If mother nature were a school, the tree would be the greatest teacher of all times. Since we're all familiar with the significance of trees so am not here to reiterate them. Rather, I'd like to draw your attention to another great importance of trees with respect to our spiritual domain.
The other day, a mango tree in my backyard caught the attention of my spiralling mind. It's a huge tree of almost 20 yrs of age. It bears sweet mangoes every year. However, to my surprise I noticed that the tree had a lopsided growth. It appeared to grow towards our neighbours house instead of spreading its branches into our backyard.So what's the reason behind it? Well you might have already guessed the answer. It's simple, plants need sunlight to manufacture their food, so it got all the required sunlight from the direction of my neighbours house which our three storeyed house blocked.
And this gave rise to my next question that when plants that are not known to possess any intelligence, instinctively grow in the direction of brightness then why do humans despite possessing the intelligence of the highest order prefer to stay in darkness and ignorance while they are constantly surrounded by brightness all the time? Why do humans deliberately choose to be unaware when awareness is only a step around?
It's just a matter of choice. For humans darkness must be comforting. Its cold in there and you don't get to see clearly the greatest and the hardest realities or truths. We stumble in the darkness and blame it on the obstacle instead of removing it. The fall might be fatal but people around us wouldn't observe it either and they too stumble upon the same obstacle.
So let's all come out of the dark. Challenge our our beliefs. Let's face the scorching sun and the hardest truths. Let's learn to be just while delivering our responsibilities in our respective roles as a root, stem, branch,fruit, flower or a leaf. Life will be difficult in its own way for each, and each one of them will find the life of other one better than its own. But as the tree, we all need to understand that the way all of them together constitute the tree, each one of us together constitute this beautiful life form. We're all a part of it no matter how different we look or how different roles we play. We're different from each other, but our objective is common..to sustain and continue the Life form !
So, let's remove barriers and cynicism, let's remove differences and accept each other. Our goal is the same. Let's make this world a better place to live in..
