Spring Is Here!
THE SPRING IS HERE!
Oh, how all of a sudden all the well-known trees seem to be flush with an unknown vigour? From where have come all those tiny leaves on the bare and drab branches? Oh,why so suddenly the cuckoo has started singing and why a strange longing has awakened in me? Oh, the spring is here!Oh me,how did I fail to take the note of its advent even after listening to its harbinger the cuckoo! See,how it has brought all this freshness along with it!
I have just been awakened by a harp gust of air laden with a heavenly fragrance. It is so strong and sharp that it has almost suffocated me. It has enwrapped me,making it difficult for me even the simple and natural act of breathing. With each incoming breath so much fragrance comes in me that I am unable to exhale it out.
Oh, how lucky we are to have this faculty of smelling!It surpasses that of vision,touch,taste and hearing when exciting the mind is concerned.
Now all around me the flowers are blooming. Each and every tiny flower exhales a different fragrance while opening out its petals. All their breaths then join together to become a perfumed wave which attacks all my senses. This wave not only engulfs me completely, it penetrates me to the very core. But still then I am unable to hold on to it. To try to hold it is as impossible as trying to hold the rain in your fist. It is slippery like mercury. Then,I don't have the containing power of a lake. I can neither hold this fragrance in myself nor can I become one with it. It comes, shakes something inside me violently and whisks away.It always remains aloof.
This is the speciality of Nature.Though it is always with you,changes you with each passing moment,enriches you,still it remains aloof. We are left only to wonder at its play, its eternal cycle of changes. Before we realize one season is over the next season is already there! Each season causes changes according to its own nature. The trees, shrubs,creepers,vines,birds,animals,insects- they all meet these changes most naturally.
See how the birds have realized that this season of spring is the season of creation! To enable them to procreate the nature first awakens an urge in them for mating and then endows the male birds with attractive plumage and enchanting notes in order to attract the female birds. Only the male birds become more attractive,beautiful and musical. While competing to attract females their singing and dancing gets more and more vigourous and often leads to hard fought quarrels. What a fun ! Oh,how all of them are involved in this wonderful play of Nature!Only we miserable human beings do not partake in this celebration and depend upon the signals given by the man-made things like the clocks and almanac. What a pity! Instead of becoming a part of this festival of creation we remain mere onlookers!
Oh, how all of a sudden all the well-known trees seem to be flush with an unknown vigour? From where have come all those tiny leaves on the bare and drab branches? Oh,why so suddenly the cuckoo has started singing and why a strange longing has awakened in me? Oh, the spring is here!Oh me,how did I fail to take the note of its advent even after listening to its harbinger the cuckoo! See,how it has brought all this freshness along with it!
I have just been awakened by a harp gust of air laden with a heavenly fragrance. It is so strong and sharp that it has almost suffocated me. It has enwrapped me,making it difficult for me even the simple and natural act of breathing. With each incoming breath so much fragrance comes in me that I am unable to exhale it out.
Oh, how lucky we are to have this faculty of smelling!It surpasses that of vision,touch,taste and hearing when exciting the mind is concerned.
Now all around me the flowers are blooming. Each and every tiny flower exhales a different fragrance while opening out its petals. All their breaths then join together to become a perfumed wave which attacks all my senses. This wave not only engulfs me completely, it penetrates me to the very core. But still then I am unable to hold on to it. To try to hold it is as impossible as trying to hold the rain in your fist. It is slippery like mercury. Then,I don't have the containing power of a lake. I can neither hold this fragrance in myself nor can I become one with it. It comes, shakes something inside me violently and whisks away.It always remains aloof.
This is the speciality of Nature.Though it is always with you,changes you with each passing moment,enriches you,still it remains aloof. We are left only to wonder at its play, its eternal cycle of changes. Before we realize one season is over the next season is already there! Each season causes changes according to its own nature. The trees, shrubs,creepers,vines,birds,animals,insects- they all meet these changes most naturally.
See how the birds have realized that this season of spring is the season of creation! To enable them to procreate the nature first awakens an urge in them for mating and then endows the male birds with attractive plumage and enchanting notes in order to attract the female birds. Only the male birds become more attractive,beautiful and musical. While competing to attract females their singing and dancing gets more and more vigourous and often leads to hard fought quarrels. What a fun ! Oh,how all of them are involved in this wonderful play of Nature!Only we miserable human beings do not partake in this celebration and depend upon the signals given by the man-made things like the clocks and almanac. What a pity! Instead of becoming a part of this festival of creation we remain mere onlookers!
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