The past century has seen many tragic events where the pride of man has been given a fitting finale ultimately. Many such things happened and yet the pride of man is not discouraged! Man is not able to learn a final lesson as a revelation or a lesson to correct himself inspite of repeated insults. A lesson is not treated as a lesson but as a misfortune! The re is a big difference between a lesson and a misfortune. Misfortune is when a man, though perfect in thinking, walking and planning, yet meets with failure. Misbehavior ending in punishment is not misfortune! There is a big difference. Man misbehaves. It ends in punishment and he calls it misfortune. Most of our ideals end up like this. Our way of looking at things ends like this.
What we should all look for is some clasping message, an excellent lesson to the entire mankind which can humble the man. Man has to be humbled. He has to be brought down to the ground and made to walk on the ground. Just because we are able to fly in a large flight about tewnty miles from the ground, it does not mean we have conquered the skies. It only means we are flying like a fly. The sky can humble you any time. It means nothing much. But when we loook at it from the point of man's simple living in a hutment, it seems to be a stupendous achievement. It is an achievement and I am here to admire any scientific achievement. Any achievement must be acknowledged and admired where necessary in any field of science. Any progress must be admired from the human point of view. But when we think of God, we must treat it as a gift of grace. Then we feel humble. If we look at it only from the human point of view then we feel proud. Arrogance is the second stage of pride. The third stage is misbehavior. Fourth stage is ruination.
The Puranas abound in the sotries of Rakshasas who reeived their gifts from the Gods themselves, but misbehaved even in various Lokas and fnally were ruined. The Puranas tell us these stories ony to prove that your achievements by any means, should be treated as gifts of God. The Rakshasas forgot that these boons were given to them by Brahma or Shiva and that but for these boons they would not have been great. They behaved like they were the masters of the world and caused turmoil, hurt and destruction and terrorized innocent people, people weaker than they were. That seems to be repeating today. What we need is humility and peace.
What we should all look for is some clasping message, an excellent lesson to the entire mankind which can humble the man. Man has to be humbled. He has to be brought down to the ground and made to walk on the ground. Just because we are able to fly in a large flight about tewnty miles from the ground, it does not mean we have conquered the skies. It only means we are flying like a fly. The sky can humble you any time. It means nothing much. But when we loook at it from the point of man's simple living in a hutment, it seems to be a stupendous achievement. It is an achievement and I am here to admire any scientific achievement. Any achievement must be acknowledged and admired where necessary in any field of science. Any progress must be admired from the human point of view. But when we think of God, we must treat it as a gift of grace. Then we feel humble. If we look at it only from the human point of view then we feel proud. Arrogance is the second stage of pride. The third stage is misbehavior. Fourth stage is ruination.
The Puranas abound in the sotries of Rakshasas who reeived their gifts from the Gods themselves, but misbehaved even in various Lokas and fnally were ruined. The Puranas tell us these stories ony to prove that your achievements by any means, should be treated as gifts of God. The Rakshasas forgot that these boons were given to them by Brahma or Shiva and that but for these boons they would not have been great. They behaved like they were the masters of the world and caused turmoil, hurt and destruction and terrorized innocent people, people weaker than they were. That seems to be repeating today. What we need is humility and peace.
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