Let the good in you never die. I read it somewhere, but in the race called life I was not quite sure is it really alive in me? I thought my spirituality can hold God in me, but yesterday I realized by a single example that I had been selfish many times in my life too. Being it a personal matter, it won’t be appreciable if I add it here, yet I will surely not dishearten your spiritual soul for giving your time to my article.
I know this totally sounds bogus in today’s world when you start with spiritual thoughts in a group meet, since all the youngsters are interested in knowing the updates of technology, geography and geometry of glamour world, histories of celebrities and economics of their dad’s bank balance, perhaps knowing that they are fading the mirror of reality, yet they call “this is what reality is”. I would like you to stop this very moment, leave this article if you believe in the same reality. It would be better, go out, and do open your eyes this time, look for some cleanser, clean your mirror, and then come open this page. I will prescribe you some good cleansers in the end; even you can either jump to the concluding paragraph for it or follow the road without any short cuts.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Through my last two stories I tried reflecting those neglected parts of our society that surely don’t have any connection with your lives yet still I will come up with certainly the same question with different issues: Are you ready to open your box? , but this time, in a very straightforward language (no developed lingos like dassol), will ask you certain simple questions : Are you capable of doing good for others, doing good for your near ones, and doing good for your nation?
“People will laugh at me if I ll come up with such writes”, I replied my friend, who is more than a friend to me, an inspiration, elder brother for me. “Let them laugh, since they are not capable of understanding the inevitable nature of change. It’s really easy for us to lead a materialistic, so called their real life like them, but are they really capable of leading a spiritual life along the same track like us?” , he replied. And I did it. I thought rather than opening the box, I should come with “exploring” and “moulding” the box too. This very beginning of exploration will hold a very simple example of honesty that made me proud of my nations’ citizens.
They call it poor and hungry India and I don’t blame them because the only source through which they opened their box was Slumdog millionaire. Great movie, yet it depicted only a side of the coin. I had few friends from US last week in Bhopal, and they appreciated Indian culture and hospitality (yet, I regretted people staring them like aliens).
When we were at new market, one of my friends forgets her bag, holding all her money, passport and other important documents in the auto rickshaw. We all scattered in the market to find that auto rickshaw, prayed God since it was really difficult for us to trace an auto driver, when we don’t have any of his contact details. After few minutes we received a call from the hotel where they were staying, “Sir, the auto driver brought back your bag to us that you left in the auto”. Poor, yet Honest India.
I belong to a university I feel is full of negative energy, (and how I calculate its negativity can be good joke to laugh upon, keep on, laughing is good for health), and I always I had this complain. But even last week I dreamt of a new aura of my college environment. According to Freud’s Interpretation of dreams, dreams are nothing but fulfilling your wishes. And if I can dream of it, why can’t I make it true (Ignited minds). It’s all about the good in you, it’s you who can make things good, and positive I rather say. And this is how you can do well for others, near ones and your nation. It’s only you who can create the thoroughfare of spirituality between you and your real world.
Few good prescriptions:
The monk who sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma
Ignited Minds by APJ Abdul Kalam
Positive imaging by Peale
Bible, Quran, Geeta and Guru Granth Sahib Jii
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