BE CURIOUS, BE DETACHED

Suppose you are going through a lot of troubles, trapped in a tragic situation and you are feeling so helpless amidst all the difficulties. What will happen if you suddenly wake up to realize that it was just a dream, a nightmare? Won’t you feel so relaxed after knowing that whatever tragedy was happening with you was not real but it was just happening in a dream? According to Vedanta, there are mainly three states of reality: waking, dreaming and deep sleep. Waking life(Jagrat) is where we experience physical realities, dreaming life(Swapna) means the world of only mental thoughts and dreams without physical experience and deep sleep(Sushupta) is the state where physical and mental existence disappear. While we dream, we think that it is real. Only when we wake up, we realize that it was just a dream. Similarly, waking life is also like a dream. This can be experienced by simple logic that whenever we remember past, the past moments appear like a dream. The only differenc...

Experts say that it will take almost a year to completely get rid of the health and financial crisis which has been caused solely due to the outbreak of coronavirus. So even if the lockdown period ends, there won’t be absolute freedom of movement. People will be advised to observe social distancing until no new case of corona emerges. How this will impact the global economy which has already gone under recession as announced by IMF. Let us first look at some positive news amidst all crisis: Air pollution reduced significantly : Due to lockdown and restriction on movement of vehicles, air pollution has fallen everywhere on the earth, it has gone down by  40% in some places. According to WHO, due to the exposure to fine particles of air pollution, around 7 million people die every year in the world. And obviously, pollution weakens the immune system, so it creates a problem on a daily basis. This Lockdown period has taught a new way to combat pollution. People can be enco...

“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional”, this olden and the golden saying is such meaningful that its relevance pervades time and space. As we are going through self-isolation due to attack of coronavirus on whole world, it is actually our perspective which can help us in winning the race against corona. To check the spread   of the corona, Indian govt. has announced 21 days of lockdown. Life has suddenly come to a   halt as people who had earlier a habit to go outside for job, classes, and other purposes find it quite hard to pass time in their rooms maintaining social distance. Now if we just change our perspective towards it, the same boring period of lockdown can become an opportunity to advance our skills, learn new things, take care of physical as well as mental health and completely transform ourselves in 21 days.   So people often used to complain that they don’t get time to do physical exercises or read their favourite books. Now they have got th...