Life's Lessons - Joseph Mattappally
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The world has changed, trends too. I doubt, if this transformation is more digital than natural. A forwarding I recently received is just a sample. A lady writes, ‘Dear Technical support, last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and I noticed a distinct slowdown in the overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. Apart from this, valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 are not working now and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.....’ The message from the support desk read, ‘Dear Madam, First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Please enter command: ithoughtyoulovedme.html and try to download tears 6.2 and install the Guilt 3.0 update.’
The cyber world guarantees comfort but not safety and we are mercilessly imprisoned in a world of helpless netizens. Almost all relationships are tuned, just to the System requirements. Heart is uninstalled, everything is brain decided. Bill Gates has appropriately said, “Politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality.” As a result, stress has now become the most dangerous of all killer diseases. Why all these stress? The answer is simple; we don’t care our body, we take in as much stimulants as possible, we have lost all self-confidence, we do not know the art of agreeing or disagreeing, we are not disciplined to schedule our day and finally we do not know how to relax. Don’t put off for another day, now is the right time to begin a new discipline in life. It might make you more natural. Somehow, let it not be like the two kings who went after attainment.
Once upon a time, there was a great Indian sage who taught to give away everything he owns to attain liberation. Such a seeker should not have any desire on anything, he should not think of the next minute. He should not store anything for future. He should not tell who he is to anyone and should meditate in peace with no desire. Quite touched by his preaching, both the kings of Magadha and Kambhoja gave away their kingdoms and went to the forest. Both the kings met each other in the forests, but they did not tell to each other that they were kings. They both used to go out and beg their daily food. According to the rules, they used to eat the food that day itself without storing it for future. One day, they got only rice soup. The king of Kambhoja said to the king of Magadha that it would be better if there was some salt for the taste. Then the Magadha king told that he had some. Slowly they understood that in spite all these sacrifices they could not come up to the level of a sanyasi – one king stored some salt and the other king could not help rice soup without salt.
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