On Parting

Today, I came across an older post of mine, a single short paragraph, which I saved as draft but had never posted. I'll put it up now, just as it is:

Sometimes, very rarely, people would come into your lives, and through seemingly inconsequential everyday commanilities would touch some unknown depths in your soul - without you ever being aware of it - and then leave, stunning you into the abrupt realisation that the person had somehow become a wholesome part of your vision of life. A realisation you never had until the time of depart. And then, you watch - watch in stunned astonishment and painful silence - as the moments of the parting unfolds - as if some unreal scene is being played out on the celluloid.

Freedom: Defined by Tagore

What is freedom? What is the ideal free state? What state of environment is 'heaven'? These are eternal questions which have been, through ages, drawing out human endeavours for satisfactory answers.

Tagore has defined freedom, and the state of 'heaven' stemming from this freedom, excellently in this poem:

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

I find that very appropriate. That is true freedom - freedom culminating in a truly progressive society, a society celebrating, and living by, the human magnificience and excellence in its highest aspects.

Justification of Dreams?

Dreaming is easy. Everyone can dream. Desire is easy. Everyone desires.

But to make even the least possible effort, even if a miniscule, towards the practical realisation of the dream, is what will make all the difference.

Thoughts like whether or not traversing the whole path will really be feasible, about all things which 'might' occur to obstruct you, etc - and all such defensive thoughts - will only pull one down, without ever giving any proper solution.

There is only two vital questions to ask oneself - do I really want this, do I truly desire this? Is there anything I can do right now, which would not render me in some irrecoverable position, and which would take me, even if by a miniscule fraction, towards the realisation of this dream?

If the answers to both of these are 'yes', what more is really there to wait for?

Often, we try to justify to others our actions towards the object of our desire, in a perspective in which the other person might understand it - might see it as proper, right or natural from his perspective. And in trying to do so, we get lost in a maze of words and thoughts. Of course, how could it be otherwise? Because, in our hearts, the truest justification of our pursual of that object is our own pure desire of that object, not its being 'proper' or 'right' or 'natural' in the eyes of others. (Now, our desire might have stemmed from such altrustic reasons - that depends upon the psyche - but the bottomline is that we do desire it.) And it needs no other, and would find no other, more proper justification for our pursual of it than our own pure wish and desire of it. Hence it follows that we would never be able to properly put it in same justification and light in which it would have been placed had it been explained away with its true justification - and it is only this justification which actually renders it, through a power of truth and simplicity, in more glory and magnanimousity than ever possible through any other justification.