I never got to blog about this while in India, but I wanted to share this with you.
I was in a computer lab, the only one in Kashmir where I went to hike in the Himalayas. Not too far from Dal Lake, the center of the small town on the outskirts of Shrinagar, I was there, not too long ago, checking work emails, personal emails, my blog, and most sadly, my return ticket to New Delhi which would then get me home in a week's time. As I sat there in the small computer lab, with the old dusty PCs, people mainly doing the same, although it was somewhat empty, I looked up and saw the attached poem posted on the wall. I read it and then as I shed a few tears of joy (which I did a lot in India), I shared my gratitude with the computer shop owner as we intellectual and spiritually discussed the small poem on his wall. Here is that poem, and I'd like to share it with you.
The most beautiful part of this story is how I was able to get it to you today. I foolishly did not copy it while India, nor did I snap a photo of it so that I could transcribe it later. It was a friend of mine, who, several months later, was sitting in that same computer lab. When I realized where he was, I asked him to please dictate it to me, and I wrote it down so that I could forever have it as a reminder of the important messages I learned on my trip. And now I share it with you -- a simply stated message that should welcome the dawn of each day...brought to you all the way from Kashmir India. Author unknown.
Salaam Aleikum (God be with you),
Robinne
SALUTATION TO THE DAWN
Look to this day.. for it is life, the very life of life.
In this brief source lies all the varieties and realties of your existence:
the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of achievement.
For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision..
But today well-lived makes yesterday a dream of happiness,
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore, to this day.
Such is the salutation to the dawn.
