I was a happy kid.
People who know me from back then recall a quiet somewhat taciturn boy. My memories are of years filled with wonder and discovery.
Someone said the child is the father of the man. In that sense, I feel born again and have re-discovered the secret.
The secret is in three realizations.
Realization One: Human situations, like time and space, are relative. The same situation can be read very differently by different people and each one of them would be true and right in their reading (the classic Kurosava film “Rashoman” illustrates this meta-truth with breathtaking impact).
Realization Two: In every situation that any person faces, there is framework of perception available to that person that generates and supports the feeling of ‘all is well’.
Realization Three: If you practice perceiving whatever situations you face through the ‘all is well’ framework it gets easier and easier to do so. It is almost as if life itself is responding to and harmonizing with your happiness.
Actually the secret is no secret.
It is just hidden in plain sight as we struggle with ambition, greed, envy and all sorts of other, as my physics professor back in IIT Bombay would have called, ‘inappropriate frameworks’.
Watch the visceral recognition that audiences greet the “all is well” anthem in the movie “Three Idiots” and you will know what I mean.
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