~ Life’s Offer…~

The secluded finisher always sees himself in the midst of rolling his hands or doing brisk running and hardly takes are break. His persona at this stage of his life is riveting to me, almost at the fag end of life, his zeal to keep himself fit has been phenomenal – sometimes doing a glancing ‘Hello” or a “Namaste” gives you a feeling of intrigue to have a long conversation with uncle.

One such day hence arrived, on reaching the tracks of the park early in the morning, I started to do brisk walk with a purposeful aim of loosening my still body after a deep sleep – I had only circumambulated the park’s track that I could see the old gentleman coming towards me, whilst he was jogging.

Clothed in his favorite track suit which he generally loves to wear, I had made up my mind to be a conversationalist with him, be whatever it takes. The moment thus arrived, after about 40 mins of walking he took a short break and positioned himself quite satisfyingly on the nearby bench. Taking out his water bottle , he sipped through gently as if the thirst had overcome him after a hard exercise regimen. As I was observing him for some time, he used to sit on the same bench which could be termed his favorite. With a streaking eye contact, I started the conversation with a pensive thought – “ Hope he is in a mood to talk.”

“Hello Uncle, I often see you jog and do exercises , at this age you are so fit and fine, what makes you do all this , you can come to park and sit calmly and introspect the best moments of your life in all those moments.”

With a grimace , he thus spoke “ Son , I have been working so hard all through my life, I had a electronics shop and never took a break almost all my life, Sundays were too occupied as there was lot to do and achieve as per my aspirations.”

Then suddenly his voice chocked, and his eyes turned wet, after a brief pause, he started to speak again – “I lost my wife and my only son got separated as he got a good career option out of this country. I am all alone now and thus have lot of time on this planet till I am alive, almost nothing to do.”.

“Last year I was prognosed with Cancer and am undergoing treatment and have to periodically go to hospital to get rid of the disease – Don’t know if I ever will be able to do that!”

As the story got melancholic, quite inquisitively, I again asked “But what about your shop?”

He replied “Ah, I closed it down at the peak of my earning capacity – as there was no zeal left to continue after my wife’s passing away and my son taking his own stance in life. I never thought that one day I shall close the dream of my life on such account. All my life I dreamt that one day my son would take the reigns of this business and I shall sit at home and thus enjoy the time life has to offer, but God had decided otherwise.”

Though it was a sad little story – It made me wonder about most of us who are struggling and running  an endless race without almost the same outcome – One day we shall be left alone with all the money we ever thought we could amass but without near or dear ones and compromising on our health.

Taking leave from Subhash Uncle – As we conversed I gently asked his name and thus told him that I shall be addressing him thus so , I started to take my own course as the sun had started to shine quite bright hinting for a humid afternoon coming over, not before promising myself to meet him the next day with yet another round of fruitful conversations whilst we shall sit in beautiful meadows of monsoon greenery!

~ Code Name God ~

Sitting sometimes in your own lonely world of wanderings  you start to ponder about the mega happenings in life and its attributes – the first question begets your mind “Who Made this all ?, the Stars, Moon, all these heavenly bodies”, the cosmic intelligence is always performing its task without any hiccup; the sun rises on time, moon has its own orbit, various planets with gigantic masses always moving with phenomenal speeds

Alas! All this does radically intrigue’s one’s mind about a strange coincidence about such major appearances around us; The general question being, who made it so perfect and in perfect symphony with each other? Who actually programmed it so perfectly? Not even an iota of error one can decipher in the laws of the world. The best of humanity – Physicist, Biologist and other intellects of highest order as still trying to uncover the greatest mysteries of this universe. Only the insane can be judgmental to the tune of not acknowledging the power and existence of the higher order – what we call GOD or ‘Cosmic Intelligence’ running this universe with so much perfection!

Looking at life’s intelligence around ,you can surely get a strong understanding of the hidden working of greatest order – the growing of a seed into a huge tree, a plant germinating via seeds and sprinkling flowers and its fragrance, the birth and death of living beings – all this seems to be such beautiful in this intransigent world of thoughts and actions.

Not believing opens a wide range of debates, the answers to which are hard to find and makes situation more complex – the total acceptability of an unknown ‘Cosmic Governance’ satiates one’s intellect and make us stay focus on the tasks we have been assigned to do whilst we live each day.

Many of the biggest thinkers of this world have propounded big theories for the existence of this universe and how this was propounded by just a Big Bang – but as we research more and more onto it, many intriguing questions have evolved which challenges this age old theory of evolution – for many the quick and simplest answer is ‘ There is a Supreme and Supernatural Power always at work, It is HIM that he wishes , so does it happen!” – The prudence and enlightenment of this theoretical talk goes well with what you see and feel – It is you who have to be a judge of your own existence, many thoughts of you being born to a particular family and into life situations will ponder you erratically – There is a seeker in everyone of us, for some it is at a dormant level and for many it is live and kicking.

Many of us are working from close comforts of our homes, spending time with families but at the same time living under constant fear of the uncertainties of life, of losing our close ones. Fears of some tragic instances which we all see and hear from various sources – many questions arise in our ever-engaging mind and thoughts – what if…?

All what I have live and experience in this beautiful journey of life led me to think laterally – that many of your life’s situations are pre-existing and defined; we are here only to live upto that script written as according to our own ‘Sanchit Karma’s’ – the only silver-lining being that it is our free will with which we can act with impunity whilst we exist on this planet. All this has a significance of your living, what you do today will be recorded in ‘Akashic Records’ and shall come back to you with equal fervor – for this to believe; start living with a conscious state of mind – observe the Deja’ vu moments life offers you everyday, the hints it gives you hidden in small moments and situations ; you never know this might lead your to a path of self-enlightenment and you find the source of that ‘Big Cosmic Intelligence’ which is playing around since time immemorial – Happy Searching!