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and other essays by B. J. Gupta Table of contents HARD WORK AND FAIT 1 ALTERNATE MEDICINES 3 EXISTENCE OF GOD 4 RELIGION 5 MORALITY 6 PROMOTING MORALITY 7 'WHY ME?' SYNDROME 9 GOODNESS QUOTIENT 10 GANPATI BAPPA MORYA 11 ANGER 12 ARROGANCE 13 PURPOSE OF LIFE 14 WOMENS LIBERATION 18 LIFE OF A JEEP 19 MEANING OF LIFE 20 PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE 22 MY WEB SITES 24 Hard work and fait There are two widely prevailing and mutually contradictory views on hard work. One is that however hard you work, you are only going to get whatever is there in your fate. Other one is that 'nothing is impossible'. First view is held by those who are either influenced by eastern religions or who have experienced failures in spite of hard work.
Second view is held generally by those who have experienced success. My views on hard work are somewhat statistical. To me fate is nothing but chance. While people say somebody is born in rich family by fate, I would say it is so by chance. Thus it would be more appropriate to say that hard work doesn't guarantee success, but increases it's chance. "Hard work hasn't hurt anybody but why take chance?" Alternate medicines In greek the 'allo' means different. Perhaps allopathy meant a different therapy.
Today it is no longer just a different therapy but since long time has established itself as main therapy. Alternate systems of medicines harp on the fact that allopathic medicines have side effects. Many of today's so called alternate medicines do not have any effect. Where is the question of side effects? . "If we get cured we thank God, If we don't we curse the doctor.
Next time you get cured, do thank God, bless the doctor too. " Existence of God Existence of God is matter of faith. He exists at least to those who have faith in him. But it is the society which creates the faith and society consists of men. This brings us to famous question 'Man is God's creation or God is man's creation?
Religion All religions originated with the aim of making the world a better place to live in. Originators and propagators of most of the religions realized that if every body works for self interest only there would be conflict of interests and weaker would suffer more. Hence in most of the religions, any activity which adversely affects others is considered immoral. The biggest challenge confronting religious heads was how to keep man away from doing immoral things. In most of the religions this challenge was met by taking recourse to the concept of God.
God was attributed to be omnipresent, guaranteeing rewards and punishments either in this life itself or in the next life. Morality Man's actions are by and large governed by self-interest. Morality is a code of conduct to ensure that our actions are not just governed by self interest, but the interest of other members of the society is also taken into consideration. Morality has relevance only in context of society. No action is moral or immoral for a man living in isolation.
Man's observance to this code of conduct, which we call morality or goodness, partly comes from within himself and partly results from external controls. Whereas taking care of interests of near and dear ones comes from within, external controls determine as to what extent we take into account interests of other members of society. Promoting morality Following are different ways of promoting morality in society, a. To make people good so that even the concern for others, apart from near and dear ones, comes from within. b. To make them believe that it is in their own ultimate interest to be good to others.
This approach is adopted by most of the religions. c. To establish regulatory controls so that there is no choice but to act good. In principle method 'a' is the best, ensuring that goodness comes from within but in practice it has proved to be most difficult method.
Method 'b' has been the most successful till now, but with dwindling faith in religion and God this method may not work for long. Now all we can have is method 'c'. "Keep controlling morality of others, yours will get automatically controlled by others" 'Why me?' Syndrome Quite often we see bad things happening to good people and we wonder why it should happen to them. We wonder because somewhere in our mind there is a belief that only good things happen to good people and vice versa. The belief is so strong that it doesn't go in spite of witnessing innumerable examples contradicting it.
The belief is outcome of tenets of most of religions. Naturally when bad happens to us, we are not able to see beyond haze of religious conceptions and misconceptions and can't help asking ' Why me?' . "If good can happen, even if we do bad, why bad can't happen even if we do good?" Goodness quotient Man's goodness can be defined simply as his concern for others. Goodness quotient can be defined as ratio of his concern for others to his total concerns. Goodness is relative.
A person is considered good if his goodness is higher than that of an average person in the society. No body is 100 % good. Can we also say that nobody is 0 % good? "Mahatma is one whose soul doesn't rest in peace till there are tears even in a single eye. " Ganpati Bappa Morya Ganesh Chaturthi is a festival, celebrated in India. On this day idols of Ganesh are installed at homes and public places with gaiety. Idols of Ganesh is bought in processions.
On one such occasion, man, women, girls and boys were dancing on the tune of their favorite music albums shouting slogans ' Ganpati Bappa Morya' in praise of Ganesha. Procession after procession were passing through a street. There were also stray animals on the street witnessing the scene. Perhaps they were wondering what has happened to man? Anger We get angry whenever we find some body acting against our own interest and we are unable to restrain him. May be that although that persons actions are against our interest, they are perfectly serving his own interests.
I have myself gone through such situations several times. In these situations although I continue to restrain other person to best of my abilities, what controls my anger is my belief that at the core everybody is selfish including myself. Thus I see myself and the other person in same boat. Further I believe that it is my bad luck due to which I am suffering from that person.
Thus I do not hold him fully responsible for my fa...
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