Thursday, December 7, 2017

Missing the Spirit for the Body

Y. Sailaja

A part of me not in congruity with a part of me. There comes a time in everyone's life when one faces a moral trajectory. The human mind is at an inflection point and revolts to work in tandem with the heart that upholds values, ethics, and morals so dear to it. The society that has taken the onus of morally policing us right from our childhood has failed to anchor us in life. When shoots take roots, values and ethics do not echo in our lives for they weren't firmly grounded.

Visiting temples, performing rituals, going on pilgrimages are mere acts of tokenism for we are still grappling with our prejudices. These activities do not purge our souls of its ills... be it hatred, despondency etc. Is the milk of humanity flowing in us??? We no doubt live in a physical world but we are missing the spirit for the body. Certain cogs in the wheels of our existing go unnoticed and thus our very existence is shrouded in mystery.

We need God to bail- in, to help us understand our purpose in this world. We need to prevent ourselves by being one among the milling crowds that throng the temples and puja rooms to bail us out of our problems.


The mea culpa of the human mind now stands exposed. The feeble strings of morality slowly face a death in its patronage. The ostrich finally lifts it head. Does the elephant at the peace table of the human mind help to resolve the mysteries of our existence???

6 comments:

  1. There was this point of time in my not-so-recent past when this inflection point arrived with a bang.

    Much before this, I had been twiddling with the concept of Spirit over Heart over Mind over Body heirarchy and intending to elaborate on the subject.

    However, my moral trajectory takes a different path than the one presented above. But, that's another story.

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  2. Very well worded, Shy.
    Keep writing, don't be shy.

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  3. Actually Sipra's puri trip account prompted me to pen down my thoughts.

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