Life is full of lessons

I learnt a good lesson in my life yesteday. I don't want to divulge into the details. But, I can't resist saying this; Human Relationships are one of the most complex things that I've ever come across in my life, its all fuzzy, one thing that I find very difficult to understand. I have not discovered anything new, its all said and experienced by people who lived before us. But, if you don't want to learn it the hard way, here it is:

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nirmana-moha jita-sanga-dosa
adhyatma-nitya vinivrtta-kamah
dvandvair vimuktah sukha-duhkha-samjnair
gacchanty amudhah padam avyayam tat



TRANSLATION


Those who are free from false prestige, illusion and false association, who understand the eternal, who are done with material lust, who are freed from the dualities of happiness and distress, and who, unbewildered, know how to surrender unto the Supreme Person attain to that eternal kingdom.



PURPORT



The surrendering process is described here very nicely. The first qualification is that one should not be deluded by pride. Because the conditioned soul is puffed up, thinking himself the lord of material nature, it is very difficult for him to surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One should know by the cultivation of real knowledge that he is not lord of material nature; the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Lord. When one is free from delusion caused by pride, he can begin the process of surrender. For one who is always expecting some honor in this material world, it is not possible to surrender to the Supreme Person. Pride is due to illusion, for although one comes here, stays for a brief time and then goes away, he has the foolish notion that he is the lord of the world. He thus makes all things complicated, and he is always in trouble. The whole world moves under this impression. People are considering the land, this earth, to belong to human society, and they have divided the land under the false impression that they are the proprietors. One has to get out of this false notion that human society is the proprietor of this world. When one is freed from such a false notion, he becomes free from all the false associations caused by familial, social and national affections. These faulty associations bind one to this material world. After this stage, one has to develop spiritual knowledge. One has to cultivate knowledge of what is actually his own and what is actually not his own. And when one has an understanding of things as they are, he becomes free from all dual conceptions such as happiness and distress, pleasure and pain. He becomes full in knowledge; then it is possible for him to surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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Source: Bagavath Gita

A software engineering analogy :

Life is the abstraction, classes are creations of GOD, instances are living things. If there is a lot of behavioral/social dependencies, we are tightly coupling things; which is bad. Decoupled decentralized implemenations are always better and provide better stability. Hope I didn't screw up in this attempt :-) never mind, I sometimes try too hard and doesn't work always,though.

Well with all those things said, make no mistake; I am far far away from renouncing all earthly pleasures ! I wish I could it's just another wish like wanting to get into Google(yeah..ironical). To my immense gratification I am able to appreciate how profound and deep rooted these writings are that our ancestors left us. You have a problem with your life, you can almost certainly get an answer (look up Google :-) )

But on the contrary if we have all the answers then what are we looking for ? which means we are looking for something but we don't know what that is !! this is now boring..... let me get some sleep now.