Triggers and Traumas
Triggers and Traumas: जगी सर्व सुखी असा कोण आहे? विचारी मना तू चि शोधून पाहे.. This couplet is a well known one out of a series of verses written by Samarth Ramdas addressed to the mind. These are known as Manache Shlok. In this couplet Samarth is giving a task to the thinking mind : Go find a person in the world who is totally happy. This is an enquiry assigned to the mind. The key is: totally happy. What does that mean? One who is free of any discontent, disturbance, problems, pain, discomfort, suffering, sadness or sorrow. Always feeling happy. The answer is obvious in the question. Where there is human life, there is struggle, there are problems, there are disappointments, failures, losses, grief, disease, pain, aging, anxieties and worries. No life can dodge such things. And yet every mind dreams of the utopian life where it will not have to endure any of this. If its own dream is shattered it begins to dream of a perfect world for others. Especially for it...
