Basking in the rising glory of the sun,
Flowers neither know subtraction nor the sum,
For that it is always full,
Flowers know how to rule,
Lily never desires to be a lotus,
See, it’s happy even with the cactus,
Ever wonder looking at the flower bed,
How come such fragile thing never sad!
It’s our perception that they try to teach,
How to live or how to reach,
But what do they care,
Whether in desert or along the Nile,
It’s just a seeds success celebrated by smile!
Fragrance or color, really doesn’t matter,
Secret is, for a flower it’s always now,
And nothing saved for later,
Basking in the glory of shining sun,
A tiny flower is so full of all the fun!
One of the celebrated ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus has said, “He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.” This thinking reverberates among many of his tragic plays. Also, interestingly such thinking is a prominent theme in many philosophical ideas coming from western philosophers. On eastern landscape, Buddhist philosophy is also mainly based on the painfulness of existence and how to escape from it. Only Vedic philosophy doesn’t subscribe to such thinking. Instead Vedic philosophy encourages to embrace and explore the ecstasy of existential exuberance. Not in a rudimentary way but through the higher grounds of spirituality.
Somehow it has been trickled into the conscience that knowing more creates the stress and pain, and ignorance is bliss. This is a half backed truth in my opinion because it shows that the peddler of such philosophy has never been through the process of gaining wholesome wisdom. Because once you know the truth, your existence becomes blissful and sheer joy. One who says, knowing more is creating pain, has yet to learn a lot!
Some argue that nature is beautiful and birds and animals look always happy because of their lack of thinking ability. To that, I would say, it shows the person’s own lack of ability to understand the truth. Because if an animal can be happy without much brain than a person with ability to think and understand should be millions of times much happier with the unique ability to enjoy many of the universe’ pleasures. Nature has given you the exceptional ability but if you don’t know how to use it then it’s you yourself to blame for all the misery.
Flowers boom, birds sing, rivers flow… all these because it’s their nature. Nobody gives a damn about your existence and nothing in this universe exists to entertain you. Nature doesn’t even here to teach you anything like those motivational speakers tell you. It just exists. So if you want to feel the joy, learn to exist in harmony! Like flowers?! Well, you can do even better, if you know you are human! 😉
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