Reflection!

[Ramsai Karri]

There was once a race in the Milkyway galaxy that outlived the life of its SUN. Since their primary energy source for their food cycle, their SUN, had burned out, they had to pursue colonization of their neighborhood star systems to survive. This lead to years of conflict in the stars since there was a clash of interests, culture and technology.

Back home, the council of elders had many layers of protocol for ensuring the survival of future generations. Since they were almost the oldest civilization in the galaxy, their genetic makeup was most suitable for sustained stellar travel and also for experimenting to better the life of current generation for adapting to the needs of new habitats.

All was well and balanced till the younger generation broke away from the elders’ council in their zeal to find greener pastures. They choose to habitat newly formed planets by terra farming and genetic manipulation which the Council of elders were against. Earth & the solar system, born after a partial supernova of a previous heavier star whose place is now taken by the medium sized SUN or Helios and planets, became their new experimental ground.

What started as a need for food, cloth, shelter and company on their home planet and during their subsequent exodus and journey was echoed on Earth too. These needs were met swiftly since the nascent planet Earth was replenished with abundance! Soon they felt at home in the new habitat and life took its course. Many of the intruders now felt the need to express their potential to establish an identity commensurate with their dreams!

This lead to many new accomplishments, meant to seek each other’s attention and build a new society. Now, their priorities were a quest to establish name, fame, game & dame. This lead to a new race where security was rooted more in future prospects than in survival needs. Soon they forgot their primary home and the warnings of Elders left behind in the stars! Now this nascent race was disconnected from their primary genetic makeup after repeated genetic manipulations to transcend the limitations of their earlier habitat and having had weeded out the unwanted genetic traits by adapting to Earth’s biome.

As the years rolled by, as in any society, politics took a strong hold! Though still they sought the stars to make predictions their souls still looked to the heavens for a change since their mind in their evolved bodies couldn’t forget that they belonged to the stars! The society took to transactions in kind to maintain a semblance of give and take. Power, sex, money & work was the new currency to value life and life itself was a tussle of this imaginary self-portrait or Ego.

But deep down life was revoking in them the basic instinct, intuition, intelligence and imagination that it does in a loving way in each life form all over the universe to remind itself of the fragility of permanence  and the reason for its Being. Soon the race of human beings on Earth realized the meaningless life they were leading in pursuit of transient objects and seeming superiority. After having spent ages on Earth they didn’t need to look to the stars on top to know their fate since by now their own history was replete with sustainable myth, mythology and religion.

Their emotion, mind, intellect and will now sought a solution for the inequalities, disparities and dichotomy prevalent in the society. Some sought answers in other than physical and mental longings that they were born with in the body and cherished by mutual comparisons. They believed in the wisdom of the cosmos and its revolutions till the true meaning of existence doesn’t sink into a civilization. The Spirit of such longings were eternal in the current cycle of the universe and the zeal of few had in fact in the past given birth to contacts with beings of higher dimension but their teachings were now lost as religious dogmas.

Attitude, behavior, character & disposition became the new hallmarks for progress on an individual scale in the new world order on Earth. Soon conflict was resolved in boardrooms and meetings on a daily basis; yet, it was not sufficient in society to erase the day to day tensions building in the society at large when the world was divided on the basis of ideologies and past histrionics. Clearly the planet as a whole was seeing each sunrise as a threat to existence and each being saw survival as a looming reality at the horizon!

Soon, every denizen on the planet Earth became a critic and Social Medias, Forums and Blogs were the talk of the day. Intention, word, deed and consequence thereof for each citizen on the planet were tested for everyone and the scope of propaganda as a means of spreading unrest were subverted. These avenues along with information highways like YouTube and Wikipedia which gave free access to anyone with Internet allowed for free and responsible expression.

Fear always stems from the known mistaken identities arising in ignorance due to beliefs based on assumptions. It is an Ego based self-defense mechanism to protect self-interest and imminent loss of something dear. Hence all fears are rooted in the past.

Anxiety always stems from the unknown projected perceptions arising in anticipation of an outcome or eventuality. It is an Intellect based self-defense mechanism to protect self-interest and fulfillment of a cherished dream. Hence all anxieties are rooted in the future.

Love is always in the moment and is never due to any other reason than that which IS. It is an Emotion based self-defense mechanism to protect self-interest and fulfillment of each other’s cherished dreams. Hence love is rooted in the present.

Thus basing our collective fears, anxieties and love in the eternal NOW is the only way to achieve physical, social, financial and mental well being! To be rooted in reality, relationships, responsibility and realization are the corner stones for turning calamity into opportunity in any civilization. Let’s survive the change that nature had provided our ancestors in a way befitting our next generation!

[Nada Jung]

Thanks for the insight into your thoughts.