After an artificially long break from writing, I've decided to breathe a new life into this blog. So how do I do that? Well, I think this time I'll just pick up on the idiom I used before and start straight off. Rather than focusing on the etymology and stuff of the phrase, I'd be writing about breath, and life.
It isn't really worth speaking about the relation between breath and life, what breath is and how it is necessary for life and such stuff. These are common facts which I believe most of the readers (if not all) must be knowing of. The more interesting part, I believe, is the Earth being a Goldilocks planet. Some put it as "We are fortunate that we got to live on a Goldilocks planet, else we wouldn't exist", while some others argue that "The development of life, and its persistence for so long, is a result of the Earth being a Goldilocks planet". Nevertheless, apart from how this idea is conceived, I feel the idea in itself is pretty beautiful. For life to sustain, the Earth provides a good habitat. For life to sustain, every life-form needs to breathe. Breath is nothing but the intake of gases by life-forms. Gases, another thing the Earth provides.
I thus notice a very intimate connection between, breath, life, and the Earth.
It isn't really worth speaking about the relation between breath and life, what breath is and how it is necessary for life and such stuff. These are common facts which I believe most of the readers (if not all) must be knowing of. The more interesting part, I believe, is the Earth being a Goldilocks planet. Some put it as "We are fortunate that we got to live on a Goldilocks planet, else we wouldn't exist", while some others argue that "The development of life, and its persistence for so long, is a result of the Earth being a Goldilocks planet". Nevertheless, apart from how this idea is conceived, I feel the idea in itself is pretty beautiful. For life to sustain, the Earth provides a good habitat. For life to sustain, every life-form needs to breathe. Breath is nothing but the intake of gases by life-forms. Gases, another thing the Earth provides.
I thus notice a very intimate connection between, breath, life, and the Earth.
A scientific perspective can suggest the exact composition of gaseous compounds that go in and come out while breathing. A little change here and there, can probably affect not only breath, but also life. Earth has had a perfect composition of gases, satisfying the needs of life. In fact, satisfying the pleasures of life too. I'm sure any person would agree that is really satisfying and rejuvenating to go on top of a mountain and enjoy the cool breeze up there. But then, as we always hear, man is destroying nature, causing global warming, blah blah blah! He's then finding a new Goldilocks planet, trying to terraform it and then probably even "shift" to that planet. This is like destroying something you already have and then buying a same copy of it. Just that, it's not too easy. To go through such a kind of a process, just to help life persist, will surely take one's breath away. I need not really talk further about saving the Earth and stuff, cause I believe enough awareness of the same is being generated all across the world.
To understand the true significance of breath, and it's correlation with life and habitat, in my opinion, is a very difficult process, both, scientifically, and philosophically. One needs to think, experiment and introspect before making any conclusions regarding the same. Breathing, in my opinion, is in no way a silly or trivial activity. It is a very complex, and beautiful phenomenon, though never much noticed. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss. That is why breathing is the dominant factor in the practice of Yoga.
After all this, I suppose all of us should just take a deep breath and enjoy life till the last breath!
