Close our eyes....

I had the very first mango of the season  yesterday...
The very first bite was with my eyes closed...
Relishing the piece of juicy awesomeness, the taste, the flavour, the aroma...
This is how most of us taste our favorite things... Isn't it? We CLOSE OUR EYES....
It is hot now...most of the pot plants and compound plants have their base mud in cracks daily...
I eagerly await the moment when the gardener waters the plants and I plan a walk in the compound just at the same time to smell the awesome heady earthy moistness in the air...
All of us by default, CLOSE OUR EYES to smell the heavenly wet mud after the first showers...
I rarely get to go by the sea shore...
Walking on the sand with company is one of my favorite things to do...
Many of us love being by the beach to chill out and relax...
While most of us like to do our own things, some swim or hang out in water , some do adventure water sports, some build castles, a few others eat and drink merry, yet another group just enjoys the sunrise and sunset...
Well what most of us do eventually is, that we CLOSE OUR EYES, to hear the waves crashing near or far, the breeze flowing through our hair, the saltiness and the humidity, typical on shore weather....
What are your favorite flowers?
Mine are mogra and swarnchampa or sonchapha.... I always take the first whiff of its beauty by my eyes closed...
Music lovers that all of us are, we listen to a pure rendition and we automatically CLOSE OUR EYES...
We come back from work sit on the sofa and relax drink a glass of water and let out a hussssshhhh and yes WE CLOSE OUR EYES...
Yog practitioners or individuals who meditate prefer to CLOSE OUR EYES while we are at it...
If we've ever picked a newborn and held it close to our cheeks or near our heart, if we have ever tried to calm down a crying baby by patting... we are most likely to CLOSE OUR EYES
Whenever we meet our besties or our loved ones after a long long time, we hug them and we hug them tight and long....we CLOSE OUR EYES...
We CLOSE OUR EYES when we kiss...
We CLOSE OUR EYES when we pray or bow down to show respect to someone...
We CLOSE OUR EYES when we are overwhelmed and teary...
We CLOSE OUR EYES when we sneeze and often when we yawn...
We CLOSE OUR EYES when we are in fear...
We CLOSE OUR EYES when we do that last rep of a heavy set in gym...that last pull or push or lift....which is totally worth it...give all our strength and effort....
There are soooooooooooooo many other things that are better with our eyes closed....
We CLOSE OUR EYES when we sleep...
When eyes are such a blessing in life...
Why do we close them at moments of utmost importance or significance...
We are visual beings and are driven by images and scenes....
Why do we have to CLOSE OUR EYES...?
Scientifically, interacting with both physical and visual stimuli, the brain cannot fully appreciate the physical when distracted with the visual.
Well, vision is a blessing yet if most precious things are felt with our eyes closed, it means that we do need to close our eyes more often....
Except for fear sneeze or yawn, which is not much in our control or hands,
all other things mentioned above are things that give us pleasure, are things that make is happy...
We should and must do things that make us joyous more often right?
Smell the flowers, smell the air in natural environment, eat fresh, meditate, chant, pray, listen to music, taste what you love, be in the Greens or by the sea, meet our loved ones, hug, hold, kiss, carry a baby, feel the innocence and the tenderness, caress a sleeping child, relax after  long day, sing , thank with our heart, sleep....feel...know...be aware with getting lost in the feel world....
It is beautiful, it is precious, it's just what we need.....
We are so blessed because we know what makes us happy....
Let us do it more often ....
We just need to CLOSE OUR EYES....
Tasmay Shree Guruve Namaha

- Prajakta Sathe