Today morning I went to barber to have a hair cut. It was like any other indian barber shop.
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The owner was a chubby fellow with a short height & tanned complexion. when started cutting the hair, he asked my whereabouts. While cutting my hears he was constantly conversing. He told some nice points which makes lot of sense. From his speaking I understood he was intelligent & had good observation of the outside reality. He was one among many who dared to think differently rather than shippishly following the trends as hyped by media & portrayed by modern society without giving much thinking. I have noted down those points along with my reflections on them as I heard & read from different bonafide sources.
1> The Indians were slaves of British reign few decades ago, now Indians are slaves of status symbols like car, mobile etc.
-Because people have no knowledge about the real spiritual nature of oneself & they identify with lump of body, they have to depend on the bodily designations for happiness than tapping real inherent inner bliss coming from relation with God. So most of people life goes in working hard for accumulating some pieces of paper to buy some pieces of metal thinking that will give them happiness.
2>Most of the life of the modern Indians goes in paying the loans taken for home & car.
-India was agrarian country & 70% of the population of India constituted peoples staying in villages & they had profession directly or indirectly related with farming. Because of the spoiling of the land by inorganic farming, spoiling of the natures cycles causing irregular rains & spoiling of the ideology of one can be happy in the simple lifestyle because of the modern movies portraying the lavish lifestyle (fake) of the city causing normal villagers getting desire to come to city they have to work hard for basic necessities like few times of food just to survive in city.
3>Modern peoples lives are so much made busy by the modern capitalists that they should not have to think beyond the food. And they are made addicted to the alcohol so in ignorance they will not think deeply what they are doing & about the higher questions of the life.
-(I had also heard similar plot of the politicians, by gifting TV sets & laptops to the people make them be happy in that only. So they wont have time & brains to think how well the government is governing the state.)
4> He also told his observation about educating modern people only in the certain field making them almost blind about the other branches of knowledge, practical vocational work & social scenarios. This limits their capacity, this makes them highly dependent on the economical currents flowing in the world making them vulnerable to shifts in trends in some other world.
- Srila Prabhupad used to say real science means study of spirit(The living force,Soul), matter & The controller of both (God). Now in education system there is no conception of God. Just study of the dead matter can not produce any happiness for the living spark, The soul. And study only about matter makes them succumb to misery in the end as matter is perishable in nature so can not give actual permanent happiness. Also this makes them blind about the real purpose of life to
stop the cycle of birth & death & enter into eternal kingdom of God.
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1> The Indians were slaves of British reign few decades ago, now Indians are slaves of status symbols like car, mobile etc.
-Because people have no knowledge about the real spiritual nature of oneself & they identify with lump of body, they have to depend on the bodily designations for happiness than tapping real inherent inner bliss coming from relation with God. So most of people life goes in working hard for accumulating some pieces of paper to buy some pieces of metal thinking that will give them happiness.
2>Most of the life of the modern Indians goes in paying the loans taken for home & car.
-India was agrarian country & 70% of the population of India constituted peoples staying in villages & they had profession directly or indirectly related with farming. Because of the spoiling of the land by inorganic farming, spoiling of the natures cycles causing irregular rains & spoiling of the ideology of one can be happy in the simple lifestyle because of the modern movies portraying the lavish lifestyle (fake) of the city causing normal villagers getting desire to come to city they have to work hard for basic necessities like few times of food just to survive in city.
3>Modern peoples lives are so much made busy by the modern capitalists that they should not have to think beyond the food. And they are made addicted to the alcohol so in ignorance they will not think deeply what they are doing & about the higher questions of the life.
-(I had also heard similar plot of the politicians, by gifting TV sets & laptops to the people make them be happy in that only. So they wont have time & brains to think how well the government is governing the state.)
4> He also told his observation about educating modern people only in the certain field making them almost blind about the other branches of knowledge, practical vocational work & social scenarios. This limits their capacity, this makes them highly dependent on the economical currents flowing in the world making them vulnerable to shifts in trends in some other world.
- Srila Prabhupad used to say real science means study of spirit(The living force,Soul), matter & The controller of both (God). Now in education system there is no conception of God. Just study of the dead matter can not produce any happiness for the living spark, The soul. And study only about matter makes them succumb to misery in the end as matter is perishable in nature so can not give actual permanent happiness. Also this makes them blind about the real purpose of life to
stop the cycle of birth & death & enter into eternal kingdom of God.
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