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On legacy!
Now what do you leave behind? Your ‘good deeds, noble thoughts, inspiring words, acts of empathy’ that’s touched or changed the way someone thinks, feels – well that would be the ‘real legacy’. We each may not become (we all can but choose not to) Jesus or Mother Theresa but we can certainly make few positive effects in the society in our own little ways.
Just close your eyes and go back on your lineage. You may not go behind your great grand father. But Bhishma who didn’t marry, to him every Indian gives tarpanam (an act of leaving water which is religious in nature but which symbolises our show of gratitude to that great soul who worked for the well-being of Bharatavarsha (India as it was called in Vedic times). We thank our Gurus be it Guru Nanak, Jesus, Shankaracharya who left their mortal bodies centuries ago – why? Because we owe our understanding, knowledge to these spiritual beings who kept the beckon of ‘spiritual light’ glowing in this land of ‘wisdom and spirituality’ since aeons.
These are the same people who talk highly of others as “He is great, he knows telepathy or he scanned the whereabouts of his dog” but if his own family member does any of these things and that too on daily basis, then they just brush it aside with “Oh, ok” and then very conveniently forget these incidents too so that they can go ahead and judge them their way. They are afraid that if they accept that their family member also does these ‘miracles’ then they would have to stop treating (read as ill-treating) them the present way.
All this nonsense could be put to rest if only our definition of ‘great’ person was right.
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