Just Another Day!

Many many moons ago , I recollect the annual Vijayadashmi day ... the six of us waiting for our Father to finish the prayers , all of us bathed and dressed ( in new clothes ? I do not recollect). Once the Lords had been paid obeisance  to and His prasad taken, we kids gorged on the Vadas and the Polis. The Polis I remember vividly for I would wince at the ghee streaming down the  fingers and the brown filling scattering in the plate . I never could get to like this dish.

And ,therefore, the Lord saw it fit that I should prepare the Poli for Him this Vijayadashami day- 23rd October 2012. J seriously unwell with a breathing problem , yet determined that the rites must not be missed. So the deal was that I being ready and bathed and all that would make one Poli for the Lord and she being sick and not ready would make the rest for ourselves. So Goddess Durga ( I realised that we had no image of her in our sacred room) was offered a Poli and a Vada cooked by me. 

Vijayadashami is the annual occasion when we take those resolutions , make those beginnings. A rational way to acknowledge and forget past failures and attempt anew. Like all resolutions they hardly last and we are back to reflecting upon them a year hence. As Osho so brilliantly puts it if you need to "resolve" it is not in our internal system as yet . If it is not within the the system than it is unlikely to ever succeed. Osho suggests being "aware" of this reality and let the realisation move one to action. 

Take the desire to write. All long as I was stuck to a job , entwined by the daily grind of activities ( Deepak Chopra calls them routine in a recent blog), I yearned ( and resolved) for the future date when I could manage time by myself and set apart hours for writing. Now I have a convenient label of  "writers blog" to rationalize my failure. Along comes a Vijayadashami and I am at it now, though J is unwell and grumbles at my lack of attention. However I persist just to get this one blog through, as a commitment to a daily hour of writing, This one has hardly taken 20 minutes, disturbed by an order to set right the mess I created in the other bedroom. 

So thank you Microsoft and all the other tech powerhouses who have created the blog ecosystem . I make another start at writing from today