Ayurveda

I recently re-read a literature text which I studied for back in secondary school. It was a book titled The English Teacher by R.K Narayan. I remembered how many of us didn't like the book, the teacher included, and preferred doing Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing over it. (The play was the other part of the Olevel syllabus I had to study for)

Since then, I have re-visited this book a number of times, and each time i read it, i gleam something more out of it.

I used to detest the notion of re-reading books when i was young, thinking that re-reading them is a definite waste of time.

Re-reading books like this, I now find great value in it as I realised that as we grow older, we gain different perspectives from the book, and we learn so much more than what the book offers in the first read.

Reading The English Teacher (which interestingly, as I have come to realise, is not so much about the diatribe of the protagonist against the colonial standards of english upon his country), but more so to the idea of inner peace and sanctury.

It is there that these ideas intruiged me to find out more, and subsequently gain a more insightful understanding of the text. What delights me the most is how the text uncovers so much more beyond its initial words and causes the reader to go into ideas of the Ayurvedic faith, as well as the ideas of Ashrama Dharma, in particular the final stage of life, Sanyasa Ashrama.

While I stand on the side of the unreligious, I do highly admire the teachings of various religions regarding the attainment of inner peace and tranquility. We have the strong moral directions of Christianity, the benevolent preachings of Islam, as well as the peace-loving doctrines of Buddhism and Hinduism.

As such, it is nights like this, (had a rather tumultuous quarrel with my dad just now), that i seem to seek solace in such ideas and calm myself to a resolute and calm will, a sign of inner peace i hope, as i note down my thoughts here.

i had a quarrel with my dad, actually over an unimportant thing, in retrospect.

It just really makes me sad how minor things like this can blow up into a quarrel.

just hope they have a great time the next 2 days; they are going on a small trip out of country to relax. I think they deserve it; both my mum and dad have really been caught up with their work the past few months.

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time to get down to work, gotta sort out some rehearsal schedules and formulate a lesson plan for my classes for the upcoming week.

till then, then.