I can never forget my maths teacher. I don’t know what she taught, but she is the one who instilled a passion for mathematics and numbers deep within me. In fact, I don’t even know when that happened but it had happened. When I go down the memory lane, I was a little boy of 8 years in my 3rd grade at School. That was a new school for me and the madam was appearing magnanimous in front of me.
She was kind by nature, at the same time stern in her approach. I was very fearful in front of her, but deep within me I was admiring her in respect. I don’t know how this happened but it had happened. There are certain relationships are like this where there is no explanation is possible. It grew in leaps and bounds along with me. I developed a passion for numbers as I was growing in my studies and I knew that my madam is there for me. She was the foundation for me and she was a class teacher only till the primary grade. However, I started identifying her in my subsequent maths teachers as well in my future grades at School and then at my college. This one element helped me to continue and complete my profession as a Commerce graduate, Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant where passion for maths and numbers is a must.
Let’s keep this aside for a moment. When I contemplate on so many other aspects of me viz. Fitness, Food habits, Decision making, Relationships, Business and so on, I recognize that I am basing myself with some experience of me in the past as my foundation to relate with these aspects. More often than not, it was triggered by a single individual or one such experience. In that sense, I draw inspiration momentarily and hold on to it when I am pursuing towards any of these aspects. When I hold on to it for long enough, excellence in me is born. I nurture it, I relate with it, I grow with it and I become part of it. It goes on to the extent that I become the definition for that inspiration itself. This is the ultimate status in excellence.
When I understand this to the next level of maturity, I live in a reality of life with an inspiration drawn from the past. In every experience of me right now, I relate with an inspiration of the past memory. In that sense, my present experience is super imposed by the inspiration of the past. At the same, the inspiration fuels me to enhance my present experience.
When I am doing my jogging in the mornings as part of my fitness workouts, I get so much of energy when I think of Carl Lewis running along with me. I have never met Carl Lewis and in fact I don’t even know how he looks but I know that he is a legendary runner. The mere thought of him as an inspiration gives me the energy to feel so good and run faster. This experience is very similar to my inspiration that I draw from my maths teacher even though she is not here next to me. But the fact of the matter is, in those moments I am with them. In that sense, it is My Virtual Reality that is beyond what I can perceive visually or through other senses right then. After all, reality is purely my personal experience which I alone can experience. My version alone holds good – no matters what others can think or perceive. Reality is my personal view.
This Virtual Reality can work against me as well when I relate with something negative. Does it mean that there is a reality which is working against me? Nooooo... not at all... It is only the Virtual Reality that I am trying to build all the time for myself which is influenced by an inspiration or otherwise. The beauty of this Virtual Reality is that it is upto my imagination and my ability to identify myself with such inspiration. When I start feeling that my job is not interesting, it only means that somewhere I am not able to visualize or drawn inspiration that gives the energy to my job. No matter what the job can be, it is only association with My Virtual Reality that helps me to perform with excellence. The beauty is such Virtual Reality not just repeats the excellence of the inspiration that I am drawing from, it can even surpass the excellence of inspiration and create new inroads to a path that no one entered. In essence, My Virtual Reality determines and defines the uniqueness of me. This Virtual Reality can be played like a game through which I can associate myself with all the time.
As I am writing this article, I am visualizing that my guru is sitting next to me and he is just admiring the way I am able to think and articulate. Just the thought of this situation gives me goose pimples and allow the energy of my guru flow through me and get the best out of me. When I am at work, I think of the best businessman and thought leaders of the world whom I revere to draw inspiration. When I am looking at my reality from their eyes, My Virtual Reality looks so much possible and promising. Leaders are those who derive their vision from their Virtual Reality and covert them to Reality.
In a spiritual sense, in My Virtual Reality I am surrendering my intelligence by embracing the higher intelligence. My Virtual Reality is determined by my ability to get connected to my inspiration. My inspiration can be from anyone or any experience. The highest level of my inspiration is to get connected to the source itself (i.e. the existence or god or creator or whatever the name we want to call it!). When I am able to relate with the highest order, my reality becomes the mirror reflection of my Virtual Reality. This is my mantra in order to live every moment with such heightened awareness and associate myself to the highest order. What more can I ask for, I am thankful to all those forces inspiring me to get connected all the time. My Virtual Reality = My Experience + My Inspiration. This is the winning combination for human excellence.
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