A Drive Through Sun-set
Sun-rise brings hope for the day
and sun-set for another day
By Mukesh Sharma
Sliding through the neat, clean, broad and smooth road free
of any traffic snarl, this blogger enjoyed a thrilling drive through the
soul-soothing sight of sun-set yesterday evening in Phoenix, Arizona in the
land of America.
A Drive Through Sun-set
The sun is not only a source of light and life but also a
manifestation of God. Almost all religions accept the divinity of the sun. Even
scientists admit the indispensability of the sun for the existence of all the
planets in our solar system including earth.
Sun-rise and Sun-set
Though the grand spectacle of sun-rise and sun-set occurs
daily which is witnessed from the most of the parts of the earth, one always
finds it novel and new where one loses one’s self in the fathomless abundance
of sun’s grandeur and grandness, splendor and elegance, magnificence and
majesty. There is nothing except oneness.
In the holy Bhagavadgita,
chapter VII, Sloka 27, Lord Krishna illuminates
Arjuna:
“ All beings are born to delusions O Bharata (Arjuna)
overcome by the dualities which arise from wish and hate”
The slokasignifies
that it is not easy for the man to come out of ‘dualities’ - hope exists with despair, gain exists with
loss, happiness exists with sorrow, love exists with hate, the beginning exists
with the end, day exists with night, birth exists with death. Nothing is absolute.
However, the godly sun’s divinity is absolute – just light
and luminescence - no darkness. There is
no duality even in sun-set and sun-rise. Unless one has the cognizance of
following night or day, one can’t distinguish between sun-set and sun-rise.
Sun-rise brings hope for the day and sun-set hope for another day – there is
only hope no despondence.
The sun conveys the message that success in life comes when
one works for success only; one breathes for success only; one lives for
success only. Don’t let the fear of failure distract your mind from the well
defined goal.
