Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Why
Air France plane crashed into the Atlantic killing 228 people. Sudden astronomical loss of innocent human life. It leaves the mind just baffled & full of anguish. Imagining what those people would have felt in the final moments is just impossible. Such disasters, whether human triggered or nature triggered are no different. In the end , they just leave a group of mourning individuals. When i was looking at the beautiful sunset today, i was just thinking , i wish those 228 people could have seen this sunset if this disaster wouldnt have happened. Life is so ethereal, there is no guarantee of the very next second for any of us, so what exactly makes "what I call, our short stay on this planet as a collection of atoms & molecules weaved into a bodily form" substancial? I dont have an answer for this, and neither is there any justification of sudden disasters, killing innocent individuals. That is the intangible mystery of life and it goes on....
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Hi Shubhika !
"Life is so ethereal, there is no guarantee of the very next second for any of us.."
You have very appropriately used the world "Ethereal" for "Life". And that is exactly what it is. I also have a similar appreciation about life.
In the human brain we also have 'Mind' which is our conscious engine. This engine is evolving and updating type which helps in our conscious conducts. This mind in a way can be regarded as non-ethereal just because all that it contains is so worldly that it can hardly be seen as Ethereal. Mind is, however, a very small subset of our complex brain which is 'Ethereal'. In many ways one can feel this mind affecting the brain and the whole persona of an individual explicitly. For example when one moves from one place to another under the guidance of this mind, one moves with the entire body including the explicitly-non-participatory unconscious-mind (the minus-mind part). Every moment the small-signal earnings of this mind get added up to the total earnings of the unconscious (the Brain) and form the total signal. That is how the mind updates/evolves itself and also implicitly updates the brain. This "total-signal balance" of one individual-persona's account is in fact what it makes one appear to others at the moment. For example smile at our face is the instantaneous small-signal of our consciousness and otherwise permanent-cheerful look of ours is our total-signal balance of our personality account. Small smile each day gets added up (becomes 'Total-signal-balance')and we finally star appearing cheerful at the end of one nth day. Some one looks very pensive, someone looks horribly miserable etc etc.
This cheerfullness of one consciousness actually gets deeply embedded into the "Ethereal-self" which belongs not to the individual(the 'Mind') but to the "Cosmos" and it remains in the existence even when one (conscious-self) dies. This 'Total-signal-balnace' in the form of energy keeps floating and as per its nature searches an appropriate time/place for reappearance for another Life (onward jorney).
One life to me is only a small excursion of a long voyage of a life. In our life we have sleep state when we actually are dead for all, so called, worldly/practical purposes. Similarly in our bigger life we have death that is a bigger sleep.
And like One day's earnings are used the next day, one life's earnigs (total-signal-balance) are used in the next life.
And it goes on...
So in a way I dont fully agree with the point that people on board were all innocent. You may perhaps not agree.
This killing has been done by the universal intelligence.
More later...
good luck
I boarded five times last week and all my way I kept thinking about A330. It did scare me to think of what they must have gone through. When the flight attendant comes and does the safety routine, no one expects that one would have to use it.
I thought of solutions that might make the air travel safer but everything I came up with seemed to have some flaws. You know at times there are solutions to make things better but they are not implemented since they don't have good "RoI" in monetary terms. It disgusts me. It's a bitter truth but no human solution can be 100% effective. One just can cheat the nature and then I think.. if only we had wings ..
Aatma (soul) is satyam, jagat (world) midhya(illusion)"
is the affirmation of the ones who are enlightened.
Please read the book "autobiography of a Yogi" to understand the riddle of life.
Till then, you will be frustrated with this kind of incidents, but remember, that even a single atom doesnot move from its place with out any reason behind it in this world.
Read the book to understand THAT specific reason. It will touch your soul as it had done so already to millions of readers, and this book wass votedd as one of the top 100 books of this century. The author is Swami Paramahamsa Yogananda.
I am telling this info to you, since you at times are trying to solve the riddle of life, which very rarely an average person cares to do so.
The author of the book is Paramahamsa Yogananda and this book received great acclaims from world media in the last 60 years since it was written. go to the web site srf-yogananda.org and yoou will get the insight in to the book.
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