As goes by the famous
saying by Plato “Beauty lies in the eyes
of the beholder”;
and thus it comprehends that
the outlook of matters in every phenomenon can be best realized when looked
through our inner self. It is not what is on the surface that matters; but what
matters is how it is in the inside. To start with inanimate beings to living
beings; everything needs to find an interpretation of its true self. The inner
self can speak volumes about everything. You just need to find it.
The well-known
American poet Robert Frost in his poem, “After Apple-Picking”
describes life even in the flake of snow. The pain
of grass when we trample it with our feet has been adorned with his charm of
diction. Hence, it is how we perceive things that account for in our lives. The
Gospel of Truth is we see what we want to see in others. We tame our minds to stress
upon the factors we are looking for in our companion. This triggers the bond
between any individual. If we do good, we will see good in everyone. That
is the way how we nurture our being. In various instances of life, there are
several tiny flicks when a situation is scrutinized and interpreted in
extremely different parameters by various individuals. Why is it so? Why is
there a difference in opinion about the same situation from different
people around? The answer is the way we look through the situation. When our
eyes do look at some grandiloquent manifestation of nature, the way we
appreciate it or put it off determines how we feel for it. The golden gleams of
the sun can be visualized as a pure Goddess of beauty or just a mere day with some scorching sunlight. Do we look into the magnanimous power of the
huge ball of fire? Do we get inspired by its determination to stand still
through its path to give us the light which is the essence of living beings? Or do we just ignore it as “THE
SUN” that rises in the east and sets in the west. Every single object or being
we possess in our surroundings has its own beauty. Sometimes we cannot
differentiate when a person right in front of us has masked his pain through his/her
cheerful face. We take things for granted but to know that were mistaken. You
need to be in the cocoon and struggle for long in order to transform your life
into the magnificent colors of a butterfly. We have to come out our comfort
zone and analyze, what is in the inside. What is the main focal point? Every
feeling we go through has a different turnover. Our anger, hatred, frustration,
joy, solitude, everything has a different story to tell. Everyone is not
entitled to experience SOLITUDE. Solitude is not the absence of company, but
the moment when our inner being speaks to us, helping us decide on trivial
matters. We need to bond with our inner self and know ourselves.
If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. And if you do
not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.
They say, “All that glitters
is not GOLD”. It is very appropriate as of today’s era of the 21st century
where mere physical appearance becomes the reason of deviation for all. The
hold on materialistic inanimate beings is too much on the nerves to look into
anything beyond the surface. The art of appreciating a painting, looking at the
depth of it and interpreting it through the emotions painted by the artist has
dissolved. Bygone are the days when the common mass took interest in
appreciating the aboriginal beauty. The present culture believes only in the
presentation of the surface. We can appreciate things only if we appreciate our
inner self, our conscience. When we meditate, we try to focus all our attention
to one point which becomes the source of our energy. The rhythmic breathing
gives our mind the required relaxation, the peace it had been looking for and
the time to nurture itself. For the nurture of our self being, we need to focus
all our energy on developing our inner self to fight through the various
anomalies we encounter every single moment. Life has its own way to curve and
bend through like the course of a river before it merges into a vast vivacious
ocean. In similar fashion, our lives’ courses have been
developed in a way that we get to look through all loopholes and potholes,
put ourselves in ditch and then rise from our own ruins like “The Phoenix” and conquer
building our own castle. Considering every single individual, accounting for
myself, there are a number of situations when we judge a person through
pre-conceived notions and the gossip glare of the common mass. Rather than
creating an opinion based on self-judgment, we look at a person through someone
else’s perspective. Little do we realize the blunder we are committing. To
survive in this rapidly expanding global domain, we need to get our work done.
But, losing your self-conscience, your morale and the common sense to judge a
particular issue/person must not vanish into the flames. We need to be
master of ourselves. Giving space to our inner self will help us reach heights
that are improbable on the materialistic level. Speculation of ourselves will
help us become better beings.
We are not perfect.
Accepting this fact and cultivating the desire to grow and learn adds a feather
to the inner being.
