We wait for the festivals the whole year. Festivals like Diwali, Holi, Eid, Christmas and so on... Each festival has its own significance, its own mood. And each of them is celebrated in its own way - Lighting diyas and crackers on diwali to singing christmas caroles - Its fun and frolic, its spiritual process and practice.
We wait for the festivals, we do lot of preparations for them, right from around a month before till the festive day itself. And then the next day - the festival is over and the post festive festival continues:). Then waiting for the next festival, and preparing for the coming auspicious season.
Festival is not the day itself... festival is the longing for it, the preparations for it, the emotions behind it, the reason behind the festival... When you think of the coming festival, you are celebrating it in your thoughts, when you prepare for it, you are rejoicing it and when you feel it, you are living it...
Life is celebration... Life is a festival... Its NEVER OVER.
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
There's something between Happiness and Sorrow...
Are these two different things? According to me they are two same things:). They are feelings. Although, one cannot deny the difference in these two feelings, they are in one sense same.
Happiness is for a moment. The moment of happiness can span from a microsecond to years to lifetime. And after this momentary happiness, do you find sorrow always? No! There is a third thing in between the two. Life is not just happiness and sorrows.
The third thing is the state of your mind and heart. When you are not happy and when you are not sad, what is that state of mind? And if you observe, you are in this state for the maximum amount of time, where you plan for more happiness, and where you meet unexpected sorrows...
Happiness and Sorrow are also state of mind. Then these three things are no different. The difference is in the way you feel when you are in that state. Dont you feel, if you could control your feelings, then there would be only happiness? or only Sorrows? or nothing at all? :)
Happiness is for a moment. The moment of happiness can span from a microsecond to years to lifetime. And after this momentary happiness, do you find sorrow always? No! There is a third thing in between the two. Life is not just happiness and sorrows.
The third thing is the state of your mind and heart. When you are not happy and when you are not sad, what is that state of mind? And if you observe, you are in this state for the maximum amount of time, where you plan for more happiness, and where you meet unexpected sorrows...
Happiness and Sorrow are also state of mind. Then these three things are no different. The difference is in the way you feel when you are in that state. Dont you feel, if you could control your feelings, then there would be only happiness? or only Sorrows? or nothing at all? :)
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