Every human being undergoes a sea change every 30 years.
What we were so passionate about now does not appeal to us anymore.
Times change and humans change with the life experiences they encounter.
But why 30 years for changing?
The ancients believed that its got much to do with the cycle of Saturn which starts at 0 degrees and comes a full circle covering 360 degrees to yet again reach 0 once every 30 years. For those of you who are not too familiar with the zodiac signs, there are 12 signs in all, each sign comprising of 30 degrees making 12 x 30 all of 360 degrees. Saturn takes 30 years to do one round of 360 degrees.
There are many of us who could be sceptical about such things yet our sages gave us good reason to give it a second thought.
We undergo so much in a span of 30 years that we no longer hold dear what once we were so gung-ho about.
2 such cycles and we touch age 60 which is considered a crucial year in a human life apart from the normally accepted retirement age for many of us in India and elsewhere too I guess.
According to ancient Hindu wisdom, this is the age when each goes into what is called the Vanaprastha Ashram when a human is supposed to hand over the reins of control in the family to the nexgen so that he or she can become detached enough to dwell on the higher spiritual meaning of life and living. Vana means to move into a forest which is bereft of the material comforts we were so used to not so long back. An official retirement means leaving office or workplace, abdicating our control over our seat of power to the next in line.
My 2 cents!
By the way Saturn is about to transit from the zodiac sign of Virgo in which it was stationed for the past around 2 and 1/2 years, into the next sign of Libra around mid-November, 2011.
May it bring many positive changes in all of us.
Mahalakshmi.
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Indispensable
Men may come and men may go but the company goes on forever! This phrase is used to describe how men (and women) are not indispensable.
Work anywhere will go on, even though it may take time, effort, some stumbling, some healing, etc., to get on. It also gives others a chance to prove themselves through such new openings/opportunities. Make way for the down-in-line to prove themselves. Also they need to gain experience even if they need to by stumbling and bumbling!
We hear such good words at the farewell parties when someone is retiring, leaving job, etc. that he or she will be sorely missed, that the person has been indispensable and what will the organization do without him now. But experience tells us that we are fools to even believe such things that the organization will crumble once we leave our jobs. There will be someone who will take on our work - whether that someone is up to the mark or not will take time to tell. Still there is someone who is trying to step in to continue from where we left work.
The organization may have been running before we made our entry. We make a difference to our jobs in the way we best can. Someone else may come in and deliver better or worse goods than us! Soon the company or organization will not have time even to think about us and that's the truth.
It is wrong to assume that we are the only ones who carry the burden on our shoulders and it is because of us that the show runs. How far from the truth!
Today is the last working day for the Infosys founder, Narayana Murthy. Work at Infosys will go on as usual, I am sure, even though he will be missed. His role play has now come to an end as far as the company is concerned. The worth of the company stands at $6 Billion today. It may become $600bln or may also get reduced to $.6bln. He has contributed such a lot not only to his company but to his state, his country and the world of IT. Yet he is a very philosophical man to understand that as soon as he leaves the company he founded and ran for many years will not crumble upon his exit! He seems to be a level-headed person and a karma yogi.
So with human lives. We see around us how a spouse is left alone due to the other's death or due to separation. Maybe for a while, memories will haunt intensely, with time that intensity also gets diluted. Life does not stop for the surviving spouse. One learns to move on by getting more occupied with his or her work or developing a new hobby or interest. This helps to control the mind from dwelling too much upon any sad event often which does no one any good - not for the living and never for the departed, anyway.
The human mind needs to get diverted away from revisiting pain or painful situations for one's own good.
Has life and living ever stopped if the father passed away. Has life come to an end if the mother passes away? Someone else (relatives like grandfather, granny, an uncle or an aunt) often takes over some responsibility to fill the lacuna.
And we think we are indispensable and we are the ones who run the show. Sigh!
Mahalakshmi.
Work anywhere will go on, even though it may take time, effort, some stumbling, some healing, etc., to get on. It also gives others a chance to prove themselves through such new openings/opportunities. Make way for the down-in-line to prove themselves. Also they need to gain experience even if they need to by stumbling and bumbling!
We hear such good words at the farewell parties when someone is retiring, leaving job, etc. that he or she will be sorely missed, that the person has been indispensable and what will the organization do without him now. But experience tells us that we are fools to even believe such things that the organization will crumble once we leave our jobs. There will be someone who will take on our work - whether that someone is up to the mark or not will take time to tell. Still there is someone who is trying to step in to continue from where we left work.
The organization may have been running before we made our entry. We make a difference to our jobs in the way we best can. Someone else may come in and deliver better or worse goods than us! Soon the company or organization will not have time even to think about us and that's the truth.
It is wrong to assume that we are the only ones who carry the burden on our shoulders and it is because of us that the show runs. How far from the truth!
Today is the last working day for the Infosys founder, Narayana Murthy. Work at Infosys will go on as usual, I am sure, even though he will be missed. His role play has now come to an end as far as the company is concerned. The worth of the company stands at $6 Billion today. It may become $600bln or may also get reduced to $.6bln. He has contributed such a lot not only to his company but to his state, his country and the world of IT. Yet he is a very philosophical man to understand that as soon as he leaves the company he founded and ran for many years will not crumble upon his exit! He seems to be a level-headed person and a karma yogi.
So with human lives. We see around us how a spouse is left alone due to the other's death or due to separation. Maybe for a while, memories will haunt intensely, with time that intensity also gets diluted. Life does not stop for the surviving spouse. One learns to move on by getting more occupied with his or her work or developing a new hobby or interest. This helps to control the mind from dwelling too much upon any sad event often which does no one any good - not for the living and never for the departed, anyway.
The human mind needs to get diverted away from revisiting pain or painful situations for one's own good.
Has life and living ever stopped if the father passed away. Has life come to an end if the mother passes away? Someone else (relatives like grandfather, granny, an uncle or an aunt) often takes over some responsibility to fill the lacuna.
And we think we are indispensable and we are the ones who run the show. Sigh!
Mahalakshmi.
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