Of babies, economics, flowers & Moksha!

My friend loves babies. Nothing special. We all do. Specially the women. But having them and that too one after another is quite a ball game. So when my special friend had her third baby, I called her congratulating on the occasion & teasingly I demanded, so when do you plan to have the next. Benignly caressing through the modest tresses & the diminutive features of her new born angel, absorbed in the ecstasy of motherhood, she replied, possibly in 2015. Wow!! Pulling her leg, I asked her, isn’t there something like the law of Diminishing Marginal Utility in Economics. Simply speaking, for those divorced from the bizarre world of economics, it means that for each additional unit of a given thing I have, the value added for every subsequent unit that I can have, falls proportionately. Serene & smiling she replied, ‘children are like flowers, the more you want, the more you want to have them’. From my friend's lens, for the geeky economist, they disobey all the laws of classical economics!

So what is it about being a mother that makes it so exceptional. Perhaps its the mother inside a woman’s heart that makes her so feminine, so mother-like. After all how can you not love them? As someone once famously said, ‘a woman is one who shows man, what love, care and share is all about.’ Being a mother is one of the most special and divine ways to express this selfless form of love. It is an expression of giving. Helping this new born grow up, becoming a part of the world. 'Osho' believed that one of best ways to have a lifelong loving relationship between spouses is to love them like a baby. That doesn’t quite mean acting like a mummy. But there is an abstract element of that feminity that he referred to. The element is one of ‘selflesslessness’.

In the Yogic philosophy too, it is said that ‘ahankar’ is the root of existence. Difficult to translate exactly in English, literally speaking it means ‘ego’. The surrender of this ego and absolute selfless love for the Divine, for all His creations is Spirituality, the path to Moksha. Yoga is that first step towards selflessness. In the more earthly sense, perhaps its motherhood. Imagine there is this sweet little creation, who you almost sense as an extension of your own and then you give away all that you have to this little one. This for sure is the way to selflessness. Would children, ethereally speaking, be the road to moksha then?

Till we experience, between us!