Saturday, April 29, 2006

Happy Thing, Sad Thing and In the End

There are few moments that we are happy, and there are few moment that we are sad. At all other moments we are just normal. A casual look at these actions on the long run reveals the following philosophic quote:

Happy Thing about the Sad Thing is that it would END but its the Sad Thing with the Happy Thing too.

So simple looks the quote but so deeper needs the explanations that would say, nothing stays so long over the time. Its a very simple example that most of us would be indifferent to the essence of what it says. Its always difficult to take it to the heart about the philosophy.

Scanning the above quote, some people would feel the second part of the quote to be unacceptable at times pessimistic. But there is no difference, except that they are positively biased or they tend to see the greener part of life.

Can we materialize the above quote into a statement? My vain attempts over it. Didnt involve much of my time into it. Anyways, here it goes.


Lim(Time->inf) H(S) = Lim(Time->inf) S(H)

Where H->Happy Thing and S->Sad Thing.

And, moreover since the happy thing and sad thing could be applied only to living beings that could sense 'feelings', through the act of perspectives and lot other stuff, whatever we define is restricted to the life of the living system under consideration.

An explanation could be obtained if we look into the above limit expression. Consider the life of a person, he would've undergone Happy times and Sad times on his life path. As his life goes on, at the end, which obviously means the end of his life, (if it is natural), he is pushed into such a state that neither happy thing, nor the sad thing could trigger him, meaning, they are indifferent to him, because of lesser pronounced sensory stimuli and the perspective vision that is dusted due to the ageing.

Hence, In the end, the "Happy Thing" and the "Sad Thing" are one and the same. Remembering back the words of Bagvad Gita, (or any other religious scripts that talk about the nature of God), it seems the above things are dual of each other and co-exists and finally at end of life, merge into one, the nothingness.

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