Beyond the twilight view!

 

The twilight is a transient ultrashort time in the morning at dawn. 

The photo above got transformed from its original appearance, when I used the edit mode of the photo. 

The picture below, the edited version, of the picture above taken at twilight, has a different look of clarity and fullness! 

The truth is beyond the twilight view!

The truth gets different shades depends on how and who processes the truth! 

A sage who lived his life meditatively and altruistically by helping the people who lived beside him on the shore of a river, lived a simple life. He cooked his only meal of the day in the evening in the open. He made his chapati on a fire he lighted every evening in front of his hut. One evening, he left the chapati he cooked in the fire on a pallet and went inside his hut to collect butter to spread on the chapati. When he came out, a dog had gathered the chapati and was running towards the bush. The sage ran after the dog with the spoon of butter in his hand. 

When their neighbours saw him running after a dog, they were amused by his crazy behaviour and stopped him from running after the dog. They teased and made him feel small. He after a quiet moment, turned to his neighbours and said, 'A hot Chapati tasted better with  butter on it. I was running to spread the butter on the chapati for the dog to get its full taste'!

These are shades of truth. The neighbours of the sage saw his act of running after the dog as selfish. The sage saw it altruistically to give little more of his gift to the dog! 

The truth we believe and practice acquire a personal perspective coloured by our outlook and habit. 

That is why truth lies ambushed  scattered in a maze!

It is often necessary to travel beyond our bias and belief system to discover the truth in its uniqueness. 

I experienced yesterday how a couple suddenly discovered the truth in their life! Their son was left to be cared by the grandparents while they worked overseas. This three year old child has had an opportunity to see his parents once in a year for three weeks. A colleague who was developmentally supporting this child for a while discovered that this child did not make developmental progress for the last four months as grand parents were not in a position to help his developmentally beyond sending him to a play group. On being told about the prospects of the child to acquire good pre-school skills, parents felt moved and said, 'we would make arrangements to process his visa to take him with us'. This young couple came to the discovery of the truth, that their son's rightful place is with the parents. Their pre-occupation  with their job and lure of earning more by working in more than one shift each day, obscured their view of the truth of nurturing their own child. I found the mothers' face radiant when she announced the decision to process the visa for their child. 

The truth lies submerged in the twilight of our impressions, attitudes, beliefs and choices. 

To see beyond, we need to move from the twilight of our perceptions to the light that we can receive from others who can enlighten us!

M.C.Mathew (text and photo)