Iowa City Diaries
It is not often in grad school that you wake up early on Sunday morning to catch the sun peeking from far behind the horizon. What is even rarer is the fact that you get the privilege of watching the sky turn red due to some atmospheric activity, long after the sun has set. And when you do get a chance, its almost impossible to not reflect on such wonderful sights that nature offers, just one of the endless bounties it does. So, I was off to the south east part of Iowa City for the Sunday morning satsangh (a meditation group that I am part of), and just when I crossed Walmart on Highway 6, the first rays of sun poured through the orifices of beauties that the world calls eye. Such a beautiful organ it is, helps us perceive such greatness and beauty and yet we have such a mundane world for it- 'Eye'? I sometimes like one of the Hindi/Sanskrit alternatives for it- लोचन (Lōchana). Anyone who knows his Hindi will admit that it is such a beautiful word. :) This word is filling me...