New year musings 2020 from Adelaide
Every new year revives old desires and dreams and presents
an opportunity to make new promises and resolutions. Therefore the year 2020 is not an exception to this; but 2020 is not just an another year and it is perhaps something unique and special in the sense that an auro had been built around it for many years; it had been treated more like
a bench mark,- reference year for long ; in many nations including my home country India slogans or statements such as where will my country be in 2020;will
poverty be gone and health care provided to all and the like - many shallow
statements were made without any substance and that tradition of sterile
persuasion and irrelevant goals are being resurrected with blatant religious
clothing neglecting economy society and people now.
Did the similar
statements made by politicians make any
sense ?Absolutely not .The absurdity of sterile and shallow resolutions of
impotent and irresponsible governments has been always obvious and the same is
the case with every new year resolutions of individuals and institutions .
Thinking about the thoughts of many years gone by, and the
new year resolutions made then ,we do not hesitate to make new year oaths ,and
thus virtually shout and crow to be a
better and reformed human ,knowing full well the new year cravings recorded in
the new year diary –are all going to
be like writing on the sands of sea
shore as the waves of new desires and the standing
temptations all the five senses will
wipe them away constantly .
The New Year resolution stays put, for a while
Say for a few weeks at least, no matter how farce they are
If God wills and our credit balance is trust worthy we
survive
Till the arrival of the New Year only to revive the old
desires
And of course to make fresh promises which again
We are not going to keep as they are certain to be
Demolished by the
intensity of kamam and attachment.
We are not tired of making
new year resolutions as
They do not cost us , but elevate to a higher plane
For days or weeks, until
the karmic law of desire asserts.
Amidst all chaos and uncertainty we all live on hope , however
faint they may be ,
We all pray for better times ;and feverishly and prayerfully hope for our suffering to end
He alone knows, whether all our hopes turn into ashes or it prospers .
This musing is part of a philosophical piece written two months ago, corrected and typed at adelaide and posted 10 minutes before the birth of 2020.
