Hello, how was last week? Did the rain and wind cyclone shake you up?
While Indra (God of Rain) and Varun (God of Oceans) did what they did, I was privileged enough to sit in my home and simply comment about the excessive dust that entered my house. Many others lost their lives, livelihoods and lifestyles.
While Indra’s actions created problems for most of us, I wondered about problems in his life. Objectively speaking, his life is more sorted than Ambani or Zuckerberg. The king of heaven, riches all around, billions of servants and subordinates, leading a powerful army, and beautiful women and musicians ready to entertain him.
Yet, he faces the exact same problems that I do. He is afraid of losing what he has, insecure that others may get better than him, unsatisfied with what he owns, often bored with using the same things and regularly rushing to his mentors (Vishnu or Shiva) to solve his problems.
I think this mini-Indra sitting inside me will never change. Despite having wealth, status and power, the hunger for more still exists. For many years, I’m trying to show Indra the door so that I can instead invite Shiv – the ultimate yogi, the one who doesn’t feel hungry.
Day after day, we will all face one cyclone after another: anger, greed, jealousy, lust, ego. We can be kings and yet fall for them, or be fakirs, yet peacefully ignore them.
