Suffering does not stop until we get to the Truth

A patient has fever, headache, fatigue, indigestion, and some other symptoms. Doctor starts treating them one after the other. Will the patient's suffering stop? It won't, until the doctor discovers the ultimate truth that is causing all these symptoms and addresses it. It could be cancer or it could be something else. Same goes for everything else. Suffering of the world will not stop until the ultimate truth is known. World becomes a better place as more and more truths are discovered and inventions are developed based on these truths. But the suffering still does not stop until the ultimate truth is discovered and addressed.

While, this being the case, imagine the foolishness of people who live in falsehood, let alone discover new truths. No one can save them from suffering. They will continue to move from one disaster to another, avoiding one at a time, by cheating, lying, working around the problem. It is never a good idea to associate with such people either, because they will need and rope-in whomever they can to support them to live in the virtual life of lies and deception.

Suffering indeed does not stop until we get to the Truth. - Vishnu Pendyala

Ignorance is always our best Weapon against Unwanted Influences and People

Happiness is what we think it is. Each one's definition of Happiness is different, until they discover and convince themselves that the real happiness is within and discard the dependence on external stimuli to be happy or sad. The discovery is a long journey though. In the process, one needs to constantly redefine happiness and retrain the mind to loosen the grip of external happenings on the mind and body. Age of course helps with this, but determination helps the most. Basic needs should probably the first to lose their impact on us. Gradually give up the craving for meats, sweets, and snacks. We ignore so many things in life and finally, but most often suddenly, we ignore everything when we die. The detachment should not be sudden, however. In olden days, sages used to prefer getting buried alive. That clearly shows how detached they were with their body and how much they ignored external pleasure or pain. For them, detachment has been gradual and complete to the extent that even death did not matter. To experience the happiness within, ignorance is always our best weapon against unwanted, ephemeral influences. Vishnu Pendyala

If Motivation is like Fire, Complacency is Water that puts it out

I was reading a forwarded mail containing an eyewitness account of the Ramlila grounds episode against corruption. It is sad that even such a momentum and public sentiment gathered over the years could not achieve its goal against corruption. Someday, hopefully, it will. Punishing a handful and passing a "weak" lokpal bill is a good beginning, but hardly matches the magnitude of the problem or the movement against it. What is even more deplorable are the efforts to curb people's voice. Let's see who finally wins in a land where the common man eventually prevailed whenever the question really raised its head.