Life & Time.

I am 66 years old. I used to hear from elders quoting scriptures that only body decays, not soul.
It was then very difficult to realize its true significance. Now it continuously haunts me that verdict. My soul or inner-self, whatever you call it, is just as it was in my early ears. There is no change it it at all.
Some time it occurs in my mind that if I don't look my myself in a mirror, I forget my growing age. Physical incapability reminds me about my old age. Body decays very subtly with the time, which is not realized day to day's life. We feel a sense of growing our vigour up to thirty years of age, but according to my experience becomes slow after that. On many occasion automatically comes out from our tongue that now I am growing old. Such feeling increases day by day. Impact of time clearly is seen on our physical form. Thus seeing our physical incapability we start prepariing ourselves for our end. It is true that life is not real & certain, but death is certain. It is very difficult to prepare our mind for death, which can come any time. Mind say that it is very unfair in the eyes of Supreme Power to live to death. All the more living life ignoring this ultimate truth is also unwise. I think that we should try to live without expecting fruits of our doings, as it is said in Geeta. Only God will tell the hard reality of a human life, if we constantly pray Him to make me to understand this reality.
Shailbala Misra.

Confusion among young generation.

This question puzzles me for a long time. Because of general election 2009 of Lok-Shabha I am pondering over this problem. The army of young voters increased, as vote to right is given to the young person of 18 years old. But they are confused, as to whom I give my valuable vote. 

Reasons are:--1. They are not given proper education about politics during their schooling.

2. All types of propaganda against each-other parties and candidates leads them only towards confusion. 

3. These days criticing only for criticism often becomes absurd.

4. It is true that once one wins as MP or MLA, he or she becomes very rich within a few years. The evil of corruption is so deep in politics, it must be rooted out. Voters should be wise enough to elect honest persons, which ever party they belong to. In my opinion our young generation has enough power to discard corrupt candidates from politics.

5. We have to abolish crimilisation from politics. Voters must take a vow not to give votes to such persons, who have criminal back ground at any cost.

6. The importance of national parties in a democratic nation is beyond dispute. But to eradicate corruption & greed for ill- gotten money, now the time has come to think on this elephantine problem and every voter must not vote for such persons. Parties presenting such candidates must not be sent to the our highest legislature.   

_ Shailbala Misra.

Confusion among young generation.