Friday, September 21, 2007

Give and Get!

Have you ever had this feeling? I am sure everyone of us surely has... everyone of us who lives has, everything that exists has! The feeling of joy, the joy of being so calmly excited, excitement out of the achievement, and the achievement of the ultimate victory, victory out of the feeling of that fulfillment, fulfillment of the purpose, a purpose of a mere life and a mere one's existence. That feeling when we say "Yes!", "Yes, we did it" pumping fists in air, or even that calm smile out of the sense of victorious joy for having achieved the purpose... we feel these or somewhat similar to these emotions at every turn at every moment in our daily life (ofcourse there are those moments we don't feel them also, but isn't that again how we take it...? again aren't these finally those just interim moments between successive transition between doing something to achieve the final glory and then actually achieving it? because finally when we are there we look back remember only the sweet moments of how we achieved it and not those elusive moments when we were striving without victory insight... and those moments are also eqully important because those bring higher sense of achievement, aren't we glorified more on winning after being frustrated at the very thought of almost having lost it, don't we feel the joy and happiness after having through the struggle and pain to achieve what we had set to achieve for? aptly goes the saying "sweetness and joy of the glory lies in the struggle and pain put to achieve it", hadn't we had rains we wouldn't have liked the sun so much, hadn't we had the dark nights we wouldn't have loved the mornings, hadn't we had the steep slopes we wouldn't have joy of reaching atop mountains).

But what is the real victory is the real question, is it merely achieving something? how long does such a joy last? how long can we continue glorifying the things we did and we achieved? is there any such eternal joy? is there any victory that lasts forever? is the question... Answer is "yes" there is definitely and the answer lies in itself... it is the joy that lasts till eternity when it comes not from the only victory but being continually aware of achieving more such victories, achieving the higher purpose, the higher purpose of which these are just small stepping stones towards the path reaching there... but the fun is that the destination is not a single stop journey! :) even more so, in knowing that there is no destination, it must take a loooooooong walk down the path to know this very fact, and the fact is that the journey itself is a destination, its just that we just need to keep walking! So, every thinking mind will have an obviously innocent question: "then what's the purpose, if we just have to walk? and if we just have to keep walking isn't there any end?" I guess the answer lies in itself again, purpose is nothing but achieving the knowledge that one has to take a sojourn to keep walking and discovering more closely the eternal beauty and deriving heavenly joy of the ultimate purpose!". but then what and where's the end...??? can't be told in words, but it has to be discovered by actually walking down the path... perhaps there is no end or perhaps the end is just another begining but definitely worth taking a walk to know more about it...

Let me share one such joy, along the path that we might come across, it's the "joy of giving". Lot's been said and done about this that doesn't deserve any space on in here. How much do we long for something to achieve, to get? but how often do we achieve it not by getting but by giving? There is this joy of achievement that comes out of non-achievement, to give what we are seeking for... give a smile and what do we get in return is a question that even a new-borne baby answers very clearly, doesn't it? perhaps because new-borne baby doesn't know nothing but to give... give a smile every morning to a person when you are glad and don't know perhaps that person will smile back at us in the evening when we need it most, when we are sad... think you have to get something and then think when sincerely need to give the same thing; when do you feel more strong? we grow stronger when we get to give than we get to just get... in the miserly world of "give and take" if one starts walking down the path of "give and get", "give without expecting" i think we would reach there sooner than later...