The latent secret

Lifting up a story or an idea from a newspaper column and putting it on your own blog is as grave an offence as surreptitiously peeping into someone’s else mind and unapologetically giving your name to his/her thoughts (profound, if any). This is what I’m doing right now. But the idea in itself is so damn intriguing and interesting that I think I would be committing a felony if I fail to share it with my readers (if I have any).

Today was not a peaceful day for me at least not until the evening time. I was not being myself. Since morning, some vague and abstract thoughts began to saunter in my mind. I tried hard to shove them off but before long, my unreasonable fear would resurface again. Situation became worse from bad on realizing that I was to stay alone at home for few hours. Although being alone doesn’t require a great deal of courage, there are times when you desperately want someone to be with you, if not together, but at least the presence should be there. It certainly gives you a lot of mental strength. However, I ended up having neither of the two. Hence, I decided to read the previous day’s newspaper, which I could not on being busy celebrating the friendship day. It had an article on a renowned artist Sakti Burman, who has carved a niche for himself in the field of art. I’m not going to get into the details of that article which dealt with his life and his quest for indefinable but in the end he narrated a tale from Upnishads, so enchanting that here I am, writing it down past midnight.

“The gods had a powerful secret which they didn’t want the human beings to know because once they acquired it, they would become god themselves. So the gods thought of hiding this secret in the sky and even in the underworld but they knew that man was intelligent and would find it. So they decided to hide the secret in the head of the man himself”

A simple story yet requires a deep insight. A story, which unveils the truth of life. The truth that “we all are looking for something which we don’t know, we are always running after that unknown thing. It is a perpetual searching, it’s all in our heads.” Some may get it and some may fail. It comes after much thinking of what we want out of ourselves. Nevertheless, this secret could be anything. It could be a search of salvation, eternal peace, mental satisfaction let alone the monetary ones. But it is there, right inside our head. All we need to do is contemplation.

I don’t know how many of you would like this. But this is one area which has been subject of many bloggers. And tonight I join the league too.

For those wondering whether or not I got past that abstract feeling. Well, the story did provide me a close escape. Let’s see for how long.