The First Step

The swift flow of live is taking our precious life by the second but we fail to see, wait and observe it. For a better tomorrow, we are constant moving today but in the process we are forgetting to live in the present. When we just stop for a moment and listen, there are a lot of key question that come up that needs to be answered.

The past few months has been a moment of great observation. One of the most interesting topic to observe is a human being – homo sapiens, their lifestyle, their needs, the desires, the quest. Just taking a step back to observe this microcosm will revel much more than just the external physical body. Not many people take time even to know who we really are.

The journey between birth and the end of birth is called LIFE. Even in this short journey that we have – people are constantly struggling – a struggle to have a roof on top of their head, a struggle to provide food, a struggle to fulfill their constant desire. Struggle and more struggle. The knowledge that we have is only limited to what we have learned until Now but what we learn beyond this could be confined by our knowledge of the past.

So who are we? Who am I? What is my reality? What is the TRUTH? What is my QUEST? Where is my LIBERATION?

The journey in search of this truth may take a day, may take months, may take years. Are we willing to take the first step in this journey? If there is a journey then where is the path?

The answer may not be in the place where we accept it to be in. Mind is the largest vessel there could be. It can hold Galaxies and universe, the stars and the planet and every thing that lies in it. It contains all answers and secrets to all there is to know. Yet there are certain secrets that has to be understood in the mind but has to be reveled in the heart.

Where the mind and the heart begins to work the journey that we call life has/is/ and can be filled with eternal happiness. One's reality is created by the self. The process of living is a mirror projection of the realities that we are constantly creating. Just an a simple example – A smile is received with a smile and a simple frown has a multiplied effect on those who receive it.

Our mind has to be entertained all the time and for that reason we seem to multiply ever thing, even our problems. When one start taking a step towards understanding there is no me or you, happiness and sadness, rich or poor, suffering and joy. There is JUST – IT IS......... Everything is relative. THE TRUE HAPPIENESS LIES IN SIMPLICITY.

“The more one has the more he has to loose and the more he has to loose – the more miserable there is for him to feel.”

The endless space of the mind constantly need information to be satisfied. When one is ready to take a step towards the ultimate truth, ask as much questions as you would like – not to someone but to yourself – and then allow yourself to swim in the vast ocean of your mind and understand and find your own reality and your own truth. Anything short of that is like feeling thirsty but waiting for someone to pour water in your mouth, when all you have to do is reach your hands out and drink.

Is it just a mystery or is there more?

There are a lot of things that happens in the world which seems to be a mystery. Are the unexplained phenomenon just an unrelated event or is there more to it than the eyes can see?

Sometimes we may not have a clue as to what is happening around them. Think about all the unexplained circumstances that has happened in your life and has it left you to wonder as to how and what just happened. I am not a person who does not believe miracles do happen but as I learn more - it makes me think other wise.

What one believes or not is one's personal opinion and experience but if there is an answer to a question one finds satisfaction but when there is no explanation then it becomes a mystery. When situation as such happens, we are left to thinking deeper and when we cannot answer it logically - a myth evolves.

A similar event happened recently. As a person who is aware there are ups and downs in the world we live in, many occurrences don't seem to surprise me. When something good happens I enjoy it and when something unpleasant happens, I take it as reminder and lesson but when people around me starts to link different chain of events and try to put logic in a situation which cannot be explained then I am left with thinking – did that have really happened?

Life can alter from one day to the other. Just a month ago, it seemed like none of the family members had their feet in the ground. There was excitement every where. There was a wedding in the house and people from both far and near were getting together and that too after a long time. The house was filled with excitement and an unlimited supply of laughter. Everyone were having a great time. Even when everyone returned back to their regular lives no one could stop talking about the good times everyone had.

I remember someone saying,”we were having so much fun, I hope nothing bad happens.” Now this statement was not meant to invite any negativity but there was a misfortune in the family. Less than a month after the wedding, One of our dear and loved one, got into a terrible accident. Just a few days later, the entire atmosphere seems to have changed. Faces that lit up with smiles transformed to surprised, confused and filled with sorrow. 

Every day thousands of people fall – either be it from a chair, the stairs, just slip on a banana peel, a puddle of water or just fall. The mind says when things are meant to happen they will but the heart is stuck with a question how could just a simple event like falling create such an unwanted tragedy? How could it?

It brings us back to this question – Or was it because we were having so much fun that this was bound to happen? Was there someone who was over looking us and couldn't stand us having such a wonderful time – brought this upon us?

Events like these leaves us with questions – questions which leaves a wide door for interpretations but no actual answers. Your logical mind might say this was just a coincidence but someone else would say otherwise...........