threshold of a New year-2009.
Is the past important to us anyway? No. It has gone forever from our
life leaving us as memories. Has it taught us anything to use it as a
light in the virgin and unknown path we have to tread on now? But whom
does it show with its light and for what? Are we ourselves are not new
now?
There is nothing as path as such-a path that has been drawn beforehand
for a journey. Actually we travel through ourselves and thereby a path
is created.
I'm the path and the traveller both and simultaneously. But there is a
word –'experience' –one would say and it guides us from its source in
the past. But life can not be taught nor can life teach. Life prepares
us. Like nature-life grows. The more we grow the more we are near to
light-the more we know the more we feel what we need. We become
conscious. An ape can not know what a man need. The whole past has
prepared us, made us as light itself to know, or to discover, a path
hitherto unknown to us. We have been carrying a light, an urge for
something of which we can only be aware of by becoming continually
more –more than what we were in the past.
It is Man who wants to be new by finding a way –and constantly is
after it. He lives in time and so he is in need of a new beginning. He
has been continually becoming a new man in pursuance of an inner
future.
Let us be fulfilled in mortal time in the immortal newness.
"Man is Nature's great term of transition in which she grows conscious
of her aim; in him she looks up from the animal with open eyes towards
the divine ideal."
May we be closer to this divine ideal consciously when a new time
knocks at our door!
