Beyond Fear and Greed

Fear and greed, both tangible and intangible, real and imagined, compete to dominate human actions and behaviour. Greed takes people ahead, fear holds back. The first makes people aggressive, and the latter, submissive. Tragically, too many philosophical systems of the world rely on these two tendencies of the human mind to realise their perceived good.

The sagacity is to transcend these two instinctive behaviours of human beings. Our ancient seers showed the path. They invoked the essence of existence, the Brahm, the incorruptible essence permeating every phenomenon, as the prime guide of human agency. It is the point of both separation and union. When people realise the Truth, they overcome both fear and greed.

But life is life. The mantra is to cope with life without causing others pain as little as possible and to be good to others as much as possible. Contentment comes not from other ways.

Niraj Kumar Jha