Friday, November 27, 2009

On Binding to Break

Our return trip from Mookambika was traced through two important pit-stops, one feeding the mind, and the other, the spirit.

We stopped by Manipal, where we met the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Warrier, who is known to wifey and MIL-ey. We toured the campus that has truly made a world-class business out of world-class-looking education.

We then stopped by the Krishna Temple at Udupi, where Krishna seemed to probe into me. But, it was benevolent, no doubt, as the Tulasi mala I had brought with me from Mookambika was used to adorn the entrance of the sanctum sanctorum. Also, had lunch for the first time in a temple.

Looking back, both secular and spiritual education are needed: one for a living, and the other for life. However, we should never be so full of knowledge, that we have no space for wisdom.

We are born through, and for, karmic reconciliation. Our connections, relations, interruptions and intermissions are all through karmic computation. Why not use the very ties that bind us together, to break us free? Courage is not an endowment, it is an engagement.

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