He showed me a sketch. I could hardly interpret it but he insisted that I speak out whatever I felt about it.
" This is fire in your mind. The fire of anxiety and uncertainity. But behind it is........hhhhhhmmm is it a room?"
"Its the CAGE!! Its the cage of your mind.I tried hard and was able to open the door but behind it was the cage. This is the culprit which prevents you from enjoying your present. You constantly wish to be happy in the future but who knows what might happen tomorrow. Trust me opening the door of your mind was a tiresome job what would I do with this cage of barbed wires surrounding your mind?"
That one conversation shook me. Sometimes you spend year after year searching your own self so as to know who you are and what you want? Then as continuous self absorbance leads to disillusionment; you come under the impression that you have started understanding your own self quiet a lot.You go about lecturing your fellowmen about the greatness of introspection when suddenly such a convesation comes as a jolt to your thoughts. Sometimes we take years in understanding a person while for some its just a glance which narrates each and everything.
When conversations of such intensity happen between two persons it results in building up of mutual adoration, which in my case was quiet a lot. He was sucessful in breaking the barbed cage of my mind and in releasing my true self...........
Its just so wonderful that strangers who have entered your life just a few days back start affecting you much more than tho
se with whom you have spent your life.
I can reall a few lovely lines in hindi which fabulously describe this condition
This free bird is now struggling to create a niche in this vast world. The bird sometimes yearns for her cage which had made her numb about the joys and sorrows this world has to offer. But the bird knows that her liberator wants to see her lying high.
That was the part where the liberator showed his greatness by showering the bird with the blessing of freedom. But how can we forget to see to the plight of our poor bird who is now vulnerable and left on the mercies of the world. The question I want to ask is ;" Is the liberator's duty over? Was his role just to shoo the bird off from that horrid cage . Shouldn't he have given the bird some more care ,and made her feel secure ,before leaving her to manage the nasty ways of the world? What exactly is 'freedom' in this case? The bird broke off one cage but was not taught how not to get trapped again ? Will she forever depend on the mercies of liberators to break off cages????????????
I just wish these questions do not remain unanswered!!!
" This is fire in your mind. The fire of anxiety and uncertainity. But behind it is........hhhhhhmmm is it a room?"
"Its the CAGE!! Its the cage of your mind.I tried hard and was able to open the door but behind it was the cage. This is the culprit which prevents you from enjoying your present. You constantly wish to be happy in the future but who knows what might happen tomorrow. Trust me opening the door of your mind was a tiresome job what would I do with this cage of barbed wires surrounding your mind?"
That one conversation shook me. Sometimes you spend year after year searching your own self so as to know who you are and what you want? Then as continuous self absorbance leads to disillusionment; you come under the impression that you have started understanding your own self quiet a lot.You go about lecturing your fellowmen about the greatness of introspection when suddenly such a convesation comes as a jolt to your thoughts. Sometimes we take years in understanding a person while for some its just a glance which narrates each and everything.
When conversations of such intensity happen between two persons it results in building up of mutual adoration, which in my case was quiet a lot. He was sucessful in breaking the barbed cage of my mind and in releasing my true self...........
Its just so wonderful that strangers who have entered your life just a few days back start affecting you much more than tho
se with whom you have spent your life.
I can reall a few lovely lines in hindi which fabulously describe this condition
बादल को छूने की चाहत तो थी
उड़ने का अरमान नही था मगर
दे दिया मुझको एक अजनबी आसमा
मेरे पैरों से मेरी ज़मी छीन कर
This free bird is now struggling to create a niche in this vast world. The bird sometimes yearns for her cage which had made her numb about the joys and sorrows this world has to offer. But the bird knows that her liberator wants to see her lying high. That was the part where the liberator showed his greatness by showering the bird with the blessing of freedom. But how can we forget to see to the plight of our poor bird who is now vulnerable and left on the mercies of the world. The question I want to ask is ;" Is the liberator's duty over? Was his role just to shoo the bird off from that horrid cage . Shouldn't he have given the bird some more care ,and made her feel secure ,before leaving her to manage the nasty ways of the world? What exactly is 'freedom' in this case? The bird broke off one cage but was not taught how not to get trapped again ? Will she forever depend on the mercies of liberators to break off cages????????????
I just wish these questions do not remain unanswered!!!
1 comment:
my question to u is , wht exactly is liberation? mere fear of future is not the only thing which bothers us!
If u say even after we get liberated we suffer , then i wud say ki no thts not liberation at all. after all , even after we get "liberated" of fears, we are bound to the cage of the world! actual liberation has no fear, no uncertainty, no pain, no weakness but absolute joy .....basically we fear the unknown but when distiction between self and non self vanish we get liberated.....
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