Saturday, January 9, 2010

Let us have some pieces of peace!


Suppose one day you are crossing a nursery, you see a section where Tulsi seeds are being sold. You buy some of it thinking the multi utility. It's aroma will purify the atmosphere, it would be good for religious purpose, will be effective in cold cough and flu, once grown up it will strengthen immunity, keep away harmful germs and add soothing greenery to your home decor. You come home, plant the seeds in a brand new Vase. Into the pot, you add fresh mud from your garden, some water and wait patiently for it to grow. You shift places of the pot so that ample sun rays fall onto it and sprinkle water without fail. Gradually you begin being attached to it, considering it your creation. You wait for it to grow up patiently even forgetting about the good fruits of your labour that it may bear once fully grown up. You just wait and wait without any anticipation considering that now it has become your duty, a habit or a part of daily routine!

Suddenly one morning you wake up and see that the tender shoot and two leaves that mushroomed few days back from it, have developed a fungus. Due to it, the underlying greenery seems enveloped with dark patches. You try to remove the fungus with your fingers considering that its your own child like creation, you just indulge, touch it and try to remove the malignant disease.

In lieu you get an itching, you start scratching your fingers, hands and then, slowly this spreads to many of your body parts. You get irritated and in a flash, think to uproot and throw away the plant, then in second moment you remember all the hard efforts you had put in it, the underlying emotions and the dreams you have out of it. You think that you cannot detach yourself from it so easily, 'anything that you loved so dearly'. You can neither throw it away harshly, nor can you avoid the bad itching. you want to save your creation, something that you have nurtured with your own hands,yet you have no choice but to regret and do it away.
You just get scared, think , rethink and think again.
Your options have been so restricted. You are just disheartened. What would you do? you have no choices left!
You find your situation completely at loss but you can do nothing to eliminate it.


Now replace all "You" mentioned above with almighty who created you, "Tulsi seeds" with your true pure childhood and adolescence, "Fungus"= complexities and vices that you have let creep into your lives, "Itching"= problems.

How helpless that Almighty above must have been. His situation can be understood better now!

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