Ranganathan

Service alone ensure longivity

Who does not want to live long.  How to live long?  It is very simple, one need to follow certain discipline in life.........

Who wants to die be it early or late?  Many may say that they are not worried about death and would love to welcome death at point in time.  But the truth is that the fear of death one would get only in dying.  Every one aspires to live long.  Every living creature, be it a microbe or a giant whale, resist death.  How long or how many years on would like to live? 

The question is that who live long?  What one need to do if wish to live long?  Living long should not be ascertained in terms of the number of years one would live but what meaning and value one adds to others during such prolonged existence.

Nature has already defined such meaningful life to some of its creation.  See the life of a tree in nature.  Trees live for many years, say 300-500 years.  As long as they live, so long they offer variety of benefits to others.  The benefits they offer to other living creatures are difficult to define, describe or quantify.  Trees are primary producers, they synthesize food for others.  To live long, one need to have the large heart to give the best to others in-discriminatively.  The giving gesture should continue till death and even in dying and after death.

Another important thing required for living long is the high level of tolerance or endurance to suffering caused by others.  A meditative silence and graceful offerings, trees continue to shower to all those attack them so ruthlessly.  They attack the trees, cut and injure it, they fire it, they burn it….. But trees remain calm, suffer and endure everything and still they continue to offer their love and care to others.

The other dimension worth discussing about how to live long is that one need to know how to grow with injury and insult without revenge or vengeance or victim living.  Trees grow with injury and insult; grow with deformity and distortion but still love to live and offer its best. 

When one wants to live long, one needs to win over the ego, hatred, discrimination, like and dislikes etc.  Be an impassionate lover and never ending giver.  Give what you have, give your life and give yourself after death.  This is how trees have learned to live for many hundred of years. 

Learn to live like a tree, a tree full of flowers, full of fruits, a tree that provide you shade to rest, a tree to roost to birds, to meet and talk.  If one learned to live like a tree in acquiring the essential qualities, can live long, beat the death and can live even after death.  A birth is possible for such people even in their death.

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