Our natural state
Life!
Can it be figured out in one’s entire life span?
Come with no preoccupied goals and aspirations
The moment we come, we‘re entangled in the web of desires.
Desires lead to all predicaments.
Scriptures preach not to stoop down to wants!
Simultaneously, rituals take us into their hands.
They proclaim decrees for dos and don’ts.
Born free, but everywhere in chains (Rousseau) Exactly!
It’s a conflict between man’s innate freedom and societal constraints.
Man can’t live without getting into social contract.
Once it happens, it won’t let us be free.
We’re supposed to go with an agenda
Otherwise, the society finds no purpose in our living.
Beliefs are fetters, though conditioned or not.
Fetters are the same whether golden or iron.
How we manipulate the conditioned belief matters the most.
It should be like the bonding between a lotus leaf and a water drop.
To make life vibrant and flow on all by itself,
Go after the philosophy of Karma.
“Work incessantly, but don’t be attached to it.”
Copyright © Patri Venkata Ramana | Year Posted 2025
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