(417) My quoted Quotes in my Posts (11)

(176) “Crying is the special expression of man.” (Charles Darwin) 

(177) “Crying is a release, a psychological tonic or tranquilizer.” (Arnold H. Glasow)

(178) “A barren woman cannot understand the pains of a woman delivering the child.” (Valibhai Musa)

# Crying, a unique expression of passions in human life

(179) “Do not be proud of your achievements, but be humble and thankful to Him (God) and realize that your success was due to His abundant Mercy. [Shiite Imam Ali (a.s.)]

(180) “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” (William Arthur Ward)

(181) “A Thanks Giving is the courtesy, the manner and a good attitude towards gratitude.” (Valibhai Musa)

# Expressing Feelings of Honor and Gratitude

(182) “Human Life is such as when we are born, it can be said that we are a God-made man or woman. As we grow up in society and be matured, we become a man-made man or woman; and/but, we can become a self-made man or woman with our inward revolution only.” (Valibhai Musa)

# Customary celebrations of birthday

(183) “Man is a social animal.” (Aristotle)

(184) “Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” (A Swedish proverb)

(185) “Each person values something: someone desires wealth, another wants beauty; a third longs for honor; but, in my opinion, a good friend is better than all of them.” (Socrates)

(186) “The happiest person is he who associates and befriends the magnificent. [The Holy Prophet of Islam (SAW)]

# Friends are our destiny, either ill or good!

(187) ‘Remix is a Cultural Right’. (Lawrence Lessig)

(188) “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I am not sure about the universe!” (Albert Einstein) 

# A Humorous Folktale on Stupidity

 – Valibhai Musa 

 

 

 

(207) “રૂદન” – માનવજીવનની લાગણીઓની એક અજોડ અભિવ્યક્તિ!

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આપણી પાસે કોઈ ઠોસ અને નિર્ણયાત્મક સાબિતી નથી કે જે થકી આપણે કહી શકીએ કે મનુષ્ય સિવાયનાં અન્ય પ્રાણીઓ પણ રૂદન કરતાં હશે! આ લેખ માનવીઓ ઉપર કેન્દ્રિત હોઈ આપણે પ્રાણીઓ સાથે કોઈ લેવાદેવા નથી. ટોમ લુત્ઝ (Tom Lutz) નામના જીવવિજ્ઞાની લાક્ષણિકતાઓને અનુલક્ષીને આંસુઓના ત્રણ પ્રકાર આપે છે. (1) મૂળભૂત (Basal) આંસુ (2) પ્રત્યાઘાતી (ઈજાના ફલસ્વરૂપ) આંસુ; અને, (3) લાગણીજન્ય (મનોવૈજ્ઞાનિક કારણથી નિપજતાં) આંસુ. પરંતુ, અહીં પણ મારો એવો કોઈ ઈરાદો નથી કે હું રૂદન કે આંસુ સારવાની પ્રક્રિયાનો કોઈ વૈજ્ઞાનિક અભ્યાસ રજૂ કરું. હું હવે પછી અહીં ફક્ત લાગણીજન્ય આંસુઓ વિષેની જ ચર્ચા હાથ ધરીશ.

ચાર્લ્સ ડાર્વિને (Charles Darwin) કહ્યું છે કે ‘રૂદન એ મનુષ્યની વિશિષ્ટ પ્રકારની સાંવેગિક અભિવ્યક્તિ છે’. રૂદનને કોઈ ઉંમર, લિંગ કે સંસ્કૃતિના ભેદ નડતા નથી અને માનવજીવનમાં આ સંવેગ યુગો સુધી ચાલ્યા જ કરશે. રડનારને કોઈ બાહ્ય સત્તા કે શક્તિ તેને તેમ કરતાં અટકાવી શકે નહિ, જ્યાં સુધી કે વ્યક્તિ પોતે જ પોતાની મેળે અથવા પોતાની ઈચ્છાથી રડવાનું બંધ ન કરી દે! ઘણીવાર એમ પણ બનતું હોય છે કે રડનાર પોતે પણ પોતાના રૂદન ઉપર અંકુશ મૂકી ન શકે, જ્યાં સુધી તેની પ્રસન્નતા કે ગમગીનીનું મૂળભૂત જે કોઈ કારણ હોય તેની અસર સંપૂર્ણપણે તેના મનમાંથી સાવ ભૂંસાઈ ન જાય.

