Cycle of Life and the Long Life
Maha Brahma (really his assistant) tells me that he has an old story to relate.
It goes on like this with some global modification by me to stand to reason for the modern world.
One day an
earthling has come to visit him for his next round of birth as a human.
He looked at his CV and offered him five years of life to the said
being.
He was thoroughly dissatisfied with the offer. So the Maha Brahma
asked him to stay for a while so that he could offer him some bonus
deals.
In real life
most of the beings in the lower world except pigs (I come to that point
later) refuse his offer and go for a lower life cycle than what is
offered by the all almighty, so the Brahma can hand over any left over
to any earthly being as a bonus.
In a little
while another earthling came for his share in the life cycle. Maha
offered him 15 years as a dog. Dog was not happy to take this offer and
Maha said that he has to take a minimum of five years that he offers to
all humans and asked why he declined the offer.
He said as a
dog even though one is very faithful, he only gets left over food and dog
food is really dog food and the garbage is no better.
Brahma promptly offered the balance to the human being making his life cycle 15 years and he was still not happy.
Then another
earthling came and he was offered 25 years as a bull. Without batting
an eyelid he refused the offer and went for the lower limit (minimum) of
five years.
His grouse was he has to work every day of the week and
after all that when he is weak the human offer him to the slaughter
house and it is not a pleasant ending.
Maha did not have any regrets and he gave the balance to the human being making his life 35 years. He was still not happy.
Then the
third in the line of earthlings came for his godly offer. Maha offered
him a choice that he could have 25 years as a village pig and said that
there is no guarantee that he could live up to the maximum.
Pig
requested a lower regime and Maha offered him 1 to 5 years. One year as a
domestic pig or 5 years as a wild boar.
He went for the latter offer
knowing very well the outcome of the former life (slaughter house within
a year).
Maha offered him the balance 20 years to the man making his life time 65 years but he was still not happy.
Then came the last of the earthling for the day and he offered 40 years as a bat.
But the bat asked why 40 years.
He said you do night duty when all other earthlings are having a good snooze and so “it is a bonus” Maha said.
But bat said it is not a fun standing upside down the whole day and seeing the world upside down.
Maha said the whole world is upside down anyway and what you are seeing is the real world.
But the bat
was not convinced he went for a lesser time of five years and Maha
offered the balanced to the man who was quite pleased with 100 years.
When he was about to leave the Maha told him my friend you are going to live only five years as a real human being.
How come the man asked?
Now child you will live as a child for five years.
Then the next five years you live like a dog always faithful to your parents, to elders and teachers.
Then the next 20 years till 35 years you will live like a bull doing all the dirty donkey work for your family.
Next 20 years you like live like a pig eating all the rubbish the world has to offer.
The last 35
years you live like a deaf, dumb and a blind man and seeing the world
going upside down right in front of you and you a ready for the dustbin
any moment after 65 years.
Man asked why didn’t you tell me this?
You never asked, the Maha Brahma replied.
Now I come to my late discovery and hope somebody would propose me for the Nobel Prize in psychoanalysis.
This
actually should go to Piaget but he did not publish this in his time
(found in his possession as crumbled notes) fearing that if he published
it then he would have been sent to the dustbin of history with all his
previous writings.
My adaptation of his psychoanalytical theory goes little further than Piaget assumed it to be.
1. Up to 5 years Concrete Operational
2. 5 to 15 years Formal Operational
3. 15 to 35 years Formal but non Functional
4. 35 to 65 years Non operational
5. 65 to 100 years Concrete (Complete) non Operational
In another way of putting the facts of life is as follows.
1. Up to 5 years Ego
2. 5 to 15 years Accelerating Ego
3. 15 to 35 years Decelerating Ego
4. 35 to 65 years Non Ego
5. 65 to 100 years No Ego
When this theory is applied in a scientific way to politics and science what is revealing is fantastic.
Politicians
The
politicians also go through the child stage and the dog stage up to
about 15 years and having achieved nothing in this period he would go to
the stooge stage abruptly (Formal but non Functional Stage) and
becoming subservient to his political masters.
At 35 years he goes to the Killer Stage.
By default according to my latest analysis (Non Operational Brain Stage)
at this stage they do not get any new ideas and subside on others ideas
for survival (for example All Party Conferences).
This stage they start killing other’s ideas within the same party and if they cannot do that they physically eliminate them.
Then they
turn to the opposing parties and start abusing and eliminating them
until they culminate in coming to the helm by hook or by crook.
The final
culmination of all the hard work and they become the rulers (The
President or Prime Minister) without any new ideas or common sense (Mr.
Blair and Mr. Bush were examples).
They project all ideas of the others as their own and Mr. Reagan was an example and was a very good actor at that.
Scientists
Coming to Scientists they go through the Discovering Stage (rather learning) up to 35 years.
Then they go to the Discovered Stage.
They do some hard work and at the end they find all these have been already discovered by others.
Having
discovered this fact at a later stage of their career they have no urge
for living and die prematurely at around 65 years of age (looking for a
better life next time).
Buddhist way of Analysis
Lord Buddha and Buddhists analyze this in a subtle way.
It is easy to analyze this in modern Banking Terms.
There are only three stages.
1. Deposit Account Stage from birth to 15 years – Kusala Kamma (KK for short)
2. Current Account Stage from 15 to 35 years – Kusala Akusala Kamma (KAK for short)
3. Overdraft Stage from 35 to the end – Akusala Kamma Stage (AK or all Kusala consumed)
Then the Brahma takes over and recruits them to the Animal Kingdom again.
It is strange that AKD has become the President of Ceylon.
Is it his Akusala Kamma?
So many promisesa that cannot be accomplished.
His choices and picks have no overrule in life and matters.
The life cycle begins again with fresh vigour.
