exist .The reason is that every person is born with an unlimited
desire for enjoyment .But everyone has very limited capacity of
fulfilment .It is this gap in human nature that makes people live in
unrest .Is this phenomenon due to a defect in nature ? Not at all .It
is due to mans unawareness of himself that creates this problem .Self
awareness is the key to a contented life ,While unawareness leads to
all kinds of discontentment and restlessness.
To explain this phenomenon in the right way ,we have to discover the
scheme of this world as devised by creator .According to the creation
plan ,the domain of fulfillment in the material world is very limited,
while the domain of spiritual or intellectual fulfillment is so vast
that words fail to express its endless boundaries.
If you want to achieve the state of fulfillment in the material world
then very soon you will discover that the scope here is very
limited.Food clothes fame martial life entertainment each of these
facets is associated with boredom. Even going on a holiday cannot give
fulfillment .A person goes on a holiday with hopes of de-stressing but
instead returns with holiday stress .This phenomenon of lack of
fulfillment pertains to your physical being but your spiritual being
is free of such bindings.Man has a dual personality physical and
spiritual .In physical terms mans body measuring no more than a few
feet is very limited .Due to this limited being man develops boredom
as far as his physical domain mind travels in an unlimited space.It
travels by means of thinking and there is no boundary for the thinking
process .It continues its journey unfettered by crossing all kinds of
barriers.For example the activities of a businessman are limited to
the material world.Due to this limited nature, he very soon develops
boredom.The American business magnate Bill Gates rightly said,once you
get beyond a million dollars ,I have to tell you it’s the same
hamburger.Scientific pursuit on the other hand is an example of
traveling in the intellectual domain .This is the reason why
scientists do not speak in the limited language of a businessman .For
example Newton towards the end of his life said about himself ,I was
like a boy playing on the sea shore and delivering myself now and then
finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst
the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Likewise was
the feeling of the great scientific Albert Einstein when he said The
more I learn the more I realize how much I donot know .Even greater
than the scientific pursuit is the spiritual pursuit.The reason for
this is very clear .According to Galileo Galileo the domain of the
scientific pursuit is the study of the quantitative aspect of nature
,While the domain of the spiritual pursuit is the qualitative aspect
of nature .And it is a fact that the qualitative is far greater than
the quantitative domain of the world.One who adopts the spiritual
quest for his intellectual activities is a spiritual scientist .A
physical scientist may stop at a certain point ,but for the spiritual
scientist even the saying sky the limit becomes irrelevant .Fulfilment
through materialism is quite unachievable.It is only spiritual
pursuits that can give you the sense of truth fulfillment
Aejaz Iqbal (Microbiologist)
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