Contrasting is Nature’s way of
highlighting differences. Yellow, red or white flowers are set amongst green
leaves, so that the flowers are highlighted. In the middle of colorful flower,
pollen grains are set in a different contrasting color so that the pollen
grains are highlighted to the honey bees. You are able to read these lines only
because the black letters are printed on a white paper. Had these letter be
printed in white ink, there will not be any contrast and consequently you will
not be able to read them.
Contrasts
teach us pleasure is desirable only when
it is set in the background of pain. We are able to appreciate light, only because we know what darkness is. Contrasts
are the way of Nature to educate us and push us up in the ladder of evolution.
Nature,
always presents its magnificent display of life soaked in duality and dressed
as pairs of opposites. If there is night, there will always be a day in
contrast to it. So are hot and cold, long and short, fat and thin, male and
female, large and small, sweet and bitter, birth and death, old and young,
beauty and ugliness, health and sickness, poverty and richness, war and peace,
rise and fall,so on and so forth. The list is, in fact, endless. All human
experiences too are cyclical, just as days and nights come and go with
unfailing cyclical regularity. No physical or mental experience is permanent or
eternal for us, due to the very cyclic nature of duality.
What does it tell us? It
guarantees that there will always be positive and negative factors in life. It
is an inherent design factor in the drama of life. There will always be
positive and negative people, things or events in this world. They are there
for the same purpose of contrast, for us to notice and learn the ethical
values. This inescapable learning is one of the objectives of the very curriculum
of our school called LIFE. They are the embroidery pieces stitched in to the
fabric of life.
It is easy to criticize others,
when we notice errors, omissions and mistakes in them. It is not easy to
correct others, unless they are inspired from within to correct themselves. But
there is one thing we can surely do. We can look inside of ourselves to verify
whether the same errors, omissions and mistake that we find in others are present
with in us. If we do that and remove that error, omission or mistake from our
very being, that will be a giant leap in our own evolutionary progression. It
is this evolution alone that Nature intends to occur in us in the great school
of LIFE.
The same positive response can be
extended to all aspects with in our sphere of influence. Our homes, our work,
our words, our actions and our responses can certainly bear the hall mark of
this learning. Every short coming we notice in others is a great opportunity
for our self-improvement. There is no other better take home for us when we notice
negativities in this world. Because there is only one person we can change in
this world, and that is “we ourselves.”
K.G.Nandakumar
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