Thursday, May 8, 2008

Words fall short


Waking up early in the morning,the sun is rising in the garden, the trees are waking up. The smell of fresh earth is in the air –perhaps it has just rained. The dew drops on the grass leaves are shining like pearls. The birds have started singing. A peacock dances, a cuckoo calls. Flowers bloom, the lotuses open their petals. You see all this. It is not beyond your senses, it is within their grasp. It is not unknown to you, it is known. You experience all this beauty. If somebody asks you to describe it in one word, what would you say? Just this: it was beautiful, it was very beautiful. But is this any description? In this "very beautiful" there is no ray of the sun, or fragrance of the fresh earth, or blooming petals of the lotus, or the song of the bird, or the dew drop pearls, or the green of the trees, or the open sky. There is nothing in it.What is in this "very beautiful"? Nothing at all, only a few letters of the alphabet.

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