I,II&III

I- हम अपने दुःख से कम, दूसरों के सुख से ज़्यादा दुखी क्यों हैं? क्या इसका कोई निदान है?
मुकुटधारीजी के उपरोक्त कथन या प्रश्न को साझा करते हुए मेरे मन में प्रश्नों और उत्तरों की झड़ी सी लग गयी है जिसे मैं साझा करना चाहूँगा, किन्तु इसके लिए हिंदी भाषा का प्रयोग टाइपिंग समस्या बन रही रही है अतः ट्रैक् चेंज करने की इजाज़त चाहूँगा.

In order to resolve a question, asking another helps, at times, like this time too.

What exactly is pleasure and pain? How warranted or unwarranted are these? 

That is important to first find out. Warranted or unwarranted? Voluntary or involuntary, or partly both?

Let me state an analogy, for ready comprehension.

A man sought a boon that was granted, to his great achievement or peril? Let's see.

The boon he sought was to become elevated, so elevated in life as to become free from pains, permitting only pleasures to visit experiences.

The grantee got nearly emancipated, freed from all experiences of pain, whereby the term 'dukh' bid  him adieu, once for all, leaving the man immersed in waves of pleasure that never got interfered by any experience of pain toward which he had turned absolutely insensitive.

Coming back to the moot issue, do we not crave for this heightened state? Where pleasures would flood and pains would desert in absolute terms?

But the see what happened to the man so enamoured in the pain-free experience of his pleasures.

One fine morning, the man found nothing at all to complain, while his wife screamed. Why, didn't , better say couldn't make out, so he was quick to console his wife with soft assurance that he would fix  every thing in place, so she shouldn't worry. He then asked her to tell him what exactly was so distressing as to evoke such noisy screams. 

While this episode was still half way through, their children arrived, joining the scene with louder screams that far excelled their mother's.

The man, so immersed in the waves of pleasure under the influence of divine boon he had been granted, stood utterly confused, completely failing to tune himself up to the ongoing confusing scene, more so because no body was answering in preference to their continued screams that turned loser with each passing minute. This attracted a large crowd of neighbours who too got into the same mode of screaming.

Why? Every one had its answer, but the man who was now at his wit's end, had his patience flagged, but being an emancipated soul now, he found it hard to shout and to ask what caused all the fools around to behave like jokers, telling nothing except foolishly screaming inexplicably.

There was one saving grace. The emancipated grantee of the boon was not devoid of a basic intelligence to notice the goggled focus of each screaming member of the family and neighbourhood .

He noticed that every eye was focused no where else, but on him, to be specific on his left foot.

That took his attention to his own left foot. The sight did not evoke any scream, but he stood puzzled , failing to tap his own logic system to tell him what he was seeing and how he should react .

He found his left toe half eaten, by something like rat, it were a ready-to-eat food stuff. 

The villain of the piece, the predator rat was instantly spotted, leaving the bed room where the man slept, free from all experiences of pain, letting in only the experience of pleasures.

(Cont.     .)

(Cont.   .) Pleasure-pain- 2

हम अपने दुःख से कम, दूसरों के सुख से ज़्यादा दुखी क्यों हैं? क्या इसका कोई निदान है?

If I say, moral codes are deceptive, you might be quick in visiting me , not with bouquet, but with brickbats. Isn't it? 

So that I say everything without actually or exactly saying anything offensive, offensive from your point of view rather than in any absolute sense, I have to to take a longer route, avoiding shortcuts that might enrage the generally misconceived opinions that over saturate us.

Let me cite an apparently stupid poser. Moral code forbids use of way sides for the purpose of easing, urination especially. A yet-to-be-diagnosed diabetic , perturbed by the excretory pressures, finds no alternative than to take a wayside stand and ease himself every few minutes he gets to answer call of nature.

How uncultured or immoral is he in your enlightened reckoning.

The inhibition-free answer that you might honestly discover, would be a discovery about the moot question at issue.

One who is cultured or not by conduct or is moral or immoral, may be inferred by two broad sets of human conduct, one that is voluntary and the other that is involuntary . Latter refers to that which may be instinctive or something not exactly instinctive but akin to it , over which human controls are generally feeble, if not within efficacious reach. 

It is these inaccessible terrains of human personality that fetch unpredictability about experiences in please and pain . These unpredictable experience impel human activities in action and reaction that create ongoing cycle of what Bhagwat Gita defines as the cycle of Karma.

(Cont.   .)

III- हम अपने दुःख से कम, दूसरों के सुख से ज़्यादा दुखी क्यों हैं? क्या इसका कोई निदान है?

(Cont.   .) Pleasure-pain- 3

Contrary to the moral codes, man envies others prospering . That is a fact. It's contrary is a fiction, if not a pretension.

Isn't it against moral code that tells us not to envy, rather to find pleasure therein. 

Religions perhaps prescribe this very moral code. 

Whether we do or whether we can follow this moral code or not, isn't material to be answered.

It may be better to invent another route for this, to cite a question that might seem hypothetical or even uncalled for or that with is irrelevant or an act in sophistry. Be that as it may.

Just conjure up a utopian situation. Pakistan, our next door neighbour developing into a world power, achieves an all round development on every count. India does not envy it. Rather buck up Pakistan, without any sensitivity of competition , much less envy. 

In contrast, India envies and speeds itself up in the race. Some , who subscribe to the utopian ideals mentioned above, call it a rat race and denounce it vehemently.

Now you tell which side would you take, especially visualising in your projections, how would the two countries stand vid a vid one another , after a decade, in either case, one being that which is utopian and the other which is not.

If the moot question still out stands, unresolved, I am there to add more posts, though from this end it seems unnecessary any more.

(Concluded, provisionally though)