Rabindranath Tagore has once said ,'It is very simple to be happy ,but very difficult to be simple'.Let's have a deep understanding of this.
First analyse the initials of it.It is very simple to be happy.Is it so?Then why so many people are suffering?The elemental law of Economics states that ,human wants are unlimited but resources to satisfy the wants are limited.If wishes are horses then beggars can ride.So with these unlimited wants how a man can be happy?A king can be unhappy.On the contrary a beggar can be happy.These are related to the satisfaction or the contentment of a man.Really it is very difficult to be happy.Because this world is made up of scarcity of resources.The person who understands this can easily be contented.
It is very difficult to be simple.To be simple means that is not complicated,i.e., my mother is a very simple lady by her nature.But when I did job I purchased lots of clothes,accessories,beauty-products for her and she used them indeed.Her material accumulation has nothing to deal with her simplicity.Here simplicity at heart has greater value with respect to simplicity at possession. Jiddu Krishnamurty thinks in this way.
Rich and poor has nothing to deal with happiness and simplicity of a person.The standard of living is immaterial. I.e,a rich man may be unhappy because of discontentment.A farmer may be happy with his simple life ,only by the virtue of contentment.He is busy everyday.His wage out of his labour may not be sufficient for the luxuries,but his contentment gives him immense pleasure.He spends time happily with his wife and children.With the small things he discovers great peace.
Another illustration is the former CEO of Infosys Narayana Murthy .He is so simple at heart irrespective of everything he had.Simplicity is the language of heart.Transparency of heart is called simplicity.A poor man may have attitude,arrogance.So he is not simple though he is living a simple life.A rich man irrespective of all wealth and riches may not possess ego.He may be down to the earth.This nature is known as simplicity.
J Krisnamurty's thought says that from the sky if we see our earth,then visualize two types of houses.One is very big house of few rich men, full of luxuries .The other one is small house of poor people.What is the difference?One is beautiful and the other one is ugly.So these are the standard of livings of man in terms of economic status.Man himself has set these status by the fundamental discovery of Economics,i.e money.But happiness and simplicity has nothing to deal with this measuring rod of economic values.These are the languages of soul.These are spontaneous.
In relative sense,to be happy is simple but to be simple is difficult.Simplicity is very rare in the Machiavelli world.
First analyse the initials of it.It is very simple to be happy.Is it so?Then why so many people are suffering?The elemental law of Economics states that ,human wants are unlimited but resources to satisfy the wants are limited.If wishes are horses then beggars can ride.So with these unlimited wants how a man can be happy?A king can be unhappy.On the contrary a beggar can be happy.These are related to the satisfaction or the contentment of a man.Really it is very difficult to be happy.Because this world is made up of scarcity of resources.The person who understands this can easily be contented.
It is very difficult to be simple.To be simple means that is not complicated,i.e., my mother is a very simple lady by her nature.But when I did job I purchased lots of clothes,accessories,beauty-products for her and she used them indeed.Her material accumulation has nothing to deal with her simplicity.Here simplicity at heart has greater value with respect to simplicity at possession. Jiddu Krishnamurty thinks in this way.
Rich and poor has nothing to deal with happiness and simplicity of a person.The standard of living is immaterial. I.e,a rich man may be unhappy because of discontentment.A farmer may be happy with his simple life ,only by the virtue of contentment.He is busy everyday.His wage out of his labour may not be sufficient for the luxuries,but his contentment gives him immense pleasure.He spends time happily with his wife and children.With the small things he discovers great peace.
Another illustration is the former CEO of Infosys Narayana Murthy .He is so simple at heart irrespective of everything he had.Simplicity is the language of heart.Transparency of heart is called simplicity.A poor man may have attitude,arrogance.So he is not simple though he is living a simple life.A rich man irrespective of all wealth and riches may not possess ego.He may be down to the earth.This nature is known as simplicity.
J Krisnamurty's thought says that from the sky if we see our earth,then visualize two types of houses.One is very big house of few rich men, full of luxuries .The other one is small house of poor people.What is the difference?One is beautiful and the other one is ugly.So these are the standard of livings of man in terms of economic status.Man himself has set these status by the fundamental discovery of Economics,i.e money.But happiness and simplicity has nothing to deal with this measuring rod of economic values.These are the languages of soul.These are spontaneous.
In relative sense,to be happy is simple but to be simple is difficult.Simplicity is very rare in the Machiavelli world.
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