Sunday, July 10, 2011

The Temporariness of Permanence

No. The article is not as heavy as the title. I've tried to explain this paradox in the simplest of terms that I can come up with. Philosophers have brought this thought in many ways - that 'day will always come after night', or 'The rising wave always falls' or 'after a bad patch, good times will always come again'. 
It is not without reason that Lord Krishna once told his cousin Arjuna 'WHENEVER evil raises its vile head, I will REAPPEAR on Earth to RESTORE peace'. 
This reminds me of my school days. When I joined my higher secondary school, my father took me to the school office. At the entrance to that small room, the clerk's table was kept. the wall behind it bore a text poster that said, 'Only Change is Permanent'. The clerk sitting there told us that he was the one who stuck the poster there. As if bearing testimony to it, he also told us that he was just transferred to another school somewhere