Sunday, July 5, 2009

What is happiness? I just experienced today the true meaning of happiness.

I was heading to Isha yoga centre at coimbatore from my grandmother's house. I started sometime after breakfast and was supposed to reach there by two in the afternoon. Therefore my grandma had packed idlis for lunch.

Taking all my things I sat through the three hour bus journey to coimbatore. I had not taken a book to read and was getting bored..but as usual started day dreaming. My thoughts jumped from one simple thing to another complicated thing and finally I thought about lunch.I dont know why but it struck me that I wound not die if i didn't have lunch for one day.

By this time i had reached coimbatore bus stand. i got down from the bus,went in search of a beggar.Finally i found an old and frail lady trying to walk in the sun with the help of a stick. instinctively I took out the parcel of food and gave it to her. Without sayign anything I turned back and walked.

I still remember her face lit up with a smile.I felt as thoughtI had achieved something. That day I didn feel hungry at all. In fact i felt as though I was at the top of the world. When I think of it I still feel at the top of the world