Times immemorial children have been taught to adjust/compromise/be judicious… Never have the Generations failed to pass on the legacy of advices, the most common and repetitive being- one has to adjust in life, make a lot of compromises and everyone does not get everything, so on and so forth…
And education and peer just strengthened the lesson; of course the experience of life reiterates this fact all the time, thereby making it a part of our belief system, unshakeable and unchangeable for centuries to come.
Wake up; let us do a reality check!!! It is a world, rather a universe, of abundance and not of scarcity. Every available (and non-available yet perceivable) thing is there, and will be there in plenty, literally forever. I mean sunlight will be there till the time we need it, plants will, for eternity, give out oxygen, rains will always balance out the heat received by a region over a period of time.
Hold on, this definitely does not mean we become complacent and do not respect these things. Apparently, these require the greatest respect and humble gratitude from our side, a constant reminder to self, as these being indispensable and hence their prime importance. People come and go and human beings adjust to reality sooner or later but can we actually imagine a world without sunlight? Oxygen?!! Nah…
Probably it is this attitude of “taken for granted” that a constant fear has been fed in our mind of resources being scarce. But awareness tells an entirely different story.
In the world of today, it is obviously required to be judicious- judicious with usage of water, oil etc for they might run out and the generations to come would just hear them as mere words in stories as we do of the Empire and wealth of our Bharat.
Also, let us peep through emotions. What is that which is scarce? Don’t we have enough love to give to all around us? Is love as an emotion scarce? I don’t think so. We are an ocean of love, what is required is to uncover the veil of the mental blocks and love people and all around us all over again. Is it that difficult? Perhaps not… we have become too sacred to love, for the fear of losing the other self or at times, even ourselves. Often we heard people saying, don’t laugh too much, for you will have to cry soon- is life that unfair!? Are we trying to put Newtons’ Third Law in practice here- Every Action Has an Equal and Opposite Reaction!! I mean how? We have deep rooted fear of the theory- life would balance out and since we have had our share of joys, we would have to face sorrows as well.
Perhaps sadness and its’ experience is important for our soul to grow and mature to the next level but definitely, it is not because sadness follows happiness.
Happiness is in abundance and knows no boundaries; all that is required is an open heart, with non-interrupting brain, to enjoy the finer things of life and the emotions to being a living being.
Come, let’s plunge into the pool of happiness, love, gratitude without the fear of drowning…
Monday, September 21, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
MOON- SIFAR SE SIFAR TAK… FROM NIL TO FULL
Moon and its romance have always fascinated me. We can talk till either of us is visible. :-) I can keep my eyes on it the entire night and no even the brightest star can take my attention away… such beauty this little circle has.
It happened to be a full moon night when I was searching for my dear friend and it caught my attention in a split of a second. Actually, I didn’t need to search for it even! It was right there, waiting for me, to have a look, to talk to it, to appreciate its’ flawless beauty... It was a full moon, with no part missing, making it a complete circle, as if drawn perfectly with a compass by a Professor of Geometry! ;-)
To add to its’ beauty was the aura surrounding it, protecting it from running away on its way to romance or from being hid as the dawn approaches… the aura made it all inclusive. It was one of the most wonderful sights for any eye. With the arrogance of a princess and an innocence of a child, it stood tall lighting the entire world…
The following night, it was not to be seen anywhere. It seemed as if the veil of darkness roofed it as well. After a full bloom, it chose to hide itself. It became a dark moonless night, a night where the stars lost their shimmer and refuse to shine in the absence of their lover. So strange, a moon doesn’t even have a light of its’ own and yet has the capability to lit the whole sky and the star, in spite of having their own luminosity, could not match up to that of the moon.
Starting day two, just an iota is seen. It seems as if it is playing hide and seek. It can feel it is being missed and like a naughty child, refuses to come but is looking from a corner and enjoying the scene where it is looked for…
A crescent is finally here. Slowly and gradually, it is a quarter of its’ size now. Well, a reduced size definitely doesn’t mean reduced beauty! It still looks splendid and give glows like a teenager’ face when she falls in love the first time. ;-)
Similar to a natural growth process, from a crescent; it becomes a semi-circle. It has completed half its’ journey and is in no hurry to reach its’ destination, for it knows the destination is just the beginning of another journey…
It takes its’ own time to grow and is nurtured well by the Space। Slowly but surely it gets to the full circle again, but not even for a moment, it compromises on its’ beauty and it takes no shortcuts to reach the personification of serenity. Unlike us- in a hurry always; forever running; it looks even if Heavens stop us; we would ignore and run, run and run. I am not really sure, run towards or away…
The magnificence of this full moon is definitely the best moment of its’ life, so glorious and attractive, such awe-inspiring yet so humble and calm…
It completes the voyage of being nil to being full in a short span of time and then starts off again, sooner than we even wake up in our lives…
P.S. - for people in Delhi, NCR, take your loved one on a drive to NH8 on a full moon night and enjoy- it shares the story of its’ love as you romance… Carpe diem ;-)
It happened to be a full moon night when I was searching for my dear friend and it caught my attention in a split of a second. Actually, I didn’t need to search for it even! It was right there, waiting for me, to have a look, to talk to it, to appreciate its’ flawless beauty... It was a full moon, with no part missing, making it a complete circle, as if drawn perfectly with a compass by a Professor of Geometry! ;-)
To add to its’ beauty was the aura surrounding it, protecting it from running away on its way to romance or from being hid as the dawn approaches… the aura made it all inclusive. It was one of the most wonderful sights for any eye. With the arrogance of a princess and an innocence of a child, it stood tall lighting the entire world…
The following night, it was not to be seen anywhere. It seemed as if the veil of darkness roofed it as well. After a full bloom, it chose to hide itself. It became a dark moonless night, a night where the stars lost their shimmer and refuse to shine in the absence of their lover. So strange, a moon doesn’t even have a light of its’ own and yet has the capability to lit the whole sky and the star, in spite of having their own luminosity, could not match up to that of the moon.
Starting day two, just an iota is seen. It seems as if it is playing hide and seek. It can feel it is being missed and like a naughty child, refuses to come but is looking from a corner and enjoying the scene where it is looked for…
A crescent is finally here. Slowly and gradually, it is a quarter of its’ size now. Well, a reduced size definitely doesn’t mean reduced beauty! It still looks splendid and give glows like a teenager’ face when she falls in love the first time. ;-)
Similar to a natural growth process, from a crescent; it becomes a semi-circle. It has completed half its’ journey and is in no hurry to reach its’ destination, for it knows the destination is just the beginning of another journey…
It takes its’ own time to grow and is nurtured well by the Space। Slowly but surely it gets to the full circle again, but not even for a moment, it compromises on its’ beauty and it takes no shortcuts to reach the personification of serenity. Unlike us- in a hurry always; forever running; it looks even if Heavens stop us; we would ignore and run, run and run. I am not really sure, run towards or away…
The magnificence of this full moon is definitely the best moment of its’ life, so glorious and attractive, such awe-inspiring yet so humble and calm…
It completes the voyage of being nil to being full in a short span of time and then starts off again, sooner than we even wake up in our lives…
P.S. - for people in Delhi, NCR, take your loved one on a drive to NH8 on a full moon night and enjoy- it shares the story of its’ love as you romance… Carpe diem ;-)
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