Enchantress - Santosh Jha (the gingerbread man read aloud .txt) 📗

Yes; the element of complementing each other is always there. When I am the stupid, you fill in with the best of your genius and the vice versa. Marriage is the institution where both fallibility and genius have equal and compassionate acceptance. That is why two is a potential. Our marriage is the partnership of infinite elements; it has the potential much beyond that.’

‘Great. Point taken! So, finally, as we now stand as husband and wife, what is our new life together all about? What next…?’

‘I told you; nothing has worth and utility in life. Anything, even the most useless thing we do, together, has goodness and value. Nothing outside our togetherness has any meaning. The world outside is anyway too synthetic and polluted with toxic attitudes. Inside our common and mutual space, the whole world is so mesmerizing. You said it a few minutes ago; goodness is too holistic to be a possibility for an individual. You and I are now one and our ONE-ness itself has all worth and utility. Whatever we do together shall be good and whatever is lined up to be next; we shall make it good; together.’

He is enjoying her so much. He just wants to keep this talk going forever. She is a natural. She is not even considering what she is saying. The innocence has merged so well and deep that everything is innately cooking perfectly. But then, the time has to present a context for the change of scene in the theatre of life.

Her phone rings up and her mother is asking; is she coming for lunch, should she wait?

‘Mom, you had told me, if something good happens, it is happy occasion for gratitude. The best has just happened in my life. I am too insufficient to even perceive how gratitude can be made commensurate to the opulence of the occasion. In ten minutes time, I shall be with you, along with my prized bequest. Together, we shall arrive at it’.

The mother knows it all. She probably was even expecting it. She didn’t take a second to tell her daughter, what she shall remember forever…

‘Occasioning of goodness may arrive at a moment, which shall pass but; the gratitude must always remain eternal. You and your prized Besty have a long life to keep inventing and designing novel ways of gratitude-expression. Togetherness is the only everlasting and uninterrupted goodness; the gratitude must also remain unremitting and ever-evolving.’

Can the enchantress please come up on the stage and say her concluding remarks? Can she reveal what she makes out of this just accomplished marriage?

Oh! … Sorry! The enchantress has moved away. We can understand. She has millions of men and women for whom she has to orchestrate the causalities. But; great that she has left a small note for us and it reads –

‘Love needs huge preparedness. It is a must for readiness. Men and women are given enough time for the preparations. When a man and woman are perfectly settled and in absolute poise of their evolved higher consciousnesses, then only they are Ready for assimilation and integration of love. My magic works the optimum best only with ready protagonists!

‘Love, in its pure and true manifestation, is never passionate but always compassionate. Love is a ‘well-poised’ consciousness positioning, an innate state of settled internal wellness; seldom in need of passionate and demonstrative expressions. Love’s expression is like systemic serenity of song and dance, staged within a person’s consciousness. True lovers shall consciously come to relish and feel at peace with his or her innate song-dance positioning, without that person saying anything to you.

The higher consciousness, in compassionate possession of the settled wellness of love, shall be calm and composed like a deep ocean and blue sky. Such a person shall be widely accommodative, assimilative and integrative towards everything, like an ocean and sky. I actually had to do nothing much as; She was the blue sky and He was the deep ocean. This marriage has happened millions of years back. It is only occasionally replicated…’

Accept My Gratitude

Writing something is a daunting task as there is always a lurking apprehension of it not being of utility for some readers. I however feel at ease, because of my faith in magnanimity of readers. For an author, innocence of intent is the only possession about which he or she can be and must be sincere. The utility and worth is always at the end of the readers and their judgment must always be accepted with the same sincerity of innocence. I am happily sure; you shall forgive if my efforts could not be up to your expectations. Thank you so much for being with me and allowing me to share with you.

Wish you an empowered life; with the prosperity of the consciousness.

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About The Author

People say, what conspire to make you what you finally become are always behind the veil of intangibility. Someone called it ‘Intangible-Affectors’. Inquisitiveness was the soil, I was born with and the seeds, these intangible-affectors planted in me made me somewhat analytical. My long stint in media, in different capacities as journalist, as brand professional and strategic planning, conspired too! However, I must say it with all innocence at my behest that the chief conspirators of my making have been the loads of beautiful and multi-dimensional people, who traversed along me, in my life journey so far. The mutuality and innocence of love and compassion always prevailed and magically worked as the catalyst in my learning and most importantly, unlearning from these people. Unconsciously, these amazing people also worked out to be the live theatres of my experiments with my life’s scripts. I, sharing with you as a writer, is essentially my very modest way to express my gratitude for all of them. In my stupidities is my innocence of love for all my beautifully worthy conspirators!

