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Objectivism vs Spiritualism

One very close family friend expired. He was not even forty and had a massive heart attack.

He was what Ayn Rand's philosophy says "Objectivist". He had a vision to start a company of his own and take it to new heights. He was the chairman of this and had risen to success, like anything in very less time! and this was the end of it....

Isn't it all very meaningless at the end of the day? Living life with passion? what you really want to do against all the odds...the odds result in so much odd stress and physical trauma..in high blood pressure, in losing that very life?

It's all so heroic to do it! To live the way you want it to...whatever may come, just do it...make money, make fame , make love, make kids....And after so much of making, it just vanishes. The soul just gets tired of the exhausted body and leaves?? It all ends?

Probably this is the reason Vedas had 4 Ashramas of life...Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, Sanyasa...They had realized that you cannot keep doing the same thing the whole life...you have to know that nothing’s “endless”...we have maintained the first 2, but probably can’t think of anything equivalent to Vanaprastha or Sanyasa...

May be if we can define life stages and know consciously the meaning and reason of our living, it will help...We'll realize Karma, we'll realize what's what and act accordingly...We neither come with anything , nor we take anything from here...either it's all show off in between... Or... It's all to utilize and understand what humans are capable of...which is justifiable...maybe we need to resume back to our old theories of life, to live as it will actually result in pleasure, Objective when you will treasure objectivism and u know that this is not what you will do "endlessly"...money is not what u need to even save for pension! And when you finish off with that phase, connect with God...many ppl will mistaken this with religion..this is nothing related to religion..its only about connecting with God(The One Soul of which we all are a part of), meditating, chatting with God, making your soul feel good! And understanding the true meaning of Love...

We need to realize that it's not our body, but our soul which is driving everything ! Even our love for objectivism and our ego for life....

And I dunno why I feel remembering Bob Dylan here, as he sang...

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, n how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer is blowin in the wind.

How many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesnt see?
Yes, n how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
The answer is blowin in the wind.


P.S. And amongst all these present life odds, some ppl drink and smoke to get rid of tension!! B***** Hell!

Comments

Addy said…
Life is a bundle of the surprises . We need to unfold life to get & spread pleasure out of this . We have to follow what life is all about and guidelines mentioned in the religious direction . We follow the minimum of those to amke sure we are comfertable and think of the immediate pleasure and claim the verus knowledge centre . I am shocked by reading this as well and well say as I quote "DEATH OF A DREAM" .

Nurture the dreams to claim we can spread happiness out of dreams and make world happy society.
CoolPraj said…
This was soooo true...
and rightly said we know what needs to be done in first 2 stages but we are unsure of what to with next to define it as 'success' also...!!

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