At a cafe in Kasar Devi, Uttrakhand.
There is nothing particularly astonishing if you're trying to look for something in the image. Yet, I captured it in that moment as a reminder to some thoughts I was having then.
This was 4th day of me being there. If you visit a new place for the first time and you get to see something that gets you in awe - your mind shuts. The thoughts drop and you're in the moment just seeing and not processing.
I was trying to grasp this in my eyes such that it becomes a part of me.
The actual view of Kasar Devi is indeed astonishing, it also lies on Van Allen Belt - among the only 3 places in the world. Swami Vivekanand has been known to mediate here in a cave which is accessible to everyone today.
It is indeed a special place, but what I'm trying to rule out is magical external aspects. I want to focus more on within.
Sitting there, I felt connected with everything and everyone. The same nature that created those mountains, created me - we are indifferent.
For more than 2 hrs, I kept asking what more do I want? What more can I get, that will quench my thirst for forever. There was no thirst, there was no desire. It felt like I had everything - to be alive and free.
I'm not sure, what more even if I achieve will go beyond it. What is that something special and what will it even give me?
Therefore, I can live today not waiting for something when there is nothing magical. But playing everyday, giving things thier right place and importance. Not in hope of some extra-ordinary happiness out of something.
Nothing more is not the end, but beginning of expression of free.