It is our need to be happy, to have a healthy life but more than
that it is the necessity to remain at peace with everything. Taking the analogy
from Zeroth law of thermodynamics, which states that when two bodies are in
equilibrium, third body in contact if in equilibrium with first body than it
has to be in equilibrium with the second body. If our body is at peace with our
soul, then anything which comes to us would be at peace.
Unfortunately Zeroth law talks only about the final state of
equilibrium- the eternal peaceful state. But it doesn't talk about the path
taken to achieve that. To our rescue comes in the First law of thermodynamics,
which talks about the balance of energy; give something, a part of it would be
consumed and the rest given out. The law balances out everything.
According to psychology, a person who smiles or laughs a lot, is
said to be unhappy deep inside. So basically, the person is giving out
happiness by consuming the pain. To quote a world-class example- is the most
beautiful Taj mahal! Everyone
appreciates its beauty and architecture; but no one talks about the workers
behind the magnificent structure that is said to be the embodiment of love. The
workers were poorly treated with their hands amputated by the emperor so that they
wouldn’t build such a beauty again.
Another example - when we say Gandhi was responsible for non-violence,
he was the winner; but at the cost of many lives. The list of examples is
umpteen. In all the examples, it can clearly be understood what the inputs,
outputs and consumed are.
Now let us look into the second law of thermodynamics, which
comprises of two statements, and each of the statement starts with, ''it is
impossible to ...'' . Briefly speaking about the first statement, it says, ''
it is impossible to work with a single reservoir''. Hence lays the importance of having a source
and sink.
From the above examples it is evident that source and sink go
hand in hand. The second statement of the law states that, '' it is impossible
to extract energy from low temperature to high temperature without doing any
work''.
People who ‘believe’ they are at peace are more vulnerable than
the ones who are actually at peace on a day-to-day basis. It is very easy for
the former ones to lose their so-called ‘peace’ due to minute things. The
latter ones are stronger in their personality and it takes a lot of effort to
change them or perturb them and it can’t happen all by itself.
The bottom line is that, to remain at peace and to enter the
real temple of peace we have to walk on the rubble of pain or suffering of self
or of anyone. So my query is how can such a person be at peace? Because those
things will follow us and we cant discard them. Our memories and thought won’t
let that happen.
Also, life or state of happiness is never an absolute entity. It
doesn’t exist by itself. So this means, we really can never be happy. Happiness
is just an illusion…!
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination .... #
Immanuel Kant.
