musings 35

To maintain our physical body in all its strength and verve, we consume food, and do various exercises and expose the body to sunlight etc.. 

We consume carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, vitamins, water and so on.. 

Such nutrients are derived from various sources in nature or some are even synthezised..

But utlimately, it is not the Carbohydrate or protein or Vitamin or Sunlight that manifest as our body or its activities.. 

The materials and nutrients are given as inputs or fuels and some process in the body, just converts these into the building and maintenance materials needed for the body..

So if we surround ourselves with gunnybags of rice or wheat or kilolitres of milk or keep our body inside a well, our body is not going to grow..

We have to cook or process and eat or drink and the body should process the material consumed.. and for that the vital force.. may be the Divine force in necessary.. 

Similarly we gather a lot of information and knowledge from books, from the talks and opinions of others and through media outpours.. 

We have to understand that all this is just crude raw material for the consumption and processing by our mind.. and the thinking structure built in our body..

What we imbibe or understand is just what the mind and brain processes or infers through functionals and sensory orgnas.. 

Eating a few pages of a book or swallowing a tabala or nadaswaram will not make us enjoy a novel or a piece of music..

So, ultimiately the vital force inside ourselves is our master..

And we should always keep our mastery over external influences by properly channelling our own physical and mental networks..

The controller of these networks, the one who supplies the correct power and oil to run these is perhaps an unseen force.. Maybe it is God.. 

it is not at all difficult to trust and depend on that God..

But instead, if we trust gunny bags, empty drums and gas balloons, who can save us?

life is there just to be lived...

Most of our time is spent on planning  to live, earning to live, reading to live and dishing out advices on how to live.. 

Often we spend our time is destroying our own means and methods of good life..

But most often we tend to overlook what exactly we want from our lives.. 

and therefore we do not spend our time in what really we want..

In short, we plan a lot but live very little..

At least for five minutes every hour we are awake, is it better to review our own flow of existence.. to see whether we have lived our life the way we want at least for a little while?

The fact is, we rewind, we ruminate when we are no longer able to do anything at all.. when we are at the close of our innings in this world..

Too late in the day..

They say a good technician spends a lot of time in sharpening and fine tuning his gadgets.. so that he can use them effectively at the right time..

But if the technician is just sharpening his gadgets for ever but never uses it.. what is the use of his being called a technician at all?

We collect books, build libraries, fill our memories with data, but never recall them for any use.. Why?

Life is like that..

But then we have to live at least a little, is it not?