Forces of Nature
Today’s hike was in a different ravine from yesterday’s. The
creek, at its base, goes underground at one point beneath Mount Pleasant Cemetery India
This just reveals to me the forces of nature and how
powerful they can be. Man’s attempt to check a deliberate whim of a tiny
rivulet such as this one doesn’t always work. Fair sized boulders have been
laid out to make the creek behave, and planted trees of various sorts have
their roots planted trying to keep soil in place. But here again, it’s not
going to be a cent percent job. I can’t help but refer to a line from the Gita
where Krishna says,
daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī
mama māyā duratyayā
(Material energy is very forceful. It is Divine, and it is
an emanation from the Divine).
“Keep that in mind,” I have to convince myself. The winds of
nature can change in any direction, and at any moment. Be fully aware of its
ever altering ways. We also seem to swing from moments of joy to moments of
melancholy and back again. That is the pattern set by the Creator, and there’s
often times so little you can do about it. It’s almost futile, like trying to
stop death itself.
May the Source be with you!
5 km
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