When you are in a smashan – a crematorium – and when you see the dead body going in flames, getting reduced to ashes… invariably, the experience can be moving, life-transforming… Overwhelmed by emotions, and struck by sorrow, you, indeed, start contemplating on the kind of arrogance that has marked your life… the blind chase that you have pursued… the pain that you have caused to your near and dear ones, the grudges that you have held, the vices that you have fallen prey to…. And, standing there, right in front of the burning corpse, you begin to repent in your heart and resolve to put an end to your blind pursuits, your vices… You resolve to be a good soul… But, then, the ‘smashan vairagya’ lasts only till you reach home… Maybe, for some more days after you leave the smashan! Last afternoon, I had held a motivational programme for some young-employees… Their employer, my friend, had coined the name for it: ‘INSPIRE AND ASPIRE’… Today, looking at the sky, I am smiling now... “How long the hot-air, which I had filled last afternoon, will last in my friend’s balloons?” I wonder... I, also, wonder, “Is there another way to send balloons high up in the sky?” Hope, it will make you wonder, too… LOVE. Pic.: Vinod Krishnan
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:18:03 +0000
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