 

દયાહત્યા કે દયાપૂર્ણ મૃત્યુ – એક ચર્ચા

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આજના મારા લેખનો વિષય અનહદ ગૂંચવણભર્યો અને મુશ્કેલ પણ છે અને તેથી જ તેના કોઈ નક્કર તારણ ઉપર ન પણ આવી શકાય. આ એક લાંબા સમયથી ચાલી આવતી અને વિરોધભાસી ચર્ચા છે જેનો કોઈ અંત નથી, કેમ કે બંને વિચારધારાઓ પાસે પોતપોતાની પોતાના મતની તરફેણમાં અને વિરુદ્ધમાં સેંકડો દલીલો છે. અહીં મારા વાંચકો આ ચર્ચાના ભાગરૂપ મારા પ્રમાણિક પ્રયત્નને જોઈ શકશે, જેમાં મેં મારા પક્ષે પૂરી તટસ્થતા જાળવી રાખી છે અને ચર્ચાના સંભવિત પરિણામને મારી સંમતિ કે અસંમતિની કોઈ મહોર પણ મારી નથી. ‘દયા-હત્યા’ જેને અન્ય સારા શબ્દોમાં ‘અસાધ્ય વેદનામય દર્દથી પીડિત દર્દીનું શાંતિપૂર્વક મોત નિપજાવવું’ કહી શકાય. આ મુદ્દે ઘણાં વર્ષોથી વિશ્વભરમાં ચર્ચાઓ થતી આવી છે અને હું પણ અહીં અન્યોની જેમ આ ચર્ચામાં દાખલ થઈ રહ્યો છુ. મહાત્મા ગાંધીએ કહ્યું છે કે,’આપણું જીવન એ દીર્ઘ અને મથામણયુક્ત સત્યની શોધ માટે છે.’ મારા અગાઉના કોઈક આર્ટિકલમાં મેં કહ્યું છે કે ‘આપણે સત્યના કોઈ એક અંશ (A Truth) સુધી કદાચ પહોંચી શકીએ, પણ પૂર્ણ સત્ય (The Truth)ને પામવું તો મુશ્કેલ હોય છે.’

હવે આપણે એ સમજીએ કે આ પ્રકારની હત્યા કે મોત એ છે શું! મારા લેખના શીર્ષકમાં ‘દયા’ અથવા ‘દયાપૂર્ણ’ શબ્દો સામાન્ય છે; પરંતુ ‘હત્યા’ અને ‘મૃત્યુ’ શબ્દો ભિન્ન છે, જેમનો એક જ અર્થ ‘જીવનનો અંત આણવો’ એમ જ લેવાનો છે. મેં ઈન્ટરનેટના માધ્યમથી આ વિષય ઉપરની બે વ્યાખ્યાઓ તારવી કાઢી છે : (૧) વ્યક્તિના જીવનનો તેની વિનંતીથી ઈચ્છાનુસાર, સરળ અને પીડારહિત અંત આણવો, જ્યારે કે તે અસાધ્ય અને પીડાજનક રોગથી પીડિત હોય. (૨) ઈરાદાપૂર્વક પીડિત કોઈ વ્યક્તિના જીવનનો દયાથી પ્રેરાઈને અન્યો દ્વારા અંત લાવવામાં આવે..

 

Crying, a unique expression of passions in human life

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We have no any strong and conclusive proof that the creatures other than human are crying. This Article being centered on human being, we have no concern with creatures. Tom Lutz, a biological Researcher of eye fluid (tears) gives three distinguished types of tears (1) Basal (basic) tears (2) Reflex (resulted from irritation or injury) tears; and, (3) Emotional (Psychologically caused) tears. But, here also, there is no any intention of mine to give you any scientific studies of crying or tear shedding. I am going to deal with the emotional tears only now-hence-forth.

Charles Darwin has said, “Crying is the special expression of man.” Crying has no any barriers of age, gender or culture and it will continue for ages in human life. No any external power or authority can prevent crying anybody until the crying person itself calms down in its own way or at its own will. Sometimes it happens that even the crying fellow itself cannot control own crying until the effect of happiness or gloomy whichever might be the root cause is fully wiped off from the mind.

