Re: [nukkad] Dowry

["Bharat Kapadia" <>]

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Dear Pankajbhai,

In the Bhagawad Gita, Krishna says that this material world is "dukhalayam - 
Asashwatam", meaning full of misery and impermanent.

We have been sent to this world because we were envious of Krishna. 
Especially this yuga, the age of Kali, Kaliyuga, is very dnagerous. It is 
the age of quarrel and hypocrisy. The human being in this world has the 
following defects:
(1) He has the propensity to lie and cheat
(2) He has the propensity to live like an animal: eating sleeping, mating 
and defending, four things that even lowly animals do.
(3) He has the propensity to forget Krishna and be deluded into thinking 
that he is the lord of all his possessions, wife, family, bank balance, etc.
(4) We are full of kama (lust), krodha (anger), lobha (greed) and moha 
(illusion).

Just think about it: Even little things like candy, oor sweets that we like 
are bad for our health and things we do not like, bitter or bland tasteless 
stuff is good for us.

When we lsut after the objects of sense gratification and do not achieve 
them, then we get angry. From anger, delusion arises. Thus, when men (boys) 
lust after material benefits that they could obtain from the prospective 
father-in-law, this dowry problem arises. I would like to narrate a personal 
incident. In my engineering college in Mumbai, I had my best friend who was 
from the Marwari Jain community. His father had a printing press and had 
three sons and four daughters. My frined told me that to get his four 
sisters married, his father and three brothers will have work day and night 
and they may still not be able to save the printing press, as it may have to 
be sold to pay the girls' dowries.

When every being in this world (man, woman, child) will think of every other 
living being as the son of God just like himself/herself, then only wrongs 
like dowries and their attendant crimes of bride burning will stop. I urge 
every nukkad member to please contemplate this in their thoughts. I am open 
for discussion, my email is given below.

Haribol,
Bharat Kapadia
meri_dak@hotmail.com





Pankaj bhai wrote:
>Sorry to hear about that, Aditi. As I am growing, becoming more responsible
>for myself, I am realizing how hard it is becoming to live in this world 
>and
>how hard it already has.

>But, I am starting to become a cynic
>myself--and when I hear about such crimes, how could I keep hope? I can't
>blame that professor for being cynical, neither do I the more mature 
>members
>in this list.


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