“There is nothing permanent in life except change,” said philosopher Heraclitus. Others
have called change or variety as ‘the spice of life’. So, changes (shuffle or reshuffle) in the
government from time to time should come as no surprise to anyone, though changes in
the political arena are often viewed with suspicion.
Change is in the very nature of being. Every new day is different from the previous day.
Body metabolism is one such process as also growth of trees and revolving of planets.
Tides come and go. Sometimes a whole river changes its course as was the case with the
Saraswati.
The great insight of the enlightened, Gautam the Buddha, was the everything that is, will
change and the changed will change further. Hence, one must neither get attached to joy
(happiness) because that will pass away; nor get depressed with sorrow (suffering) because
that too will pass away. Nothing is really permanent in this world.
Changes can be categorized under two main types. Changes that take place in nature we
have little or no control over. We cannot, for instance, switch the time of tides, which
anyway, wait for no one. The other kind of change is the one we witness either in political,
social or other fields including the area of personal life. These are changes over which one
can exercise some degree of control, changes which can be guided by oneself or others.
As far as our human and particularly Indian society is concerned, there are so many things
