One cannot have a feast of desserts only.

 

A quote from the celebrated mrutchakatiakam of poet Shuudraka

सुखं हि दुःखान्यनुभूय शोभते घनान्धकारेष्विव दीपदर्शनम् ।

सुखात्तु यो याति नरो दरिद्रतां धृतः शरीरेण मृतः स जीवति ।।

(शूद्रकरचित मृच्छकटिकम्, अंक प्रथम, श्लोक १०)

sukham hi dukhaanyanubhuuya shobhate ghanaandhakaareshviva deepa dharsanam sukhaattu yo yaati naro daridhrataam, dhritaH sareerena mrutaH sa jeevathi...

Without knowing what sorrow is, and without suffering the pangs of sorrow, one cannot enjoy the pleasures in full.

It is like seeing and enjoying the glow of the bright wick of a lamp when there is pitch darkness around.

(In the open sunlight, the wick of a lamp would make practically no impact)

However, when a person , when he is used to all pleasures, suddenly faces poverty and sorrow, will have his life for biological purposes alone, but the body will hold on to life but would dead in spirits.

In this backdrop, some dosage of Sorrow is necessary and perhaps beneficial too..

However the blessed lord Said in Gita

सुखदुःखे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ।

ततो युद्धाय युज्यस्व नैवं पापमवाप्स्यसि॥२-३८॥

sukha duHke same kritwa laabhaalaabhau jayajayau

tato yudhdhaaya jujyaswa naivam paapam avaapsyasi.. gits chapter 2 --37..

You go ahead with the war of life treating both pleasure and pain equally..

Then no sin will affect you,  (Arjuna)

Here the blessed lord talks about detachment.

Kalidasa said once  "KlesaH phalena hi punarnavataam vidathe..

क्लेशः फलेन हि पुनर्नवतां विधत्ते (KumaraSambhavam)"

A person’s incessant toil, when rewarded with pleasurable results, equips him with more verve for further action.

Ultimately, every coin has two sides, every magnet has two poles, and opposing emotions complement each other.

One cannot have a feast of desserts only.

the string designed by fate

सुखस्य दुखस्य न कोपि दाता परो दधातीति कुबुद्धिरेषा

अहं करोमीति वृथाभिमानः स्वकर्मसूत्रग्रथितो हि लोकःi

(adhyatma  ramayanam 2-6-6)

sukhasya dukhasya na kopi dātā paro dadhātīti kubuddhireṣā

ahaṁ karomīti vṛthābhimānaḥ svakarmasūtragrathito hi lokaḥ|

Pleasure and pain are not to given to us by someone else.

It is the crooked mind that says that pain or

pleasure are provided to us by others.

It is equally vainglorious to claim that I am the doer of anything

The life in the world is just bound and arranged by the karmas one has practiced and is practicing.

This sloka is attributed to Lord Rama Himself in Ramayanam..

We cannot find a more decent person who lived the most ideal life.

But all misfortunes visited Him.,Loss of kingdom which was his rightful due,

wandering in the forest, loss of his beloved Sita and again after regaining Sita,

when he was about to settle down in life, social compulsion to abandon Sita for ever..

what sort of misfortune did ever spare this gem of men?

Definitely we are not facing even a minuscule part of such sufferings.

So it is better for us to float and flow with the current, that is all..

Let us spend our lives as destined by Gods..

व्यशेम देवहितम् यदायुः

(vedas)

സുഖസ്യ ദുഖസ്യ ന കോപി ദാതാ പരോ ദധാതീതി കുബുദ്ധിരേഷാ

അഹം കരോമീതി വൃഥാഭിമാനഃ സ്വകര്മസൂത്രഗ്രഥിതോ ഹി ലോകഃ

(അദ്ധ്യാത്മരാമായണം   2-6-6)

അദ്ധ്യാത്മരാമായണത്തില്‍ ശ്രീരാമന്‍റെ വാക്കുകലായാണ് ഈ സുഭാഷിതം കാണുന്നത്.

ഒരാള്‍ അനുഭവിക്കുന്ന സുഖവും ദുഃഖവും  ഒരിക്കലും  മറ്റാരും തരുന്നതല്ല.

മറ്റുള്ളവര്‍ നമുക്ക് അതെല്ലാം  നല്‍കുന്നു എന്നത് വ്യര്‍ത്ഥമായ വിചാരമാണ്. അവനവന്‍ തന്നെയാണ് എല്ലാം ചെയ്യുന്നത്, എല്ലാം നേടുന്നത്  എന്ന ചിന്തയും   അര്‍ത്ഥമില്ലാത്ത അഹങ്കാരത്തില്‍ നിന്ന് ഉടലെടുക്കുന്നതാണ് . 

പക്ഷെ യഥാര്‍ത്ഥത്തില്‍ ലോകം തന്നെയും, നാം എല്ലാവരും,  കര്‍മ്മം  എന്ന ഊരാക്കുരുക്കില്‍ ബന്ധിപ്പിക്കപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു.