Life events are to be looked at funnily most times. If not then there is no end to how serious things can go. The need of wants makes us become serious, rushed, old, cynical, selfish, cranky hamsters who cannot stop wheeling.
A hamster is a solitary burrowing rodent with a short tail and large cheek pouches for carrying food, native to Europe and North Asia. Hamsters are highly motivated to run in wheels; it is not uncommon to record distances of 9 km (5.6 mi) being run in one night (wikipedia) The hamster keeps turning the same wheel for no reason but in just the obsession to turn it.
Let us look at our lives. We run like hamster on wheel. Day to night and night to day and then again. To make more money, to have more power, to be recognized, to boost that ego most of the time through any activities. From youth to middle age to old age we let the mind run a game of riot. Yes due to this mind we may gain some material comforts and yes due to this mind we may have a good job, fat salary etc. The mind does not stop after the material gain. It keeps rolling. For another gratification, for another endorsement about anything that it sights to make it a goal. More and more.
And we the "hamster" on that wheel roll with it. We are tired but we roll. One roll and second and one thousand and one, ten thousand and one roll.....then where does the funny bit come? The fact that we are hamsters is the funny bit, on a wheel that does not stop! And we think that we have it all under control.
We are tired, we are in need for someone to stop the wheel but in that we get scared. Stop the wheel? And not be able to roll? No please do not do that, never stop this wheel from rolling ever. Because we would not know what else to do if we did not roll. What would we do if we did not roll?
We need to roll!
आज आपके ब्लॉग का जवाब हिंदी में देने को दिल किया...हम वास्तव में इस दुनिया में सिर्फ चक्की पीसने के लिए आये है..और सारी उम्र भर कोहलू के बैल की तरह काम करते है .. अगर कुछ नया भी करते है तो भी मन में इतने दायरे बना लिए है जिस से हम बाहर ही आना नहीं चाहते और सारी उम्र उसी में घूमते रहते है बिलकुल आपके हम्सटर की तरह और पता ही चलता की कब ज़िंदगी की शाम हो जाती है और बाई बाई करने का समय आ जाता है कितनी विडम्बना है हम सब जानते हुई भी कुछ नहीं जानते
ReplyDeleteइससे बाहर आना भी उतना ही आसान है सिर्फ वर्तमान में जीना है पल पल में जीना है तो घंटे, दिन और साल भी भिन्न हो जायेगे खाते हुवे खाना है , पीते हुवे पीना है, चलते हुवे चलना है हँसते हुवे हसना है और रोते हुवे रोना भी है ..कितनी बार सुबह का नाश्ता करते हुवे उसका स्वाद और उसपर लगी मेहनत का पता रहता है कितनी बार ड्राइव करते हुई हमे आसपास की सुंदरता का अनुभव हो पता है
हमे कुछ भी नया नहीं करना है बस हेर पल जो नया हो रहा है उसका अहसास करना है अपने मन के बनायीं समानांतर दुनिया से बाहर आ कर इस सतरंगी दुनिया के मज़े लेने है
हर घडी बदल रही है रूप जिंदगी
छाँव है कभी, कभी है धूप जिंदगी
हर पल यहा जी भर जियो, जो है समा, कल हो ना हो
पलकोंके लेके साये, पास कोई जो आए
लाख संभालो पागल दिलको, दिल धडके ही जाए
पर सोच लो इस पल है जो, वो दास्तां कल हो ना हो
धन्यवाद अलका जी ..आप बहुत सुन्दर लिखती है
Rakesh
Deleteyou are such a brilliant analyser of a blog. There are very few who read it in right perspective or it could be fault of the write in not being able to state exactly that which needs to be stated.
To be in the moment would be the greatest achievement. I have wondered about being in NOW many times and I wonder that if I am totally present in the moment then my thoughts will stop. This is just my own process of thinking of how many times I have analysed being in NOW. Is being in NOW appreciating now which would mean a comparison and memory that would then mean that the mind is going back and forth or if one is in NOW would one even remember in that NOW- NESS?
Beautiful song..and a great metaphor in this song truly
Aane wala pal jaane wala hai
ho sake tu isme zindagi bita do
pal jo yeh jaane wala hai
I also thought that way, why to remain always in present ,. Where the time for thoughts and contemplation will come. What the benefit of daily seeing the same grass or trees on the way?. Why to observe the washing of hands ?
DeleteBut , after totally remaining in pursuit of nowness, I realized the benefits.
1 your energy is saved , your mind is rested and you feel invigorated
2 You grasp the more of present moment , what is told to you and you hear more than talking
3 In stead of memories of past or worries of future , you get intuitive thoughts, wisdom which is coming from universal intelligence. . When you say that at times poems start flowing from you and at times these are dried up. In first case you are totally in nowness and mind is still or transcended and in second your mind is exerting.
4 It ends the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops, unless you choose to use it
Hi rakesh
DeleteGM
yes indeed
when one becomes meditative one immediately finds a few moments later that the energy is way more than at other times.
Your point number 3 is so amazing- i never thought of intuitive thoughts that way..that when one is in present one gets intuitive..will process this more
yes delusion of time...via mind- may eb that is why once one gets addicted to inner the outer just falls off!
posted comments on your previous blog and deepika blog also ..pl read
ReplyDeletewill do that
DeleteThank you :))
I have responded Rakesh
DeleteOver to you :))