A PIECE OF PEACE

The fast changing world of today has made modern man quite difficult to keep pace with it. Instant work with instant result has become the catchword of today’s world, a world where time is seen from a commercial point of view. Even to understand himself proves to be time consuming. And this very notion has prevented him to understand the meaning of life. But this doesn’t point to the fact that he is blind to the reality of life. He has seen life, passed through all the turmoils, but still feigns ignorance. He tends to forget that the more we divide our interests, our allegiances, our activities the less time we have for living. He is guided by the word ‘hurry’ which again leads to tension, insecurity, inefficiency and superficial living. But slowness should not be confused with sloth, which again breeds carelessness and general

inefficiency. Even rest and spiritual practices are conceived by him as deterrent in his success story. But seen from a realistic point of view, spiritual life is not divorced from day-to-day life every individual leads in this world. To live life gracefully so that a person can be in tune with any situation it is necessary that a person should know oneself fully well, his inner urge, his limitation etc. When one looks at oneself there is always some kind of seeking within. It expresses itself as a quest for fame, power, love, pleasure etc. But as soon as his cravings are fulfilled he either wants more or his seeking takes some other form. It becomes imperative to understand what is that driving force that constantly pushes man to seek something or the other. But what is basic to this is the innate desire to expand and it doesn’t want to see any limitation in its way. Every person has the natural urge to go beyond the limitation in which he is placed in life that is to remain unbounded. This is a spiritual process. When this seeking is not a conscious act on one’s part it takes the material form that makes man totally engrossed in this materialistic world. But at the same time if he is fully conscious of his urge it takes him on a spiritual dimension. Life’s situation becomes easier to handle when one becomes fully conscious of his natural urge within- that is his spiritual seekings, in this all are on the same footings.

Family, relations, power, money are actually the tools of self -imprisonment from which it is very difficult to come out. It makes man forget the hard reality that in the midst of life we are in death. The cells of the body we identify with are in a constant state of change, but limits of our vision keep us from seeing it. Those few who are sensitive to this reality of life have tremendous motivation to take to the spiritual path. Spirituality is the way to transcend the limitations that obstruct us from knowing the reality of life. As we begin to connect ourselves with reality we find deeper sources of strength, energy, power and happiness.

We all know that we have some dark hidden desires of our blood to tantalize us with impossible satisfaction endlessly withheld .Again there are potentialities within us to be good as well as evil .What we have to do is to ever create more ethical personalities in the course of living .We do so if we are devoted to enhancing the lives of others instead of feeding on them. Again happiness is not the end of life. Growth to fulfillment is the end. Growth includes moments of struggle as well as pain. But man at some times of their life, may be in their deepest needs or in the hours of estrangement will surely find themselves blessed by the gift of ‘Grace’.