Spreading Fragrance

We are entitled to our own space. If for some reason, we are denied it, we have the ability to design our inner space, create our own sky, lush gardens of fragrance with colourful birds that chirp songs dear to our heart and take flight into realms of imagination. But how authentic are our birds and skies if we are not in tune with ourselves? Why can’t we shed debris and burden of a cumbersome past to assimilate the best that nature has to offer, like a stunning rose or lotus do? By bragging about our species’ superiority, we have unwittingly limited our growth by undermining all other, much more rewarding and potent possibilities that lie within our reach. Our deep-rooted conditioning devises our fate. We always have enough excuses to justify our wrongs because the ‘rights’ are difficult to come by, involving too much effort and a high degree of integrity. We look for an easy way out. Unhealthy compromises have become the norm, be it at work or in relationships, compromises that often camouflage our uncertainties and inferiority complexes, making us feel like inflated superstars. By all means, let us run the race but, with our own, individual inner self, challenging our own potential, honing our own skills, in tune with our own inner, peaceful self. Then we stand a good chance of becoming flowers and genuinely creative in all our relationships. As Osho put it, “It does not matter whether you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold, what matters is the flowering… let your fragrance

Source: Economic Times, 13/02/2019