Winter Lessons

Winter is the season to learn. A simple walk in the garden during winter can teach lessons of life. 

There are some flowers that bloom only during winter. They are so beautiful that you wish that they should bloom throughout the year. But this is not in your control. No matter how hard you try, the flowers will bloom only when their time comes. We should realize this and accept that the things are never under our control. Things will happen when time is right. And in the words of Kabir :

"Dheere Dheere Re Mana, Dheere Sub Kucch HoyeMali Seenche So Ghara, Ritu Aaye Phal Hoye"

("Slowly slowly O mind, everything in own pace happens
Gardener may water with a hundred pots, fruit arrives only in its season.")

Sometimes you will notice that flowers would bloom only on warmer days of winter and would cease to be on colder days. These flowers are immortal. They never die. They never cease to exist forever. They manifest themselves when conditions are right and cease to be when conditions are not. And such is our soul, immortal. It never dies. It manifests itself when the conditions are right. There is not point in weeping over loss of loved ones. They shall manifest themselves again. 

Such is the season of Winter. It teaches so many things. It shows us the pattern of changes. It makes us realize the irreplaceable role our Sun plays. Every sunrise brings new hope. A hope of rebirth. A hope that things will manifest soon. It reminds of that song by The Beatles

"Here comes the sun, here comes the sun

And I say it's all right

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter

Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun

And I say it's all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces

Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here."