A garden space has a landscape and different provisions for activities for children and adults. It is from that garden space, we carry into our inner space, some insights and thoughts to ponder upon.
The above pictures of some scenes and sights between the sunrise and sunset, while walking in a garden at different times of the day, gave me an idea of how things happen overtly and silently in a public place.
A man selling lottery tickets outside the garden fascinated me. He waited for people and approached them with the tickets. There were a few who bought them happily. He did not have to do any canvassing. He had a product in his hand, that people were ready to go back home with, hoping that their turn to get a bonanza would happen!
Along with an obvious above activity, there was a cat in a quiet corner in the foot path, who was surprised by my sudden appearance. Seeing me cross its territory, it sat frozen looking at me disturbed! Till I moved out of its sight, it conveyed its anxiety by silence and stillness.
That is when it occurred to me that some significant events take place during the day quietly. The sunrise and sunset are such quiet events in a day. The sun rising to brighten the earth and setting to bring the darkness are quiet events, which take place slowly and steadily. These two seminal events keep earth flourish and preserve life on earth.
The silence with which som events are associated with, have a dimension of mystery. With the first breath of a new born baby, how the heart-lung synchronisation establishes normal blood circulation! A turning point for life to continue, happening silently most of the times, unassisted by anything we can do!
In a generic sense we know the bio-physiology of the commencement of heart lung functions in a new born. In a particular instance of a baby, how all the factors confluence to allow this to happen has a mystical dimension!
Let me suggest that most of the experiences we encounter have a mystical dimension. It is when we can enter into that mystical dimension, we can behold life in its fullness! Lest we live mindful of only the existential and material dimensions alone! We live impoverished if we cannot go beyond the obvious!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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