Living The Life

P. Chockalingam S.

Description

A doctor, a justice, a planter, an entrepreneur, a farmer and other similarly placed workers met and provided their own perspectives on 'life' and what 'the life' means to them. Although some of them are real life stories they are presented with pseudo names. How all of them 'live their lives' or how 'the life lives their lives' described in the first chapter of the book. In other chapters, how the extraordinary, self-automated engineering marvel of the human body architecture with the 'life' inside withstands and survives the influences, pressures, and winds of changes of different kinds at different times of forces and factors on its voyage in the turbulent waters of the sea of life are explained. Also, the interconnectedness of the 'life' within the body and outside the body is discussed. Interdependence and interconnection with one another of various organisms and with every other human and every other thing in the world are detailed highlighting the importance of holistic approach to life. Finally, how the inbuilt nature of being spiritual will help to navigate safely, successfully with meaning and purpose the life's voyage with the adoption of the holistic way of life is brought out in detail in the book.

Sujets

• Spiritualism
• Mind

Informations

• Publié par: First Edition Design Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781506903804
• Langue: English

Extrait

LIVING THE LIFE

IS IT SIMPLY HOLDING ‘THELIFE’ OR
MERELY ‘PLAYING THE ROLES”?


S.P. CHOCKALINGAM
LivingThe Life
Copyright©2017 S.P.CHOCKALINGAM

ISBN 978-1506-903-79-8 PRINT
ISBN 978-1506-903-80-4 EBOOK

LCCN 2017931457

January 2017

Published and Distributed by
First Edition Design Publishing, Inc.
P.O. Box 20217, Sarasota, FL 34276-3217
www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com



ALL R I G H T S R E S E R V E D. No p a r t o f t h i s b oo k pub li ca t i o n m a y b e r e p r o du ce d, s t o r e d i n a r e t r i e v a l s y s t e m , o r t r a n s mit t e d i n a ny f o r m o r by a ny m e a ns ─ e l e c t r o n i c , m e c h a n i c a l , p h o t o - c o p y , r ec o r d i n g, or a ny o t h e r ─ e x ce pt b r i e f qu ot a t i o n i n r e v i e w s , w i t h o ut t h e p r i o r p e r mi ss i on o f t h e a u t h o r orpublisher .
Dedicated to Mrs. Vijaya,an indomitable spirit, with ever inspiring, thoroughly joyful, and totallycontended soul, who was literally better half of my body, mind, and soul forthe last fifty-six years of my life, my beloved wife.
Also by S.P.Chockalingam

THE LIFE
IS IT MYSTICAL OR REAL AND PAINFUL OR MAGICAL?

www.thelife-spchockalingam.com
Table of Contents

Introduction . 1
Living The Life 11
Ownership Of TheLife. 51
Power Centres 65
Three Pillars OfLife 75
RolePlaying Game 83
Life In The Web OfMaterialism .. 95
SavingThe Life 103
CharterFor Better World . 127
Being Spiritual 135
HolisticWay Of Life 147
Epilogue 163
Introduction

