Lovely Day

The"Blue sky, grey shaded clouds with crimson edges, setting sun creating a color spectrum in the horizon, trees adding flavors of green embedded with variant colors of flowers, the air is clean after the mild drizzle minutes ago, there is something special about the day", I said for the third time seeing the vibrancy of the day scene. "It's all because you had fallen in love", is what most people would have replied to that statement in the recent past. But the reply came from my friend was quite odd. He said, "It's all in the eyes of the viewer, nothing special about nature today. It's the same everyday".

For a moment I felt he had no sense of colors that he didn't admire what I could admire. It had been a long time since I had seen such a sight. The same would have been with his case, staying and working in a busy building covered region, where there was hardly any space for sky to fill in the sight. "Why are people like him not realising the beauty of nature? Are they so fancied by technology and any scrappers that nature has become so boring to them?", thoughts kept my mind busy and gradually the sun set down.

It was dark and I started missing the lovely day that existed a few minutes before then. The vibrant view was gone and suddenly I started hating the day. Perhaps, the environment influenced a lot on my feelings. "I wish we reach Tirunelveli soon because everything looks dull now", I said to that friend as we were on a journey. His reply was even surprising this time.

He said, "It's all in the eyes of the viewer, nothing wrong about the day. It's the same everyday". I tried to explain him how beautiful the day was moments ago and how it transformed too ordinary and unpleasant with darkness filling everywhere and everything looking blank. He repeated his dialog like a broken tape recorder. Was I sitting with Buddha? Or perhaps the Buddha inside him would have come out trying to explain me, "beauty and ugliness are inseparable and they coexist, but the filter in the eyes which acts corresponding the mood of the mind creates the illusion of beauty and ugliness".

It had always disturbed my mind whenever someone defied my theories and happened at that moment. I tried to keep off all the thoughts away and looked at what was outside which scared me and made me hate it without even knowing what it was. It was still dark except for the tree leaves which shined in the moonlight. The silver colour of the leaves haunted me. It was visualising another form of reality.

The scene had no distinguishable colours, except for the shades of grey created by the shadows. There was an uniformity in it. Everything looked alike instead of the variance at the day time (which had shown the uniqueness of everything). As I started looking deeper, I realised that trees which looked almost out same height were situated at different depths. The scene became beautiful suddenly.

The mild moonlight making a layer of static shadows and a second layer of dynamic shadows created by the light from inside the train filled the varying depths of the outside. The light was dancing synced with the train sound. The lights of the train went off gradually and there was only the moonlight was left outside making the entire scene look like a monochrome picture. Wow!

Perhaps the Buddha voice from my friend was right. It opened up a few more thoughts. "Everything in the world can be explained from this day's experience. Perhaps even the distinction between all communities can be understood.

The day light characterising uniqueness of everything, making the colours vibrant, giving a visual treat to the eyes represents the religion which says God is present in different forms and depicts the work and skill distribution among different living beings. In this religion every person has a unique role to play. Nothing can replace anything in this religion.

The uniformity of the night making the colours disappear and the heights equal, shows the religion with discipline and equality, which says God takes no form. All are equal in this religion and there's no distinction between any two individuals. Anybody can any work and nobody is unique to be non replaceable for a specific role.

Or the third view saying everything originates from inside our mind and can be altered by mastering the mind, which in turn takes us to the rational belief. It concerns more on free will and does not believe in anything without examining it.

We all see the same scenes, we like one scene and hate the other based on what we tend to believe from our experience. Or there could be an experience which could have taught as all scenes are beautiful. Or that which makes us believe everything is an illusion.

Unity can be achieved only when we realise the fact that we all see the same, but from different viewpoints"

At the end of the day, it was a lovely day, one LOVELY DAY.