Thursday, June 30, 2011

Trance

Embarrassing but true.. It’s been a year since I posted my last blog. Life has been so engaging. No orkut, no facebook and no socializing. Today after a long time I have invested the time and interest to write on something.

Someone recently told me that in life participation is very important. Because when you participate in something you immediately set goals to get to it. Along the way you start equipping yourself for it. So participation is very important to get the involvement in life ON.

And how true is this, in as many angles you can think about it? And thinking about it further, all of us are engaged in one thing or the other throughout our life. Sometimes voluntarily and many a times inevitably :( .

But realistically, in life it’s impossible to be always doing what we like. Each one of us at different point in time through our life are driven by expectations. And we often fall bait to those expectations and do things we might not be completely to our liking.

So to say our life is often driven by external influences and experiences. And at different stages of life we are shaping up with confusing goals and circumstances. The destination is changing and route is changing accordingly. The driver is unaware what to do and the passenger is thinking when and where to get down, thinking selfishly what’s best for him. :)

Although the 4 paragraphs above look disconnected I can derive at least 4-5 instances in my life which can connect them. I don’t want to elaborate , and I want to make them abstract for people to draw the lines when they read this.

The lesson to derive here is to constantly sieve through our participation and interests. And try to eliminate our time wasted in things we don’t like doing. When I said constantly I mean as we age. If we keep doing this religiously then by the time we are absolved of dependencies in life we can truly engage ourself and participate in truly the things we relish doing. It takes different timelines for different people.

Many of the sages in India have been worshipped due to their clarity in thought process. They have mastered the mind and channelized it abstract the truth. And when the mind is mastered the thought process flows like a elixir, the body becomes immortal and the life is absolutely trance….!!