Whatever happens, know that Life
will go on. And you too must flow with it, ‘letting your music play’!
There are times in Life when you
wish you could do something about what you are faced with. But you will be
unable to. So, instead of hating what you have been served, just start loving it
and live in the moment.
I watched ‘Titanic’, James Cameroon’s
classic movie, one more time during the weekend. And learned one more time from
the amazing musicians on how to ‘let the music play’ till the very end.
Wikipedia says: “After the Titanic
hit an iceberg and began to sink, Wallace Hartley, the bandmaster and
violinist, and his fellow band members started playing music to help keep the
passengers calm as the crew loaded the lifeboats. Many of the survivors said
that he and the band continued to play until the very end. None of the band
members survived the sinking and the story of them playing to the end became a
popular legend. One survivor who clambered aboard 'Collapsible A' claimed to
have seen Hartley and his band standing just behind the first funnel, by the
Grand Staircase. He went on to say that he saw three of them washed off while
the other five held on to the railing on top the Grand Staircase's deckhouse,
only to be dragged down with the bow, just before Hartley exclaimed,
"Gentlemen, I bid you farewell!" A newspaper at the time reported
"the part played by the orchestra on board the Titanic in her last
dreadful moments will rank among the noblest in the annals of heroism at
sea."”
I wouldn’t say it is heroism. It is
simply intelligent living. Because you can only control what’s within your
control. All your worries and anxieties, fears and insecurities, come from what
you can’t control. Now, instead of worrying, fearing and suffering, if you can just
look at the situation and say, “Well, well, well….if this is what it is, let me
see how I can find peace within this situation.” This really is the only way to
live a Life which we didn’t ask for and whose game-plan we have no idea of
either!
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| Ramakrishna Paramahamsa |
Let us remember that there is the
opportunity, always available to us, to change our most dreadful moments into
ones full of grace! All we need to do is to be open to the opportunity. When we
are grieving, mourning, sorrowful, we are closed. We are not open to the
Universe’s energy __ its compassion, its warmth, its grace. As Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa has said, “The winds of grace are always blowing. You must open and
hoist your sails to catch it.”
So, unfurl and open your sails,
open up your soul. If you are in a difficult time, accept it. Don’t resist it.
This may not take the pain away. But it will help you immensely by ridding you
of all your suffering! This then is the only way to ‘let your music play’….
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