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Soul and the Sixth Shoes

[Sequel to 'The Battle of the Buddha']

How much land that we own that we don’t use?
How much food do we have in our fridge that we may throw away later?
How many dresses that we left hanging unused?
How much of cosmetics we threw those dint fulfill our whims?
How much did we spend on health due to self acquired illnesses?
How compulsory are our additional second car, third TV, fourth phone, fifth watch, sixth shoes?
How much excess money that we hold on to, that doesn’t help to save a life of a fellow human?

Have we stopped buying? Have we stopped wasting?

Do we realize what we are doing to our lives and to those others?

Simple Truth!

This market economy works based on the demand. In other words, GREED.

Greed is GOOD! - Capitalism.

But with our greed, we increase the demand and the affordability of the essentials. With our greed we keep the poor poorer. With our greed, we kill the soul of some child somewhere right this moment.

Why go that far? Aren’t we killing our own souls, madly chasing the mirage that we ourselves created. Rat race, a philistine existence and a meaningless life that has no time to wonder at any simple mystery of this wonderful universe!

This system is created by us.
The greed is the fault.
Only we can repair it.
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  1. Raja SPFebruary 19, 2010 at 10:02 AM

    Ramkumar Kothandaraman : I have stopped making judgements when it comes to meta-physical subtle things such as Greed. We just don't/can't understand what's right at that level.
    December 14, 2009 at 1:55pm ·

    Daniel Qu Li : I just got to learn that Raja means King in Hindi? Maybe I can translate your blog title as "Thats so Royal"? :)
    December 14, 2009 at 3:14pm ·

    Daniel Qu Li Just read your last few blog posts, your experience with HDB sounds really horrible.
    December 14, 2009 at 3:23pm ·

    Raja SP @Ram : Very true. I am only taking a macro-economical view of things. But when adding other contexts and dimensions, one would be baffled as to what is 'true'. Yet, life is one hell of a hunt for the 'truth'. So should be stop judging?

    @Daniel : Yes, except that my content or style hardly stands up to that meaning :)). Thanks for reading.
    December 15, 2009 at 9:55am ·

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