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-Dedicated to a very special person who is close to my heart…Miss Arushi Singh!

“Look at nature! There is Existence enjoying Holi every day – colours flow afresh every day, new flowers open each morning. The festival does not stop for a moment – every moment is Holi” - Osho

Halt all your work. Take a stroll hand-in-hand with nature and you will realize that you are, from top to bottom, drenched in the colours of nature. There are umpteenth number of shades in which the nature’s canvas is painted astoundingly.

Mother Earth is bundled-up with bountiful flora. The herbs, shrubs, canopies, etc. beautify the ecology. The flora contains multifarious colours of human emotions like pink rose symbolizes joy, water lily symbolizes pure heart and the list is tall enough.

Nature expresses her show of transition outwardly in the form of seasons which herald new hues with themselves. Spring bottles-out a fresh start; renaissance. The earth reawakens from her slumber and explodes with new buds who debut on the stage of life.

Life remains in full swing during summer. Summer encapsulates joviality, liveliness, light, energy and the like. Followed by summer, fall embodies the retirement of nature into winter’s drowsy mood. Life is reaped. In winter, life is dormant and its dreary days are often equated with cold emotions like anxiety, anger, resentment and so on.

A million dollar question shows green shoots in my mind. Is nature only about plants, trees and seasons? NO is the rebuttal!

The mortal beings are the most vibrant colours of nature. They are not ‘apart’ but ‘a part’ of nature who add additional stars to the nature’s  beauty.

There are various races and colours of human beings. The variety in colours manifests itself in the white people of Caucasian race, yellow people of Mongolian race, flame-coloured people of American race, brown people of Malay race and black people of Ethiopian race. In fact there are sub-divisions as well. For instance, less or more black people.

The most vibrant colours of nature have most vibrant and complex nature too. Multiple psychologists like Chomsky, Maslow, Freud, Piaget etc. tried to spade-out the multiplicity of human nature. Each one had a different view in their stores on humans.

There are negative as well as positive emotions experienced by them which are not like an open book to be read with ease. There are sea of emotions that remain bottled-up within them. Life conjures an amalgamation of hues of joy, ecstasy, generosity, aggression, hatred, immodesty, stupidity, insanity and so on.

人間性 ....HUMAN NATURE….Isn't understanding it a hard nut to crack? ;) ;) :P

SPIRITUAL HEALTH

We cannot help everyone but everyone can help someone!

Since childhood, it is instilled within us that we should help others first. For instance, if you are standing in a queue on the bus stop waiting for the bus and the bus arrives. All of a sudden you see a frail, skinny old fellow plodding with a staff in his hand. At that point of time, what you do (in fact most of us do) , you allow him to stand out of the way in the queue ahead of you. But what if you yourself would have been handicapped? For sure the scene would have been totally different!

Similarly, how can a psychiatrist counsel others if she herself is the victim of stress and depression? By the same token, how can you help others emotionally and intellectually and spiritually as well when you yourself are in a state of darkness?

The gist of the matter is that in life others can seek your help only when you are able yourself. Prior to lending hands for help to others each one of us should see to it if we are spiritually sound as it steers our mental, physical and emotional health.

Now the million dollar question is – how can we improve ourselves? Inculcate a certain values and feel the change. Always feel grateful to God who is blessing us with such a wonderful life. Maintain distance from those who propagate negative energies and seek the company of people having elevated thoughts. Eventually, uplift your soul so that you will be able to uplift other mortal beings….as Gandhi ji said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

Remember! A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination.