Monday, March 13, 2006

What single minded effort can achieve


It is so funny that some things can happen. Things which you would not have thought possible. Last weekend I was at the Milpitas temple for a couple of hours helping out with preparations for a function the next day. Starting with an empty auditorium at 9.30 pm everyone had managed to put up an impressive display within 3 hours.
In one of those being-by-my-self-in-the-crowd moments I realized how amazing a job everyone inspite of being amateurs had done. In a matter of just one night, we had assembled all the 9 points ("toonks") of the fagun shud 13 jatra. And that involved actually building a mini-mountain for each of them and a lot of beautiful decoration. I was truly awed then. Single minded pursuit of a goal can literally move mountains.