Recently I had an opportunity to read a book on Vedanta by A. Parthasarthy. His book is called 'The Eternities', Vedanta treatise. This book is about living life on the Vedic principles. Independent of any religion. There is a part in the book which I really liked very much. Very apt because I identify with the writers thoughts. Sharing the same for my friends.
"Few realise that the greatest contributions of humanity can never compensate for the largesse of nature. All the material work you can offer is immaterial. Yet every body hurries and worries about his work. Your approach to life should be to just do what your ought to do. This is the begining and end of your obligations. You are not to brood over or become excited about your duty and responsibility. Your real duty in life is to remain self-poised and self-pleased. Your primary service to the world, your religious duty is to keep yourself peaceful and cheerful. To be sorrowful and miserable is a social, moral and religious crime. You ought not to spread the disease of melancholy to your fellow beings. Instead rejuvenate their health with joy and happiness. This attitude must blend with work.
The moment you are born the good world provides you with everything you need. Oxygen to breath, mother's milk, the right temperature outside and inside and countless other things. You become totally indebted to the world. You must therefore maintain a sense of gratitude through your life.
The German scholar Arthur Schopenhauer has said: It is difficult to find happiness in onself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr has described it more exiquistely:
For him in vain the envious seasons roll
Who bears eternal summer in his soul."
Be cheerful and have a great day.
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