One drop, hanging on the nut of a ripe cashew! As I watched in the twilight, I wondered if it was the dew of the night. But the leaves and other fruits felt dry, when I felt them! Was the the fruit dripping its juice?
As soon as the earlier stop fell off another drop was being formed. I waited for a while to see if it became bigger and fell off the like the earlier one! That did not happen !
As the drop looked brilliant evidence of rain drop in the morning sun, it became even more mysterious. There was no evidence of rain drops on the grass or leaves to thin of an earlier drizzle!
It was then it occurred to me that I was carried away by reason and logic instead of being surprised by a mystery! My mind took over my thoughts ! What I needed was to behold it and receive a soulful view of a surprising sight from within!
I did not need to know the source or content of a drop!
But behold the sense of surprise a hanging drop brings till it fell off!
It brought a contrast between the way my mind works and soul waiting for its message to be received!
That way of soulful living is an inward experience which brings larger meaning in small happenings.
Anna and I along with our friends were at the end of our birding walk on one morning last week. The guide noticed a fluttering movement in the foliage a little distance away. He slowly walked towards it and spotted a kingfisher with a feed in its beaks!
In a conversation he talked about an urge within to go to inspect the site of the moving leaves! He had an intuitive sense! He did not allow the tiredness to subdue his inner prompting! That is one fruit of soulful living!
The soulful living is an experience of feeling within to sense the depth of a reality beneath reason and logic!
A childhood habit is a sense of wonder and surprise!
As adults it involves a journey to restore this childhood sense of wonder and surprise!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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