Nurture the Seeds of Goodness

 

The fruit of love is in season forever. It stays there for all irrespective of caste, class, creed and religion. Does air have a choice in deciding to get into selective nostrils? It hasn’t. So is the case with love.  

Want to feel the brace of choiceless love in your life and don’t appear to have a clue about it? Ok, no worries. Just recall a word called forgiveness. It’s your short-cut to the love-pool. Develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. The inability to forgive robs you of your ability to love, in scientifically direct proportions.

The best of us have some bad in us, and so do the worst of us carry some goodness. Just mere realization of this simple fact clears our vision, enables us to be accommodating, receptive and understanding. The latter unavoidably turns us forgiving. Countless situations turn in our favor the moment we lay claim to the soft weapon of forgiveness. Being good in action and thoughts becomes so easy after this.

The things that ought to be simply done, should just be done. Otherwise, their shadows linger in the mind. They grow heavier with the passage of time. This invisible weight is heavier than the stones we see around. Simple, harmless acts of appreciation, of enjoyment, of helping someone cross a stream are better done and closed with a full stop. It’s better for a healthy mind. Otherwise, they linger like conspiring shadows over our conscience.

A missed chance of being good will definitely cast a shadow on our mind. An effort to help the self in being good, on the other hand, will hardly leave any unbecoming imprint on our conscience for pinching reflections later.

Only goodness has a legacy and future. Hypocrisy and meanness are just bad examples and leave repentance most of the time. To do good is instinctive for a human being, it’s however another matter that we stifle the urge most of the time. To be bad, on the other hand, is not intrinsic to our nature. It is wrongly reflective, a miscalculation, a tragic bypass of the instinct of goodness.

Nurture the seeds of the instincts of goodness. It’s a simple practice. It gives peace of mind, clear conscience and makes the journey enjoyable. Avoid it and you carry the burden in your mind. A burdened mind, as a natural corollary, is an easy prey to hate and malice.  A light, well-poised mind, on the other hand, is the glittering throne of love.