Stream Lining!

An amazing word! (I felt)...

'Now all we gonna do is to 'stream-line' things here'... announces a leader, when the 'set-up' is up-set at a place.

A (water)stream, runs the way it finds a slope... Armed with this 'knowledge', as a kid (school-days), I barely managed to decipher the togetherness-wala-meaning of stream, and lining it up! But the quest did not go a waste!... I had my play-partners, at the native village, where my cousins were 'destined' to end up as farmers, when the stock-in-trade of that family was cultivable lands at the very backyard. Then, it was a 'two-in-one' for them... Lining the stream was a game + help to elders... And for me, it was a 'strictly-prohibited' area of no entry... Summer months were the holidays there, and water was a little scarce... These cousin-play-mates used to take that mud-scraper (the desi-version of a spade), and 'line-the-stream' of water to reach the farthest of trees, plants and fields to quench the thirst of 'awaiting' live things, we call as 'greenery' ...

It was then... I noticed, the line of stream.. was deliberately made crooked! (Like in algebra, we manipulate equations, to easily 'solve' them later, with things like 'dividing throughout by 'x'', adding some-nonsense to 'both the sides' etc...).... The crookedness was to match the eccentricity of a small shrub, a tiny plant, (often of high medicinal value), which is adamant about 'surviving a transplantation'(very much like a few 'modern' bride who resists 'relocation', unlike old times, where a baalika-vadhu hardly would notice the difference)! The tiny shrub was 'pampered' with deviated 'stream-lining'! Something that a very dexterous Guru would do to 'oblige' a high-potential-filled disciple, when he scales down his own 'sense of discipline' which, otherwise seems a 'rigor' to that 'rouge-within-the-otherwise-innocent/ignorant-disciple'!!!

Armed with these 'quixotic-ideas' of mine-alone... ( I felt too embarrassed to 'share' it even, with other kids... they might 'find' yet another scope, to mock-at-me, for my 'out-of-this-world' and needless, stupid, philosophies!).. so, armed with these 'ideas', I felt... time to try out 'stream-lining' my own routine, as an experiment...

Very soon, I discovered... the 'mind' is what needed to be stream-lined.... cohesively, so as to stay riveted into/onto ... a task, that is sought to be stream-lined. The best of advantages came out in the form of an 'inspiration' when I saw that any stream-lined repetitive task became effort+time-efficient! (It is only later that Ifelt, this word 'inspiration' was a thorough over valuation of such benefits... the word 'inspiration' deserves a better candidate to confer itself as an attribute, instead of these worldly-side-benefits!).

Stream-lining the spiritual concepts, when it is sought to be reached, through arduous looking tools and techniques, became a real task, a real challenge! In essence, it was initially about 'stream-lining' the very 'thought-stream' (vichaar pravaah), into a manageable thought-trickle (vichaar-dhaara)... the way the medicinal oil is to trickle at the top of the head of the patient, when he is subjected to the conceptual-essence of 'life-sciences' that we know as 'Ayur-veda'!

Streamed, but not-yet lined-up, yours,

psn(8th July, 2014)