Variety is the Spice of Life

Our life is a drudgery involved in repeating the daily chores endlessly. It gets bored too very soon.The housewife does the same thing again and again.The office goer has the religious regimen of attending the office. The student runs to school and college regularly.The businessman sits and moves about without any other alternative. Even Nature carries on its activities meticulously every day. There seems to be no relief from the activities which repeat themselves with no end!

      Is it not possible to break from this rut and routine and enjoy ourselves by doing something other than what we do every day? It is not impossible.Man must change his attitude and mindset.We say "Variety is the Spice of Life" Do something different from what you do daily! The housewife can get up late and relax and for the sake of a change abstain from cooking! The Father can take out the family to a restaurant for lunch.The student can go late to the class or bunk to experience how it savours! The office goer can doze befoore his computer or do some personal browsing instead of doing office work! The businessman can visit places without doing any business for a change! Every individual can attempt doing something unusual for his regular daily activities There is a thrill and pleasure or an adventure in doing things like that! As a writer says, an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered! Variety in your activity is the essence of your otherwise dull, drab, earthly existence!

      Not only this, we can enjoy NATURE by visiting parks, gardens, vallyeys and magnificent mountains and wonder at the artistic and aesthetic creations of God! We ca educate ourselves by seeing and relishing the beautiful sights and sounds of nature! It was Wordsworth who said, "ONE IMPULSE FROM A VERNAL WOOD MAY TEACH YOU MORE OF MAN  OF MORAL EVIL AND OF GOOD THAN ALL THE SAGES CAN" ..."LET NATURE BE YOUR TEACHER." The Banished Duke in the Forest of Arden read "Books in the running brooks and sermons in stones!" There are too many things that we miss in Life attending to the daily chores! We can even extend our helping hand to the lowly and the downtrodden through charity and derive the bliss of contributing our mite to their happiness!!

       Instead of being incorrigibly materialistic, we can turn spiritual by seeing the Divine in every other being! We can lose our EGO by serving others and the society we live in, in various ways! Service to Man is service to God! We do not live to eat! We eat to live! All beings live, reproduce and die. But it is the way we live that distinguishes Man from the beast! Every day we lose a fraction of our longevity. Youth turns into old age. Days lost do not return. Time swallows up every thing in the universe! Wealth and riches are transient like a bubble on the waves! Our Life itself is like a flash of lightning---sudden momentary brilliance and total darkness! We have to wake up, understand the illusory aspect of our life and involve ourselves in realizing what we are and what the purpose of our Life is! There is an indescribable pleasurein the Spiritual Path when we serve without expecting any reward-- (nishkama karma) Let us break into that untread path to escape from that trodden by us earlier to enjoy what Life is!!!