Bridging the Gaps

Bridging gaps after gaps makes one move to more and more congenial circumstances one after the other, and eventually one realizes one’s dream, and achieves one’s goal

By Mukesh Sharma

 

Up in the endless expanse of the universe, all the planets and stars exist in their respective places assigned by Mother Nature with discernible gaps. Down on the earth, giant mountains steadfastly stand with deep depressions. Even in human world, each man is born at a distinctive place with challenging gaps. To man, progress lies in bridging the gaps after gaps – each crest is followed by trough, each piece of knowledge is preceded by the chunk of ignorance and each answer is led by hordes of questions. Progress is an endless journey through gong buoy and gaps.

 

Bridging the Gap

Ancient rishis, Mahavira, and Buddha taught the world to bridge the gap between man and God through spirituality.

 

Albert Einstein made his best efforts to bridge gaps between earth and celestial bodies through his ‘theory of relativity; Stephen Hawkins tried his level best to bridge gaps with his well-reasoned hypothesis of ‘big bang theory’ and ‘black holes’.

 

With the acquired knowledge and material advancement, man landed on moon decades ago. The rover is already treading on the Mars. The Parker solar Probe has reached near the ever blazing Sun and incredibly touched its magnetic field. Bridging the gaps after gaps further, man, no doubt, can dream to travel faster than light, find out ‘another’ earth and eventually knock at the ‘gate of God’s abode one day.

 

By Human scale, particularly, in human society, the journey to coveted success begins with self – bridging gaps between conscience, conscious mind and subconscious mind and thus become a monolithic self to move further. The majority of people are born as  commoners but by bridging gaps after gaps through life, they become men/women of great stature.

 

Despite his humble origin, Narendra Damodardas Modi has also struggled a lot to bridge gaps after gaps in his life – from a tea vendor to school, from school to adolescent, from adolescent to RSS, from RSS to BJP, from BJP to common people at large and today he is the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.

 

Undoubtedly, man is born in a circumstances surrounded by many gaps. Bridging gaps after gaps lead one to another better circumstances. Further the new circumstances also come with many gaps. Bridging gaps after gaps makes one move to more and more congenial circumstances one after the other and eventually one realizes ones dream and achieves one’s goal. It is like a climb on the ladder where each rung up the ladder is preceded by a gap and down succeeded by a gap. Thus an upwardly mobile, rung after rung reaches the roof top.

 

So, to start with bridge the gap between yourself and ego, and thus become one strong self. Further, Bridge gaps with people around – relatives, neighbor, friends and even unknown people with due respect and humility. One never knows whom one might need in what circumstances. Even Bhagwan Ram had to seek the help of Simians.

 

Success is nothing but an art of bridging gaps within and outside, building bridges and their proper maintenances.