Learn From The Ant

Thoughtless ant ? NOT the truth.
Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves? | KQED

 

I presume madam sister @jayasala42 writes about local ants of Ashok Nagar KK Nagar belt . The moral is well taken. But humanity is aware that it can not carry to the other world all that have been gathered over the years. All their toil is for their wards, for their family members, living comforts. These are needed to lead life. So toil and the hard work are inalienable inescapable part of life.

Ants a few or not intelligent especially the male ones. But they are not made of sloth and I understand among animal species ants never sleeps.

Leafcutter ants an interesting read. In Bay Area zoo people can watch magnified how the leaf-cutter ants carry till finality and learn that the fungus that eat the leaves that again eaten by ants pass through their digestive system etc.

• A lizard was carrying a cockroach that was half-dead by spray of insecticide. It moved carrying the cockroach along the wall and through patio and then to a crack near the corner between the entrance gates and the compound wall. But it could not pass into the crevice with cockroach in mouth.
• It surveyed other cracks in close proximity and spotted one wider cracked zone and about to enter holding cockroach intact into it.
• I was happy to watch in close all this, since a long time. But as ill-luck would have it, a senior crow happened to see it from afar, took a parabolic flight reached the spot, caught the live lizard in its mouth and the cockroach in “coma” fell down. Then ants came as a big battalion for it and roach was taken in a big procession... then of course end you can easily imagine.
• This series of happenings could be interpreted for some life lessons in terms of free will andor destiny (Fate)

Thanks and Regards.

 

All the above 3 posts are very interesting to read indeed, though in different ways.

 

So true! I felt same as you after reading original post of jayasala ma'am.

 

Some toil for their family, some work hard for their own power and glory. There are different kinds of people in this world. Comforts are fine, but many unneccesary parties, fancy cars, phones, proving oneself superior than others - are those really needed?
Some do cutthroat politics at work to get ahead, and spoil relations among relations for property . That is the issue. One can work hard for a living, but one should not cheat others or exploit others just to amass wealth .

Then death comes as a realisation that one wasted his life on materialist things and caused misery to others for that.Fine balance between greed and need has to be realised and maintained.

 

Thanks for your heartfelt response here.

An Ant does hard work but finally it couldn’t reach into its home with the booty. Similarly majority of the population toil hard and gather assets and assortment of other valuables but those articles properties that was dear to can not make it with dead to heavens or hell.

• The man who dies after life extinguished there is no question of his ( body or soul ) realising this.

Few of the population indulge in greed turn out of character enjoy life to the hilt and die invariably tragic but till his other last breath the person led excessively happy life (enjoyed life ) with amassed wealth and after death the body or and soul can never realise those acquired things legal or illegal not accompany to hell or heaven.

Interestingly Pharos in Egypt believed and inside the pyramid along with king’s embalmed body lot of dead person’s used articles objects food intoxicants jewels and gems etc were kept with preservatives.

 

"Interestingly Pharos in Egypt believed and inside the pyramid along with king’s embalmed body lot of dead person’s used articles objects food intoxicants jewels and gems etc were kept with preservatives."

....and the Pharos enjoy everything through their bodily senses...?

 

When I first saw the title, I came to read because I thought there was a spell-o in the title. Learn from The Aunt <== was the content I expected.
The average people toil and save for the lean days of the future. This started when we gave up hunting, and settled down in agrarian communities. Since the ultimate check-out day is not known, we tend to worry, overestimate, and save ==> just in case the spirit does not want to depart the coil when it is the right time. When cash-flow and savings are < 0.

"Learn from the Aunt" would be a good Title for an agony aunt newsmagazine column. Perhaps some deserving auntie with a teaching reputation on this forum could own that.

 

You hv ended the sentence of your remark with a question mark. You are making an affirmative statement ending it with interrogation.
Body is dead with soul departed. Dead body in the absence of embalming deteriorates and the question of any senses preserved in it is beyond question.

• Secondly I find you have copied a part of my response before making a remark. Your intention is to highlight the relevant portion or part of the post. Instead copy paste, it is sufficient to select the portion which gets highlighted and the next beneath it you have tiny option window in black with two options quote and reply.
• If no other part you need to reply, in tiny window you click the reply. Then on top there is an indication your “ line for quote” saved. Next you get to the bottom window where reply is to be texted. You can see in read at the bottom “ insert quotes”. Click on that. The line or part of the paragraph or portion of the post u selected would appear in light grey or green. Below that you begin your reply.

Thanks and Regards.