“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
―
Maya Agnelou just flashes following couplet:
தீயினால் சுட்ட புண் உள் ஆறும் ஆறாதே
நாவினால் சுட்ட வடு.
How blessed are we to
first have so learned sages, saints
and
have their words of wisdom serve as beckon lights
just, as time and again,
we are left stranded and groping;
not knowing which direction to turn to..
Well,
Yesterday, 18th April, 2019,
post lunch we set out to the Holy Hills,
Arunachala for Girivalam.
En route on 99th km from Chennai,
we broke journey for a brief halt to have
the caffeine.
No idea who wrote this precise algorithm
that never fails.
Algorithm that you must have the hot, steamy
cup of coffee a couple hours after your lunch.
The mind is programmed that it works in clock work precision.
In that restaurant cum a little shop selling soaps, oils, shampoo, books, seeds, saplings etc, etc.
―
Maya Agnelou just flashes following couplet:
தீயினால் சுட்ட புண் உள் ஆறும் ஆறாதே
நாவினால் சுட்ட வடு.
How blessed are we to
first have so learned sages, saints
and
have their words of wisdom serve as beckon lights
just, as time and again,
we are left stranded and groping;
not knowing which direction to turn to..
Well,
Yesterday, 18th April, 2019,
post lunch we set out to the Holy Hills,
Arunachala for Girivalam.
En route on 99th km from Chennai,
we broke journey for a brief halt to have
the caffeine.
No idea who wrote this precise algorithm
that never fails.
Algorithm that you must have the hot, steamy
cup of coffee a couple hours after your lunch.
The mind is programmed that it works in clock work precision.
In that restaurant cum a little shop selling soaps, oils, shampoo, books, seeds, saplings etc, etc.
The shop portion in that restaurant was in an enclosure, may be 10x10, with air conditioning.
A sign board was placed outside the enclosure with the following words:
"Souls in
Soles out."
I could not help but appreciate the poetic sense - to say leave out your shoes - of the owner, an ex air force gentleman,
now running this shop employing well over 85% with local human resources.
I didn't get just a poetry sense.
But some lesson in local economic development too.
Talking of poetry, தீயினால் சுட்ட புண் உள்... , Maya Angelou............., there is an echo just reverberating the corridors of my heart.
There are number less occasions we get to hear paining curses, piercing words.
Not just that.
அறிந்தும் , அறியாமலும் , தெரிந்தும் தெரியாமலும், there might have been similar occasions when we might also have caused pain to known, unknown, sentient and insentient. For reasons and no reasons, either with rhyme or without.
When we hurt,
we are under an illusion that we hurt others.
But don't cognize,
we internally hurt ourselves.
When we atone,
We recognize the oneness of all.
That unity brings peace, heals wounds.
Thank God, He structured conscience invariably to every mortal, especially to introspect one's own variance with decency and values.
When it starts with a quote, to stick to the norm that it should end with a quote:
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
―
