13-14 Jan. 2018
Friendship - दोस्ती का रिश्ता
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First of all, wishing each one of you “ शुभ संक्रांत “ .
During the week of 13-14 January every year, the residents of of the Indian sub-continent traditionally celebrate the spirit of “ Makar Sankranti ( मकर संक्रांति ) festival “. This week of January marks the gradual transition of winter into spring, which is audibly and pleasantly broadcasted by chirping birds. The Sun is gradually transitioning from the 33 degree Latitude identified as Tropic of Cancer ( मकर वृत्त ) and moving towards the zero degree Latitude called Equator.
One of the tradition of Sankranti is sharing amongst friends a variety of sweets prepared from Sesame seeds ( तिल l ) and Jaggery ( गुड़ ). During our childhood in India, we expressed the Sankranti spirit in Marathi language as “ तिळगुळ बरोबर खा, हसा आणि गोडगोड बोला “.
Local cultural festivals and traditions are a grand design for consecration of human desires ever so thirsty for self-fulfillment. Comparing and judging different cultural traditions becomes a self-incriminating posture of life.
While penning the following thoughts , mind is thinking and thanking with sheer gratitude each and every friendship encountered to date that has enhanced perception of life, which is consecrated within conscious awareness. With this perspective, life appears to be a consecrated imprint of living experiences.
Friendship appears to be the rhythm of musical Tango and Bongo of mutual coincidences of Life; while in another perspective, it seems to be the mutual “ संचित कर्म-धर्म संयोग “. हम सोच के जो क्रिया करते हैं, वो महसूस होता है कर्म और धर्म जमा। श्वासो-श्वास, अपने आप होता रहता है, निरंतर ऊर्जा शक्तिस्वरुप द्वारा, जिसकी कोई प्रति क्रिया नहीं। ये महसूस होता है सतसंग ( सद विचारों की संगत ) प्रसाद।
Over the span of experiential years of life, It seems that we inherit and gather ourselves biologically from the ancestral roots of our forefathers! We are not the Architect of our being; rather simply the Architecture of our ancestral roots. Subsequently at individual level, we try to reinforce and modify our inherited Architecture with our own sense of proportion of cultivated Ego and nurtured Empathy ( करुणा भाव ) for Life and end up becoming what we make of ourselves.
Friendship seems to be mutually self enriching, multidimensional experiences that is incomparable to any other, because each one of us is unique in our own dimensions within the entire Cosmos.
दोस्ती के रिश्तेमें कोई ना दूजा, नीचा, और ना कोई ऊँचा; कोई ना बच्चा, और कोई ना बुजुर्ग; सब एक बराबर।
दोस्ती के रिश्ते जिंदगीकी अमूल्य अमानत होती है, जिसकी हिफाजत हरपल दिलचस्पी से करनी पड़ती है; खुद के ही खातिर, खुदके ही भलाई के लिए।
Friendship is an intangible and carefully nurtured asset of life, which is not to be compared, and not to be judged in order to retain its indomitable spirit.
Planet Earth rotates around its own axis, while simultaneously orbiting around the Sun of its own solar system. A Saint/Sufi/Fakir dances ecstatically around himself/herself gaining an inner experience of being and becoming complete ( अद्वैत भाव ) and all inclusive within cosmic Nature. Their wisdom seems to suggest that “ Friendship is a dynamic expression of Life’s own innate desire to fulfill itself “. That spirit, which is latently and innately present within each one of us is constant Seeker of self ennobling friendship in which duality of Life ceases to exist.
Physical Scientists subtly suggest that the Planet Earth as well as our physical body is a harmonious blend of 75% Water and 25% Matter constantly complementing each other. What really matters in life is that although Water and Matter seem as different entities, their mutually harmonious inter relationship is what makes existence possible. Making our own existence joyful is our own responsibility, suggests the wisdom of Saint/Sufi/Fakir.
Friendship seems to be an unconditional and harmonious inter relationship between two living entities irrespective of their biological roots.
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