Arnold H. Glasow has quoted, “Crying is a release, a psychological tonic or tranquilizer.” Crying is valuable and yet free, a gift from God to mankind. It is not limited to babies or women; it is for all. It is natural, healthy and curative. To stay fit both physically and mentally, crying is necessary. Sometimes some saddest or happiest events may prove to be fatal to weak hearted persons if they are not reacted or absorbed by shedding tears. At this juncture, I’ll correlate my subject with some literary backgrounds just to justify the importance of crying in human life. Let us go now onwards to an emblematical poem of Alfred Lord Tennyson titled as “Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead”. Instead of any brief summary of the poem, I am going to give you the full text of the wonderful work of the poet. It is as this:

 

Rivalry of two retail trade sectors in India

It is very interesting to observe the people divided mostly into two groups of competition for one or the other goals of their own. From individuals to nations, all are in race to go ahead from their rivals. Subjects and goals of such rivalries may be many. Here in this brief Article, I am going to discuss the ‘Rivalry’ of two sectors of Retail Trade. Both strive for the same customers or the markets. These two retail sectors will be named further as ‘Former’- An Unorganized Small Traders’ Group, serving the society for not only centuries but millenniums; and ‘Latter’ – The Organized Mall Culture, recently developed during the last two decades and growing fast throughout the world.

The back and forth between these two retail sectors is rapid. I just remember an old Hindi movie “Toofan Aur Diya”. The title may be taken in English version as “Lamp (lit with kerosene with no shield of glass) against whirl-wind”. Here, as an observer, we can watch the exertions of the weak with the strong. Let us see how long this competition does go on and what its future would be. It can be presumed that this ‘Rivalry’ may end with either of the two outcomes – one, as per Charles Darwin’s theory “Survival of the Fittest”; and the other the “Co-existence of Both”. Whether we Love it or hate it, the organized retail sector is to stay everywhere. On the basis of viability of business, some units of both the retail sectors may close their shutters for ever or may shift elsewhere, but all of them are never to quit the battle field of their rivalry.

Due to straight result of globalization, the Latter is increasing at the speed of light stretching the feet towards even smaller cities. Some Social Activists have started their movements against the Mall Culture with their slogans as “No more Shopping Malls in India”. One of such Activists, Medha Patkar says, “Opening of a mall in a city puts an end to the business of thousands of hawkers and traders. This mall culture will plunge the middle class into a greater financial crisis and turn hawkers into beggars.”

On the other hand, quite contradictory to above, ICRIER (a renowned think tank) commissioned by the Ministry of Commerce to study impact of the Latter on the Former reported that they both can co-exist. How surprising the finding is that a lion and a hare can live together in a den as we might have read in some fables in our childhood days. It is easy to say ‘Nothing is impossible in the world’, but somebody has humorously commented as whether we have ever tried to insert back the tooth paste once pressed out from the tube!

I have studied the Report with a bird-fly-view and noted as over all that ICRIER has, no doubt, sought opinions from various people concerned to the studies; but at the same time, we should bear in our mind that it is not all the time necessary to believe that few opinion givers represent the views of all the people. Just to have fair and authentic opinions, the Researchers should take into consideration many factors and particularly intellectual standards of the opinion givers. We have witnessed many Reports of Commissions and findings of Opinion Polls, not only in India but worldwide, and found that realities and such calculative results have no match of their ends. We all know that when Saddam was in power, he had gone under the exercise of having mandate of the people of Iraq and showed to the world that 98.5% of the population was in favor of his dictatorial rule of Government. But, when he was finished, the very same public had destroyed the statues of Saddam erected in public places.

While summing up, I would say that the casting votes are in the hands of the customers and they only can play a role of a king-maker whom the crown of success is awarded. Any sector, whether be a traditional retail street shop or a big mall, will have to create good relationships with customers and attract them to pay frequent visits to their respective business premises. They would need to win the trust of the customers with standard quality of goods, fair price, genuine weight & measurement and prompt services after sale. The customer will never compromise with these fundamental expectations. A trader, in any status, may fool the customer for one time, but not all the times. Now-a-days, the customer everywhere has become more aware of his best interests as well as laws of consumer protection. Those days have gone when they were easily cheated and exploited.

– Valibhai Musa