SIGNIFICANCE---II

 SIGNIFICANCE---II

But when we are on the other side of the fence our attitudes are no better. I have not come across any one who has suffered because of detached approaches to these official obligations.

On the other hand, the avaricious public servants languish in wants – wants of peace, health, children worthy of claim / acclaim. Truly, action and reaction are equal and proportionate. We reap what we sow. Significance [effect] can emerge in a way that was never anticipated. Avoiding the prospect of miseries begins with true detachment.                                                     

I have watched the significance to people of both varieties. Undoubtedly, the detached ones have been “blessed” by any standards.               

After all, life has to be useful to the people around. Sincere and selfless people achieve better. Any more dilation on this may lose the very significance.   

Let us remember:

Society includes every one of us. There is no point in trying to detach from this ground reality. People have to co-exist by interaction. Divinity has provided all of us with varied types of asset and problem. It is not as if we can solve our problems by our intellect or wealth. Divine Grace has to be bestowed on us through the people around us. Some of us appear great, because we are that much blessed. Several persons who are highly talented have not had the right opening. So, if one has to shine, the ability, occasion and the ambience should come in right time and scale. This platform can not be created by one’s personal effort. At best one may get a small opening for entry. To gain the right advantage, one has to put in genuine efforts to be of value to the society. If we fritter our time and energy on personal prospects, we would rather run out of time, as our wants keep on expanding. It may lead us into unhealthy practices and avaricious attitudes.

To cultivate genuine detachment, one has to concede that things happen as destined and not always as desired. No matter how simple or easy the target is. This explains why some real talents do not manage to reach the top, while some lesser mortals are able to. Obviously providence has hidden equations that render peace / harmony.   

Everyone has a share of luck and no one can snatch it. The Supreme Power knows to reward the meritorious / the honest in its own way, not necessarily the way we wish.  No success is entirely our own. We need being thankful to our ambience.  But, these well known ideals / ideas remain significantly insignificant in our times.

Prof.K.Raman