It's been months since I wrote something here.
Life's been busy. But has been nice. Many good things happened -- Ankur did the basic course, we had Guruji's Darshan , Roopal got formally hooked.
Life is something that completely amazes me. Life & Nature appear to be same to me. It makes me realize how foolish we all are (most of us, except of course for a few like Guruji). We try to plan each day to perfection and during this planning we make this basic assumption that the next day everything will remain the same. That the next morning when we get up we'll be physically,mentally and emotionally as good as we are then. Isn't this strange? For someone who is in control of himself & his circumstances to be so sure of his tomorrow , makes perfect sense. But for ordinary mortals like us !! Yes , life amazes me ; it's power to break into pieces my assumptions ; it's power to destroy and rebuild!
I get up one morning , making up plans for the week, cribbing about how hectic the previous day was (because I had to attend a late night party & get up for offfice early) and even before I begin work for the day I am informed that a close relative of mine has a possibility (though faint) of being suffering from cancer. I had to wait for 3 days for the test to be done & report to come. And life shows it's power to me. Those 3 days all my plans are blown off. I feel how good that day was when I attended the party. How good an average day is when we just follow a daily routine.
All what I could do was to pray to GOD who I know is, but never know what plans HE has. A report result would change everything , it can either restore my average normal life or introduce me to the hardships of a family fighting cancer of one of its members. I could just WAIT!!!
No, this is not the first time I felt so. As far as I can go back in time, a similar (though very superficial as compared to the one above) feeling arose in me when I had watched Titanic. A ship was considered to be unsinkable sank on it's first voyage.
And all that these things do to me is to remind me to be grateful !!
A point I will like to make here is when I talked about plans, don't interpret it to suggest that planning is foolish. Planning is essential , the only thing needed is an awareness that it is under certain assumptions more than 50% of which we have no control over. This will perhaps stop us from fuming when our plans go for a toss -- for however bad things are , they can turn worse!! And as Guruji says, save your mind at any cost :)
Jai Gurudev!!
