(Authored by Rear Admiral now leading life of introspection, moderation and spiritual discipline)
“If there is no denying fact about exiting of LIFE preceding birth IT certainly shall succeed death”
“Life must go on” they say and we universally accept that the” life must go on”. But what is this life? Life is the period, between the first breath the body takes on its arrival in this universe and the last breath, when it is being declared as dead. And what is that “must go on” to keep it going? What we must understand to keep this precious life going on and on? Life is what provides mobility, gives requisite activities and enables the body to carry out the intended functions. Let us let us see as to how life achieves this? And what lessons can we draw from the whole evolution?.
2. A child on his birth and after successfully taking little breath can only open his mouth either to take feed or to cry to request feed. It is this life that takes the baby to the man’s status; step by step:-
a) Firstly, the child unbundles his limbs and learns to coordinate their activity in perfect unison. In doing so he makes numerous attempts, mistakes, silly moves. He falls and fails only to try again till he makes correct move for the first time and every time thereafter. He maintains his charms in whatever he does, irrespective of the gravity or otherwise of the move. “It teaches us to keep trying till we succeed, while ensuring the pleasantness of the operating environment”
b) Secondly, the child observes the words spoken by the people around him. He first tries to speak words and then make relevant sentences. You won’t even know when he starts talking /communicating in the same spoken language; independent of the mother tongue of the mother or the father. “It tells us the importance of being a silent observer and then the imperative need for a a good communication skill to be successful in life.”
c) Thirdly, you may observe that whatever we give him to eat. And whatever is eaten by him is successfully used to grow body organs and body systems. He keeps on gaining height along with growing other organs. His focus is only to grow and grow as fast as possible. This is true for other spices as well. “This gives us a clear message that one should not lose sight of the main objective and use that entire one has at its disposal to achieve the same within the given time frame.”
d) Fourthly, a stage comes when the child stops growing despite eating the same or more quantity of food and maintaining himself fit & healthy. What happens to the energy now produced? Is it just wasted out of the system? Or this energy/force is successfully used to strengthen the bones, limbs and other muscles on one hand and to build resilience and latent energy on the other.”While it is important to have a large frame or infrastructure at the same time it is vital that whatever you have it is strong and capable enough to carry out the intended functions with requisite reliability and accuracy off functioning.”
e) Fifthly, in this stage the body tends to decline, show sign of aging and loose hold/control over various organs. Nothing much can be done to stop or reduce the process of aging and withdrawing, after certain age. “The message here is that no activity can go on forever and whatever we have to do or achieve it has to be done and completed in relation to time. We should first make an attempt to achieve the maximum and then be contended and prepared to do your best with whatever you have able to achieve within the appropriate time limits.” f) And in life there comes a time, when the body stops all activities including breathing and becomes lifeless or dead. But what becomes lifeless? It is only a particular body and not the life. It was always around you and shall always remain albeit; it may change from one form to other. This only collaborate what ‘ Maharashi Ramana’ has said “ There is neither creation nor destruction. Neither destiny nor freewill: Neither path nor any achievement: This is the final truth”. We may come and yet the life goes on.
3. The secrets of ultimate successful life thus lies in; attempting in steps overcoming failures and consolidating the gains; mastering the art of good communication preferably in the same language; prioritise and focus energy at the core and vital issue, over handling everything at one go; restrict chasing same activity even after the optimum levels are achieved, adhering to time frame; The feats accomplished after a given timeframe may prove to be as good as not done. And finally, one must build certain amount of resilience or capacity to fall back upon to counter adverse situation as when they arrive.
4. Now let us consider for a moment the scenario, if the body continued to grow instead of stopping and strengthening the same after it has achieved the optimum levels. Or hairs on the eyebrows, under the arms-pits and other parts of the body continues to grow like the hairs on the head. Barring a few terminally ill people, nobody in the universe may wish to die; despite being forced to lead an utterly miserable, unhappy and disgusting life. Now imagine a state if this was to come true! Who would then, like to live in this universe? Once we trim them (hair) they grow, but not beyond the designated length. And they grow to the earlier length and then stop growing; this happens every time you trim them. This is because the body has a built in physical discipline, that it cannot break. Perhaps its life’s own discipline to go on, the difficulties, hurdles etc on the way notwithstanding. Life thus continues to go on and on.
5. Every species on the universe including human being has both a physical as well as spiritual discipline to fallow. All species barring the human being strictly adhere to both these discipline right from birth till death. However a large section of human being not only fail to subscribe to the need to fallow spiritual discipline but also keep interfering with body’s physical discipline as well. It is this very trait alone, which alone is responsible that human being now comprises over 20% of unisex or gay person; as against none among all other species the world over. What is rather sad is that instead of initiating corrective practices we make an all out efforts to convince others of our follies as right. There is no worry, no suffering and no pain as long as we don’t break the discipline. All the suffering on the earth are thus our own creation and we alone can do it by practicing self spiritual discipline as well as restraining ourselves to live within the body discipline
6. The mother earth has enough for everyone in this universe. The trouble however arises, when some of us start drawing or occupy much more than the requirement and then hoard the same for vested interest. When we cannot be happy with extra fat on our body; how can we be happy by acquiring more houses; many wardrobes full of clothes and shoes; number of cars or having many girl friends at the same time? Living with such desires can only bring unpleasantness, unhappiness and add up avoidable worries, stress and strain in life. Did you ever come across someone, who doesn’t want to get rid of the extra flab on his body? On the contrary you must have come with many who are willing to do anything to lose few Kg of extra flab. One must therefore, learn to stop chasing materialistic goals; lest he reaches a stage ,when he has everything available yet he cannot eat; he has many well furnished, air conditioned rooms and well cushioned silky bed yet he cannot sleep. One should therefore, learn to be contended with whatever he has in a righteous manner and lay emphasis to good health, peace and harmony in life.
7. If Life was there even before we were borne; which we know it was; it will thus, certainly be there even after we die and much thereafter. But one cannot recollect/remember the same in respect of past births; as is true for the period preceding birth and few years afterwards. This is because, what we listen and what we speak; is a function of sensory organs, limited to operating characteristics such as language, vibration and frequency etc. Life’s limitation to recall events of the previous life is attributable to destruction of such faculties and after death. One thus cannot deny the existence life both before birth as well as after the death.
“ Be your entity alone, whatever form and status it is; A unique identity, a specific role and a special purpose ; Be witness to happiness-sorrows, success-failure, darkness-light ; As they come and as they go, unhindered and unbothered; Because that’s life, they say Life must go on and on; As mind-thought, body-spirit and energy-consciousness”.
