A Gift Unmatched: Realizing the Beauty in Living

Everything that surrounds us within the boundaries of this boundless universe, both animate and inanimate, has a way of re-orientating, teaching and opening-up our consciousness to see further into who we really are and who we can really be. Look up and see how radiant the sun always is; spotless a it appears, it also has a dark spot. Yet even in the face of the roaming clouds, it still manages to get its light through to us – though not as bright as when not hindered. The blue sky above, appropriate some parts and patches of the clouds to make itself more colourful and beautiful – the same cloud that leaves everywhere gloomy. What about  the Animal Kingdom? We have seen the mother hen hatch and breed its chicks; how jealously she guards them. The kites and hawks would come around; sometimes they succeed, yet the hen would do what it would always do, without reserve. Then it accepts what remains, until they could fend for themselves; then it starts over again. Too many lessons to...

In the chronicles of recent times, Of a day called today; The scribes wrote about the dawn, Forgetting the terrors of the night before. "The dawn", they say "gave hope "Of some exciting things new" But more treasures lay ahead, With the advent of a bright sunny day. As this dawn grew into the golden morn, The tales of the scribes would take a twist. For the silvery clouds would hide the rays And one could wish they never came to stay. And we wish we stayed in the dawn Which was never meant to be forever Since each of dawn, morn, day and Eve Always passes to come no more 'Yet', on goes the scribe's dreary tales, "With hours gone, clouds darker came "And then came the downpour unrelenting "As if to quench a never dying flame all-consuming Now with Twilight almost upon us, And our hopeful gazes never piercing through, "The beautiful golden sun makes it back "To her chambers for a night's rest, u...

In man’s ultimate quest for wisdom, a constant puzzle which has remained unsolved has been ‘the origin of the world’, or rather put in a narrower sense, ‘the beginning of humanity’. For knowledge sake therefore, many high profile and backyard debates, these in an equally infinite proportions, have come and gone. The question of ‘Origin’, instead of answering one question, has surprisingly led to too many which as of now have proved too much for even the modern man. One of those questions is the age-long philosopher’s mind-aching problem: Why is there Something instead of Nothing? The greatest and the most enlightened minds in history have attempted this question, and as well come up, not with the answer(s), but with more puzzles which may or may not lead to the answer. In all these, the entity called Time takes it all; Time has remained constant and its essence unaffected and unchanged. The bodies of the first proponents of this question (which I will refer here as the Fundamental...