Nellai Suresh puts in black and white

I was reading an article (editorial or opinion) in Economic Times. This was titled "When Everything is Left to Lose". Some lines perturbed me.

"E Raymond Rock, an ordained Theravada monk and principal teacher at the Southwest Florida Insight Center in the US, goes one step further. He says it’s only when life is taken away for a brief moment,come to this conclusion. when we escape momentarily from existence and touch that reality that we cannot speak about, only then is true happiness possible.

Obviously, this must mean that true happiness — whatever that embraces — is not possible when life as we know it happens to be around and we are infused with it. Or that if does happen to people who have not escaped even momentarily, they must be deluding themselves and others should never take their word for it".

I could not understand why people are refusing to believe the simple logic preached by BhagavadGita that happiness or sorrow is one's own mind and searching for it elsewhere is futile. Probably those who have searched outside and could not get it have come to this conclusion. Milton says the same in Paradise Lost "The mind is its own place, and in itself, Can make a Heaven of Hell and Hell of Heaven".

I am now on a business visit to Paris. The front desk in the office displays many economic newspapers. I just browsed through the Financial Times from London. Surprised and pleasantly too was I to see two news items hogging the limelight on the first page. Both were about Indian businessmen. Lakshmi Mittal rumoured to buy stakes in Rio mining company and Pandit, the Citigroup Chairman (Global) talking about introducing a new compensation package for Citigroup executives to stop the "infighting"!!!! There were times when a 5 line news about an Indian businessman in those "prestigious" newspapers in a corner of the 18th page were considered an achievement. Yes, we have come a long way and without occupying anybody else's territory.