Acharya Ramanuja's 992nd birthday is tomorrow and I salute this great teacher, who broke the barriers of any discrimination, to help each and every one of them seek the highest in their own way. He walked each one's path along with them and lit their way. On hearing his stories one realises, that such kind of souls make religion more meaningful and a pathway to tread upon to reach your destination.
the word religion means to re-ligare or go back. to what?To where we came from to our beginning. Why do that? we want to go forward not backward. That's probably what most of think and hence the non-acceptance and constant denounciation of religion, when it tries to reason on your face.Well... lets look at nature - What if, the seed that grew into a tree refuses to get back to ground and wants to keep on growing endlessly - will there be anymore trees or any more room? What if the water that comes down as rain refuses to evaporate back up to the clouds? what if the streams astounded by the splendour of some forest-view, refuse to flow further down to the open plains? imagine if all beings created, refused to decompose back to soil to rejuvenate itself. Does it all make sense why we need to get back or turn within to find the answers to all our qusetions.
That is apparently the concept of zero. We always go a full circle in life, each and every one of us. If all of us refuse to descend as we ascend, the balance of life is lost. we are all at different points on that zero. When we look at the other person they seem higher or lower...and we show appreciation,jealousy,pity and concern. The truth is that we are all along that same path and will encou nter the same situation sooner or later. That's it. Life goes in circles and when we are aware of this and still go around that makes life worth living.
this is what the great masters reveal to us. Once our inner eye opens to this truth, we can take things as they come and keep doing our duties, for all that is up MUST come down and all that is down SHALL go up.
Next writeup will be on incidents from the Acharya's life that are still truly inspirational to me.

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