I happen to work for a Company which has a massive production plant at the outskirt of Hyderabad. The plant has got huge open space with lush green surroundings, long grass, water bodies, tress, and lot of flowers. Sometime, you notice a shrill sound of some bird, and to your surprise you realize that it’s a peacock. Nice feelings being there.
Few days back, when I was there, was taking a round of the plant, two gentlemen were accompanying me. Suddenly, I realized that someone is singing a hymn; it struck my ears from a far off place. First I thought that it may be an FM station, playing in some parked vehicles. Then slowly, I realized that it was a hymn not sung by one, but a chorus. Others, with me, also became surprised, as to who it could be inside a manufacturing plant !
And then, lo and behold, we notice a group of village ladies, involved in cutting those tall grasses, singing a very rhythmic hymn, in some unknown village language. The hymn was having typical nodes, ups and downs….and their bodies were swinging with the tune of the hymn. The open air was filled with a divine melody on the backdrop of a huge mechanized manufacturing plant and it appeared as if those ladies are embodiment of “work is worship”. It was a true juxtaposition of mechanical and a vast spiritual world.
I came across a beautiful Vaidic saying few days ago, “You are the cloud, You are the rain, You are the healer, You are the pain”. The Almighty, the supreme power is the cause of all happenings in this world, He creates the situations and He is the cause of all solutions. We perhaps tend to forget this in our daily hue and cry of life. But, those simple, illiterate village ladies might have remembered it. The job they had undertaken, was not easy. The long grass may appear to be innocent, but they grow very fast, and before one can mop a side, the other side grows to its full length. Those ladies might have realized that growing the grass and cutting them, all happen because of His will.
By praying to God throughout their work, they remain prepared to embrace the challenges of the world. Let the grass go fast, our chisel will run faster.
Truly, small steps towards the Great World.
Few days back, when I was there, was taking a round of the plant, two gentlemen were accompanying me. Suddenly, I realized that someone is singing a hymn; it struck my ears from a far off place. First I thought that it may be an FM station, playing in some parked vehicles. Then slowly, I realized that it was a hymn not sung by one, but a chorus. Others, with me, also became surprised, as to who it could be inside a manufacturing plant !
And then, lo and behold, we notice a group of village ladies, involved in cutting those tall grasses, singing a very rhythmic hymn, in some unknown village language. The hymn was having typical nodes, ups and downs….and their bodies were swinging with the tune of the hymn. The open air was filled with a divine melody on the backdrop of a huge mechanized manufacturing plant and it appeared as if those ladies are embodiment of “work is worship”. It was a true juxtaposition of mechanical and a vast spiritual world.
I came across a beautiful Vaidic saying few days ago, “You are the cloud, You are the rain, You are the healer, You are the pain”. The Almighty, the supreme power is the cause of all happenings in this world, He creates the situations and He is the cause of all solutions. We perhaps tend to forget this in our daily hue and cry of life. But, those simple, illiterate village ladies might have remembered it. The job they had undertaken, was not easy. The long grass may appear to be innocent, but they grow very fast, and before one can mop a side, the other side grows to its full length. Those ladies might have realized that growing the grass and cutting them, all happen because of His will.
By praying to God throughout their work, they remain prepared to embrace the challenges of the world. Let the grass go fast, our chisel will run faster.
Truly, small steps towards the Great World.
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