There have been times when we wanted to see
more, feel more, experience more and explore more. There are times when we want
to see less, feel less and experience less, but stay in peace with whatever
little that was beautiful in we had ever been able to gather. We do not stop
exploring. We stop exploring horizontally and begin going deeper into whatever
beautiful we gathered. I think, this happens very naturally to us if we remain
settled in our simplicity and honesty.
At
some point of time we may learn that the quantity of the unknown is not
relevant, it is the quality of the known that matters. Some say, there are many
ways to reach to that point; some others say there is one and only one path. I
think the thing of the most crucial importance is how genuine we are in our
intent and approach. We, the limited ones in every sense, are surrounded by
unlimited queries, whether genuine or planted, and their answers, and the never
ending sprouting of theories. We are also pampered by many by reminding us of
our infinite potential. The funny part is that those, who lure us with the thought
of something infinite in us, are as limited in their abilities as we are. We
are not here to shift the planet Mars in place of Venus and to shift Venus in
place of Mercury. Such, definitely, is not the purpose of our life.
The
purpose of our life is also not just ‘being’, as many suggest. With all the
abilities we have been granted without our asking for it, we are not here just
to ‘be’ like some show pieces. Perhaps, after exploring what is ‘wonderful’ and
‘beautiful’ in what we have been able to know, not alone, but, collectively, we
have to settle down in peace with ourselves and the others, to pave the way for
proceeding further in the matters of meaning and purpose of our lives. For the
time being, perhaps, the purpose of our life is to silence the cacophony and to
reduce the turmoil that surrounds us. Creating a congenial environment around
us, in no way interferes with our efforts towards finding the meaning and
purpose of our life, and thereby exploring the truth. Just as we all, by
nature, cannot become petty thieves or hardened criminals, we all, cannot
exclude the world that surrounds us and go the peaceful Himalayas, without
carrying the cacophony and turmoil to the Himalayas with us.
It
is too early to conclude that it is an incorrigible world.
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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