Yesterday.. Yes thats right.. It was yesterday. I was finding it hard to kill time. I tried watchin tv but then, there was nothing worth watching. I tried playing the latest fifa installment on my comp but, was in no mood for it. Finally, after hours of indecision I decided to watch an old episode of "Friends", which i had stored in my comp. I had a good laugh, the best part being the one where Joey tells Phoeby to find a "Selfless good deed". Well actually Joey wat quite right. There is no deed(forget Good) that can be called selfless.
I asked myself a question. What is man's purpouse of life in this world? the answer is of course happiness. Every thought pursuit and action of man has only one seeking. Happiness. Whether it be a good deed or not , man only taregets the happiness that can be derived from it. He might not be selfish, but he defenitely isn't selfless. I can go to the extent of saying that selflessness is a virtue that is practically impossible to execute.
I saw a cricket match recently where a new batsman who entered the scene towards the end of an innings took a quick single to get the well set batsman on strike. The commentator called it selfless. But then, how can this be called selfless when the motive of person itself isnt altruistic. A batsman takes the single because he gains happiness by playing second fiddle and trhus earning the respect of the commentator.
A good deed is a good deed. It simply cannot be selfless because whoever does the good deed feels happy doing it. If he thinks that, the deed wont make him happy , he simply wont do it.
Selflessness is unthinkable and impossible. Even if a man tries to be selfless the act of trying it itself makes him not so.
It must not be confused that I am trying to say that man is a selfish . He just, is not selfless
3 comments:
hey bro
nice thought .. very good . way to go ...
hmmm
yes even great sacrifices are NOT ACTUALLY any sacrifice but done to gain something even the independence of a nation
may be a mother's love???
True. Vedantha asserts with unassailable logic that all living beings do everything in pursuit of "Anandha" for self. Your assertion is 100% the same. Commendable thought process of your own! Keep it up. I would just add this.... Your consciousness which identifies yourself as an entity other than the universe is the nucleus of your existence which will vanish if you are selfless. Your very identification of your self as different from everything else gives birth to your mind and thought process. You can not have an identity and yet be selfless!
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