Monday, February 1, 2016

While reading Khalil Gibran reader I understood the absurdities of life in a better way.

Last week I had the compulsion to read international finance for a series of lecture. This week there is a task at hand to prepare for a Radio Lecture. I am in it ;nevertheless the other day I was reading Khalil Gibran reader which made me to understand the unexpected twists and turns of life. Many a time we are confronted with the unexpected and we are amazed at our own behavior   Now a few sentences from our Khalil Gibran:
“What is this power that elevates our spirits until we reach the mountain top smiling and glorifying then we suddenly we are cast to the depths of the valley, weeping and suffering? What is this life that embraces us like a lover one day ,and fights us like an enemy the second day?”
 Monk who was persecuted the previous day and could survive hunger and thirst the next day through the benevolent intervention of a mother and her beautiful daughter  in  severe winter of thick snow and frost makes this statement.
Men are a bundle of emotions and finer feelings and no one is good or bad  and even if you are called bad  and blood sucker do not worry  so long as you have the spirit of altruism and more important  you have not done anything wrong excepting that you sincerely care for the welfare of the fellow human.

To go back to Gibran  he says “let us keep away from earthly things, for life  passes like a cloud”. Yes gentlemen of the jury  All of us are “gripping on to life, lamenting the passing of yesterday, condemning the speed of today, and waiting fearfully for tomorrow”. I  have used his words to explain our existential dilemma.Let us not worry or fear tomorrow.Tomorrow wil  not be like today but better than that.All of us live on hope

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