RIFLE RANGE BOY

They say that the key to the future is in the past. Really? Many do not agree with this statement.  Dodo bird - from the past! Sure, how would one know that fire scalds if he is not given the opportunity to feel the brunt of heat traversing on the tips of the finger? Once burnt twice shy, they say. The mere thought of the pain of being scorched is enough to keep one on his toes to avoid the same experience.  The memory of the misery of a checkered past continually playing in mind is a sure way the same mistake and even be a stepping stone for higher achievement. A regular reminder of the past may spur to strive harder and remind one of the missions in hand. On the other hand, we are accused of clinging on to the past, living in the past, drawing in a shell and residing in the self-pity or nostalgia. As if nostalgia was a bad word! In environment concerns, records of the past are needed to predict the future. Our knowledge about extinct species may prevent fur...

My nimble mind tells me that karma law says that the soul must complete the cycle before reaching moksha. Depending on how good the soul behaves, it moves up the ladder. The step above man is devata (wise man or demigod). Along the way, the soul has to endure being born a speck of dirt, algae, grass, tree, a maggot, a roach, a quadruped, an ungulate, a man and finally, the soul would break the chain of rebirth bondage. That always made me think that your miseries reduce as you climb the rung of the proverbial karma ladder. The physical body of the soul of the low-life would be trampled upon. Their outcome is non-sequential to the equation of the universe. I wonder how they could boost their standing in their next birth. Dirt and amoeba do not think. In fact, one wonders whether 'lesser' life forms in the hierarchy, below man, even think beyond their primordial needs of fulfilling the satiety of hunger, lust and sleep. A cat does not visualise and have ambitions of wanting ...

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