BE ORIGINAL

BE ORIGINAL 

Although we are all linked to the origin of life, we are so deflected from it that few among us are indeed original. Be creative, be original, forge your bond with your roots. This is the way to true spirituality, the royal avenue to freedom and light. This is also the way of sociocultural evolution unhindered by traditional trappings.

By returning to roots here is meant anchoring oneself in one's inner being as one feels it and not as per the prescription of a Prophet, Messenger, Messiah, Sage, Saint, Divine Incarnation et al. One must view life from one's own vantage point of vision, one's unique location in the realm of life and become a channel of Nature, a window into the vast vistas that surround one, a peephole into the perennial mystery that the universe is, spanning the width of the large and the small from the macroscopic stellar systems to the minuscule world of quarks and strings. Then there are emotions, sensibilities and sensitivities that are personal, the smiles and the laughs, the tears and the wails, the likes and the loves that animate a being. Who can adjudicate on these? Who must contain these spontaneous overflows within scriptural bounds?

So, be original. Pen your perspectives on life around you, on life within you as you feel it and not as you ought to deem it to be following some prophetic injunction. Be your own self and live life on your own terms, independent and free. In it consists the greatest good, your best chances of self-evolution and your brightest hopes for the future, uncertain though it may be.

Written by Sugata Bose