Light O MoonLight
Of Sun and Moonlight, and other limelights..
Imagine you wake up to find the familiar roads and traffic lights switch sides. What a confusion it would be. This morning, I was dropping my older one to school, and sleepily I notice the bright full moon shining over the mountains. Just yesterday night it was over the park on the other side.
It was only last week that I gazed at the moon a few times. As the crescent line moved each night and bloomed to form the autumnal full moon dazzling in the sky like a lamp, and hinting the angle and the proportion of distance of the Sun hiding behind the night and projecting this wonder.
The big data of stars and planetary movements.. Our ancient mathematicians did this all through the seasons, through years and made beautiful projections of circumference and galactic distances.
The whole of last week I have been seeing it behind the park, and seeing it this morning across the Hills made it seem so surreal.. A matter of elementary physics and yet how often we experience such simple innocence with our naked eyes.. I told myself to wake up. It is me who has taken a night trip since yesterday and a 180-degree change of view from the park-side to the hills, and the moon just nudged a few degrees since yesterday night.
And the ramblings why not.. A month back, a classmate had posted about his father’s 85th birthday. A shower of 1000 full moons. A great milestone of sahasra abhishekam which left me wondering.. About a 500 full moons showers of my life have gone past without my eyes even quite gazing?
Valmiki and even Tagore in his Anandaloke describe the bliss and beauty of this Universe. The Washing of the Earth by the Day and Night. For what a layman cannot see in broad daylight, only a poet can see in his realms..
Here we lie on Planet Earth washed and caressed by the Sun, Moon, and the countless Stars. And each Day and each Night and the Anniversaries and Milestones are cosmic celebrations of the Grandeur.
The light of the Sun and the Moon
The light of people, interactions, gadgets
The light of Knowledge and Love
The light of Guidance and
The light of the Self
With these ramblings as I drive, I miss the lane home and hit the highway. And I did not have the light of GPS today. Trusted the light of my confused Self and reached home safely without looping around :)
References
https://upanishads.org.in/stories/the-light-of-the-lights
Beautiful rendition Tagore’s Ananda Loke
Aanondo-loke mongola-loke birajo, sotyo-sundaro.
Mohima tabo udbhasito maha-gagono-maajheIn the abode of joy and benevolence lies the beautiful truth
Your glory shines across the vast sky
The universe ornaments your feet.
Stars and planets, moon and the sun rush out ecstatically
To drink at, to wash under the pouring grace, infinitely
Unleashing founts upon the earth. The enchanting beauty all around
Receiving you with songs offering leafy, floral greetings — aromatic.
Life flows night and day, in ever-new streams
Bestowed by your tireless blessings in life, in death.
Hearts soften by affection, love, mercy and devotion
Wiping away the heat of distress, showering sympathy
In a grand festivity the world greets Thee
In prosperity, deep adoration and in complete submission.
