This too shall pass ..

Jai Gurudev,

To blog or not to blog : this has been the fuss for over a year now.And finally a very kutti (kutti is a tamil word which refers to small) incident drove me to write my first ever blog on net.

TOI has started a weekly supplement - Speaking tree. One of the Sundays there was a article titled " This too shall pass" . I had heard a similar story on one of the devotional channels, and somehow the words used in the article weren't apt. May be the author used the wrong words or may be I am digging too deep or again may be I have interpreted it incorrectly.I normally am not the kind of person who randomly corrects things, I prefer to remain silent .But when my brother sent a sms which quoted the key lines of the same story that Monday ( the very next day the article appeared; here I would like to mention that my brother normally does not send sms) I really could not ignore my urge to replace certain words in the story so as to convey more clearly what the author must have intended to say. But will also like to remind that all this comes from my limited knowledge about life. So please pardon me if I make some mistake.

During a happy period , "this too shall pass" must not make you sad. Similarly, during a tough phase of your life, "this too shall pass" must not simply make you happy. "This too shall pass" should remind you to mantain "equanimity" in victory as well as defeat, in happy times and also in the tough times, in all the extremes of life.

I am 27 now, and vividly remember last 10 years of my life. One thing that I have clearly observed is "nothing is permanent in life, except change" . Some changes are as per our wishes, some are against our whims. Forget about others, our opinions , our perceptions change with time.

It isn't easy to remind ourselves of "this too shall pass" during the difficult times & remain calm. But the fact of the matter is, we have to learn this sometime. We have no choice :)