I was thinking about how people today have lost the art of trusting in each other. We might all find ourselves fit for the job of a suspicion-ist ! Here's a nice quote I came across today, by Swami Sukhabodhananda, ‘A man was passing through the octroi post with a cycle and a pot full of mud. The octroi inspector inspected the pot, consulted his manual, discovered that mud was not in the schedule for revenue and let the cyclist proceed. The next day the same man came with his cycle and pot of mud and the octori inspector, convinced that something was amiss, inspected the pot and allowed the man to proceed. This happened daily. After the inspector retired, he asked the man what it was that he was smuggling in. The old man said “Cycles”. ’
We like the inspector, indulge in pettiness and miss out on the joys of life, the spirit of challenges and the fun in the simple things. We need to reorganise our lives so that each day we are able to add value in the areas of intimacy, family, work and spiritual life. We are wasting our energies in little unimportant issues which seem to be big and demanding urgent action. Being relaxed is not a crime, infact it helps one keep his mind and body calm. We think better and most importantly we tend to enjoy the little things in life. The only way our mind can help us follow our heart is when we listen to it in the first place and for that we need to believe in it. The education system helps our race to create perfectly suspicious mind and not an inquisitive one. We are taught thoroughly to be suspicious of every situation we face in life, that when things donot follow a set pattern we needed to be worried, we need to make sure that life runs smoothly without any deviation. But isn’t this all a crap theory!
We all know what happens would happen according to the creations of the higher supreme (ie,if you believe in the idea of someone living above you) so why not just ACCEPT things the way they are. Why do we kill our likings and joys to make the wasteful effort of keeping situations on line and plan for the worst! Arnt we loosing the time we could have spent enjoying and loving those changes in life, this newness life gave us and the opportunity to look at. Arnt we loosing the patience to look at the bigger picture instead of mastering the art of focusing on one and trying to preserve or resolve it as per the need be!!
My wish to grow and not just live, would surely bestow loads of trouble but the ‘journey’ would atleast make me happy about the fact that I ‘tried’. That I gave myself a fare chance to be relaxed and happy in my life. (As if following the heart is a criminal offence now-a-days) Lets make the effort to be bindas, and see how happy we and our loved ones around us, start feeling when we value their benefits 1st and our contentment next. Lets just stop worrying too much and start accepting what comes. Be relaxed to enjoy life.
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