Being alive and relating: You may be alive, but are you living? It is possible to keep a person alive in coma for years on life support systems. However, that is not living. Rationally, to live your life, you need to relate to the world around. You cannot avoid relating as well as responding to the world. Relating oneself implies two factors: one is you, and the other is what/whom you relate to. The situation you are related is the world you confront and that keeps changing. Therefore, we can say that, of the two factors involved, the world you confront is inconstant and you, who confronts it is constant.

   In that case, it is essential to look into the ‘you’ that is constant. Is it totally constant?

  George Eliot had observed that “Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.” It then occurs that, we cannot sustain this constant nature since....