Sambodhi 1972 Vol 01

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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TG Kalghatgi
existences
deed (huin a) and conditioned by this, the beginningless chain following one another's
Life in this planet is inexplicable in many ways Happiness and misery are facts of life Fleeting moments of joy are interspersed by moments of puin in his Serinon at Banaras the Buddha said to his disciples that the first noble truth is the tyranny of pain "Birth is painful, decay is painful, disease is painful, death is painful, union with the unpleasant 19 painful, painful as the separation from the pleasant” “What think, ye disciples whether is more, the water which is in the four great oceans or the tears which have flown froin vou and have been shed by you while you strayed and wandered on this long pilgrimage' Kant while refuting the optimism of Leibniz, sajd
Would any man of sound understanding who has lived long enough and has modulated on the worth of human existence care to go again through life a poor play? Schopenhauer was exasperated with the false optimism of the inudera philosophers, as man is essentially a creature of pain Life is but a penduln swinging butween pain and pleasure, desile and boredom Happiness is negative state and only positive state is pain In such a sebe me of things there is no place for hope But there were others who saw that the world is a pleasure garden And man is the central figure in the drama of life With Robert Browning they said that "God is in heaven and all 18 right with the world " These are the alternating empbases on life and its Vicissitudes
Happiness and misery are distributed in equal ways, some are bappy and some miscrable All seek the pleasant things of life, but only some get them while others eat the butter fruits Very often we find good men suffer while evil inen prosper 10 this life King Hariscandra suffered untold misery for his truthfulness The book of Job present the life of Job which is at once noble dad prognantly miserble In modern society incorruptible men suffer immensely and the dishonest prosper This kind of personal and social ine qualities have been a perennial problem of provident and social injustice
Attempts have been made to find suitable philosophical solutions to this problein in the garden of Eden Eve ate the fruit of knowledge that was man s first disobedience and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into this world and all our woo'
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