Why is it that only when something tragic happens, like the Ahmedabad tragedy, people start sharing emotional posts saying things like ‘Life is so, so unpredictable,’ ‘We always think we have time, but the truth is, we don’t,’ or ‘Hug the people you love like it’s the last moment you’re spending with them’? What are your thoughts on such posts circulate during tragedies😳.

This shows that we are still too crude and largely live on the surfaces. We need strong outer events to wake up to the world-pain and its underlying truth, its lesson and the message, let alone find the real causes of the various kinds of human suffering and its cure. 

Unfortunately the lessons of a tragedy are soon forgotten. The sensational mind takes interest in it for a brief while and then goes about its old mechanical routine until the next blow and shock of life.

A Buddha sees old age and a diseased man and leaves his palace in search of the solution for whole mankind. Sri Aurobindo goes through the hardships of the British prison and comes out a world-redeemer to save humanity from the unseen prison of ignorance and open the possibility of a Divine Life here, upon earth. But the rest, confronting similar prospects get back to the same old prison of comforts and the thorny path of the ego bound life and its insatiable desires.

Affectionately,

Alok Da