MIND AND SOUL

ALLURING DEATH How real is birth? How real is the existence of a being? How real is the life nurtured inside a beating or palpating heart? How real is the blinking of eyelids? How real is the emotions flowing through blood? How real are the senses? One can’t actually quantify the magnitude of reality but can surely say, without a bit of hesitation that these things exist for sure and has a sense of reality in them. But all these are related to the so called positive aspect of life, where we live. There also exist another reality of life where our lives are seized, which is considered a negative shade of life. But which is as real as the positive aspect. Yes, death. Death is as real as life. It is as true as truth himself and as life, even the quantification of death can’t be done, only the tears can be seen all around the place to welcome this sibling of life. What is death? Why is it considered so gloomy and people are afraid of it? The existence of death is analogous to the ...

MIGHTY ME Since childhood, I have heard about the Almighty. I always pictured Him someone or something very mighty, very big, immense and obviously larger than life. Once I was thinking about something and suddenly I saw an ant, walking past me in her own thoughts, with her own pace and her own passion for life. I stopped her, blocked her path, changed her trajectory, added a mass upon her, drew a thin line of water in front of her and observed her response. It was not very different from ours, when we face the same thing. All of a sudden, I felt like the mighty image of myself portrait on the canvas of childhood memories. So, how is it? God is someone so huge that we can’t see him? If I am living in one of the colonies of ant, I may never understand the circumference of a single human room, forget about the house or the city or the state or the country or earth or solar system and so on. I guess you understand what I am trying to convey. So, it all seems so relative to ...