“mindsOn”, “mindsOn”,shouted George jumping out of his chair with great euphoria. ‘I got it; Scot,is it not great?”
Scot was unexpectedlytaken by surprise seeing George’s face swelling with joy. They were havingbreakfast in hotel Ananda (Bliss), in Rishikesh, which is in the foothills ofHimalayas.
“Scot, you know, latelast night we discussed the name which we may have to choose for ourapplication when we succeed in our research to read the mind of another human.I now got the name. The rest is with you. If you succeed in completing yourresearch, then I will design the prototype of the application.”
“Congrats, George; Itlooks appropriate. You have done a great and wonderful job and kicked the ballinto my court.” Scot’s response reflected his pressure on his research work.
“Hello; gentlemen.Welcome to Rishikesh. This place is as old as Life on the planet. It is also inthe foothills of the sacred mountain range in India. This place is called the gatewayto the Himalayas and the mount Kailash, the abode of Shiva. From ancient timesand till today thousands of sages and saints lived and are living herepracticing yoga and meditation. One can feel and breathe the spirit of yoga andmeditation in the air.
Muni Ki Reti (‘Sands ofSages’) is near Rishikesh although a small town, it is the gateway forBadrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri. There are many ashrams here.Kailash Ashram was established in 1880. It is the first and large ashram. Thisis followed by many founded by Swami Atmananda, and Swami Sivananda and others.
In1968, Beatles visited the now closed Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 's ashram and even recorded a song here, titled White Album. Theycomposed nearly 48 songs here. Several other artists, including Mike Love of the Beach Boys , Donovan and Gyp Mills ,visited the place to contemplate and meditate.
This place is surroundedby hundreds of Ashrams. They teach yoga and meditation. Seekers of Truth fromall over the world come and learn The Way. You can take from here whatever youare seeking such as reading the mind and finding a name for your application.”
“What!” Both Scot andGeorge together at the same time shouted and looked at each other. It was justincredible for them to absorb. Having recovered from the shock, theysimultaneously asked, “Who are you? Who told you about our project?”
“I am a wandering monk. Ihave no name. Also, I have no place of living. Please calm down. There is nomiracle. All of us met for the first time. What I told was my understanding ofyour minds. If it tallies with what you are having on your mind, I am notresponsible in any way.”
“Still, it is amazing.How can you precisely say what was going in our minds?”
“You know, you both arefrom some different continent. The gentleman who is quietly sitting here butwatching very closely is from the South and I am from nowhere. All of us areinterconnected. Also, there is an electromagnetic field in which every human ispositioned in time and space. Through this field, everyone is not onlyconnected but also transmit data and messages with enormous speed. This is whatour present day scientists found out from their research.
Although we all come fromdifferent parts of the planet, we are here for one common purpose. Seekingsomething is a common purpose. In fact, we are all seekers and wanderers toknow or achieve something or other. Most humans seek happiness. Some seek TheTruth. The rest seek nothing. In the process of seeking, some tumble upon thegreat powers of knowing everything, some great achievement hitherto unknown tohumanity, and some great powers of extraordinary results.”
“You are right. We arehere to study about ‘mind reading’ as we came to know that there are peoplehere who can do it very well. We want to know and understand how they do it.Can you help us?”
“I do not know whetheryou are trying to know for the sake of knowing or for the sake of learning.
‘Knowing is one thingand learning is another. The more the clutter one accumulates, the heavier thedamage the clutter inflicts. The clutter of knowing everything is no exception.Knowing everything other than knowing one’s self leads to nothing. On theother hand if one knows the self then everything will be known.’
A story comes to my mindand it goes like this:
“A professor ofphilosophy and religion went to Thailand on a tour to study Buddhism. He had tocross a river to go to the other side to visit a Buddhist monastery. He engageda boat in crossing the river. While he was traveling in the boat the boatmanasked him where from he had come to Thailand.
The professor told himthat, ‘he was from the USA.’
As the boatman did notknow where the USA was, he kept quiet. He would have responded had theprofessor told him America which name was very popularly known in Thailand onaccount of tourism, instead of USA. But the professor was a genius and a verylearned academician in his profession. He, therefore, did not understand theordinary boatman’s knowledge about countries in the world.
After some time, theprofessor who was reading a voluminous book all the time struck by the silenceand started to converse with the boatman. He asked the boatman ‘whether he hadheard about the Bible’.
The boatman said, ‘No!’
‘The professor wasastonished and said, ‘O! God, man, you had wasted one fourth of your life. Theprofessor continued and asked him ‘had you at least heard about the BhagavadGita?’
‘No, Sir’, replied theboatman.
‘You had wasted one-halfof your life. I am sure at least you must have heard about The Book of CommonPrayer?’ the professor was frustrated.
‘No. The boatman replied.
The professor told himthat, ‘You had wasted three-fourths of your life’.
Suddenly, the boatmannoticed a leak and water was entering the bottom of the boat. The boatmanbecame anxious and asked the professor whether he knew swimming?
‘The professor in a boastfultone told him that, ‘I had read several books on swimming. Checking Goggle andreading Wikipedia were minute to minute engagement for me. I had gathered a lotof information on swimming but I did not know swimming.’
The boatman felt sorryfor the professor and told him that, ‘you had wasted your entire life, Sir. Theboat was now going to sink and you were also going to sink along with the boat.I had no time but to jump into the waters and swim across the river to save mylife.’
The boatman jumped out ofthe boat and swam across the river and reached the shore. The professor sankwith the boat and died.”
The monk continued histalking. “I guess your name is Scot. You know Scot; this gentleman fromChennai, in South India is following me like a shadow. He met many successful,happiest, disabled and sick humans from all walks of life such as rich, poor,powerful, mighty, young and old, in different stages of their lives. Hewatched, talked and moved with all of them.
He found out that eachone is endowed with different capabilities and lives with totally differentperception, purpose, the meaning of life, and also without any purpose ormeaning of life. There is nothing common in their living other than theexistential routines such as eating, playing, working, achieving,non-achieving, mating, co-creating, sleeping and continuing these activitiestill the last breath in their body. Also, the common factor is the sickness,pain, and suffering without any exception in one time or many times or at the finalending.
According to his findings,no one dies peacefully and quickly when time comes to depart from the world.There may be a few exceptions. But generally everyone irrespective of theirhygienic and healthy living throughout the life goes through the process ofsome illness known or unknown, suffer, prolong, and finally dies in an unconsciousstate of mind. This applies to all without any exception whether they are richor poor and whether they are powerful or mighty, kings or presidents, leadersor workers, industrialists or agriculturists, highly literates or illiterates,achievers or non-achievers, saints or yogis, religious or non-religious oratheists.”
Finally, he is burdenedwith one question, ‘Living the life’ is O.K. Having born one has no choice butto live the life. But ‘whose life is it anyway?’ He now follows me closely tounderstand and find an answer for his seeking. I raised some questions andwanted him to find answers by himself. But, still, he is not leaving me. Now,you want to join the bandwagon