A Child is born new and is like a white sheet of Paper.As time passes lot is written on it.Child is taught first by its parents and relatives.Later Boy or girl develops lot of
affinity towards friends,teachers.Let us take help of circles to explain this.Family is closest circle in most cases.Outer Circles are school,teachers,community .All together impact growing children.
Who am I?
This is famous spiritual question .We will take help of biology to ponder over this question.Does this body belong to me?I ,we,you refer to Brain which lives in our head.Its a thought
bank and centralized administrative center .It controls our body and its functions.Our body is made up of living cells grouped into tissues .Different kind of tissues form a organ.I m called as a organism since I m a bunch of living organs.I m technically not a single life.I m merely controller of organs in this living system.Buddha merely termed me as awareness.
Why I need to protect this organism?
I live in a host of lives.Air,water ,food and shelter are required for its survival.I help the system to survive.I m like head for the system.The cells will become brainless without me.
The system is as complex as external world in which I live.Arteries and veins are like one way roads transporting blood.
There are many more internal circles and cycles.Blood is life saving wonder liquid.You can compare it to Amirta,the Elixir of life.Bones are like mountains protecting the region.Heart is as sensitive like Nuclear Reactors and produce blood.Kidneys help like underground drainage system.Enzymes,Hormones and Acids are important products to protect life.Oxygen,digestion of food and blood are imperative for my survival.Circulatory System,Sensory System, Excretory System are like internal circles protecting my body.
History of life
Earth was created by big bang theory.Evolution of life gave rise to Human beings.Survival of fittest and food chain are strong terms in nature.Being human requires adoption to environment.Human is a social animal and has a upper hand in the World.
War and sacrifice
Human beings kill each other for their resources.Man would die for his family, country,religion,society,languages .These are his external circles.A person who dies in war for a cause is called a martyr.He has sacrificed himself for the cause.Belief on eternal Soul ,God and happy place called heaven contribute their part in his sacrifice.Violence and sacrifice are ways used by a group to achieve their goals.
Non Violence, Gandhiji and fasting
Ahimsa (Non Violence) is way in which we can achieve our goals without hurting others.India achieved Independence through non violent methods.Gandhiji used ahimsa against the British rule in India.But he would fast for days as part of Freedom movement.Fasting is like inviting slow death.I wont say it is non violent method.Its a violence towards oneself.
When people kill them selves we call it suicide.It inflicts terror on others.Spirit doesn't want to stay on body because of it's difficulties. Technically fasting is a slow attempt to suicide.Do I have right to harm myself and kill my cells in my system under non violence. Fasting for a cause have ended in failures in many occasions in history.In one way, it is like sacrifice of a martyr.Truly it is trying to kill other living world in your Host for your external world.Parasite benefits on expense of its host.
