Before anyone starts guessing stuff, I'm praising the attitude of the German engineering. Yesterday, finally, my dream came true: I bought a 1997 Opel Astra! The first page of the car's manual is a how-to on "Environment friendly driving".
I always wanted to own an Opel for atleast a while. I wasn't ever budgeting for a Skoda Octavia, but I'd thought of Opel Corsa earlier. After having driven Rag's Corsa... the "achtung baby", I wanted more and Astra gives more, so there! :)
(My Wagon-R is up for sale, but as on today, I feel *rich* owning two cars (... er, and a bike ;)
4 comments:
How do you reconcile your rambling spiritual vocalisation with your childish (<> child-like) delight in the trappings of a material life?
Beats me.
I don't... in any case, you don't need me to ramble more :)
(pls leave your name next time)
I think my name is superfluous in this context but if you want a placeholder, call me Ajay.
I'll give you 5 points ;) for showing the guts to put up a critical comment; I fully expected that you would moderate it out of existence.
BUT, your answer, while smart-alecky, is not intellectually satisfying. There is a dichotomy you are brazenly refusing to address, and that has the effect of devaluing both your pursuits. If you are a materialist, then why not junk all that spiritual mumbo-jumbo and talk the LCD like everyone else? On the other hand, if you are even slightly serious about vichara, then you have to acknowledge the gap between principle and practice and try to bridge it. Don't you think so?
Does Bhagavan not teach that happiness is subjective and not objective?
I asked your name since its easier to relate if you care to leave comments again on any of my posts. Secondly, its only fair that I know whom I'm talking to. There's no reason to force a context upon it, thats why my request was in parentheses!
Thanks for those points; thats 5 out of how many... a hundred, is that? ;) But seriously, thanks for a critical viewpoint; I appreciate it. (Moderation is only because some people left junk unrelated comments earlier)
If you wanted me to answer ya, you wouldn't have bluntly called all that I write as rambling! I don't think you've read my earlier posts, else you'd know that you were opining out of superficial readings. I did scribble something as a reply to your first comment. I don't expect you to agree with all that since you yourself seem to understand that happiness is subjective, but it might give ya a snapshot of where I was getting at.
Finally, I don't know what your understanding of vichaara is, but mine doesn't tell me a fixed set of things to do in practice to go with principles. Vichaara is juxtaposed with routine life! Principles are the goal, practice is whatever you do to achieve it. In any case, serious one-track following of spirituality is based on what one's path is. Ramana's path goes well with *anything* that everyone does, while Shankara's needs sannyaasa. I'm trying to bridge that gap and *not* of practice v/s principles, for now. Six months hence, if I'm destined to, I'm quitting the routine to find my path to the goal I seek. All in good time; till then, the journey is the reward.
shivam shaantam advaitam
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