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I had an occasion to broach the subject of the nature of reality to an 84 year old lady.
Through her 84 years of life she has been brought up to believe in a God who grants favours or punishments, ho needs prayers, devotion time every day.
With that belief is also intertwined a belief in karma, or fate. One's deeds in another past life causes situations that make life a pleasure or a suffering.
There was no way I could get her to change her conceptions.
I tried to reason with her that
- there is no super person out in heavens above who judges our actions and grants us favours or problems.
- there is no fate or karma. Each individual soul decides before birth as a human being the experiences it want on this plane.
- one's life style is not set in stone. With thinking, feelings and inspired actions resulting from these two, one can alter one's life to suit one's needs.
- pain or pleasure are how one reacts to events. They are not the events themselves.
I tried to reason these things with her.
Regret my reasoning seemed to her to verge on insanity.
She was essentially sad at her circumstances. I so wanted her to be cheered up. I wanted her to adopt my style of nature of reality to make her life a pleasure, a joy, 24/7
But I felt she was comfortable with her pain, her fate, that she had to endure, and let her be so.
Is this how most elderly people stoically accept the miseries of life? That life is a drudgery to be endured with a smiling face, as a clown, until death frees one from the torture?
Wishing you joy and abundance, Shree-1
I had an occasion to broach the subject of the nature of reality to an 84 year old lady.
Through her 84 years of life she has been brought up to believe in a God who grants favours or punishments, ho needs prayers, devotion time every day.
With that belief is also intertwined a belief in karma, or fate. One's deeds in another past life causes situations that make life a pleasure or a suffering.
There was no way I could get her to change her conceptions.
I tried to reason with her that
- there is no super person out in heavens above who judges our actions and grants us favours or problems.
- there is no fate or karma. Each individual soul decides before birth as a human being the experiences it want on this plane.
- one's life style is not set in stone. With thinking, feelings and inspired actions resulting from these two, one can alter one's life to suit one's needs.
- pain or pleasure are how one reacts to events. They are not the events themselves.
I tried to reason these things with her.
Regret my reasoning seemed to her to verge on insanity.
She was essentially sad at her circumstances. I so wanted her to be cheered up. I wanted her to adopt my style of nature of reality to make her life a pleasure, a joy, 24/7
But I felt she was comfortable with her pain, her fate, that she had to endure, and let her be so.
Is this how most elderly people stoically accept the miseries of life? That life is a drudgery to be endured with a smiling face, as a clown, until death frees one from the torture?
Wishing you joy and abundance, Shree-1
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