Assurance & Insurance
SRI NIMISHANANDA
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Hope eggs us on. How else could we face life's ups and downs?
Daily , we come face-to-face with joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, success and failure, acceptance and rejection, birth and death. Yet, we do try to be cheerful, hoping that something good is going to happen that will make life more meaningful, ushering in happiness and peace. Even though nothing is assured, we go on with life, taking this assurance for granted.We promise people that we will meet them on a particular date and generally give assurances.Sometimes we do tend to think, “What if something goes wrong?“ When this sudden negative thought occurs, based on assumptions and presumptions, we tend to find ways to insure ourselves against each and everything, including our very life. Ironically , we create a paradox. On the one hand, we confidently give assurances for tomorrow and for months ahead. On the other hand, we are strongly motivated to take an insurance cover for almost everything including life as if tomorrow is uncertain.
We pay high premiums and stay poor so that after we die, our heirs can benefit. Scriptures talk about how to use our body , mind and soul to achieve prosperity , peace, contentment, acceptance, wisdom and eternal bliss. Sages assure us that all of us have a divine, immortal soul. No `insurance' can give us such an `assurance'.This knowledge assures us and fills us with confidence and faith and acts as insurance against fear and disbelief.
Daily , we come face-to-face with joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, success and failure, acceptance and rejection, birth and death. Yet, we do try to be cheerful, hoping that something good is going to happen that will make life more meaningful, ushering in happiness and peace. Even though nothing is assured, we go on with life, taking this assurance for granted.We promise people that we will meet them on a particular date and generally give assurances.Sometimes we do tend to think, “What if something goes wrong?“ When this sudden negative thought occurs, based on assumptions and presumptions, we tend to find ways to insure ourselves against each and everything, including our very life. Ironically , we create a paradox. On the one hand, we confidently give assurances for tomorrow and for months ahead. On the other hand, we are strongly motivated to take an insurance cover for almost everything including life as if tomorrow is uncertain.
We pay high premiums and stay poor so that after we die, our heirs can benefit. Scriptures talk about how to use our body , mind and soul to achieve prosperity , peace, contentment, acceptance, wisdom and eternal bliss. Sages assure us that all of us have a divine, immortal soul. No `insurance' can give us such an `assurance'.This knowledge assures us and fills us with confidence and faith and acts as insurance against fear and disbelief.
