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Articles: My Thoughts | My Acknowledgement
- Ms. shantala kottisa
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Hello Folks,
It is quite a pleasant experience to share my thoughts with friends like you. In fact , I am very thankful to all those out there, who have read my articles and took the trouble to let me know how they felt about them. Truthfully speaking, I would not have acknowledged all my readers, if not for what happened today. I heard from my mother that one of my aunty has passed away. What made the news worse was, she is about to marry her son off in the coming week. I was caught up in a whirlpool of emotion. My reasoning faculty just got suspended .
There was the question in me, as to what this death is all about and at the same time an unknown helplessness crept in to my thoughts. This was not the first time that this question has come up within me. I sought the answer in our scriptures. Though they say that the soul in us is everlasting, and that man’s subtle body just gets passed on to another body, it did not help me feel better. Even if this be absolutely true, and the fact that, I am not advanced enough to realize the subtle laws of life and death, I still feel lost. If we know that a person’s soul transmigrates to another body make us feel any better about the death of our kith and kin? Does it mean that the soul in its transmigration has given up on all its previous friends and relatives? I know there are some people who would think that I am writing all this because I am caught up in the so called process of EattachmentE But I wonder where is the line between love and attachment. In fact I think attachements and friendships are what makes us human. As a human being who is rid of all spiritual and religious believes, I think that my aunt has gone for ever. She has become one with the mother earth. And in the precious few years she has been on this earth, she has in her small little ways contributed to this process of life. Only now with her absence so direly felt, do we realize that her contribution has been something so priceless for all of us.
It is very common to realize the worth of a person when that person has long gone from our lives. But life would become more enriching if we could only thank people for all the ways in which they have been for us. This is the thread that binds us allEthe thread that we are all human. Life is a complex phenomena which need not be understood , but has to be lived. Our creator has no doubt sent us on to wage war on two battle fields. One which is the external world and the second, which is our internal world. Since we don’t have much control of external happenings, the least we can do is control what is inside us. Though this is difficult, it is not impossible, I believe. Let us meet anger, with a little bit of patience, let us meet jealousy with a little bit of compassion, let us meet disappointment with a little bit of courage, let us meet hatred with a little bit of love. For everything one does in this world shall leave an impact on oneself as well as the others. Life is evanescent but it is wonderful and mysterious. You cannot let go of such a precious chance to see the living god in life by giving in to all the negatives in it.
The one thing that I am quite sure about my aunt is, she definitely must have passed away in infinite peace, for she gave all she could when she had to, she did all she had to when she was supposed to. She lived a full life and thats what makes me so sure that she should have passed away with out any regrets. I understood that the sure measure of one’s success in life is not what you have earned or learned, but whether you have lived and lived with no regrets. In order to have no regrets in life it is important that we live in perfect concord with our hearts. For it is said that, our heart is the seat of our Divine Controller.
Once again I thank you all who have taken the trouble to read my articles and posted their comments to mean. It meant a lot to me. If my thoughts are jumbled, I am sorry.
Bye
Shantala.
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