Opinion

======================================================================== 1.#Opinion : Saturday, February 18, 2023. 06:00. 3025/// Chapter - 7: The Message of the Mahabharatam.-7. Post-16. ========================================================================= This friendship, this communion of people, this family life, this gaiety of community is compared to the coming together of logs of wood in the ocean, again a verse from the Mahabharata. As we know, winds blow on the surface of the ocean, and logs of wood drift towards each other due to the power of the wind. One log goes and touches another log. “Oh, my dear friend, how are you? We shall have coffee in the hotel.” They go together, and the friendship increases. One hugs the other. Attachment takes place. One log of wood is attached to the other log of wood. Then the wind blows in another direction, and the log drifts away. “Oh, bereavement, death has taken place. My son has gone, my brother has died.” This is what is happening....

======================================================================== 1.#Opinion : Thursday, February 02, 2023. 06:00. 3006 /// 2.#Chapter 7: The Message of the Mahabharatam.-6. Post-15. ========================================================================= The story of the Mahabharata in this historical context is also a lesson for all spiritual seekers. That is to say, in the beginning of the lives of people there is jubilation, and an innocence coupled with ignorance of the facts of life. We are happy not because there is something worthwhile in this world but because we do not know the secrets of life. It was Buddha who said that a wise one cannot stay in this world for three days if he knows what this world is made of. It is burning pits of live coals. And Patanjali, in one of his sutras, says duḥkham eva sarvaṁ vivekinaḥ (Y.S. 2.15): “The whole world is a heap of sorrow to the eye of a discriminating individual.” Do we not think the world is beautiful? We think there is mil...