Body and Soul...

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It is always said that the body is temporary while soul is immortal. Have been hearing this ever since my childhood. And I always had this dilemma or question about death in humans/animals as compared to trees/vegetation. Animals supposedly have soul which at the time of death seemingly leaves the body, rendering it lifeless. What happens with trees then? Do they die at some particular instant or moment? Or they don't have soul?

Thoda hai... Thode ki... Zaroorat hai...

It’s a dog’s-life and everyone’s competing in this rat-race to leave others behind to rot and find that cutting edge over them. Avoiding the mouse-traps and fighting the odds till the very end. Look what have we reduced ourselves to?

Whatever happened to the philosophy of “Thoda hai… thode ki… zaroorat hai…”? these days no one seems to be content with little. Everyone wants it big, no matter what! Seems like “big is beautiful” mantra, for whatever reasons applies to everything in life. Right from the obvious ‘thing’ to homes, incomes, TVs, holidays, luxuries, necessities, people, support (mental, physical, financial or otherwise), kid’s report cards, chocolates, and the list goes on… you name it… and we want it to be as big as possible.

Where are we heading with all these biggies? Perhaps to bigger problems? ‘Perhaps’ or ‘For sure’?? You the mature reader decide.

Mamu… Jaldi Acche Honeka… Boleto “Get Well Soon”!!!

You must have heard a popular joke about a priest and a bus-driver standing at the gate of heaven in front of St. Peter. Bus-driver gets flowery appreciation for his service to Lord while priest is simply allowed to pass. The priest is confused and asks for this different treatment. He gets an answer “While you preached everyone slept. But, when drove his bus everyone remembered Lord!”

Jokes apart, in our day-to-day life we rarely remember our Creator. Nor do we touch our spiritual side often. This leads to weakening of faith and eventually our life becomes so stressful that it crosses the bearable limits.

Can you think of any place where faith of a person is restored? Any wild guesses? Apart from our fast driver’s bus… well the place that comes to our mind is hospital… a place where life is saved, new life comes into being and where some unfortunate lives even come to an end. (‘Unfortunate’ word is being used here assuming the hardships that particular soul has to endure. End itself is inevitable. But at a hospital it becomes more difficult…). A place where few men play demigods and remaining pray to the real God with all their hearts.