The QUEST

The QUEST, the most important word human civilization can ever know. The QUEST to get some thing that can make us more powerful was the mantra of world’s greatest civilization and it is still the same. Here I tried to compare the QUEST of two greatest emperors world had ever known. Both lived within a span of some 100 years, many centuries before Christ. (Alexander 321BC, Ashoka 263BC)
Alexander came from very far some 2300 years ago and conquered great part of earth at a very early age and he reached at the banks of river Indus and its tributaries only to return back to his new capital of Babylon. The unconquerable was not able to conquer his destiny and he was not able to see his native land, the land from where he came and destroyed the greatest empire of Persia world has ever seen. But what he had achieved in his quest, a great empire which was prone to be destroyed by Sandracattus and later Persian kings.
Ashoka, world’s greatest emperor was a son of a not so great emperor Bindusara. He also had a feeling of QUEST like Alexander, and he did the same but Ashoka was very fortunate to realize the ultimate aim of the life. After the infamous battle of Kalinga he gave up everything and adopted the mantra of Buddham Sharnam Gachhami.
As it is very clear both wanted to conquer the whole world by power and they were quite successful in their aims but not fully successful. One was stopped by his own death and the other was stopped by others death. Life is too short to conquer the world by sword. One can only conquer by love and wisdom and later Ashoka did the same.
So the world should make QUEST of winning the world by love not by shear power. History has given us such a beautiful example in Asoka and Alexander and will go giving such example of QUEST.