Arjuna:
They suffer from greed;
unaware of what is right and what is wrong,
controlled by their disturbed minds,
they act in total ignorance.
Such is not our state;
why should we then fight them
for worldly gain and
momentary pleasures?
The May 7, 2007 issue of Newsweek carried an article by Rana Foroohar on “The Joy of Economics”. The writer quotes from an in-depth survey report on Happiness, the product of research by scientists at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
“Enough is enough”, a very common expression that is usually not enough. Not enough to explain “what is enough”.
One of our friends, an “expert” in Zen, advises another friend to get rid of her fear. He then very proudly mentions, “I refuse to be governed by fear.”
For, what we do for our families, for our homes – cannot be termed as charity at all. It is our duty, our responsibility. And, so charity does not begin at home. Charity must begin outside our homes. Charity is born of our sense of piety towards those who are not our kith or kin, who are strangers to us, who are not known to us personally…… But, who are suffering, who are in need of our services.
For, in many ways woman is superior to a man. Emancipation, on the other hand, lowers her status and makes it at par with man. Emancipation has a “Man” as its standard. It is a dirty word, for it does not consider the potentials of a woman. Woman’s standard and status, both are not recognized. She is made, rather forced to struggle to meet man’s standard. The question is: What for? Why should a woman struggle to meet such standard? Doesn’t she have her own standard?