THE SOURCE OF OUR FRAGRANCE
“Who looks outside, dreams; Who looks inside, awakes.” Karl Jung O ne of the often-told stories, relating to our happiness and self-worth, comes from the ancient texts – Upanishads. How timeless and how apt it is to our lives, even today! It’s the story of ‘Kasturi Mriga’ - the Musk Deer. One day, when this musk deer was roaming in a forest, it got drawn to an alluring fragrance of musk. The musk deer was so captivated by the fragrance, that it went on a long, hard and desperate search of it… It hopped from one terrain to another, one forest to another, one mountain to another… only to be alluded by it. Finally, one day, in desperation to find the source of musk fragrance, it fell off a mountain cliff… There, in that battered state, it was astonished to find, at last, where the fragrance emanated from: its own navel! Alas! By then, it was too late… What a sad ending that’s! The story of Kasturi Mriga – the musk deer – is regularly told to us to make us aware of ou...