One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night ~Kahlil Gibran

The Dark Side….

All elements in the universe are a combination of positive and negative energies. So how could we mortals be spared from this divine intervention? As humans we experience all emotions in their highest and most complex forms, both the forms. Let’s just see what these contrasting emotions are, to name a few…

Anger - Compassion

Hate - Love

Pain - Pleasure

Jealousy - Admiration

Fear – Love

Despair – Hope

Darkness - Light

So for every negative response there is an equal and opposed positive one, must I say. All through our journey of life, we experience these and many more emotions in varying degrees. All but essential for man before he reaches ‘nirvana’ where he goes beyond all of them.

Society has by far criticized and condemned all the negatives that have surfaced upon the face of earth. The dualities of life by large can never be ignored, so how could we break out this law that has governed our lives for eons? Is there any escape route with which we could transcend this duality within us?

Ever since we are born and bred, we have always been given the rules of the society to abide by. The do’s and don’ts, where your do’s are being all that is perfect and good & the don’ts are to repress all that is wrong and bad. And turning us into some “phony puppets” or worse “les misérables” (and miserable we sure are ;)). But don’t we all love those who are nice and dispel those who are bad (according to us).

Just like the moon each one of us has a Dark side, which we either choose to conceal behind the veil of goodness and fake personas or revealing it only in . Why do we condemn this part of us that is a part of nature? Why do we denounce when nature accepts it. I am but trying to delve further deep in to my psyche and find what’s buried deep in there that I so deny being a part of me. There are times when I want to tell this ‘miss-goody-two-shoes’ in me to go take a hike, literally. Times when I just can’t explain why I need revenge, or when I want to punch someone in their face really hard, or just be plain mean(read bitch). There are times when even if I want to I cannot hide this expression of me, however dark it might be. I am not trying to promote criminal citations here, but just trying to come to terms with this fraction of my anatomy.

 

Into my heart's night
Along a narrow way
I groped; and lo! the light,
An infinite land of day.
~Rumi

Without darkness you can never experience light, like day we need the night too (a night to give our false persona a rest). If there is no bad, how can the good exist? There is a balance in nature so it’s imperative that there has to be a balance somewhere within us too. We need to attain that sense of balance, since excess of any whether good or bad, right or wrong could be harmful to you if not others. How do we regain our composure? The simplest thing would be to be aware of your intrinsic nature. The moment you are aware there is a faint chance that your actions would be fatal to you or anyone around you. And then the darkness dispels not by force or set of laws, but by your own inner wisdom.

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” ~ Og Mandino