What a wish, Swati R? Let there be a World Livelihoods Day. Let this be on 7 October.
Teachers, World Teachers. Mentors. Gurus. Jagadgurus. Krsnam vande jagadgurum. Budham, dharmam, sangham saranam. The truth, the useful, and the beautiful. Givers of value orientation: hope, faith, promise, love, and coexistence. Towards truth, light, and amrt. Guides in us becoming servant leaders: Ahimsa (non-violence), Satyam (truth, honesty, and integrity), Astheyam (honest earnings), Brahmacharyam (discipline, in sync action, word, and thought), Aparigraha (non-possession, simplicity, minimalism, and inner contentment), Asaucha (mindful diet), Abhaya (fearless), Srama (work, labour), Yoga. Priya vachanam. No intoxicants. Sarvodya-antyodya, local self-sufficiency. Givers of basic knowledge, skills, tools, education, and direction. For better life, living, well-being, and thereafter; health, spiritual health; for NextGen, for poor, vulnerable and marginalized. Can we include it? Can we all participate fully? Can we have agency to take control, command, and steer? Nothing about us without us.
Can we play, dance to the masters’ tunes? Are we ready? Are we ready for attached detachment, detached attachment? Yet, can we be devoted, dedicated? Can we surrender? Can we delve deep, discover ourselves, selves around us, and the universe? Our purposes, our ends, and our means? Can we transcend the veils of statuses, distinctions, and differences? Can we love the way the master loves? Can we resonate? Can we be in sync? With each note, each peak, and each crescendo. Every being can, with no discrimination. Can we do yoga, the dance of action; the seva and songs of devotion; opening knowledge waltz; the meditation and reflection? Separately, or in hybrid ways? Can we be living our lives, painting canvases of our lives, playing our roles in the stages/platforms of our lives, singing, dancing, and using five-six-seven senses? Amidst possibilities, adversities, and challenges. Can we be at peace, in the din, sufferings, pains, excitements, the raas, labyrinths, and puzzles?
Can we be kind? Can we be meditative – restraint, mindful, and dhyaana? Can we follow the noble eightfold path: right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration? To achieve our ends, without shortcutting means. Can we love our universe, sum total of all souls collectively, and separately? Can we treat others as we want them to treat us? Can the meek inherit the earth? Can we remain ready for our death? Can we be the change we want in our society? Can we be truthful? Useful? Non-violent, simple? Fearless? Can we be sarvodayans? Antyodayans? Can we work, be self-reliant, local, self-sufficient, equitable, inclusive, and participative?
Can we be learning, leading, living a purposeful, meaningful, and useful life? Can we be beautiful inside out? Can we be fair, just, and equitable? Can we coexist, peacefully? Can we iron out the extremes of disparities within our communities? Can we uphold the dignity of life, living for all? Can we be bold, courageous to live this kind of existence, coexistence? Communitized lives. With rights, entitlements, opportunities, rational thought, justice, equality, dignity, capacity-agency, well-being, and freedom accessible to all who need.
Can we listen to our teachers, world teachers, and dance to their notes, beats, and tunes? Movement(s)?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, with taps, beats, and songs of the flows. In N? srtilayataalayoga for 7L.
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