on legacy!

On legacy

J.R.D.Tata was once asked by a (insensitive should I add) journalist “You don’t have a heir. Then what about your empire? Who’ll take care of it?” to which JRD replied “I don’t consider legal heirs as rightful heirs. The rightful one would be one who has capability to run my empire”.

“Your question doesn’t raise you but your answer can!”

A normal mortal would put importance on a legal heir or ‘own son’ and God! What heights do such people go to procure one ‘heir’ – especially son! It just degrades them to depths that we can’t even measure or want to gauge now!

But a person who is not living at physical level but has risen to an intellectual or mental level would answer so! Buddha is not remembered by his ‘Gothra’ but by his ‘Ideals and Ideas’ and that is what is inspiring millions of people even after couple of thousand years after he is gone...is he gone then? He lives on in his Ideas which get transferred from one generation to next. I may not know his name, principles, ideals or existence but if I am ready to lay down my life for a tree or an animal, I am ‘his student’ – I am living his principle – I am keeping him alive through my acts and life and which in turn will inspire few more and this torch is passed on from one generation to another – never to end.

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