INSTANT COFFEE

Sleight of hand, illusion, trickery, magic; these are the things that happen in the flash of an eye. And instant coffee.

Miracles do not. They take years to build, sometimes ages, or countless births.

When the leper is healed at the touch of the Guru’s hand in Delhi, it is the instant of the touch that the world sees, and prays for more healing and magic. One tends to miss the faith that has been building over generations, the hope and the confidence, in the hearts of those wretches who have waited for timeless centuries for the coming of this Child to relieve them of unimaginable suffering. The build-up to the moment; that is the miracle. The hope generated for centuries yet unborn; that is the miracle.

Ills are cured, sores are healed, waters are parted, food is produced to feed the multitudes and Hope is firmly ensconced in the hearts of those who believe.

The world sees only the last moment when the scales are tipped from impure to pure, from evil to good, from filthy to clean, from abhorrent to desirable, from captivity to freedom.

And the world witnesses ‘miracles’.

Those who are present are overwhelmed and dissolve into oneness with Him Who Is the Miracle. Others think and analyse and infer and conclude and classify. What they are unable to explain is dubbed as a ‘miracle’, a phenomenon suffixed with an emphatic question mark.

It is a question of two sides of a beam balance. As faith in Him and His Way is added grain by grain, and The Big I on the other side dissolves and evaporates drop by drop, the miracle builds, ever so slowly.

Every breath rejoicing in Him counts. Every good wish and every thought and act of love counts. Compassion, forgiveness, surrender, appreciation, wonder, and the flow of Prana in any form, all add up to change the balance.

A Dalai Lama and the present generations of his countrymen may not see their land freed from foreign occupation, but the seed has been sown and nurtured, goodness and blessings gather,and one day the flower of freedom will bloom. The miracle is in motion.

Every human being and animal and plant and stone and grain of sand will one day experience the bliss of being one with It All. The miracle is in motion.

Which brings one to the combined miracle of forgiveness, compassion and Love! The Big Daddy of all miracles!!

Forgiveness will not happen in a moment or a day. But no man must lose heart. Forgiveness needs a chance to take root gradually. The fires of hatred will be doused in whatever time it takes, and the foam of forgiveness will come out the winner. 

Understanding and compassion will grow grain by painstaking grain. That is why the old truth will always live, 'Patience is the mother of all virtues.'

Ha! Even sleight of hand, illusion, trickery and magic do not really happen in the flash of an eye. They take years of practice and labour, till the scales are tipped, and illusion changes into reality.

And instant coffee? That miracle started eons ago to gradually perfect the seed and soil and temperature and humidity and factory processes and development of taste…. to culminate in the instant of the first sip!

“Zeina Glo brings you the radiant glow of inner peace, good health and attendant beauty.

Zeina Glo helps you strip off layers of inhibitions, hesitation, and cynicism, allowing your thoughts and emotions to flow freely.

Zeina Glo helps to douse the flames of insecurity and guilt, to open the windows of mind and body to the cool fresh breeze of love.

Zeina Glo encourages you to spread inner peace, good health, radiance, exuberance, warmth, joy and the glow from your inner being.

Zeina Glo brings the beauty of your own thoughts back to you!!”

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