Looking aFresh Versus Take it for granted
We know the ‘look’ on the face of a baby is so attractive, we struggle to take our eyes away from its face.
One of the several reasons could be, the baby is looking at EVERYTHING around Afresh, each time π. ( Baby's mind is not chanting a “label” for everything its eyes are watching. Proof: our eyes would struggle to find out “what's that???” even when we are walking on a road, and our fleeting glance at everything our eyes notice, but our mind ‘fails’ to supply a label for a strange object thereπ
That ill_fated apple received a ‘fresh’ look from the eyes of Newton ππ, and mother natures law of gravity was no more a closely held secret π
At my workplace, more than often, the error in the books gets sighted within seconds in the opening hours of business. Previous evening, the same pair of eyes had passed over the same error in bank's books a dozen times for hours, successfully hiding itself ….. and the humiliating thing is it was there, all along, WITHOUT any camouflage π ( today computing technology has obviated such manual errors).
One lady writer CONFESSED decades ago, in a weekly magazine, in her article about her aged mother's dementia “I took my mom FOR GRANTED and I missed noticing the early signs of dementia setting in her. I could have arrested the damage earlier”
If…. Only if…we care to look_keenly at the face of an adult who is looking at a vast scene for the first time ( with ZERO idea about it earlier), we can see a glimpse of the innocence of a baby_face in that adult πππ. It would last only a moment π. The next moment the mind has managed some stupid label and keeps chanting it each moment (subject to correction by a tourist_guide).
While at a social media platform “speakingtree”, I responded very oddly to a blog by a girl of Indian origin, visiting Mansarovar lake for the first time, coming from the USA. The description included her “inner experience” too π³ ( otherwise, I would not have bothered to comment π€£).
I wrote something like this “ are you going to experience it in an equal measure at least, if not more, during your next visit?” I added a punch ”that boy of 12 years or less, who was found washing used tea cups at a tea shop…. he wonders “why do peepals spend thousands of rupees to take a look at this lake?π€. It's just a water body, a large one, and I wash their used plates and cups with the SAME water”... Can you think of a convincing reply to that kid's innocent question, which won't dare to vocalise???”.( Fortunately, my comment hit the mark π. We exchanged a conversation full of value addition π. She got a new_found reason to chase my blogs thereon)
Greatest tragedy is, this “looking afresh” is a vital component in spiritual practices πππ… If one can't manage a fresh look at the damn thing ( stupidest looking practices), they stagnate at day_2 itself for an entire lifetime π… ( the greatest advantage of the ABILITY of looking afresh each time, even the stupid breath of oursπ₯π, is that subtle aspects of whatever we are observing reveals itself deeper and deeper each time π). Looking afresh happens a tiny bit more than peepals around me. But, the blabber about what I come to notice invites the ire_of_listener invariably π₯ . I resorted to remote, safe and comfortable place to blabberππ. The blogs. Nearby guys spare me with “okay, this ½ mad is keeping shut for a while at least”...
Madly yours,
psn ( 4 Oct, 2026)
PostScript:
Our ancient mega EPIC stories were ‘meant to be read’ afresh, each time, during our entire life time. The data structure of it is designed to churn out newer+deeper concepts each_time without fail π. (Its true with meπ)