Editorial
Live - don't just exist
The same nature made human beings and animals. There are some things common in both human beings and animals. But there are great differences too between the two. One major difference is that human beings have a well-developed mind. No animal has so developed a mind. With the help of this mind, human beings are able to go inside themselves, discover their potentials and their capacities. It is the developed mind that enables a human being to organize his or her life.
Primitive man lived in the jungle, ate fruits and nuts, like animal. But the moment he became aware of his developed mind he realized how different and how lucky he was from all other animals. The man who was living in the jungle started changing and with this awareness he reached the level where we are now.
There are some people who use their minds to just maintain themselves. Life is to live, not just to maintain. We have not come into this world just to exist. We are supposed to live life fully. Schools and colleges only teach us how to maintain ourselves. But we have to learn the art of living all by ourselves. There is no school which teaches how to smile, how to organize our emotions, how to work with our minds. We are supposed to explore on our own that side of life which our education institutions didn't make us aware about.
Real living is loving and searching for peace and harmony. When you just exist, there is no love, peace, harmony, joy or bliss. There is only struggle. We are always worried about losing. When we decide to live, we become wise. Every problem has a solution. The solutions of inner problems also lie inside. All we need to do is show patience while trying to discover the solutions to our problems.
Ask yourself whether you want to live a better life or not, whether you want to know more about yourself or not, whether you want to derive full enjoyment out of this life or not. If your answer is 'Yes' then you automatically start living. Don't live a life with ignorance. Live with awareness, with knowledge. Only then can you derive the full benefit out of this human life which you are lucky to get from nature. In other words, live - don't just exist.
Live - don't just exist
The same nature made human beings and animals. There are some things common in both human beings and animals. But there are great differences too between the two. One major difference is that human beings have a well-developed mind. No animal has so developed a mind. With the help of this mind, human beings are able to go inside themselves, discover their potentials and their capacities. It is the developed mind that enables a human being to organize his or her life.
Primitive man lived in the jungle, ate fruits and nuts, like animal. But the moment he became aware of his developed mind he realized how different and how lucky he was from all other animals. The man who was living in the jungle started changing and with this awareness he reached the level where we are now.
There are some people who use their minds to just maintain themselves. Life is to live, not just to maintain. We have not come into this world just to exist. We are supposed to live life fully. Schools and colleges only teach us how to maintain ourselves. But we have to learn the art of living all by ourselves. There is no school which teaches how to smile, how to organize our emotions, how to work with our minds. We are supposed to explore on our own that side of life which our education institutions didn't make us aware about.
Real living is loving and searching for peace and harmony. When you just exist, there is no love, peace, harmony, joy or bliss. There is only struggle. We are always worried about losing. When we decide to live, we become wise. Every problem has a solution. The solutions of inner problems also lie inside. All we need to do is show patience while trying to discover the solutions to our problems.
Ask yourself whether you want to live a better life or not, whether you want to know more about yourself or not, whether you want to derive full enjoyment out of this life or not. If your answer is 'Yes' then you automatically start living. Don't live a life with ignorance. Live with awareness, with knowledge. Only then can you derive the full benefit out of this human life which you are lucky to get from nature. In other words, live - don't just exist.
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