Avaritia

A story that my Dad tells me about life..I kno Many of you had heard of it from me and many of you might not...
S0 here goes the story...
When God was creating the world..he decided to give 25 years of life to Man, Donkey, Cow and Dog.
Except the Man everyone else was unhappy
So the Donkey went to god and said " Oh my lord! the world is pretty tough for me as I have to do loads of work to survive..I can't bear the burden..spare me and please reduce my life span to 10 years "
God said "But how will I balance the delicate nature..will sumone wanan take up ur spare life..."
Man said , "Yes I will"

Similarly Cow n Dog also went to God and the man accepted all their extra life....

And then Man took birth...
He lives like A man for 25 years..and then he start living the life of the Donkey where he works hard to survive for next 15 years, then it's Cow life starts where everyone his wife... his kids everyone squeezes him for extra bit of life, just like we take out out milk from the cow..and wen he turn 55 ..his life becomes like a dog...where he keeps on barking on people, get irritated and had to wag his tail to get a lil piece of food to survive....

So this story tell us how Man toook extra bit of misery and added in his life...


So tell me what's that??? Was man wrong on first place to accept all the extra life..
Yes???
Then why do u still a sinnner with Avaritia..
Yeah frnds I m talking about another sin of the life and that's Avaritia..the Greed.

The greed was defined as Desire for extra wealth...and sin of excesses ..but I feel greed is what we desire for extra piece in our life...We are never satisfied with what we get and we strive for more..and then we choose the path of the sin to fulfill our desire for more..

U feel u r not greedy?? U are well satisfied with ur life...

I don't thinks so..all of us work hard to survive but No..we don't work hard..actually we work harder to live life happily..U used to work 8 straight hours..now u chose a job to satisfy ur desire for a better life and u work now for 10 hours straight..so wen do u live the life..
u wake up at 7 ..reach office by 9..work there till 7 and come back panting at 9..have ur dinner..and by 11 u get to bed for ur 8 hours sleep...so wen are u living the life for which u r earning extra...ur spouse is unhappy..ur life is unhappy..u r in stress..so wat does this little money is bringing in ur life apart from increasing ur bank balance..
Wat if the Apocalypse comes tomorrow and we are all dead..okay if there is reincarnation..it's fine..u get a chnace to live for another life and u rectify all the fault u committed...but wat if there is no reincarnation..wat if we are jus a assempby of cells which will disintegrate wid us in this life and we are soul less and dead completely..no life no ghosty life or norreincarnation..so wat will that extra bankbalance will help....

The desire for more..it never ends and it always brings misery in ur life..
I have talked about money ..but Desire for extra starts from money and it reaches deep in our life..Extra desire for power..desire for beauty, desire for fame..everything in excess jus brings in Misery...

So frnds try to overcome the Avaritia and feel content.
Take out time ..not for money but for urself as if this is the only life u have..then live it..don't waste it for getting a Mercedes wen u can have an AC small car with extra mileage...
Live the life my frnd..coz may be it is ur only chance to feel the world..so work hard..but take out time for urself ..don't destroy it longing for more..Don't be blinded..Don't be a sinner of Avaritia...LIfe is beautiful..Don't waste it on materialistic pleasure

Love n carez

Acedia...

*The following article has disturbing images*

I was sitting in a park staring the dried fallen leaf and thinking
What is it feeling? What if she ain't lifeless??? What if she ain't devoid of feelings?? Is she feeling the same agony of being helpless as I m and thinking about what will happen tomorrow??Is she fearing that she would be under thousands feet .. or under screeching tires.. or burnt to ashes or may be just picked up by a lil boy and stay immortal forever in between the pages of his diary..
I picked it up and she stays in my diary..and wen i feel hopeless i just take her out and talk to her..
"Lady..I picked you up..tell me will sumday sumone will take me out of the trash "

This is a true story..coz that boy was me when I was 12 ...but can't you identify urself with the feelings of the boy..it is the feeling that everybody faces ..that's despair, helplessness and unhappiness towards life due to discontent and dissatisfaction...

And if you can identify with the boy..then my dear friends u r committing one of the most deadly sin and that's Acedia...or sloth...or in simple feeling discontent and dissatisfied with god and his creations..

Acedia was regarded as one of the deadliest sin after vanity coz if ur feelings are engrossed in Acedia than u can be easily motivated to commit other sins, as most of the sins are committed either by vain or by a depressed..

So depression due to dissatisfaction is a sin, and if u r dissatisfied, don't curse the god coz u ain't his disciple any more..u r moving towards the Antigod.

So now the common questions arises..

I am facing the world upside down, then also I am a sinner ??Do u know what I am going through?? Do you know what god has taken from me and gave nothing but despair ?? Can you imagine how tough is the life widout my dear ones ??

So before answering..let's go through these..


A man searching for help, his kid is in pain with a splinter injury due to heavy rocket bombardment. Yeah! I am talking about the common condition in war torn Palestine and Iraq.

She was a ten years old girl, she was lying there unconscious coz just now the war heroes who had won the area satisfied their lust by raping her..

She is 23 years old women crying in pain..coz just now the rioteers had raped her and torn her womb and taken out her unborn baby and torched that embryo in front of her before torching her too.

