Nectar, def. 1555, from L. nectar "drink of the gods," from Gk. nektar, which is said to be a compound of nek- "death" + -tar "overcoming." Meaning "sweet liquid in flowers" first recorded 1609.
The above definition invokes a lot of curiosity.... has nectar ever existed on the earth? Can there be really a drink which can turn a mortal into immortal? Can I or someone else get it? Or was it just a symbol? I have found all the thinking in the direction to answer these questions futile. However I have still found an aswer to this question. Yes a mortal can achieve immortality, but not in the sense we think about mortality. We think mortality means living for endless number of years and enjoying the pleasures of earth. But will you be able to truly enjoy this kind of mortality? One such character who was really able to enjoy this kind of mortality was Bhishma or Devavrata in Mahabharata scripture. It doesn't matter whether such character really walked on this earth or not. What matters is that depiction of this character is so accurate that if such character would have really existed on this earth, he would never have had a better life than Bhishma. Going through the agony of watching not only all your siblings,relatives, friends and generations after generations die in front of you - is not it really pathetic?
But still a man can get immortality. An immortality, which he can get by drinking the nectar of life - just as Gandhi, Lincoln, Benjamin and many others did. All of these people were just ordinary people like us, but with only one distinction - the vision to make life better. This vision is all that made the difference. The difference which gave them immortality over the mortal men, and which enabled them to overcome death. But can vision alone make this difference and make you immortal? Even I have a vision and you surely also have a vision and this applies for most of thers also. We all have some visions at various scales. It can be anything, for example, getting a good job after college. But can you and I became immortals? these people had something more than just vision - the "desire of execution" to fulfill it and "dedication to execute". We all have desire to execute our vision, but still many people die with their vision in their eyes. What they all lack is the dedication to do something to make this vision a reality. Great people make their visions reality, and once a vision is fulfilled it leads to next vision. They are in execution race, while the other people are stuck in the "rat race" of working, spending, working harder, spending more and so on. All the while these people stuck in the "rat race" give the excuse of not having enough resources (time, money, qualification, manpower etc) to think or do something about fulfilling their vision. Their pet phrase is "when I have more..." (time/money/qualifiction). Can you think Gandhi could have been successful if he had said "when i have more money, I will take the risk of going into struggle". So this is what made these great people really great - vision, desire to execute, and dedication to execute.
But is it sufficient to qualify as nectar of life?
