A New Profile Image
Ashok Malhotra, January 20, 2019 |
Our bodies are just a covering for our soul. The soul
inherits a body at birth in keeping with its karma from past lives. To a large
extent, this determines what a person would look like through life.
If you found a lovely kindly looking person who in fact was
evil, it is because the evil has entered the person’s life later in their
journey through life. The opposite may also be found often. The external appearance cannot fully reflect that change
yet. Some changes to one’s soul however reflect in a person’s appearance
even while in this body.
Some ten years ago I had noticed a persistent blackish mark
had developed under my left eye. It was not very prominent but nevertheless
annoying every time I looked in the mirror. I trace this to some bad behavior
on my part in the past. In an earlier post I had mentioned how during the years
between 2000- 2007 I had taken to drinking, at times heavily. It was at such
times, when one is not fully in control that there were moments I did not
behave well. I regret that now. It was a black mark for an educated person who
loves the Lord. It is not surprising therefore that a physical mark of it
should appear on my face too. I gave up drinking more that ten years ago.
Recently I noticed that the black mark had all but vanished
from my face. It was an appropriate time to meet the ten-year challenge, snap a
new profile image and replace an older one on blogger and other places on the
net I frequent. A full size image is attached with post.
Dear friends, aside from the inner condition of our soul,
our emotional state also appears on our faces. While transient emotional
changes can be overcome to catch the right mood for a profile image, more
permanent lines that appear because of age or a frequent emotional state cannot
be hidden easily. Over the past years, as I have looked at events around the
world, there has been much concern at rising wars, conditions of children
affected by war or poverty, rising inequality, homelessness and more. This
concern and the feeling of compassion it invoked no doubt imprinted lines on my
face that appear to the discerning eye in the new image. On the other hand, the
image may also reflect a sense of peace because there has been much spiritual
engagement too and from that a sense of peace with the belief that in the end –
all shall be well.
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