667. Never expect change outside, just change your perception....

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It is a passion and fashion in recent times to expect a drastic change in the society. Unfortunately it is not right change to anticipate. Even if there is a change in society as anticipated in due course there are chances that the anticipated change may require to be changed again. So there is a continuous need to change something that is outside us. This seeking for change outside will not get us to settle down, instead if the perceptions in us changes then there is no need for the changes to happen outside us that frequently.

A Subhshitam proclaims “Paradheenaha prana sankataha” meaning depending on outside is distress to life. Depending on others is like being a puppet in the hands of a puppet master. In the sense we are handing out the bunch of keys to get us something that is outside us to keep us pleased. Is it possible to the objects outside us to satisfy us or even change eventually to keep us satisfied??

It has become so causal in society to compare our self with others much like kids standing against the wall to assess who is taller. If found inferior unwilling to accept it, it becomes simpler to take advantage of alternative measures of race, caste, religion or gender to prove “intrinsic” superiority much like a short kid using a stool and claiming to be taller. The problem is that the stool has to be dragged everywhere and also it is required to keep a constant vigil on those with smaller stools so that they do not cut the legs off our own stool in competition. And again there is this invariable fear which instigates a constant check on anyone procuring a bigger stool which could brings depressed and inferior feeling.

Instead of this misfortune to tab others, is it not worthy to appraise our own virtues and stand tall and high not worrying of what and how other do??? If there is one statement that I wish to make, it is that I have not traded the values in me which I have restored even in harder times rather than change it for what would have help my position in the society. If I would have altered my values bartering for the wellness and position in society I would have been not different from the biblical character “Esau” who exchanged his birthright to a mere “mess of pottage”*..........................

*According to the Bible, Jacob and Esau were twins. Esau, the first born is the father's heir. When the father was on the deathbed, Esau who had been on hunting trip comes home empty handed. Meanwhile Jacob had prepared soup of lentils and hungry Esau asked for some. Jacob wishes to trade the dish for inheritance. Esau replied “Of what use is this birthright to me? For behold, I am an-hungered and like to die.”, and he sells his birthright for a mess of pottage. Thus the phrase means to exchange something of great value for immediate gain.