DEAD or ALIVE

BlogoMania. Yes That is What they are gonna call these successive posts !

Anyhow! I have stopped caring about the page views and now am gonna write down some serious stuff for you all. And by Serious i mean "Sincerely Manik". So if you haven't started following my blog yet, do it.

Okay ! So start guessing what is this post about. Here are the clues:

even-odd

empty - full

free - bound

merry - sad

poetry - prose

win - lose

wrong - right

yes - no

yin - yang

Provided that you have graduated primary school, by this time you would have guessed that it is something related to Opposites.

You couldn't?

I mean seriously with the  "Yes-No" and "Yin-Yang" in the clue pool ? #BlameItOnCongress

Coming back!

Life is full of opposites. You are happy sometimes then again you are sad the other times. You are with  people sometimes and alone the other times. You bathe some days and on the other days - Not so much.

Did you notice the use of 'sometimes' and 'the other times' ? Yes, it is like that pretty much. Either-Or. They are disjoint sets. Either you could have had a good refreshing dump in the morning or (most likely) not. Both feet on the same side of the court.

This Law of Opposites, that they co-exist whatsoever, is rather a "if-only if" type of a law. The existence of the first attribute is completely dependent on its oppositely-valued attribute, and vice versa.

Don't Feel it yet?

• How about the movie Sholay, without 'Sir' Gabbar Singh or Batman The Dark Knight without The Joker.
• Or the existence of the ultimate debate: who is better Federer or Nadal, with the absence of either. 
• Try to define counter-clockwise without clockwise, or female without male, or acids without alkalies.

If I were to say that you never got dirty, I mean never. Everything was always clean. Then the word dirty has lost its important because it will not occur anymore, right? But think again if something was never dirty, then you would never categorize things as dirty or clean. Then Clean, by the mere removal of the word dirty, will no longer be needed too. Everything would be. Would just be, rather than being clean.

Getting to the point. The point is that why are we hung up over some negative things, when we know that without having experienced the positive we wouldn't have ever known "what is negative". And having experienced the positive sometime, why weren't you equally over-joyed as much as you are depressed now! 

Sri Sri said once(I'm paraphrasing): You are holding onto the negative, just let it go. Just see that positives and negatives come and go and look back into your experiences, you would see that the amount of positive is much more than the amount of negative. Just see. 

dharma-adharmo sukham-dukham mansani na tey vibho

na kartasi na bhoktasi mukt evasi sarvada

The more you hold onto anything the more elongated it becomes. Just let it be. It will pass more quickly!

Tarique Khan, a YES!+ teacher, told us on our journey to Winter-Break 2011- '12:  Look back and see; the more amount of sorrow/difficulty you have experienced, equally happy you have been some other times. The Range expands equally in both directions away from 0.

" In Mathematics when you add all things 

of equal magnitude and having opposite signs

You get a zero, Nothing.

But In Life when you add all things having equal magnitude but opposite signs

you get Everything. "

And remember, if there is absence of something, for it to be absent now, it would have to be present some other time. 

And if-only if, you are able to take in your stride both the aspects of an attribute, then you shall be immortal, whether you be Dead or Alive.

With Love (i.e. without hatred)

Manik

Jai Gurudeva

Cliffhanger:

Things are not always either-or, truth is contradictory, paradoxical and sometimes by the virtue of this very trait very annoying / wondrous.

For Wise men think alike and fools seldom differ, So I think you should come back for the next post to decide: if it is wise or not, to come!