Four years old child was trying to enter into a dark room but stood just outside the door. His mother asked what happened and he said it is dark there. The mother said that there is nothing inside and he must go and get his bag. He still did not move and said that there is a ghost inside. She asked him how does he say this and he told her that once he was unable to sleep and his father had pointed toward the darkness saying sleep or else there would be a ghost from that dark corner. (Often we do this mistake of inculcating fear in our children. We get what we want temporarily without realizing that how damaging it is for small child in longer run). She thought for a while and brought a flash light. She asked him to take that along. She told him that if he would hold light, he would never have to be afraid of darkness. The child went inside and brought back his bag. He asked his mother that if it is always like this and the answer is yes. If there is light, all the darkness disappears.
Sometimes small incidences leave a great impact. But after that the next question in my mind was what is light. What is darkness and the answer I got was absence of light is darkness but still my question was not answered. What is light?
Light is needed for everything. For plants to grow and us to live. Everything has light and love puts together everything. Now, if we remove light there would not be any life. That is why we are afraid of darkness. Because we are scared of entering into something which has no life. But precaution is not the solution, strength is. Strength would come from light. So how do we hold beacon of light?
Give life and put together life. When someone feels better and happy, he gets more life. When you help someone in letting the light flow freely, leave behind pain, you will be spreading light.
Similarly in own life, always hold everything with love and you will not have to afraid of darkness. All the fears, what would happen or what would someone think. will disappear. Just because you are holding light, you will know that everything will be fine. Everything will come together. If there is a fall, there would be spring too. We are afraid of fall in life because we are not aware of the process of life. If we put together entire life, we would know, there has to be a fall to get spring. Spring looks beautiful, so we want to stay in that. But it looks beautiful because in fall the old died and new came in after that. If we would be holding light and let the light shine in, we would know that it is putting together life for us. There would be no fear of darkness after that.
