Essential Philosophy: Live Before You Die
By Raja Sharma
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I just want that you should see for yourself whether you understand your life. If you have courage to be free, I mean, really free, insecure, mind it insecure and not secure, away from the bondage of the people around you and if you believe that you really know what love is, then this is the book for you.
I am sure that many of your beliefs are going to be shattered. This is the first book of this series. The next in the series is "Essential Philosophy: Are You Afraid of Dying?" is to follow soon.
Raja Sharma
Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.
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Essential Philosophy: Live Before You Die
By Raja Sharma
Copyright@2011 Raja Sharma
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Chapter One
We generally take this life for granted, without ever pausing to think what is actually happening to us in the physical form of a human. Such is the lure and dazzle of life that it blinds us and continues to keep us blind till we realize that there are only few breaths left and we are about to leave for the unknown.
There was a learned scholar in India. He was on his deathbed and his wife and children were crying. The scholar was lost in his thoughts. Suddenly, he heard the cries of his wife and he said with a smile, Why are you crying, my dear? I have spent my entire life just to learn how to die and even now I am not sure about my learning.
We talk about things in schools, colleges, family, and in our respective societies but we rarely talk about life and death as topics. We deliberately, perhaps with fear, try to postpone these two subjects, thinking that these subjects are not in our course of study. What I have concluded is nothing new to the thinkers and active participants in the discussions about these two topics.
Life is here and now: it is in living. Life is definitely not a thing: it is an uncertain and unpredictable process. If you want to know the absolute truth of your life, you must live it, for it can’t be achieved in any other way. You have to plunge into the flowing stream of life to be one of the experiencers.
Philosophers, religious preachers, social pundits, and the others like them try to impose their own beliefs about life but you will never find the meaning of life in ancient teachings, philosophic lectures, religions, and theologies. If you fall prey to them and think that you are doing something highly divine, you are wrong and you will miss the train of life. You have to board the train of the life to feel the jolts, feel the whispering breeze of passing time, and see the panorama of changing years. Just continue to live your life in the way you have decided to but with a warning that there is no room for blame or regret because the life which you have chosen to live is your own choice and even if you are not satisfied, you have no right to regret or curse others. I am quite optimistic and positive in my thoughts because I believe that even in your failures you have a chance of gaining something and knowing a little more about life.
Generally, people postpone their present for the unseen future, and they think that life is somewhere waiting for them. It is not so. Life is happening in you and you are very much experiencing it but instead of concentrating on it, you are allowing your mind to drift away somewhere else with a false hope that life will meet you at the next corner. Don’t you ever realize that being alive is the most significant sign that life is happening in you, it is present in your breathing, it is in every part of your body, it is present in the beating of your heart, it is growing in your mind, it is gaining more with the progression of time. Never try to digress from whatsoever you are in your life. Most of the people seem to be dissatisfied and annoyed because they are looking for life somewhere else.
I would like to make it clearer through this anecdote:
A man lost a coin in the darkness along the road. He continued to walk. Suddenly, he realized that his