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A lesson learnt from tribal people.....

 

  1. A lesson learnt from tribal people..... Keep your life simple… NVC workshop at Nandurbar, India: 
  2. The temperature out there was 48 degrees, unbearably hot; Rajesh and I were travelling by jeep to offer a NVC workshop in the very remote tribal part of Maharashtra.  As the only jeep on the road was slowly climbing up the hill, the scene outside the jeep window was dry and barren, the trees had shed the leaves and there was no greenery around. On the way there were tribal people standing under the tree, may be for hours, waiting for the jeep to come. As the jeep stopped to get few more people, I was worried and wondering how many more people will get in, because we had already exceeded the limit of 8 people, and there were already 15 people squeezed inside. There were another 15 tribal people who wanted to get in, I thought no way, and suddenly this tribal person standing outside the jeep looked in through the window and asked me to move a little so that there will be some room for him to sit. I was wondering how we are going to mange, I kept my bag on my lap and moved, he squeezed himself next to me with a smile full of gratitude. Before I knew there were 30 tribal men, women and children sitting in and on top of the roof of the jeep. I was amazed by what was happening, so I asked my neighbor how do you manage this and don’t you need your ‘own space’, he laughed and said what’s that and what he said next touched my heart, he said, ‘what you need is a big heart, a heart which accommodates every one’. I was speech less. 
  3. This was not all, I was staying in a rest house next to lake, every morning I use to sit outside and read, there were these tribal men and women with their bows and arrows and spears going in the forest. Their needs were bare minimum, before going in the forest they would come to the lake take off all their cloths and take a dip in the lake, wash their only pair of cloths dry them and again wear the same half dried cloth and go in the forest.
  4. On the way back they would come with wild cherries, strawberry and raw mangoes and offer it to me and the participants with a beautiful smile. I shared with them that in cities also we have mango trees and the owner of the tree made it a point that the tree is well protected and fenced so that nobody can pluck the mangoes. I was touched to hear what they said in reply, they said, “there is so much abundance and there is enough for everyone, and when the universe is giving us with open hand we also share with our open heart”.
  5. I am touched by their simplicity...
Posted mar, 2010-08-10 03:17 by aniruddha

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