Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Hints of god!




Firstly, I thank you Vandita for sending a very beautiful picture in response to a rather feeble description of something that I saw. Also, I really enjoyed our little 'walk the talk' session.

Yesterday, on board a rickety Greyhound bus, I was fortunate enough to have an empty seat to my right and a nice goggled window to my left for the most part of my butt flattening ride from Rochester. I did what I love doing a lot, observing cloud formations. They may not sparkle quite like how a constellation does on a black canvas, but the perennial formations that they are, traveling with you, they can be much more expressive. I saw a beautiful sight yesterday, and though, I did not have a camera to capture it, thankfully, my mind has the original positive impressed on it. I shall use Vandita's pic to describe what the sight had to say to me. It was one of the most incredible things that I have seen in a few days. Though this pic does not have a Sun in it, yet I have used paint to mark the spatial coordinates of our powerhouse. What was incredible, was that the hole in the clouds quite identical to the one in the pic above, seemed brighter than the Sun itself. This ofcourse is governed by Physics, and has to be attributed to the fact that the Sun was covered in such a way that it could be seen, yet, as apparent as it may seem, it din't feel like the Sun at all, just because the spot to its right was a through hole that seeped in much more light than what was filtered through the gaseous waters. So though shouldering each other, the Sun's distance from Earth was its saving grace. It was indeed a fascinating sight. Nature compelled me to draw an analogy to this. I could not help but think that this would transcend beautifully into what we see and observe in our day to day life. What appears to be the truth might not be the truth after all. On a more personal level, reasons apparent to us can seem so obvious that they in that time frame appear to be the SUN. One other way that I could interpret this scene was that sometimes situations could be so overwhelming that one could fail to see the big picture. To some, this might seem uncomprehensible. To some, obvious. If you are one of them, you are lucky today, for I am just trying to look at the Sun, so enjoy the pic! :D.

2 comments:

Rti said...

I loved the picture... before starting reading, i kept on looking at the picture and was looking at the lining of the sun and then the clouds( and my random thoughts started flying )holded myself to start reading to know what is it about!!! and then in the end, I read we are overwhelmed by the small things... and don't look at the bigger picture, Lately I have been hearing this term bigger picture alot tooo :) everywhere .Rest it is a very nice read, makes me think and contradict my thought process...
Was Fun!!!

sharad raj said...

Thanks Rti.