You exist for society or society exists for you? Asked Jiddu Krishnamurti. Answer must be that each one of us lives for the society, if it is generalized after taking into account the "mass-culture". Mindful life is missing from everywhere. People want to be efficient. There is a competitive ecology prevalent all around between human species and smart computers or between masses of individuals. What do we want to achieve? Nothing! Is there any worth achievement which will be endurable? Even if one's name remains alive for thousands of years. Will it be sufficient to make one happy? Happiness is not an outside object, whose acquisition is dependent upon money. Happiness is not a goal, which may be achieved once for all. It is a means, a way, and it remains a way. Destination is a myth, a perception. Even a dead leaf has not reached to its destination. You may be good at production, of goods, services, wealths, but production mentality is obnoxious to happiness, peace, and integration. You may be a good useful machine, working for someone or something, but in the end, you are being consumed by your works. You might be a victorious, conquerer, a successful person, but your every victory over enemy is a defeat not perceptible very easily. Every conquerer is conquered by his own pride. Every victory is a seed of downfall. One can't fly always. Ground is necessary for every glorious or inglorious flight. You can't be efficient without any cost. Loss is perceptible. We are materially growing and our mind is witnessing its instability. We are living in a culture of "dil mange mor". This culture is thriving at the tune of "hum hai naye andaj kyon ho purana". But do we witness anything new when our mind is malfunctioning like an efficient consumer? Do we do anything differently except recycling old and making it remix? Perhaps, a multitasker is good for nothing except one is running after quantities. Who cares about quality? It is an old school question. Which is needless to be attended.
Cosmic energy is moving into various forms and patterns, its quest is to become, what Arthur Schopenhauer called 'will to live'. (Arthur Schopenhauer, 1818). He is explicit that: “Thus the will to live everywhere preys upon itself, and in different forms is its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it subdues all the others, regards nature as a manufactory for its own use. Yet even the human race...reveals in itself with most terrible distinctness this conflict, this variance of the will with itself…”. Every ‘will to become' is a movement, encompassing the history of past and future; the degree of rationality and its gradation are normativized by thoughts as hierarchy of souls and monads. Human being as likeness and image of God possess the highest truth, indeed! In fact, human being is the only species who possess and owns the truth, it is the only mode of being who puts truth at stake, constructs its horizons and claim of legitimacy and illegitimacy, defi...
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