This world itself is a strange, wondrous, and complex sphere.
As it keeps rolling, we too roll our lives along with it within us, how many divisions?
How many differences?
How many egos, how many variations?
But can a world truly function if all these are erased?
That is a profound question.
It is differences that have given rise to scientific discoveries.
It is the description of poverty that has sketched many geniuses in this world.
It is the sorrows that sprouted within hearts that have matured sages.
So then, are you asking should we simply accept all these differences, divisions, and distinctions?
No, my dear ones!
Just as differences and divisions arise naturally, so too is the effort to erase them a part of nature.
In childhood, I used to play by rolling a bicycle wheel with a stick along the soil of my motherland.
Sometimes, the wheel would curve away from the direction I intended.
Do we simply let it go its own way?
No!
With the stick in hand, after many attempts, we guide it back toward the direction we want.
In the same way, our efforts toward goodness must continue that is the law of nature.
And my dear ones, you have the courage for it.
Live victoriously with humanity, peace, and brotherhood.
Do not underestimate the strength within you.
Do not fear at the very first step, asking “Can I really do this?”
A life that freezes in fear of failure, or folds in defeat, is not a good life.
Even if one loses in a race, the runner is greater than the one who only stands outside and criticizes.
It is by bearing sorrows that one can reach heights.
Build your life’s chariot with the sky itself as your limitless boundary.
If you channel lofty thoughts into your mind, life will flourish, and it will be yours to command.
Even if a torch is turned upside down, its flame still shines upward.
So too, only by moving upward and forward does life shine.
No matter how large a lump of clay may be, within it lies a beautiful statue waiting to be revealed.
Likewise, within each of us lies immeasurable strength and the ability to achieve.
But most hesitate to bring that strength out because of fear born from a single word: failure.
Failure is not the end of the journey, it is merely a turning point, a lesson to be learned along the way.
When a rocket is launched into space, its boosters fall away once their fuel is spent.
So too in life only when we discard old fears, doubts, and burdens that hold us back does our speed toward the goal increase.
Critics will always shout from the shore.
But only the one who learns to swim and enters the sea understands its depth and beauty.
Therefore, do not freeze in fear.
Carry the torch of faith in your own strength, and walk forward each day.
We may all be of different colors, different languages, different thoughts.
But these differences are like the colors of a rainbow.
Each color is unique, yet only when they unite does the rainbow’s full beauty appear.
In the same way, only when we set aside divisions and live in brotherhood does the world’s complete harmony become possible.
Humanity is not something done out of duty.
It is the fundamental law of nature itself.
The sun shines equally for all.
The wind blows without discrimination.
When we realize this basic unity, the differences in others will no longer threaten us, but instead become opportunities to broaden our wisdom.
When we declare that the limitless sky is our boundary, we must also realize that to fly toward it, the collective wings of all our brotherly birds are needed.
Life is not a stagnant pond; it is a river that flows endlessly.
The philosophy that a torch, no matter how it is turned, always shines upward teaches us the greatness of our mindset.
Our mind, like that flame, must always burn upward, fueled by noble thoughts and positive ideas.
Sorrows, failures, criticisms they are only winds that test the flame.
When the flame rises above those winds, life shines bright.
If you continue to enrich your thoughts, your peak of ambition will eventually seem small to you.
Because when we reach the summit, it is not the peak that becomes smaller it is we who have grown taller to its height.
So keep climbing upward.
“For the one who lies down, even day is night.
For the one who rises and walks, every direction becomes the East.”
Think this way, climb higher and higher… and the summit will seem small to you.
You can do it. I believe in you.
With love,
Sakthi Sakthithasan
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