Language is a universal expression. It makes
one understand opposite person’s emotions and feelings. We have so many
languages from old to the new evolving ones, yet why have our country failed to
understand each other? The castes and community fights still exists leading to
terrorism and extremism. Going to the thought of Gibran, I wonder if seven
words could change our society’s thought process and thereby revolutionise our
country.
Seven is a lovely number isn’t it? I don’t know if you agree
or not but I find it very lucky for me. If you ask me what are the seven golden
words that one needs to understand to go about in their life, then what else
than seven swaras . In music, these swaras empower each and every Raga. The
songs play to the tunes of these swaras. Sa,Re,Ga,Ma,Pa,Da,
Ni, make us understand the meaning of life in a very simple form. The
Arohanam and Avarohanam are the proper example of ups and downs that one face
or confront in their life. Let me put a name to each swaras which will explain
for itself.
1. Sansar : What
is life without family? A family is the nexus of emotions, feelings, warmth,
fights and laughter. It is actually a picture of life and each day spent with
family gives us a new short story. The story is then binded tightly to produce
a big book called life. In our bad times, family never leaves our hand. It
always provides us support no matter what the situation is. From Sansar comes
Sanskruti and from Sanskar and Sanskruti.
2. Rasana : Light
is the essence of life. It gives the meaning to all the darkness that prevails
and challenges a hope to one’s soul. For example, earth is nothing if not for
sun. Sun brings in the warmth and provides its light to the biosphere. Not only
plants benefit, but we as human beings do too. Light efficiently removes the
dark evils and radiates its power. In life too, be with those who radiate
energy and glow of their soul and not with the negative minded people who suck
your energy and glow from yourself.
3. Guna : Guna or
Gun is the character that makes a person or imbibes certain values. These set
of values would take him to the door of success or push him to the abyss. So
Right Guna or Saatvik Guna is the one which will help a human being grow and
prosper. Wrong Guna will always make him suffer.
4. Mata : Where
do you start your life? From where does your cell gets nourishment? Mother’s
womb and body. The life is created and nourished or nurtured by his/her mother.
Mata is the one who leads our way like a guiding light and imparts learning and
development right from the birth. She stays in our life like a torch bearer and
keeps on showering us with care and affection.
5. Prakruti : One who connect with the nature,
connects with oneself. A person who appreciates the little beautiful things of
nature knows the beauty of life. As
nature is the world around us, we need to know each and every element of nature
and its importance as in how it helps us. In other words, one has to be aware
of our mother nature and its forces (wind, eruptions, avalanches, freezes and
etc.)
“Nature is unfathomable
To the one who closes his/her eyes
when he comes in front of it
Nature is unfathomable
To the one who goes on surviving in
this planet instead of living”
6. Daya : Mercy
or kindness is the way to express ourselves towards the other. You all must
have read the saying “Treat others the
way you want to be treated”. Never be harsh on anyone unless they are to
you. Your shoulders should radiate warmth in every expression of yours. I have
seen quite a few mothers and children
who treat each other in a bad manner. They speak rude that is if they speak as
larger part of the day, they are glued to their whatsapp messages and other technological breakthroughs. Where has all the Kindness disappeared? I am
pretty much active in twitter. I remember there was a tweet from Kavya (name changed to protect identity). She
had asked everyone to post one kind deed undertaken on that whole day. I was so
happy and each day I tried to be kind and show kindness to the people in and
out of the society in order to post my tweet. I am very happy the way Kavya
encouraged others to take part in this noble work and post their act of
kindness. But the sad part is why we are forced to do something. This should
come as natural to each one of us, isn’t it?
Kindness is the emotion which is slowly dying or can only be seen in few
souls. One, thanks to the technology. Two, we have stopped teaching our future
generations to be a kind hearted person. Abraham Lincoln had personally written
a letter to his son’s headmaster. In the letter, he mentioned that he wants his
son to be like this and like that. In each and every line, spark of kindness
emitted. In other words, he paid little attention to how much his son studied
or secured good marks, but he wanted his son to be a kind and gentle soul. Show
mercy, let Daya prevail.
As I
finished this pointer, I took a break and checked my facebook profile. And
guess what? I saw a post and the person is very much irritated with the lack of
kindness that she encountered. I quickly recorded it here to make you know how
arrogance has covered our society hiding kindness.
Here
is the post:
“Arrogance seems to be the norm now a days..
Includes literates and illiterate.... Right from the roads to the roadside
eateries.... People bully u and push u to the limit where either u have way to
them....well disciplined people who want to maintain some decency and decorum,
find it difficult to stoop to their level to argue with them.... So finally arrogance
wins and they get what they want immediately where as the others who follow the
rules have to wait patiently forever or return with empty hands”
--------Lalitha Kishore
7. Nisarg : Our
environment is the one who speaks first about ourself to an outside person.
What comes in environment? Our surroundings, our friend circle, our neighbours,
our home, our society, technology, cultural factors, workplace, books and etc.
We as human beings and environment are closely intertwined with each other and
thereby maintain the balance or equilibrium in nature. These are the resources
that we utilise in close co–ordination. Having said, we should protect our
environment or Nisarg to have a healthy lifestyle and better living.
(This post is part of the http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/365-writing-prompts/
program where the aim is to post at least once a day based on the prompt that
they have provided. The Prompt for today is, " Khalil Gibran once said that people will
never understand one another unless language is reduced to seven words. What
would your seven words be?")
Good one!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot dear :)
DeleteBeautiful. Loved the explanations for each swara of life, but especially the ones on light, and how life flows from it (Sun to Earth to Plants to Humans...); and kindness. I find kindness to be a quality that is there in everyone, but expressed by few. You mention of how we're forced to do something, like sharing or posting that kind deed. It'd spread kindness, but I think doing the deed more important than just sharing. So I hope people, even if they don't share, do kind things each day. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Vinay for your amazing comments. And you write very well. Keep the good work going. :))
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