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A Humble Request To Evolved Women Readers…

The sense and sensitivity towards the Reality of Other; this equally important somethingness, beyond the much-pampered ‘I’, is a product and function of higher consciousness. Love is no guarantee of a person’s goodness. Never look for how much a person loves you. However, a person’s goodness can be confirmed assurance of high quality of love’s righteousness and success. That is why always look for how good a person is, even if his or her love for you is uncertain. Only those succeed in love who are compassionately aware and affectionately accommodative of the idea and idealism of Other. Love and intimacy is a conscious situation of compassion, not passion…

True and real intimacy and love can make people agreeable, harmonious, assimilative, cooperative and accommodative as the instinctive behavior and action shifts from individualistic wellness and satisfaction to collective wellness and joys. It is the magic of compassion towards the Other. But this is just the first step. Lovers need to evolve together for good amount of time, for this instinct of individualism to shift to collective accommodation and become primary one. Tragically, no contemporary culture and modern learning systems facilitate this consciousness training. Naturally, intimacy and love needs loads of preparedness and readiness. People do not do it even after they plunge into intimacy.

Gradually, as commonality and mutuality grows and evolves in time and space, the two people in love even start having common singular perceptions and that finally makes them see and accept singular realism of all things in life. This is fruition of love and intimacy. There is a popular and hugely metaphoric saying about couple in intimacy and love. It says, ‘Finally, after long association and togetherness, the husband and wife end up being like brothers and sisters’. This symbolic gesture points at the fact that husband and wife may begin with workable commonalities but prolonged togetherness makes the commonalities innate and visceral; as it usually is, between a brother and sister, born out of single womb…

Relationships are difficult, simply because we, our consciousnesses are also not simple mechanism. Human wellness and excellence has always been in understanding the complexities of life and living and when people ready themselves for love and intimate relationship, they need to be in high acceptance mode of the relativity of mind consciousnesses and cognitive diversities. Intimacy is this magical artistry to do so.

Someone said it, ‘I can find thousands ways to stand you wrong and myself right and you can find thousand plus logic to do the same. However, both of us can be right at the same time and still not find any reasonable wrong if we are in deep intimacy.’ What does this signify?

There can be as many interpretation of the statement as per different people’s perception. Realism, almost always stands as one shade of perception, in somehow competitive mode to other perceptions. Therefore realisms are seldom the same for two people. So, does this mean, when two people are in love, they can see and accept a singular realism as they have commonality of perceptions?

This sounds like a postulation based on emotional hypothesis with little logical back up! However, the core issue is not about having commonality of perceptions and therefore falling for a singular realism. Nobody should accept that love makes two people in intimacy see and accept a common perception. It may happen but is not the cardinal rule or theory of love.

Then, what the above-mentioned quote meant? How does it happen that two people can be both right at the same time and not see each other’s wrong, when in love, even when they still stand to have different perceptions about reality? This needs to be understood and that understanding makes us accept as how love should be accepted in our lives and why intimacy is so important life-living realism for all of us.

In many situations of life and living, there may be people with competing perceptions and ideas, still, they keep aside their differences and accept an accommodative and assimilative behavior and action, as only this can ensure not only their safety and survival but also that of the milieu. This then ensures wellness of all. This nurtured accommodative behavior is common for people working in mines, ships, factories and other professions where life is always at stake if cooperation and accommodation is not the primary instinct. The common goal of survival and safety makes individuals rise above all personal concerns and thus, the road to mutuality is paved.

Love facilitates this similar sense of cooperation and accommodation. The person in deep intimacy and love ceases to think individually and his or her first instinct becomes a mindset where collective wellness is the primary and common aim. Usually, we all think of individual safety and wellness. However, often, life-living wellness needs cooperation and accommodation in collective living. Love enhances the space of cooperation and accommodation in the collective domain of two lives in intimacy. We all know, even scientific research has confirmed; intimacy-deficit and sense of alienation can kill people. They hugely affect health and mental wellness.

But, it is hugely important that intimacy has to be driven by the evolved energy of compassion and not the instinctive and reactionary energy of passion…

Therefore, even when two persons in love have competing perceptions and ideas about things, they do not bring it to the fore as their primary aim is collective wellness. The ‘He’ and ‘She’ in love accept that if ‘She’ is not well, ‘He’ too cannot feel happy and well and the vice-versa. This primary instinct for collective wellness is the magic of love. It is not possible for all humans. It is also not true that a person when in love shall suddenly begin to invest in collective and mutual sense of being. This happens only to those people who have already evolved to be compassionate, accommodative and assimilative about ‘Others’.

Love and intimacy relationships require this element of compassionate understanding of reality. This compassion does not come naturally as what comes innately