when there is work there is bliss and paradise here.

 “Work keeps us from three evils:boredom,vice and need,” says Voltaire. Post retirement officially, this has more meaning to  me; there were days when there was an inexplicable sadness or tiredness of having to carry on the routine of daily living. Sometimes even eating and drinking and bathing would appear a difficult and complex task and terrible anxiety encircles you.

Whenever I am called upon to perform the academic function before a well informed audience in places like Mumbai, pune or Hyderabad,I feel revigorated and fully charged, and later when the performance is over and scholarly friends encourage  “oh  that was an electrifying  lecture”,I would feel that the Divine has not let me down.

There is nothing like pain or boredom, anxiety or despair  or obseesion of being with a girl or drug when you are with books and students.It is only at the old age we begin to understand the nuances of love as different from lust and more important the science and the ART OF LOVE MAKING.  But  gentlemen of the  jury  it is too late then.

Let me conclude this by quoting a few lines which I have been not tired of saying again and again from memory:

“Blessed is he who has found his work

And let him  ask no other happiness”.

I must hasten to add here that if one is also blessed with a lover along with the work that he loves, then there is bliss and paradise here.The peace will descend on us when we begin to realize that the lives of others, their pains and misfortune are more important to us than our own.