Boomerang - D6

There were 100 ways to name this blog, maybe 1000 ways to interpret it, but this one of the simplest learning of life sometime takes ages to understand. In simple terms, what goes around comes around, or karma, in bit more complex quote, "what is here is everywhere and what is not here is nowhere", this is my favourite quote to understand the interpretation. It was around college, I read alchemist, I understood it but never found it relevant, by then was familiar with the concept, it had surfaced in religious text too, but it never found a deeper, till much latter, rather till very recent times. 

Gradually, I picked up traveling, mostly to understand various aspects of life across India and also to realise diversity of cultures and people in India and ofcourse food. Life become experiencial, more so with social experiments and professional stints. And gradually, one gets curious with never ending pursuit of happiness. That's when things starts turn strange, till the time one isn't seeking happiness and is busy with daily routine or thrill, it all seems to be steady. But as soon, as you understand yourself better, and try to remain in state of pleasure, the race begins. Let's take a simple example, once you are independent and start earning enough and you start shopping, going on trip, or enjoying of favourite food, where does it end, or does it become repetitive affair or cycle to attain that state of pleasure. Or to take a more complex example, you take of a career or start to date someone, even if things are rosy, you give up and resign, and it haunts you forever. Or when you are high, and high again, and again. The idea, is to discuss, when we start to realise, things which are giving us pleasure, or which might, why does the pursuit is either unaccomplished, artificial or never ending.

Boomerang, yes that's where is comes back in. Colossal work, since human history has been done to make one understand, just this simple concept, as what you sow is what you reap, karma, tit for tat, give and take, etc. 

Even when we know it, we miss understanding the holistic view of it, that is, happiness never resides outsides us, yet loads of enablers of it can. And sometime, rather than pursuing this permanent bliss, we keep running around flighting pleasures or evading pain, to get on to next moment, where we presume the things will change. 

But the tendency of external factors to affect our life adversely or beneficially, depends on what we sow inside us, how we deal with them, if we are resolute and consistent in actions to not give in to pains or pleasure, to takes these externalities with detachment, it becomes easier in state of positives vibes and permanence of happiness. I feel, even when we have understood this, we are humans, we can commit error of judgement or might give to pain or pleasures losing sight our ownself. But let's discuss it some other day.

Coming back to myself, I was still in my backpack travel mode of life, in himachal when I read that quote, "what is here is everywhere and what is not here nowhere", it struck me hard. It's tooks days for it to implode. But it helped my realise, the pointless of my pursuits and travels. It's took much longer to imbibe holistically, by then many error of judgements had occured and much has been lost to recover, but that's the journey. It's not for it begin well, it's not for it to end well, it's a procession of ones life. 

Boomerang!

Goodnight.

- Ravindra Vikram