Contd....
My Guru – on intent and travelling!
“Because you’ll learn this bye and by as you travel. Though you are doing
it for other reasons now, over time with repetition you’ll glide gently into
this mode of travel and get connected to yourself slowly and surely”.
“How can we be sure of it?”
“Because this travel is no different from the journey that soul makes
into this world taking so many births. The purpose of taking birth is to
realize self or know yourself in short get reconnected to self. But we are lost
in the trinkets that this world has to offer and make this journey again and
again. Some take thousands of janmas to realize it while others do it in a
million ones!”
We all laughed at the taunt! Well, it didn’t seem as one too! it was a
mere fact enveloped in a hard and cold way!
“Just as soul takes it’s time through this world to ‘find itself’ over
janmas, our journey becomes interesting and eventful over time. It is not
totally lost though it is wandering here since ages. It is finding its way back
home in its own pace and style. Sometimes the time taken seems too long,
tedious, painful and unnecessary. But, that is for the onlooker. The soul chooses
it. It has its reasons. After all, heart has reasons that mind can’t fathom!
Each unto his path,
Each unto his choice,
Each unto his journey,
Each unto his goal,
And each unto his own!”
Saying so, she went into silence staring at the carpet. We all kept silent
externally as we were busy processing it internally! Wow! What did we ask and
where did we land? Is it her talent or our desire that brings us here – whatever
be our starting point? Either way, we felt lost for sure! We were looking for ‘casual
answer’ but I guess we should stop expecting that from her. For her all roads
lead to ‘within’ and for us ‘outside’. So it wasn’t surprising that we hardly
were on same page – ever! Forget
about travelling; now even sitting here seemed
so tiring and strenuous. Not because we moved physically! No on the contrary we
hardly moved. Yet we were caught up in the storm within that questioned our
intents, desires, purpose and usefulness of our acts. The answer didn’t seem to
get ‘pass marks’ and we
hated failing here again. And I am sure if we state
this she would calmly and lovingly explain that there is nothing as failure and
success in this journey. Just an opportunity missed to learn/unlearn anything. ‘Name
it as an experience’ she would say and we would be lulled to our comfort zone –
for now. Wow! This travelling is really exhausting! If it can do this as we sat
through listening about it – no doubt it transformed the person in and out as
he travelled the world! And to that I raised my glass and said “Bon voyage!”
concluded....
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