Couldn't do without sharing this part of a beautiful story I read this morning;
“…climbing a Himalayan mountain in search of a Swamiji seemed like
a task. To climb up the mountain was not his kind of activity yet facing all
those hustles, difficulties and extremities was surely worthy enough against
the quest of knowing the answer to his question, to which he has been in search
all this while. As informed by a few, he was asked to greet the Swamiji in a
certain way of bowing down in front of him.
Alas! When he reached that part of the mountain where Swamiji was
sitting in his meditativeness… he bowed to him in the way explained, to which
the Swamiji opened his eyes and blessed him. Looking at his worn-out
condition then, Swamiji asked, “What has got you here?”
With utmost precipitation and excitement the man (in a
hurried state with several thoughts rushing into his head) finally could
ask his question , “Swamiji, please tell me what is life?”.
By the way this man aged 60… weird that he was
asking this question at 60… it should have been asked when he was 6 or may be
16, anyway better late than never.
Swamiji replied with a blissed smile and sparkled joy in his eyes
saying, “Life is a gentle breeze with pleasant scent of jasmine having
sparkling dew drops on it!”
This man was baffled with such an answer and said, “But back in my
town all these years I was always told that life is like wretched thorns…”
To that Swamiji, in his response said, “Well then that is what
their life was about.”
Indeed true.
To experience LIFE is as simple and joyous as it is to live in it.
But then an attempt to understand life is made and the difficulty begins. All of a sudden it becomes painful like those wretched thorns.
But then an attempt to understand life is made and the difficulty begins. All of a sudden it becomes painful like those wretched thorns.
Well
if it’s so simple then why don’t we do it the simple way.
Guess, the simplicity is certainly hijacked by the Monotony into everything and anything... happening around
us. And surprisingly we also refrain to outgrow from it.
It’s in our face on daily basis; that on a certain day we be like ‘we are
rolling in hay’ and on other days ‘be in a huff and sulk the way all along’. If the blame
game had to be played; infinite contingencies can be inferred to. And if at all
you were to take charge of yourself on this note, the reason and solution is
none other than just ‘YOU'.
It’s
equally interesting and confusing at the same time.
To add
to it the dramatic shift of choices and chances shall just
continue forever and ever... And Of-course that isn't a big deal.
About time this debate between the choices and chances is unwarily
ongoing.
However I know that I have definitely managed to reach somewhere than being lost.
However I know that I have definitely managed to reach somewhere than being lost.
Just trying to make sure to be the CHOICE that I would choose to adorn
so far. And take-up all the CHANCES them I wished had never given a pass (also I do drop a few of them, the chances which surely are unworthy of taking up ).
It’s eventually all about why and why not?
Repeating it again, LIVE it up! Definitely it’s
never you who would find life while searching for it, but its life that hits
you hard while you are unknowingly in a fix of fixing-up your own damn
thing.
In my case, I’m surely trying to fix up a few situations and would
never give up on my side of search until life dares to confront me!!
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