Stress-free Positive Start of the Morning
How The Lord Allows Me to Start My Day
HIS benevolence is unlimited, present everywhere in every action: as soon as I get up in the morning, my face is towards the Washroom, what a wonderful feeling of freshness and a bounce, a blessing. After attending to self: a self-audible prayer of thanks to the Lord which he listens with “blessings always”. Now is the time to reach the Electric Glass Jug, a thought of my son for a glass of hot water and sip it, sip by sip feeling every drop down the throat and cleansing the nerves right upto below the stomach. Gas stove is not far away nor the kettle, Ketlly we Punjabis as they call it, for making my first concoction of the day: light the gas, old way with a match stick: Ketlly placed on it plain, to destroy the germs and smell of deeply boiled vegetables etc, if any, earlier, before adding a full glass of RO water a modern day necessity in Metros: now is time to go to front courtyard with a prayer to mother Tulsi to pluck some leaves with her permission and to add to the boiling water: give a good boil till a greenish reflection is there in the Ketlly: now it is the moment to add a pinch of cinnamon: it spills a wonderful smell so sweet with concoction turning light brown; then addition of two cloves to the boiling nectar plus two pinch of black pepper crushed, it fills the air with a wonder fragrance. The boil continues till it is reduced to half. Then comes the time to add jaggry solid or crushed called Shukker in my native state: this time brought specially for us by my daughter-in-law from her native village in Himachal a pure product dark brown: given good boil to ripen sour element, if any: its now turn of tea leaves fresh Brooke Bond CTC pure and simple to join, given good boil on low flame at least for two-three minutes as in my native state, after adding two cups of milk: sieved into two cups that were waiting in the hot water to keep the concoction warm for a long time: offered to my “Best Half” on the bed as first “drink” of the day singing the words, “Chai Pio Khus Ho Jao”.
Every sip enjoyed, satisfying, rich, excellent fragrance, cleansing the throat, stomach freshening the body from head to tow, listening the golden melodious voice of Prernamurti Bharti Shriji, “Govind Hare Gopal Hare”, bringing us face to face with the Lord, and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi’s “Jo Bhaje Hari Ko Sada”, a classical gem merging one with the Lord, enlightening the thinking, attitude and setting the mood positive for the day.
This how the Lord allows me to start my day, every day, season to season.
Keep your
morning positive and stress, your day will be wonderful.
