I found something! Amazingly beautiful. Probably you already discovered it long time back, but my moment of discovery came just now and I have been ecstatic since ….hmm, not ecstatic exactly because that would contradict the essence of my discovery…but certainly elated.
I have seen two of my professors remaining at an unusual calm with themselves and yeah, they spread it around – that slowness in their voice, that peace in their words, that stability in their lectures. I find it contagious – I find myself unconsciously revising their notes at the same pace as they were taught by them in the classroom.
It struck me one day while writing my diary, that the word ‘sehaj’ in my language could describe it all – that stability and stillness. But an all capturing English word for that – I groped for the right word.
It had the same meanings as ‘thehraao’ – you would have noticed distinguished classical music singers – when they would take the alaap at a fast pace, although it would be a flurry of notes, but each one of the sur would come with clarity and with a certain stability in itself.
And then, I am reminded of the example that my dad always gives me when my mood is upset and I would nudge him by his side. ‘You see that toy – ‘Hit Me’, you hit it and it rocks from one side to the other. The harder you hit, the longer it rocks and then after a while the oscillations become smaller and smaller until it comes to rest again. So are we human beings, little ‘HitMe’s. Trials and tribulations of life hit us and then we rock from side to side, sometimes for days and weeks and months until we finally discover our core and come to rest.’
The other day while reading Sukhmani Sahib from an English translation – I found the word. Guess what?
Equilibrium.
The word would be so common and close to my life – I had not expected.
The discovery has given me a new perspective of all the equilibria I study in my course. The fact that someone could be at an equilibrium with oneself is just so captive for me.
I have seen myself going through periods of volatile moods and emotions – just ecstatic one moment and inexplicably sad, the other. At the end of the day, I find it a zero-sum game as if the sadness simply eclipsed and canceled the happiness of the morning. What is the use, I ask – of such ephemeral joys and sorrows?
So I took a decision – I vowed to myself. As far as possible, I am going to maintain an equilibrium with myself. Basking in joy should not make me forget the transitoriness of it, right? Similarly for difficult moments.
I have been doing 'Sehaj Paath' since school time and now I have realized the real meaning of it. Attaining sehaj that is, equilibrium.
I have a nice time now, doing the 'Equilibrium Paath' every night before going to bed and true, it stabilizes me!
I have seen two of my professors remaining at an unusual calm with themselves and yeah, they spread it around – that slowness in their voice, that peace in their words, that stability in their lectures. I find it contagious – I find myself unconsciously revising their notes at the same pace as they were taught by them in the classroom.
It struck me one day while writing my diary, that the word ‘sehaj’ in my language could describe it all – that stability and stillness. But an all capturing English word for that – I groped for the right word.
It had the same meanings as ‘thehraao’ – you would have noticed distinguished classical music singers – when they would take the alaap at a fast pace, although it would be a flurry of notes, but each one of the sur would come with clarity and with a certain stability in itself.
And then, I am reminded of the example that my dad always gives me when my mood is upset and I would nudge him by his side. ‘You see that toy – ‘Hit Me’, you hit it and it rocks from one side to the other. The harder you hit, the longer it rocks and then after a while the oscillations become smaller and smaller until it comes to rest again. So are we human beings, little ‘HitMe’s. Trials and tribulations of life hit us and then we rock from side to side, sometimes for days and weeks and months until we finally discover our core and come to rest.’
The other day while reading Sukhmani Sahib from an English translation – I found the word. Guess what?
Equilibrium.
The word would be so common and close to my life – I had not expected.
The discovery has given me a new perspective of all the equilibria I study in my course. The fact that someone could be at an equilibrium with oneself is just so captive for me.
I have seen myself going through periods of volatile moods and emotions – just ecstatic one moment and inexplicably sad, the other. At the end of the day, I find it a zero-sum game as if the sadness simply eclipsed and canceled the happiness of the morning. What is the use, I ask – of such ephemeral joys and sorrows?
So I took a decision – I vowed to myself. As far as possible, I am going to maintain an equilibrium with myself. Basking in joy should not make me forget the transitoriness of it, right? Similarly for difficult moments.
I have been doing 'Sehaj Paath' since school time and now I have realized the real meaning of it. Attaining sehaj that is, equilibrium.
I have a nice time now, doing the 'Equilibrium Paath' every night before going to bed and true, it stabilizes me!
