Invitation

Good Morning !

It is 7:30 am  on a lazy Saturday as I am goaded to write, by a few crooks who really take time to read what I write. This is for them.

The weather has warmed a little even as we continue to wear a sweater or two waiting for summer to come. The birds around are particularly lavish in their “Good Morning” and other how-do-you-dos as I sit in my balcony to write to you. Well, they know it for sure that it is not only a Saturday morning but also the beginning of a long and cherished weekend.

A point in perspective would be that a beginning that usually seems so promising, an end that is always so much with in reach and a goal that is achieved in the mind’s eye, ere long we start working towards it. Such a thought promises us something we have always heard about in fairy tales and bed time stories …, "The Happily Ever After…”. A time and place where time is infinity for we may spend it to our liking and though we may most utilize it, we can be faster that the rate at which time is shrinking before we get to our goal.

Time is Shrinking here and now, between the thought and the action, between the idea and the execution…(T.S. Eliot??)…This is a genius of time it is most adept at concealing. Shrinking but never vanishing…

All of this boils down to the “when we were young…” perspective of the good souls who started with a lot of zeal and passion but non-essentials, misdirected actions stole more that the time devoted to them.

There is a fine silken net in time, not of time but in time…this silken net filtered their intentions and activities, where good intentions filtered out to infinity, the misdirected and misaligned activities, on account of the matter they are made of, could not pass to that Universe, the other side of the silken net where time is infinity, beautiful and ever-expanding, not because it undergoes a morphological change, but because each goal/intention aligned activity when realized adds to the infinity of time.

How relaxing it is to sit back and wish that all events fall in place so as to assist us to reach out to this other side of time where the soul potential is so stretched that time can be seen in perspective. But the truth being, events seldom fall in place to assist us, they may help but NOT assist, complement or flatter our expectations. And a couple of the untoward sorts, shatter confidence resulting in loss of perspective, weakening of the sense of goal and the other side of the Silken Net remains only that, the Other Side. We can see through it, we may see it all happening on the other side but now and henceforth promise to call it “things that could have been”. 

Good News is that it does not end here.

By nature, Nature is an optimist, it will, as says Paulo Coelho, keep sending you indications through Omens. Omens inspire as they talk of a higher Plan telling us what should be done, that our talents are important, it is necessary to use them at this point of time, NOW.

The decision to whether or not listen to the plan higher than us is entirely ours. We may dismiss the Omen and decide against our own happiness that the Right Time to complete the task is long past (BTW there is no Right Time to finish, whenever finished is the Right Time), thinking probably that too little can be now done. On the contrary, we may decide that we simply need to reach the other side of this Silken Net, where no time is too late and no task too big. That Universe where only out thoughts and actions can take us to. This silken net may explain as to why certain extremely talented people rise to popularity in a very short time only to be lost in the oblivion a little while later. Nature rewards persistence as written by the great poet T. S. Eliot

“The lot of man is ceaseless labour,

Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder,

Or irregular labour, which is not pleasant”

--------(Choruses from “The Rock”)

Persistence is the only way to build a consciousness so subtle that will easily glide over to the OTHER SIDE.

So I have written this spiel only to invite you to a discussion over a cup of tea, there on the other side, where I aspire to be, and I am only beginning….Let us meet then…everyday…and we may discover another finer net of divine silk threads, to make us aspire to greatness and infinity…Amen.