There is a certain gloominess. ..an event normally gets me thinking but this simply paused everything ..a certain stillness fills the air
My neighbours brother passed away in the recent train accident ...
I won't see him again ...I remember him as keeping his car absolutely clean coming over from Bangalore with 2 kids ...
Calling it fate doesn't help ...neither does it make sense to blame anyone ...everything just hangs and in the silence the earth holds another child in her arms and the family stares into a future they don't want to be in without that child
There are no explanations ..no words of comfort ...nothing material ..nothing spiritual even ..just the reality of life and it's uncertainty
we just move on ...I move on ..I explain people who ask me whether the job I offer will be permanent and I've always replied that my waking up the next day isn't in my hands how can something I offer be permanent?
Here it is ..
I've always believed that the difficulty and beauty of Vedanta is in accepting this reality and embracing life ..overcoming the instincts by empathy
But the silence of the moment is more meaningful than breaking it using the noise of words
