Ehsaas

Ehsaas is a strange word. According to an old uncle who I met one year ago, this word has absolutely no equivalent in English. It is not just a "feeling". it is perhaps, a small space in our minds, in our hearts, waiting to be activated.

We all are born with a natural state of Ehsaas. It is often silenced gradually and loses visibility under the worldly heaviness. The state of Ehsaas thus needs to be reactivated in almost all of us. Its function is two-fold. It exists to distribute and disburse the excess of love, compassion from our lives to others. It also exists to make us realize who we are and our responsibility towards other beings on this very planet.

Ehsaas, once activated, answers questions of why you & I have been created lucky. Why we have been blessed with whatever we have been blessed with. It also has a magical power of shunning away our petty sufferings. It shuts up the brain's useless complains in a way like no other worldly power can.

But, for our Ehsaas to be activated within us, we often need to encounter experiences which we'd rather chose to deny/ignore. There are times when we hear people utter expressions that we wish we hadn't heard. For a split second, we wish to zone out, only to realize that perhaps its too late, we have already heard it.

A young widow (whose husband was killed few months back) was sitting with a 4 year old child in her lap commenting on another target killing, ''Its good that they targeted/killed father/mother/son all together. After all, how alive is the mother/son left behind from such killings anyway. They are lucky, they went with him.''

Death is a traumatic natural suffering. Bound to cause pain. What makes it worse is lack of support system. Imagine the orphan kids left behind. The traumatic experience. The consequences. Psychological and emotional. Its spill over unto their families, their careers, their life. Their perception of Time, Existence, Justice seems to be based on brutal ugly reality. A reality you & I can never comprehend, no matter how many times we utter the cliché phrase "Oh we understand your pain". No, we don't. Because we can't.

We can only use their experience to activate our Ehsaas within. You and I are lucky. With excess of everything as an amanat. An amanat perhaps by God to help them re-equate Life. To help them Heal, in the process, helping ourselves heal our own mundane/petty sufferings.

Ehsaas - its function is two-fold. It exists to distribute our excess of goodness, it exists to make us overlook our mundane/petty sufferings in the wake of Bigger Purpose of our Existence. Ehsaas, a word which truly has no equivalent in English perhaps.