Saturday, November 1, 2014

23. The Four Essentials and the Fifth……………!



In this modern world every thing seems to look as make believe. The ability to perceive the inner sense is lost. What appears outside is easily accepted. Wealth is appreciated but the way at which that richness is earned is not the point of view. The reality is veiled by illusion in each and every step. There is an enormous and continuous effort by the developed countries to subdue the real economy and make us believe of stability in the time of recession. Why are we cheating ourselves by becoming attracted to make believe world? Was it so like this before? 

This human mind is the one which is attracted to whatever it finds fascinating. Though the senses are the first to get notice of the facts outside our body, it is our mind which is attracted to the one that give immense pleasure to it. In a way it is the mind that is the enjoyer of the pleasure. Hence it has become a slave of it and also wants the same to be projected out. This attitude of the mind will never let the intellect to justify the pros and cons. 


This is not a recent feature for the mankind, a poet writes “A person has to have the four essentials called
VIDYA (Knowledge), VINAYA (Modesty), VAK (Good Speech), VIVEKA (Wisdom), to live in a society.” After writing this verse he continues that even if all the above said four essentials are absent in him he can survive if he has VASTRA (Dress). This is Make Believe!!!!!!! Being well dressed is quite natural but doing it to impress other is not the way. 

Once a British asked Swami Vivekanand, Why can't you wear proper clothes to look like a gentleman? Swami Vivekanand smiled and said, In your culture, a tailor makes a gentleman; but, in our culture, character makes gentleman.

What was Gandhiji’s take on dressing? Was he not respected by the people across the globe? Was it the appreciation for his Dhoti or for the Vidya, Vinaya, Vak, and Vivek he had? 
And by that he wore on his body he could impress the whole world! We all know how his contemporaries who were well dressed behaved too. A person may impress anybody by the way he has dressed but the deep inside he will very well know that without the Vastra, which is outward attribute he is a big ZERO if he does not posses the other essential four............Right??????

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