Each of us is blessed with wholeness — to hold the divine essence in our being. This corresponds to a mirror with just one reflection — of our soul in the context of our vision, or eyesight. It quantifies the infinite expanse of our eyes — the sum of the parts, or part of the whole. Our eyes are a rainbow synthesis — they have colour and lustre. They are our ‘open windows’ too, representing our symmetrical universe in a nutshell.
Our eyes are as indispensible as our mind and body; they epitomise inner peace and balance. They are a part of nature and our existence. Yet, the fact is — balance in our age comes at a premium. It envelops and gets into the depths of our psyche only when we provide quality ‘me-time,’ while accommodatingly integrating the spiritual aspects of our soul and creating a distinctive balance from within — and, not just from external materialistic embellishments.
Balance isn’t always a question of work-life equilibrium in the troubled times that we now live in. It is related to a set of scales in our mind that add up to who we are, or what we want to be. There are, of course, far too many scales in life — like blades of grass on the lawn. They are delicate; they are as complex and also unified like the neural networks in our brain. Such a ‘balancing act’ is not self-limiting. It is self-expanding — with every new life experience, changes at home, or workplace, or financial trepidations.
The point also is life is full of ups and downs — pleasant, fruitful, challenging and difficult. It is like a stream too, peppered with a fine balance, and shadowed by periodic episodes of bumpiness — like water that flows through the rocky crags. The reason is simple. Life would have been terribly dull without imbalance — because, minus jaggedness, there would be no movement, or progress. Picture this: that, in real time, or the real world, the clock just can’t stand still. This applies well to life and all its numerous facets, within and outside of us.
Such imbalances are, to use a metaphor, akin to the tilt of the Earth’s axis that occurs twice a year — while slanting neither away nor towards the Sun. Life is, likewise, full of dizzy paradoxes from which it returns to stability — provided we take charge and ease our anxieties. It is, indeed, a blessing that life provides each of us with a natural, conscious ability to bring things into balance, although not of us are innately resilient, or gifted. Yet, what makes us all tick is a distinct balancing element that resides within us. It ‘ups’ our ante, notwithstanding chaos, or turmoil, around us.
— First published in The Himalayan Times, Nepal
