A life in reverse!

Dear Sathya
Vaanavil iyarkayin magizhchiyana
oru neram andro?
Pinn en indha sogha smiley
Endru adhai mel nokki
Valaithen!
Sri

 

Dear Chitra
What you ay is very much like the core teaching of Jiddu Krishnamurthi.
Listen to what he says:
We think that living is always in the present and that dying is something that awaits us at a distant time. But we have never questioned whether this battle of everyday life is living at all. We want to know the truth about reincarnation, we want proof of the survival of the soul, we listen to the assertion of clairvoyants and to the conclusions of psychical research, but we never ask, never, how to live - to live with delight, with enchantment, with beauty every day. We have accepted life as it is with all its agony and despair and have got used to it, and think of death as something to be carefully avoided. But death is extraordinarily like the life we know how to live. You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.

I cant say I am in complete agreement with Jiddu. It is very difficult to divest oneself from the thoughts of the past nor is it desirable but Jiddu recommends it out of his fear that if we get completely bogged down with our thoughts of the past, it would be like climbing a mountain with a mill stone tied to your legs!

Living is an art and only the liver knows the best way to accomplish it. It is his choice!
Sri

 

Dear Meenu
How right you are! No one can claim to have a led a perfect life and mistakes are bound to be committed. If only we get a chance to go back and rectify them, how nice it would be! I agree with you that Wells' Time Machine can be put to better use to travel backwards for this purpose.

There is a quote which is also my favourite which says,
"Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it!"
This quote essentially extols the virtue of learning from the mistakes of our past!
sri

 

Dear Vidya
A life in reverse and living in retrospect are essentially different I should think.
A life in reverse is a fantasy like our fervant appeal to our mother, Take me back in your womb. Can there be a safer place than the mother's womb in the entire universe? Imagine the amount of favourite foods a mother gives up when she carries us in her womb out of fear that it might affect us! If I am given a chance, I would love to go back to my mother's womb!
But ironically Hindu religion propounds various ways to free ourselves from the Cycle of Punarapi Jananam, Punarapi Maranam. The freedom from a sojourn in Garba is the thing Hindu religion strongly aims at!
A life in retrospect is our ability to gain wisdom from the path of life we have thus far trodden. But then, as I have pointed out in another post here, scholars like Jiddu Krishnamurthi wish us to come out of such hibernation.
It is a very tough choice nah?
Sri

 

Dear Malathi
Thank you for your kind words. I am happy to be able to interact with someone who is prone to mysticism like myself.
I find myself wandering into the mystical quite often but at the same time find it difficult to share my experiences with others.
Sri