flame

We were all born joyful. Not only that; as children, we always did things to bring us enjoy. Nobody taught us to do so, isn't it true? It is only as we grow old we become unhappy. Is it because we get old? Not really. It is because we do things that make us unhappy. And how do we do them? Based on what others taught us about what to do and what not to do in life, isn’t it true? If it is so, isn't it undoubtedly clear that to get back that joy we are all born with, all we need to do is unlearn whatever we have learnt so far and believed to be true? Of course yes. Then the question that comes to our mind is: "How about wealth?" Again, the answer is: When you unlearn all futile ways of making money, your inborn intelligence makes wealth happen; you do almost nothing. When existence has sent you here with a life, do you think it can fail to provide in you the ability to make a living? This is why we are planning, as part of our activities, a weekly interactive session called “The weekly wash," -- a cleansing process followed by Q & A sessions on every Friday.

"In a situation like this we studying, working hard and making more and more money in the name of success is dangerous. It is dangerous not just for ourselves but for others around too. It is like a sleepwalker getting a motor car to drive. Our urgent mission therefore, is to make sure that when we get knowledge or money in our hands, it works for us, not against us. Once we do this, the money, power, facilities and the technology which are fueling our  misery right now, will obviously nourish our prosperity and joy and turn this planet into a paradise. And there is absolutely no need to waste our life working. If not, it won't be very long before the same power, facilities and technology and our fulfilled dreams that we call 'success' put an end to life here. No matter how 'positive' we get, how many patch-up solutions and 'management and motivation tools' we invent or how many jails, hospitals and schools we build. They will only make the end faster," alerts Mr. P.K. Swamy, founder of THE FLAMETREE.

To fuel the fire, there are many celebrities, neurotic philosophers, motivators, books, seminars, media, and our educational system today. Instead of addressing people’s self-defeating dreams they blatantly motivate people especially youngsters to dream 'big'. When people are hit by their own fulfilled dreams, all they get from these “motivators” are some social aspirin, surface counselling, positive mental attitude (PMA) stress management, personality development and many such quick-fix techniques. These patch up “solutions” are just momentary painkillers. They never address the underlying cause of people’s pain. In fact, they only nourish it. Why would the motivators and counsellors or their solutions address what they thrive on?

Does success bring suffering? Of course not. Knowledge and money which we refer to as success is power--plain power and facilities. No doubt it is a great tool to prosper. But people instead of using it to prosper they are using it to suffer and killing themselves in two ways.

• They complete a course, go get a job or self-employed only to make the rich richer. They don’t know a job is a “less for more” game.
• With the money they make they go and buy financial traps, labelled and sold in the market as "luxury" in the name of fulfilling their dreams again to make only the rich richer. Obviously, the more they study, work hard and make money, the more dreams they fulfill and the deeper they hurt themselves, financially as well as emotionally. To heal that hurt, they hurt others, turn to drugs, violence and so forth.

In the past, life was less miserable and less violent because we were not as successful before as we are today. We could not make as many dreams come true those days as we do today for want of science and technology and access to easy money. Thank goodness the world still exists today because part of it is still illiterate, lazy, poor, failures… and their dreams have not "come true" yet.