replies made sense........

Anonymous said...

Thanks appu..though spirituality is something that too complicated to comprehend for a materialistic like me!!!

A question to all visitors, pls leave ur reply.
The basic thread here was "why bad things happen to good people?"...okay.
So, my question is,Do you believe that we can classify people as good/bad? Have you ever seen people who are good/bad?
If the answer is yes,tell me who it is,i have never had an opportunity in my life to see a good/bad person.

Akshay S Dinesh said...

yeah. it does make sense.
thanks.
other believers would not have answered me thus.

Let me try to love that God. But I think, I'm in a hate at first sight with God. But lemme try