“DESTINY HAS TWO WAYS TO RUIN YOU: BY DENYING YOU WHAT YOU WANT , OR GIVING IT TO YOU! ”

IFJ shares the views of thinking people, throwing them open for discussion, dissection, and analysis. in short, for you to think about and send in your own thoughts and responses. in this conversation, we share Amarnath's thoughts

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A Philosophical look at Luxury and Consumption Without its Intrinsic Need.

So where does sheer luxury fit into this in India? Is a stoic person with an inborn fakir’s denial of excess, a winner? Or is it an unabashed epicurean consuming till the senses are sick, the hero of our luxury market?

Both can be losers too.

The context is most important, after which comes the protagonist. One may believe at a certain point in one’s life that the living out of a certain experience is utterly vital to one’s existence. So one takes the most expensive cruise in the world. Or one may reason that a certain precious object is more important than the simple joys of the planet. So one buys the largest rock one can afford and places it on the ring finger of a beloved – of the moment.

But are both these truly intrinsic to human life, without which one can simply not exist? Why do millionaires land up in ashrams, seeking ‘the big quest beyond the material’ if their answers had come from these just temporarily necessary to make a certain point at one’s current state of evolution or to the circle of society in which one rises in the ladder of Maya – the illusion of possession and escalation?