Arbit Scratchpad

TRAVEL : PUNE AND BACK Back from Pune on some project related work. Weather was not very unpleasant though it is summer. Last day we (two of us) got drenched while coming back. Travel to and fro was in the Volvo bus; because it was planned at one days notice. I will never take that mode of travel again. Its costly and yet a pain.

Conflict - Call it The Paradox of Life ... The question of who is the greater - one who renounces everything or one who struggles through the worldly affairs bearing all the pain as a result of attachments. I feel taking up either with total sincerity is a tough proposition - the mind tends to waver at times in times of crisis and mental anxiety. There are three levels of satisfaction and comfort that are possible - One is physical comfort and satisfaction of the senses - The next is intellectual comfort and satisfaction (for the mind) - and the third is spiritual contemplation and growth ... Now depending on the person, one of the above holds sway and either the Sattvic, Rajasic or Tamasic tendencies take precedence and mould the nature of man. For a person it may so happen that a job/work/profession satisfies all physical needs but not the intellectual, thus causing a mental agony and misery that he is not using the intellect and letting it rust ... But spiritual ...