CREATIVITY- The most important ingredient of thr recipe called GREATNESS!!

Yet again I find myself among tides unknown, among challenges that are so peculiar that to comprehend their true nature and to prepare a strategy against them is a challenge in itself. The colossal task of going through it all and finally being triumphant is nothing less than a journey to the inferno.

But hope flickers and will always do. It might be dim and running out of our grip like golden particles of amorphous sand, swaying in the winds of distress, still the endeavours must be made to get through this travail.

Creativity is the key.

Ironically, the solution is the real problem. The bigger picture lurks inside the tiny ones and that is the beauty of it. The real success lies not in accomplishing feats that are distinct from your soul but in finding the clandestine affair that was there since the inception of this universe.

It is a regular to know what you don’t know. The experiment is to twist and turn the known. In the process of inheritance, one forgets to put a filter between the influx of unknown and the acceptance of what finally becomes the part of our knowledge treasure.

Why accept it all? Why nod our heads to the condescending dictate?

Where is the creativity in it?

But knowledge is important. It makes us wise. It makes us successful. Better, it makes us rich.

Was Swami Vivekananda rich? Was Gautam Buddha successful? Was Mahatama Gandhi wise?

NO.

Dont take me to be wrong. The nexus does not implicate irreverence to any of the above GODLY figures. They were all beyond such demarcations of human society.

History is the witness to the fact that greatness is not inborn as is so wrongly perceived by many. It is self-realised. Dig a little deeper into the lives of Great Souls and you shall find that greatness was not bestowed upon them right from the time they took their first breath. Of-course prodigies do happen, but they, in my point of view are restricted to a specific talent or skill that we usually tag as a God-Gift. But greatness is altogether a different realm. Many are a mix of prodigious abilities and carry inherent greatness. They are the ones to look out for as they are the ones who, in the words of Steven Paul Jobs, create a ‘dent in the universe’.

They are the ones who personify creativity. They do not tread upon a path less taken (again a misconception of many).They twist and turn and hop and jump on the same path. They have an unknown gait that is looked at by everyone in wonder. Walking in troops is not in their persona.

They are great simply because they experiment with the established norms and thus creatively simulate an aura that can only be fathomed by souls that match their understanding.

The rest of us?.... well, the rest of us are busy absorbing their experiments as mind slaves, oblivious that there is so much more wrapped in those values that still needs to be creatively surfaced in time to come.