Friend or Foe?
Ever hurt by someone you know well/don't know well/love/a stranger/a sworn enemy? Well, you can take heart. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says 'In the company of your friend, you lose your centeredness. Your enemy puts you back in yourself. Your friend sympathizes with you and makes you believe in matter. Your enemy makes you feel helpless and takes you to the spirit. So your enemy is your friend and your friend is your enemy!'
What do these words mean to a skeptic?
Often, in the daily tussle between our pursuit of spirit and pursuit of matter, the latter reigns supreme. We give up looking within us for that effulgent being, for strength and for immortality. Comes along an earthly blow and devoid of any support, we start to look inside of us...question our being, seek fellowship with God and reach out to our Spirit, our Soul, our 'Atman'. And when we do that, we experience unending joy. But we have an external being - ostensibly our enemy, to thank for it. On the other hand, our friends keep us fixated on and surprisingly, contented with our shameless existence. Then, who is the true friend?
As for me, I'm still travelling...wish I could truly forgive and forget.
posted by Kunal Gulati @ 3:45 PM
2 Comments:
Reading this makes me want to say that while the interpretation about our foes and how they help us look within is enlightening... u sure paint friendship in poor light...i mean...friends dont really limit us to our outer contented selves...they help us often realise newer potentials within ourselves... conversation with a true friend will help one introspect...look within...( it has helped me often)and perhaps aviod the hurt that a foe is likely to inflict...
Ur commentz are welcome....
The role of a friend or a foe has been explored from a view point of reaching to our deepest being and calling for all the energy that has been trapped inside of us.
Of course, a true friend is always welcome. I think you lost the drift here :)
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