Dhoop…

The last few days here have been exceptionally beautiful.

Just like our childhood days in the hills in the summers, where there was a bit of chill in the air, coupled together with the beautiful warm sunshine. The last few days here have also been exceptionally chilly, bringing along with them the same dhoop (sunshine) from my childhood days.

Just standing outside in the yard for a few minutes yesterday, barefoot on the grass and with my eyes closed, I could re-see all the love, laughter and us from so many years ago. Somehow, it also felt like there was a message hidden in those beautiful, warm sun rays.

To be honest, everything else in my mundane life took a backseat at that moment, I could hear no background sounds, and not even my own thoughts to interrupt this warm moment. It felt like I was one with the universe, just a small particle that has been purposefully placed in the scheme of things.

To explain this surreal moment in words now is feeling unrealistic but it did feel like my soul was being cleansed, in so many ways, on so many levels. I had often heard about it and read about it, but this moment seeped in deeper than I had imagined. Walking back indoors again, it set me thinking. Nothing that happens around us in our lives is a coincidence, every minute detail is planned by someone far, far above us.

I had been feeling very uneasy with a few events that were bringing a lot of discontent and negativity around. There are some people in all of our lives whose presence shakes up our souls, destabilizes our thought process and causes more unrest than we would like. Sometimes, it is very hard to step back and move away and we rile away in this negativity and lose our whole purpose. And forget ourselves.

This Dhoop was just what I had needed then. It was as if my mind was calmed, my thoughts silenced and that the rays entered on a molecular level. Thinking about this chain of events today morning and all the experiences, coincidences and happenings over the last few years, weeks and days- I am feeling that it is time.

It is time to let the bitter past slip away. It is time to let the upsetting thoughts from the mind to wander away. It is high time that I learnt to keep all negative forces, people and energies away. Our mind has the power to do this- we have the choices, it is just that we do not know our capabilities ourselves. It is truly time to live, to experience, to keep all the hurt away.

To many who may come across this post today or at any point of time in future, this may not make any sense. Yet- I do believe the Universe has stepped in now to show me the more important things in life.

To live, To nourish, To love and to laugh with my heart, yet again.