Monday, 19 November 2018
Imperfection is beautiful
Times in The Speaking Tree
, India, Lifestyle | ET
By Sumit Paul
The most beautiful face
never has symmetry and the most beautiful thing comes with a baggage. A rose is
accompanied by thorns and a peacock has ugly feet. A lotus never has a perfect
surrounding because it blossoms in muck.
So, what’s perfection? Can
it be defined? All the so-called conditions of perfection are set by us, human
beings.
Perfection is a human
concept, the limit of a limited mind. There’s never a fixed concept of
perfection. It keeps changing. When there’re inherent perfections in us, how can
anything made by us be perfect? American humorist Mark Twain said that the very
notion of perfection is continuously getting perfected all the time, so much so
that it needs an element of imperfection as a catalyst to grow further! In
fact, anything or any person with a slight error or imperfection is more
admired by people because we all can relate to the imperfections more easily
than an imaginary idea of perfection.
Aslight defect in
appearance adds to the essence.
Our attempt to achieve
perfection has robbed us of the simple joys of life. When Chinese poet Lu Shun
was asked how he wrote such simple and beautiful poems, he said that he never
bothered about his poems’ perfection.
He scribbled them when
thoughts struck him. Lu Shun never tried to perfect the deluge of thoughts that
descended on him so effortlessly.
DISCLAIMER : Views
expressed above are the author's own.
Self –Realisation
Realisation is the
watchword of all religions. If there is a God, we must see Him; if there is a
Supreme Self, we must realize It. Otherwise these theories about the existence of
God and the Soul have very little value. If we cannot put them on a practical
basis and realize the truth of them, they remain for us but mere words. This realisation
is the only thing that can bring satisfaction to us. No amount of theory can
every satisfy our minds. Unless we can see the reality of things for ourselves,
we can never find satisfaction. The various methods of joining words, the
various methods of speaking in beautiful language, the various methods of
expounding the Scripture cleverly are only for the enjoyment of the learned ,
but thy never lead to spiritual realisation , not can they ever bring freedom. What
use is there in studying the Scriptures if we thereby gain no spiritual wisdom?
Studying means to get the directions which lead to the ultimate goal; and when
we forget that ,we do not gain any profit whatsoever, though we may spend our
whole life in reading all the Scriptures fo the world. There is a saying in
India that “As a donkey carries loads of sandalwood on his back, only feeling
the weight of the burden without getting the benefit of the sweet perfume , so
it is with those who study innumerable Scripture without knowing the essence –the
trugh of them. Courtesy Vedanta in
practice
But, if He exists?
I
drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and
evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed
at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on
something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well,
if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He
exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten
minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy
that I derive 4m.
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