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DECEMBER 2016
PRABUDDH JEEVAN
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feeling so good about what I wanted to share with that see a neutral response emerge. Which will not be as person and instead he thought it was highly insensitive hard hitting to yourself or to others around you and of me. I was thinking how much He would love it and you could be a part of creating a more harmonious way thus love me for it and instead in one sweep of a of co-existing rather than be miserable or cause to moment he made me come crashing down from my other's misery. high horse. It made me defensive, then introspective, Difference of opinion, perception and even complete then self blame, then self angry, then hurt, then offering value systems will always and forever be there. The justifications then unaware till I reached a place where seeker's diary today is aimed only at about the largest - the deeper layer of a world away from right and wrong contradictory universe, which resides in no external into a space where I could realize - Yes, from His angle space but very much within each and every one of us. it was completely insensitive of me and in this context We consolidate that and the jigsaw puzzle will all fall His angle was far more relevant than my context.
into place in a beautiful mosaic where fragments can I am not getting into details, dear readers not also make a complete beautiful whole. because it is private but because the incident is not so These insightful quotes are just various ways/ important. We may all have experienced this - the aspects to try and locate that expansion to feeling of being grossly misunderstood and of being accommodate all realities different from one's own labeled selfish or uncaring or insensitive or careless while the feeling and intention with which we set out
"No man has the right to dictate what other men actually to do it was totally the opposite. It is hard in
should perceive, create or produce, but all should be that situation, keeping the context in mind. The same
encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and thing in a different context or space or time of two days
emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit."later could have been amusing or even sensitive.
Ansel Adams Everyone's individual perception is his or her whole
"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people world and the match or clash of another perception is
live in a hostile world. Same world." - Wayne W. Dyer a cause of harmony and disharmony, happiness and
"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole sadness, love and animosity. Billions of people and billions of world's co exist and clash every single
world is a garden." - the Secret garden moment. Every single moment new Worlds come into
"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This being and every moment world's crash and yet nothing
has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are around has even moved or changed.
able to sit next to one another and not say anything Hence this month has made me believe strongly
and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient,
must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence that being silent and Param Kripadu Dev's line, Kar
is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together Vichar to Paam" is the single most relevant way to go
because only those who are comfortable with each about my life to that space within which can
other can sit without speaking. This is the great create jagruti or awareness by being able to see many varied aspects of a reality without the need to jump
paradox." - Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
par into any one action or reaction or opinion and suffering
Reshma Jain because of it. A world where we can completely stop
The Narrators reacting but actually thinking about, thinking through
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