BEYOND BORDERS FEB 18
BEYOND BORDERS, International Online Magazine edited and published by Sujil Chandra Bose for BIGG NETWORKS, a part of the CCCI Family. Beyond Borders reaches out to its global readers through stories, thoughts, pictures, poems on Compassion and companionship.
BEYOND BORDERS, International Online Magazine edited and published by Sujil Chandra Bose for BIGG NETWORKS, a part of the CCCI Family. Beyond Borders reaches out to its global readers through stories, thoughts, pictures, poems on Compassion and companionship.
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<strong>BEYOND</strong> <strong>BORDERS</strong><br />
DARKNESS, A<br />
BEGINNING<br />
PHILOSOPHY | EXPERIENCES<br />
By KRISS VENUGOPAL, Dubai<br />
The words of Brihadaranyaka Upanishad were the first to instill a thought in me about the<br />
transition from negative to positive when, as a child, I heard my sister as a school girl<br />
chanted the verse...<br />
Aum Asato ma sat gamaya<br />
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya<br />
Mrtyorma amrutam gamaya<br />
Aum shaanti shaanti shaanti:<br />
(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28)<br />
The strife in every life is a movement from one to the other and ultimately towards peace.<br />
These words indicate the transition from the ignorance to truth, darkness to light and death<br />
to immortality. The equation of untruth, darkness and death has given a darker shade to<br />
darkness. But there is a beauty to darkness too, there is a beauty to ignorance too, there is<br />
a beauty in death too.<br />
The civilizations have come through the dark ages, and so does our life. The struggle in<br />
every life is termed to be dark, but there is a beauty hidden in it. During a rough patch in<br />
my life, a very dear friend of mine always told me:<br />
“Hold on… move on… there is light at the end of the tunnel”<br />
Now when I look back reaching the light at the end of the tunnel is that I have a story to tell<br />
about the struggles, from which others can draw an inspiration and move ahead in life. “It is<br />
dark only till we open our eyes...” the title I chose to blog on, came to me one day as I woke<br />
up from a nightmare.<br />
Remember the time there was a power outage and it was dark, we tend to look more<br />
cautiously, we try and search for the ways to reach the candle, our senses are more active<br />
in the dark. So is the case with any nocturnal predator. Their senses are keener than the<br />
prey, and so they survive. The beauty of darkness is that it prepares us for the worse.<br />
The darkness in colors attracts us more towards it than its lighter shades. In fact Black<br />
absorbs all the light and leaves none. So black is more loving than the other colors as it<br />
differentiates no color, but absorbs the all of it. The darkness of the night reveals a million<br />
stars far away. Let’s look at the brighter side of darkness... and the statement seems so<br />
ironic "The brighter side of darkness"<br />
Let the darkness give us the strength to envision our bright future. There lies a beauty in<br />
the darkness, as it makes us better. Embracing the darkness and its beauty is the starting<br />
point for the race of life. Every failure seems to be darkness, but it is the beginning where<br />
the light would elevate to a pedestal of success in life.
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