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Touching Base with One’s Own Self
Recently, a young man who lives in the U.S.A. and
was on a work-related short visit to India confided
in me, “My wife is away on work three weeks in a
month; she lives in the university campus. I try to
work from home to be with the girls, because both of
them are less than ten years old. Now that I am here,
she is home with them. Sometimes this coordination
is cut very fine. When I return, I will have to pick
them up from a walkathon where she would have
left them before proceeding to work. In case my flight
is delayed, I have told my friend to take them home.
Well, don’t ask me why we are doing this! We are in
it and there you are!”
Both of them have high profile jobs, and are caught
up in an inextricable web. His entire schooling was
done in a Chinmaya Vidyalaya and so he makes it a
point to drop the children at the Balavihar class in
the weekend and picks them up. The hectic schedule
seems to have a life of its own, spreading its ten-
tacles into every nook and cranny, curling around
and tightening its grip on them day after day. Even
vacations seem to be a chore to be gone through.
When will we learn to sit back and see life for
what it is! In the very pursuit of life, we seem to lose
it, moment by precious moment. It is a luxury to sit
alone in the warmth of the early morning sun on a
wintry day, watching the dancing motes in the slant-
ing rays of light, revelling in the honeyed silence,
while the world continues its relentless whirl all
around. Touching base every now and then with
one’s own true Self is essential to relish life fully.
Tapovan Prasad 7 December 2017