Contd..........
On legacy!
Legacy is not about changing
the world – necessarily in huge way but even if I cause few ripples to happen
I’ll live on till that ripple effect exists. For don’t we say “It is MY
thought. I believe in this PRINCIPLE, I live for this IDEA”. Then even when I
drop this physical vehicle am I not living if my thoughts live on? Think about
it!
Legacy is usually thought of
as ‘leaving behind something physical’. This is the understanding that causes
one to leave behind statues (on which birds sit and ...), buildings/streets
named after them (the name stays many times but people forget the person on
whom it is named), construct various public utility buildings and most
importantly they want ‘sons’ who would take ahead their legacy. Please sit on
these thoughts. Do you think such a legacy is good enough? I am not saying
there are not required. Children are important but also see that they come out
as ‘good’ citizens, more than ‘successful ones’. Construct schools etc but
don’t think that is enough. Do these acts as a ‘payback’ to society. You owe it
to it so you are giving back but don’t treat it as your legacy.
It’s like few of my students
who said “maam, you must have done financial healing a lot, you are receiving
money from me today” – this they say when they pay fees after couple of years
for the course that they have taken long back and then benefitted from it all
along! Just imagine, I’ve to do financial healing to get ‘my fees’! Do you
deserve your salary or do financial healing to receive that every month? If you
are asked to work for few years and paid part payment of your salary with the
taunt “You are so lucky you are taking away my money” from your boss, how would
you feel?
So doing such charities (?)
don’t count as your ‘punya karma’, they are just your debts that you owe to the
society at large!
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