Transformation of A Soul

Transformation of a soul

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by Abhijit Kamat

27 March, 2013

While trekking in an unknown jungle alone, I had a fear. Fear of unknown.

I found a  strong long mallet and picked it up. I felt stronger. Then I started moving that mallet in the air, and slowly started hitting it on whatever came

my way. I started hitting insects, reptiles and crushing weeds. I felt stronger. There was no one to scare me now.

Then, I released that mallets is not effective. With mallet, I can’t cut through weeds and bushes, I needed something sharp and stronger to be aggressive and remove my remaining fear.

Then I found a sword. I replaced it with wooden mallet. What a sharpness! I felt more powerful. I started swinging my sword without a second thought. I did not bother if that swinging hurt flora and fauna. Why should I ? there was no one to ask me in that jungle. There was no repent nor remorse for what I was doing.

I felt weakness in my sword and my hands because they were not strong enough to cut the big trees. I needed to be more powerful.

Then I found a small rosary. I picked it up unwillingly and replaced it with my sword as a fun and my fingers started rolling through the beads. My mind that earlier played with the mallet and the sword, now got absorbed in the beads. I did not know how, but my thoughts started changing. I realized the cruelty in me and the unnecessary killings of  helpless creatures throughout the life. I felt very weak. The burden of the past and the uncertainty for the future became too heavy and I collapsed. But my mind & fingers kept their movement through the rosary. Slowly, all negativity and the fear of uncertainty started disappearing. And then, all of a sudden, I realized the new strength in the heart. Cruelty has been completely replaced with empathy and sorrow with the plentiful of joy.

That was just the beginning of the transformation of the soul.