Be Light to be Bright...

           Today during my interaction with a girl named Glory...tells me that "Take things light and you will be bright." I think she was partially right by making this spontaneous and frank statement. I began to think about it. Then I began to make sense of what she said. 

  In life, we find very difficult to lose our belongings and things. It is although more difficult to lose oneself for the other. Especially in today's context where consumerism, materialism and functionalism creep into our minds and hearts instead service and concern.

           Once, King Sree Krishna Devarayalu invited all the poets, learned and other elite to discuss about the ways to reach heaven. All great people were assembled for the show. Then one of his campus poets who was known for wit and wisdom Tenali Ramakrishan came forward and made this short statement. "If I go then I go." No could understand it. So he was reqested to explain it. Then he said, All  the world is fine and good. The problem is not the world but I. So it is this I that is becoming a hindrance for many. So first make your ego/I empty. Therefore, first let your I go and then the rest enters into you. If I goes then I go to heaven. Thus we can make self light and thus we become bright.

          Thank you Glory for the thought of the day. "Take everything light and you will be bright."