Many stories
are being told through the travels. Each story told is a story in making. Each
place travelled is a plot being attached to the steps of story making. Every
one is a story teller in disguise some are
storytellers in the exterior, some interior and some don't even know that
they are stories. Few are storytellers of eternity and some are storytellers of
this world. Climax is - never going back to where we started from because every
soul has an unending story from these worlds to the worlds beyond.
Creation are characters. All Characters have
different positions within the story. Nature's other elements have different
positions in this story and life is the storytellers with knowing and
expressions. When the story doesn't change, you don't. And knowing the story would liberate.
There is always an internal travel human goes
through growing beyond the survival and being more than just survival. And the
internalization give rise to parables, metaphors and anecdotes. Be it Mulla
Nasruddin, Rabia, Rumi, Maryam, Buddha, David or Jesus etc all were those
internal storytellers who through social stories told the deepest truth's of
human self awareness. Ibn Battuta, was an exterior geographical traveler,
Avicenna was an exterior scientific and philosophical traveler, all were
travelers, also with lot inside them.
The Fight with yourself by connecting deeply with self
is the first step, to know your soul, your desires, your intelligence, your
intellect, your inspiration and inspirations from beyond, It is the travel of
every contemplative human. Being Survivor or Human is the choice he makes, the
decision he takes.
Discipline is the initial step of the traveler to
deal with disequilibrium which is the conflict of his own story, disciplining
his ego and opposing his desires he may come to a greater understanding of his
purpose in life, like a hero fighting his villains. Then he can reach the step
of moderation, a partial climax.
Self-centered and ignorant willfulness of those who
blindly follow their individual desires will fall as villains. All spiritual
illness is based upon an inner disequilibrium which has its root in the base
character traits of the individual. Every hero was going through that conflict,
he took a step towards the healing and other was engulfed in the illness.
There are characters which enter often into every
human's story to show them light, those who fight and find light through them are
liberated and celebrated as Heroes and others who fight against them are called
Villains.
Heroes create and spread Equilibrium and balance
everywhere. The struggle and endeavor against the downward-pulling tendencies
of our lower self is the conflict most of the stories carry. Every child can
see the story and characters but very few enlightened find the depth of the
story, so all children should listen to the stories of everyone else and
themselves so that they could read between the lines what story is trying to
tell them.
The Villain should be fought with because he will
bring darkness otherwise and for the light to be achieved, there will be
hindrances and those hindrances make the story worth telling. There will also
be the deviations and seductions from which the Hero escapes untouched. This Hero
is immortal in essence despite the changes that befall him or her through
different forms and at different times and places. At no time does the Hero
cease his or her quest for destination. This story is . . . the story of every
human being.
We forget the story and it gets settled at the
bottom of the dumped stacks of human library, unconscious and then gets covered by a thick
layer of dusty illusions and useless fears that we inherited from the times of
ignorance and superstition from history of mankind. There is no way that we can
achieve our happiness unless we break through this thick layer. The books of
knowledge were brought into existence only to remind us of our extraordinary
story. They help us open the book inside us to discover our own story. And then We meet in eternity and will tell
stories forever.
Kisi ahle dil ko pucho ke woh rotha kyun hai,
Ask the heart's companinon why does he cry,
Kisi kahanikar se uski bhi kahani kabhi puchna
tum,
Some day ask a storyteller his own story
Bas uska andaze bayan aur uski qitia zameen aur,
It is just that the style of narration and plot changes
Warna wahi ishq wahi gham hai uske bhi mauzu me.
Otherwise it is the same love, some agony, same content.
- Nuzhath M Syed
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