Dailogue Between Ego and Spirit - Ignited Minds

I recently re-read Dr. Kalam's "Ignited Minds" - every page is so full of inspiration, experience...must read for every Indian especially youth. Dr. Kalam ends the book with an excellent story summarizing his thoughts. The story is titled "Dailogue between Ego and Spirit" and here it goes:

“I was thinking what can summarize the book aptly…I recall reading a story on internet about a conversation between two babies…Ego and Spirit…while in womb.

Spirit says to Ego, ‘I know you are going to find this hard to accept, but I believe there is life after birth.’

Ego responds, ‘Don’t be foolish. Look around you. This is all there is. Why must you always be thinking about something beyond this reality? Accept your lot in life.’

Spirit quietens down for a while, but not for long. ‘Ego, now don’t get angry, but I also believe that there is a Mother.

A Mother! Ego laughs. How can you say that? You’ve never seen a Mother, you don’t know what Mother is.Why can’t you accept that this is all there is? You are here alone with me. This is your reality.

‘Ego’, Spirit begs, please listen.What about those constant pressures we both feel, those movements that make us so uncomfortable sometimes, the feeling that we are being squeezed in as we grow? I think we shall soon have a new life, that we shall see light.’

Spirit tries not to bother Ego again but cannot resist one last try. ‘Ego,’ she says, ‘I will not bother you again. But I do believe that after all this discomfort not only shall we see light but also experience the bliss of meeting Mother.’

Ego’s reply is ofcourse, that Spirit is truly mad.

What I want to tell the people of my country through this book is that they must never be content with that which has been presented to them……" - Dr. Kalam.

Putting the Human Being in Place

Rediff has published an interview with Yoga Guru Sri. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev of Isha Foundation. Answering a question on why we are facing the kind of problems today in the world, he hits the nail on it's head by pointing out that the human being is to be rehabilitated and reformed before anything else. I exhort one and all to go through this thought-provoking interview. The relevant excerpt mentioned is here:

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In the year 2010, they say the world produced enough food for 18 billion people. But we are only 7 billion people.

Still 40 per cent of the people don't get to eat, because you and I have not cared enough.

If these 24 people change the way they think, the way they feel about the world, the way they experience the world, everything can change.

Everything -- technology, resource, capability -- is in place except the human being.

My dream and intention and vision is to put the human being in place.

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