Can't You Hear Me? ...........Presays
We all fancy to be the masters of our mind always wanting to get or achieve what we think or dream of. We enroll ourselves for n-hours and n-days of seminars for the break(through) in our lives. In these seminars powerful orators descend, deliver and depart leaving us spellbound. We think 'man that was great! Barring a few citations whatever they said was right. I’ll try to implement a few of their suggestions in my life although it is very difficult.' As the days pass by that resolution diminishes. We hardly get the break(through) we always dream of.
The simple reason behind this is that we fail to recognize where the real stimulants are, where the real motivator is. That stimulant, that motivator resides right in our minds, in our hearts. Oh really? !! How come we’ve never realized it? Because we never try to listen to ourselves, listen to our hearts, listen to our minds. One of my very good friends is die hard fan of FM, he just can’t live without it. Though for me FM stands for frivolous mind but he takes it as twenty four hours’ fun music! If he is not talking (sincerely) he is listening to music while doing his routine work.
Of late I came to know about the classification by some intellectuals with some findings to back up the performers doing their chores while listening to their favorite music (even rock lovers find their ways to this chart). This music lover friend of mine would even go to sleep without turning the player off. In fact he was so fond of FM that he used to switch it off only when he dreaded the player to blow off. In that case he would turn on the cell phone player! Once on eccentric height, he asked, ‘buddy what’s the goal of life?’ I replied him that it is one, of which the manifestation varies from person to person. ‘Do you know what’s your goal?’, he asked to which I said, ‘yes’. He then asked me how he could find his goal. I said, ‘listen to your heart, to your mind’. He further asked how.
I told him to switch off the player, he instantly did. Then he started talking, I said, ‘don’t talk’. He obliged and took newspaper in his hands and started gazing through the pages. When I told him not to do that he unexpectedly obliged. He picked up 'oracle bible' and asked me while turning his Oracle Bible ‘now what?’ in sign language. I told him not to do even that, I told him to sit calmly and to listen to the mind.
He sat for a moment and then shot at me, ‘are you mad? Are you crazy? Of whole world you found me to experiment with’. I’ve no interest in finding my goals I’m better off without them. And to top that you having your goals found are no damn good than I. What are exceptional things you do man?’ Having said that he switched the player on and resumed listening. This was not unusual or unexpected behaviour. Most people behave in this way because it is very difficult for them to remain silent. Their minds are so impatient to make them listen that they shout like anything. This is because minds don’t know when would be the next time they’d get the chance to speak out, this is because we’ve ignored our minds and hearts for so long that they(minds) themselves have adorned a fiery getup waiting to roar and thunder whenever they find a chance.
But our minds will calm down and speak in rhythm, in harmony when we keep on listening to them regularly. When the voice waves from the mind subside then will come the turn of the heart to speak out. We then can fine tune the heart with little manual tuning from our part. All we have to do is to recite mentally ‘Allah, Allah, Allah…….’ or ‘Ram, Ram, Ram……’ His silent melodies start playing, something that could never surface otherwise. Sweet and soothing melodies of peace, serenity which we can not listen till we keep on attracting distractions. Amidst these harmonious melodies He whispers, 'son, do this, do that, do that way, take this aid....' I am not unique to receive His Call, in fact He is open to one and all. But we need to make a way for Him to say, to convey.
But can we hear Him in a day? No, we shall have to practice regularly. It is not that one fine day we remain seated trying to listen and the next day we rock the whole world on. To practice it on daily basis we’ll have to follow a routine. Our routine should not be marred or affected with our emotional ups and downs, working without passion and remorse. Ok this idea clicked to you, you started working on it and you succeeded too, but…what about me? I’m not of the same temperament, tenacity that you’re. Then won’t you help me out. Yes? Great! Now what we should do, how can we proceed? Since we share common place-n-space with others whether at home or in office we need to share our common time as well. Say for an hour or half we’ll enjoy the music collection, even I’ll listen to the songs you play. That will be great after all we can not work out efficiently for ten-tweleve long hours without a quality break. That will be the time when we all take our earplugs out and listen to songs from player with speakers on. After the break period is over we again put our earplugs on and help each other evolve through our work or try hearing our hearts, try hearing Him so that we do not find someone very special and dear residing within us shout at us, ‘Can’t you hear me??????’
