Well, before I could even post the second part of this series I came to know that the guy I had saved that day in the accident, died yesterday.
But somehow it did not even register in my system. Detachment can work wonders in your life at times. Come to think of it now, maybe he was supposed to die that day itself. Or maybe I was destined to give him 20 extra days to live. Who knows? But this is not about him, is it? I am supposed to tell you what I learnt, what revelations came to me?
Well it’s crazy, but as I was traveling in the mountains on a bike, I saw a lonely try, by the end of the road. And somehow it got me to think of how many travelers must have passed him by. How many people must have seen it, and not cared about it. How many people must have stopped to take a leak right on top of it? How many storms this tree would have stood by? But at the core of it, did it feel sad about it all? Did this tree even care about people passing by it and never caring about it. Well, you can say that tree does not have feelings, like we humans have, but how can some thing so beautiful, so profound not have feelings? I don’t think so that can be.
My answer to this dilemma was that nature created everything perfect and complete in itself. But somehow down the line, we humans have "Degraded". We depend too much on other people for opinion. We get hurt when they go out of our life. We care too much about our surrounding, never nourishing the inner garden that we have. We were created in total perfection but somehow we forget that. We manage to do that. Anyways these are only my crazy thoughts. You do not have to agree with them.
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I fully agree to the revelations that you have had. You have gone a step forward towards your 'enlightenment'. Even the 'Buddha' has talked about 'detachment'.
I guess, the whole issue is keeping the 'centre of gravity' of your happiness within yourself and not looking elsewhere (outside sources) for happiness. Anything outside of you that gives you happiness is only momentary and will pass away eventually. But when you are at ease with yourself and happy and content from within, you are not dependent...and when you are not dependent, you are free and when you are free, YOU ARE HAPPY!!
That is the bottom line (FREEDOM)...Afterall it's a human being's birth right. See, human beings are actually born to be free and happy! Attachments, selfish bondings and inability to 'let go' binds them and creates all the 'SUFFERING'...
Be free and be happy... :)
wow, Monica i love your comments. seriously i will continue writing as long as i keep getting comments like these
Yes, human beings yearn for love and caring. However, there is a very thin line between ‘loving’ and ‘possessing’. Many a times what we human beings think is ‘love’, is actually a desire to ‘own’ or ‘possess’ (remember people saying: MY this, MY that, That’s MINE….). Again, an innate craving for our ‘own happiness’ thinking that if we possess that one, we will be happy.
What I meant in my earlier write-up about keeping the centre of gravity of our happiness within ourselves was, not to try to ‘possess’ anything outside of us and letting go that outside source of happiness once they pass away. Because anything outside our own body is not ours. It belongs to that other one, who is free to leave.
Yes, do love, nurture, care, admire and praise what you love but do not try to keep it to yourself….set it free….that is the highest kind of love. Unconditional love…a love that only seeks happiness for the other one and expects nothing in return. It’s divine. And it exists…though not everyone can experience that, because that needs undoing all the knots, releasing all bonding and SETTING FREE. It’s not easy. And anything worthwhile is not easy to achieve. In fact unconditional and free love brings more than conditional bonding.
And to practise all these one need not ‘leave one’s family’…or go to the jungles to detach oneself. It’s just simple: GIVE WITHOUT EXPECTING and LOVE WITHOUT THE URGE TO POSSESS! That is, give yourself the freedom!!
what we are talking about here is "Nirvana". And i guess that i have to agree with "Its me" here. if you people really want to figure out what i am talking about you have to Read "siddhartha" by hermen hess or probably "Alchemist" by Paulo cohelo. the thing is Unconditional Love is a point which has to be reached. But we are so caught up in our daily lives and issues, that we really do not strive to get their. Before our times people used to get so attached to just one cause in their lives and they used to touch perfection. Maybe in the field of science, medicine, or maybe yoga n all. But oday our concentration spans have decreased so much that we just cannot concentrate on one thing at a time. We call it "Multi Tasking". so then, how can we hope to reach so perfect as Nirvana
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