A memorable visit!
How would you like to live in a home that never ceases to trigger your imagination? How about living in a place that reminds perennially you of “what one knows is merely a drop, while the unknown is a vast ocean”?
How often would you see plaques bearing the quotes from Rubaiyat (of Omar Khayyam) and other Gurus strewn all around you? How I wish each of us gets to see such places often?
I do not plan many of my journeys. All through, I find most of my journeys just happenning to me. Many times, I find myself in interesting scenarios that lead me to meet new people and encounter new circumstances.
One such happened a few days ago. As part of my journeys, I got a rare chance to stay in an ancestral home of a family that had built & owned a huge commercial conglomerate in this country.
A thoughtful home
The place was full of portraits; hand-painted several decades ago, but still well maintained. The pictures were of various genre and they successfully created several moods. To sum up, one could see works that triggered emotions like “innocent-panache (!?)”, “painful-obedience”, “love-towards-all-living-beings”, “excitement-of-arriving-to-a-new-location”, “sharing-and-giving”, “humility”, “helplessness”, “leveler-as-seen-through-man’s-basic-needs”, so on and so forth.
The success of the paintings, as I saw, was in their placements. In the main drawing room, there were abstract sketches portraying the artistic struggle to visually communicate the “Blind Understanding” of Khayyam. The room had paintings that instilled action-based moods such as gallantry, panache and action-driven excitement.
In the dining room (dominated by a mammoth table on which 25 guests can dine in one go), there were portraits of the “consummate meal”, “sharing”, “giving”, “humanity” and the like.
The library
The home had a library that enhanced the home’s stature to a sizable extent. There were books that can inspire the reader and can leave a lasting impression on one’s life. It was a huge library for a home. I found books on various types of Vedas, autobiographies of heroes, serious works on civilizations and their journeys, treatise on histories, scientific approaches to theology, evolution-centered works, purpose of lives, and quotations of noble brains.
There were comfortable reading chairs and lamps. The reading room overlooked a huge garden, neatly maintained by a team of gardeners.
The outcome
I could see the sum total of the home’s effect when I got to meet with the current generation of the business family. First time I met one of them, I was not surprised to see a copy of “The Autobiography of a Yogi” on the table.
The next time I got to meet another scion of the family, a few days later, I found a copy of the “Living with the Himalayan Masters”.
I could not help but wish each kid in this world gets to grow up in such an inspirational home.
Luv,
Vijay
How often would you see plaques bearing the quotes from Rubaiyat (of Omar Khayyam) and other Gurus strewn all around you? How I wish each of us gets to see such places often?
I do not plan many of my journeys. All through, I find most of my journeys just happenning to me. Many times, I find myself in interesting scenarios that lead me to meet new people and encounter new circumstances.
One such happened a few days ago. As part of my journeys, I got a rare chance to stay in an ancestral home of a family that had built & owned a huge commercial conglomerate in this country.
A thoughtful home
The place was full of portraits; hand-painted several decades ago, but still well maintained. The pictures were of various genre and they successfully created several moods. To sum up, one could see works that triggered emotions like “innocent-panache (!?)”, “painful-obedience”, “love-towards-all-living-beings”, “excitement-of-arriving-to-a-new-location”, “sharing-and-giving”, “humility”, “helplessness”, “leveler-as-seen-through-man’s-basic-needs”, so on and so forth.
The success of the paintings, as I saw, was in their placements. In the main drawing room, there were abstract sketches portraying the artistic struggle to visually communicate the “Blind Understanding” of Khayyam. The room had paintings that instilled action-based moods such as gallantry, panache and action-driven excitement.
In the dining room (dominated by a mammoth table on which 25 guests can dine in one go), there were portraits of the “consummate meal”, “sharing”, “giving”, “humanity” and the like.
The library
The home had a library that enhanced the home’s stature to a sizable extent. There were books that can inspire the reader and can leave a lasting impression on one’s life. It was a huge library for a home. I found books on various types of Vedas, autobiographies of heroes, serious works on civilizations and their journeys, treatise on histories, scientific approaches to theology, evolution-centered works, purpose of lives, and quotations of noble brains.
There were comfortable reading chairs and lamps. The reading room overlooked a huge garden, neatly maintained by a team of gardeners.
The outcome
I could see the sum total of the home’s effect when I got to meet with the current generation of the business family. First time I met one of them, I was not surprised to see a copy of “The Autobiography of a Yogi” on the table.
The next time I got to meet another scion of the family, a few days later, I found a copy of the “Living with the Himalayan Masters”.
I could not help but wish each kid in this world gets to grow up in such an inspirational home.
Luv,
Vijay
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