He is 3 year old boy, he can't say what he witnessed but he is hell scared. Some terrorist came there and in the name of the god shot his father and raped his mother before stuffing her mouth and slits they had carved with their knives wid gunpowder and torched her alive.

She is 30, she lives in place that even god had left years ago, with baby in her hands thoroughly malnourished, searching for food and water. May be if not today she wud be lucky in a week if she get sumthing to eat, but she is in dilemma that wat she do with her lil baby crying in her arms

She is a 17 year old girl..she lives in a orphanage run by a prestigious NGO..Now she is being sold to every other day to new customers who romp her body for their carnal pleasure.

He was caught when he was 11 trying to steal food and convicted to a juvenile detention centre and since then for 4 years he is beaing raped by the jailors and other wardboys.

She in 28, she wants to read but she can't, she wants to roam outside free but she can't, she was raped thrice in last two months but cudn't convict anyone of the crime coz the court needed four witnesses. Yeah! she was raped by 5, but alas! none of them wanted to be a witness..so they were set free and she was raped again...Welcome to Afghanistan...

She was 32, a happily married devoted lady for last 9 years, yesterday her husband told her that he is HIV positive and she took her results and found her to be HIV positive too..

Can you identify with any of them??

If you can't, then why are you in despair and dissatisfaction coz ur boss has kicked ur ass.. or ur bf/gf left you ....or you are not able to find a suitable guy/gal to live happily with..or ur parents left you in this world alone but leaving enough to get you to an internet connection for reading this article or u still have sumone to care for who is trying his or her best to give you a good upbringing..

So stay happy my friend and get over Acedia my friend, the world is still wonderful for you..and if you can't find the happiness.. u r a sinner coz u carve for more than wat u already have and this carving will never end ...

*The photos(freely available in net ) may not have specific resemblance to the facts but they were used to show the agony. Any resemblance to the dead or living is purely coincidental and is regretted*

One of the Seven Deadly Sins - Vanity (addition)

The Vanity or Pride is regarded the greatest of sin.

Pride of being beautiful or attractive, Pride of seeing urself the important one, Pride of the power u have been given and pride of every earthly or physical attributes were always condemned by many of ancient religious scriptures.

All the greatest falls of power came due to this pride only...
Helen was proud of her beauty..so was Cleopatra..
Troy was proud of it's warriors, walls and gates...
Achilles was proud of being the unbeatable
Roman empire was proud of it's power
British empire was proud to be the ruler of the world...
Everyone faced the fall..and they were literally wiped, of the world.

So when u have power or when u r different from the general..Don't be proud of it. Only use it for the good cause, if u can't the sin will take you straight to hell..
It's not about hell..if u think urself too high from the ground..just remember one thing if u fall this height may kill u ..

Vanity doesn't mean that.. u have the power and u misused it..even if u use it for a good deed and become proud of that..it takes it toll.

There are loads of stories on how vanity drove people insane..and some who got control over it made themselves to the legends...

So have control over vanity and be a legend...

PS:
These are the comments highlights where my dearest readers had pour in their thoughts about it

Ever hopeful - Vain pride leads to downfall. You might be knowing that Ravana was very intelligent, brave and gifted person. he was a great scholor as well as warrior. He tasted defeat becuase of his pride. Rightly said "Ahankar to ravan ka bhi nahin raha"

Supressing one's emotions in name of manliness is also false pride and showing it make one more human.

Sourish Most of the time being a manly prick is the main cause of troubles...i fink better to be a human and utilise all the god gifted instincts instead of pretending to be emotionless ..
Fredrick Nietzsche also explained vanity exactly as..vanity is an example of the previous, master set of morals that has been replaced with slave moralities..but he loved this sin coz he thought that becoming falsely noble means ..ordinary people will have more of the nobleness than insipidity..

Keshi - Its not a sin to admire one's abilities whatever it may be. After all, if we cant identify wuts good abt us, love ourselves and use those qualities to make ourselves and others happy, wuts the use of the individuality in us? If u let the Ego take over completely, thats when self-destruction begins.

Sourish - Taking pride of urself is cumulative effect..it's start wid the feeble most feeling and it ends up being an obsession and then it start taking it's toll.. u will feel it harmless but soon u will find urself in everybody's bad book.. Wen u blush on ur praises,and explain how simple u r as for u being simple is worth mentioning and that's Vanity.

Kashmira - I would say be proud of who you are, not arrogant. Be proud of who you are, but don't look down upon others.

Sourish - if u r boasting of sumthing..someone is getting down to make u reach that point...koi harta hai tabhi koi jeet ta hai and if u get pride of the win..the looser will find that and may create a chaos.. :)

Cindy- Pride is nothing but a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from achievements, qualities or possessions that do one credit. Pride also means being conscious of one's dignity.

Vanity is the negative extension of pride, which is when we come to a fall. With vanity pride ceases to exist and it no more stands as just a form of being conscious about your dignity.

Its just a thin line that separates both. But its equally imperative to decide which side you're on.

Read the thoughts of others and if you want to pour in urs.. u r always welcome


Read the thoughts of others and if you want to pour in urs.. u r always welcome