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.
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And finally we have another completely Chintamani-ishtyle post!
ReplyDeleteThis post, like most others of yours, compels one to think what on earth we are doing, and why we are doing it. Our daily crises and setbacks and surprises seem all so trifle when we look at ourselves from afar.
And then I wonder what exactly this "time" is. What is the past, any more than a collection of images, which could very well (even scientifically) be altered? What is the future, but another projection of images? All we can be sure of is the present. Good old cogito ergo sum stuff.
Having said that, isn't it plain stupidity to judge ourselves based on these images, what we call "past", and then affect our present? Or ruin our present moods (and therefore activity and output) based on a part selection of the set of images that we call "future", or "worries"? I say ruin, because almost everyone seems to prioritize attending to the unpleasant images over the pleasant and inspiring ones.
Let us manipulate our past and use it to inspire ourselves to make the most of today, thereby delivering better images to chew on in future. So that we always stay on the pleasant side of the silken net.
But the main question is - why did it take you till 7:30 AM to get started with this blog?