Tom Stoppard, “My whole life is waiting for the questions
to which I have prepared answers”.
Some such
quotes shake up the thought process and stir us to reflect on our past, present
and future and end up setting us to question lot of things in the process.
1. Oh what a
quote from Tom Stoppard, “My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I
have prepared answers”.
2. Excellent
and I used to say these in my adolescent life but then slowly life's
experiences splashed the scent of humility on me [I use the word scent because
we are not sure which letter is silent in ‘scent’ either the‘s’ or ‘c’] and
humility too lingers only temporarily like a whiff of scent till the pungent
fragrances of ego, prosperity, popularity and so on drive it away or subdue it
or place it in abeyance.
3. Slowly after
that I started seeking answers to many things and at some point realized the
meaning of also awaiting questions for some answers probably because as Ram
Dass says, “Across planes of
consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be
simultaneously true.”
4. However, I
never failed nor still fail to question anything as I feel that educates me in
a way and also help me to get better clarity, not necessarily acceptance or approval
or rejection or refusal as Rainer Maria Rilke says, “I beg you… to have
patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions
themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign
language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live
everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future,
you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
There are certain questions for which one can never get
convincing and satisfactory answers but just ask the question and remain silent
because they have to be realized or felt as indicated in Tirumoolar
Tirumanthiram in a verse titled, Kelvi ketu amidhal’
Even Voltaire said, “Four thousand volumes of
metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is”.
Then ultimately I realize the immense value of this
statement.
विद्या ददाति विनयं विनयाद्याति पात्रताम् ।
पात्रत्वाद्धनमाप्नोति धनाद्धर्मं ततः सुखम् ॥ ५ ॥
vidyA dadAti vinayaM, vinayAdyAti pAtratAM |
pAtratvAddhanamApnoti, dhanAddharmaMtataH sukhaM || 5 ||
pAtratvAddhanamApnoti, dhanAddharmaMtataH sukhaM || 5 ||
(true/complete) knowledge gives discipline [humility], from
discipline [humility] comes worthiness, from worthiness one gets wealth, from
wealth (one does) good deeds, from that (comes) joy.
No comments:
Post a Comment