The Changeless One...

Doing the same thing again and again. There is comfort in routine. It instills into you a false sense of security by the simple repetition of the rhythms again and again. Like the beats of a drum, like the sway of music, like the waves from the sea and the tides, ever repeating.

Take a risk. Change your routine. Do something different. Or do the same thing differently. It will surprise you!

Take my example. Usually, I never do spontaneous writes as I am doing now. I feel I am taking some risks. But I want to do it because I feel I am getting stereotyped. I feel I am being huddled into a ghetto with no openings!

Change is the only constant in our ever-changing world. Not an original quote, surely, but a true one. While one sage commented that we never step into the same river the next time, someone else said that we step in into one river and end our step by getting immersed in another one. How true?

All the cells in my skin are being changed every night. There is a turnover of my gastrointestinal and respiratory epithelia. There is a turnover of all my neuroglia and a reshaping and restructuring to some extent of my neurons.

So, I ask, I am the same one I was when I began writing this five minutes ago? I wonder. As I wonder, cells and synapses in my nervous system are changing, getting re-ordered and reshaped. I am a living organism, a changing organism indeed. How do you expect me to remember what I wanted this write-up to end as?

"Change and decay in all around I see", said the hymn-writer. I agree with him. The only Changeless One is the One whom I for one cannot comprehend. For a change, let us focus on Him and meditate on Him. Doing that will bring a true sense of serenity and security, I am sure. Any takers?