You must have heard of the flock of sheep, called in hindi as भेड़ चाल । it is the same thing. Sparrows and crows like to be in group but the swan and eagle generally fly alone or with just a few. In fact the world has advanced because of those few w.ho stood away from the crowd and chose their own unique path even if it was a difficult one, the road less travelled as it is called. All our divine heroes and Avatars, Sri Rama, Sri Krishna, Buddha, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and many others did not follow the conventional ways of the world. They turned their back to the world and the world followed them.
Here are some lines from Savitri to show us the way.
‘Heaven’s call is rare, rarer the heart that heeds;
The doors of light are sealed to common mind
And earth’s needs nail to earth the human mass,
Only in an uplifting hour of stress
Men answer to the touch of greater things:
Or, raised by some strong hand to breathe heaven-air,
They slide back to the mud from which they climbed;
In the mud of which they are made, whose law they know
They joy in safe return to a friendly base,
And, though something in them weeps for glory lost
And greatness murdered, they accept their fall.
To be the common man they think the best,
To live as others live is their delight.’
It is the weak who seek comfort in numbers and go by the majority. But the strong always stand alone with faith as their sword and courage as the armour.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
