So I have three old issues of the Bloomberg Businessweek, one large book about Planes written for toddlers and a leather-bound copy of Swamy Parthasarthy's Gita on my nightstand. I wonder what that says about me. Perhaps what it says is that like most people I am someone who feels she should stay in touch with world news, but has to read the same twenty pages to her son every night while knowing deep down that there is a need to keep in touch with another and more deeper side of life.
I didn't really think of this till I was cleaning up my table this morning. Looking at this eclectic collection of night time reading made me realise that very often we don't listen to our inner voice. We know that we need help but are too closed to ask for it. In today's busy lives we live with the pressures of what we feel we should be doing and very often that can take a toll. Maybe my inner self turned to the Gita instinctively because I too need to find answers to the conflicts I face every day. They are not earth shattering and really very small in the sense that they only encompass my life, but they have a material impact on how I react to situations. As I grow older and because now I am a parent, I am more aware and conscious of the choices I make and the way I behave in situations. And maybe that is why my subconscious picked a text where I hope I will find some universal truths and guidance.
So as I end yet another day I tell myself that tonight I will use those precious ten minutes between the time my toddler falls asleep and I put my head down for the day, to read a few verses from the Gita. Maybe tonight I will not turn pages of a business magazine for information that I think I may have to have handy at the next social gathering. I dont know if I will get answers or a resolution, but I know I will have listened to my inner voice.
I didn't really think of this till I was cleaning up my table this morning. Looking at this eclectic collection of night time reading made me realise that very often we don't listen to our inner voice. We know that we need help but are too closed to ask for it. In today's busy lives we live with the pressures of what we feel we should be doing and very often that can take a toll. Maybe my inner self turned to the Gita instinctively because I too need to find answers to the conflicts I face every day. They are not earth shattering and really very small in the sense that they only encompass my life, but they have a material impact on how I react to situations. As I grow older and because now I am a parent, I am more aware and conscious of the choices I make and the way I behave in situations. And maybe that is why my subconscious picked a text where I hope I will find some universal truths and guidance.
So as I end yet another day I tell myself that tonight I will use those precious ten minutes between the time my toddler falls asleep and I put my head down for the day, to read a few verses from the Gita. Maybe tonight I will not turn pages of a business magazine for information that I think I may have to have handy at the next social gathering. I dont know if I will get answers or a resolution, but I know I will have listened to my inner voice.
