Water
has complete freedom to flow. It flows downwards, seeps through narrow recesses,
rises up a little under capillary action or rises up to any height if forced
under pressure from a reservoir at even a greater height. In short, it
exercises its ‘complete freedom’ subject to the natural law of gravitational
attraction of physical bodies. Its freedom is its ability and the natural law,
it obeys, is its discipline.
Water may flow for miles and miles, maybe, ultimately to fall
into a huge reservoir of water in the form of a sea. It can flow in the form of gigantic rivers
between its banks that it naturally encounters or carves them out to give it a
direction. Its ability to gain energy and enhance its internal energies allows
it to change its state into vapour, to evaporate and float with other particles
and molecules of air, ultimately to condense into water droplets in the cloud
to come back under the gravitational pull of the earth, and once again, to flow
with the river. It can lose its internal energy if its surroundings need it and
can convert itself into ice at the cost of surrendering its freedom to flow,
for the benefit of its immediate surroundings. When its immediate surroundings
retrieve their usual energies, they happily give it back to the water that is
lying still in the form of ice. The ice melts and the rivers recommence their
respective journeys to give life to billions and billions of living beings.
Is freedom a sacred creative ability that follows the laws of
universal existence? Many of us worship rivers; but, do we honour the ultimate
knowledge of universal existence that the rivers, believed to have no life,
deliver to us, flowing with a musical ripple of eternal freedom, day in and day
out, till they dry up, maybe, to take rebirth from a different spring?
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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