Journey in a River

I was watching this clip today on Discovery channel, which was being filmed from a boat showing the Sun setting on the sacred banks of the river Ganga. The view was picturesque which later filmed the holy Ganga arti along the ghats.Thousands of lamps were offered to the ‘Ganga mata’ in a gesture of knowledge and enlightenment. They were floating ahead in their pendulous manner and after a while, disappeared. That’s when I was reminded of this analogy.Our life is very much like a journey in river. As the journey unfolds new scene (ghats) constantly appear before our eyes. The view around us is changing uninterrupted. Sometimes it’s bumpy rough waters and sometimes it’s pleasant. But once gone the view can never be lived again. It is like once we have seen the scene of our childhood we can never live that again.

Very often in this journey of ours we tend to forget that instead of us, it is the banks which are stationary. Banks are not passing by us; we are passing by these banks. But this does not mean that the views we just passed by now ceases to exist.
They are very much there somewhere upstream. Someday someone might see his childhood along the same banks and will wonder could there have been someone else; who experienced same.
Flow of the water is the time. We are moving ahead in time. Our destination is not in distance but it is in time.

So I guess, life is a journey in time. Generations before and after share the same land and horizon with us, only difference being, they belong to a different time. I do not know how precise this analogy is, but it certainly ran into me for a moment and made me share it with you………….

Luv n Luk

Pranjal.