by Manjit Handa
“Working in sync”. That is the key phrase. For anything to function smoothly. Be it an office, a function or a family. To respect the order of things, to revere and show obeisance to the job you are given. To just take the baton from the precedent, play your part and pass it on to the next, just so the work is successfully accomplished.
The best lessons are always learnt by and from Nature. “Night” takes the baton from “Day”; Winter takes it from Autumn who takes it from Summer who takes it from Spring; so things run slickly, uninterrupted. Planets move in their own orbits, not interfering with the others’, just respecting their own position revolving around the glorious Sun, the seemly master. No false egos coming in the way.
Ever wondered what a chaos it would be if just one unit refused to do the work assigned to it? If the Earth said it was tired of carrying the entire load on its back, if it refused to revolve around the Sun, if the villain in a play wanted to be the hero, the clown wanted to be the protagonist or a child the head of the family? What if the foot of the body wanted to be the brain and refused to walk? Things would not only fall apart, they would stop functioning and come to a standstill.
Generally we confuse the concept of “power”. We understand it as the ability to control and wield it on subordinates, thereby feeling superior or in command of a position. On the contrary it is only an “ability” to do a certain task. Not to undermine or overestimate one’s limitations but exacting them. It is when we reach that exactness that we reach the ultimate. Even the Sun is doing a job assigned to it. It constantly needs the planets to work the Solar system.
We all need each other. It is important to spot one’s abilities and impart it to the world around. At the same time be a recipient of others’ good service. To dissolve one’s entity as a facilitator in the larger scheme of things. To be able to think along these lines brings us close to ourselves and becomes a humbling experience.
Let us bend to be in accord.
With Love,
Manjit
