Choice ~ Photography by Amardeep Singh

When I chased happiness, it soon transformed into dissatisfaction. On the other hand, looking at life from a lower state of being, made me ecstatic. The pigeons of happiness and suffering, the two relative states of being, have always been fluttering over me.

As Nanak, the first Sikh Guru says,

Witness pleasure and pain, along with
vice and virtue in the world as the same.

Nanak, page 1256 of Adi Granth

Life offers many roads. Each one of us have experiences that are unique to us alone, leading to choices, but in essence the perfect experience lies in being able to find solace amongst challenges, while also exploring challenges amongst solace.

In the early morning hours, looking into the fields of Navalgarh (Rajasthan, India), where the breaking dawn was clearing the mist, I could experience a bunch of leafless trees communicating with me. Amongst the ecstatic scene being created by the morning sun that offered hope, the simultaneous sorrow being projected by the barren trees offered a stark reminder of the duality of nature and the choice of balance that we need to make.