A new year or just another day?

I dont really like celebrating my birthday. I like the birthday wishes I get and the surprise phone calls from lot of friends. But as such I feel birthdays are like any other day. I spoke to my boss in the morning and he told me birthdays are not merely for social celebration. They have a spiritual meaning to it. It is the time for progress, to evolve and to accomplish. I felt this was a new perspective. An interesting one at that.

When I visualise myself of how I was the last year, I can see tremendous changes. A transition in my understanding. A travel from U.S back to India. Coming to Pondicherry. Meeting unique and different people. The sense of “creating my destiny”.

I dint know what to look forward for this birthday. I aspired for “silence” and here it is. Sitting in my office room all alone, I enjoy this Silence.

Browsing on a lot of links lead me to Sri Aurobindo’s poem “Savitri“. A beautiful verse from the poem:

A morn that seemed a new creation’s front,
Bringing a greater sunlight, happier skies,
Came burdened with a beauty moved and strange
Out of the changeless origin of things.