Hindu People Acceptance

All the contrasts, tastes and smells and colors intoxicate your soul the moment you step on the holy land. It all happens so fast that you lose all you thought you knew about life.

Here you see a poor woman enjoying the bath she gives to her baby from a pipe next to the road. She’s laughing and plays with her baby as if there is no noisy polluted traffic just one meter away from her. A holy man is walking on the street, stops and gives her blessings, as if he’s known her for a lifetime. He does, indeed recognize the human in h

With his head bowed as if he’s carrying the burden of the world, a young man is sulking, not seeing anything around. He walks in silence in the middle of the noise, but it’s a different kind of silence from the one the holy man is expressing.

There is awareness and the deep understanding of life and there is the quietness when life shuts you up. They all look alike from the outside, if you don’t know how to read the depth of the eyes. It’s only a slight difference in the shadow of the blackness of one’s eye.

So you take one step back and let the new understanding to settle in you, the knowledge that your spirit can laugh in the biggest chaos, that same spirit can lack when there is nothing to disturb it.

You walk all the colors of the world, cry all the pains of the human life and in the end, you can laugh when death comes to ask you out, you’re ready.

 text: Simina Cernat