Workshop # 16  
That Singular Moment
by Dr. Vidur Jyoti

The whole night waves had kept on rising. Rushing to the sands and retreating, drenching them and then leaving them satiated or thirsting for more! I was certainly not alone that night when I discovered the murmur of the brook, the silence of the snowflakes and the songs of the boatmen all amalgamating, blending into a wonderful all pervading symphony transcending the confines of the horizon.

Then those shadows appeared on sand like saplings erupting out of the embrace of seeds, which had stayed, confined to the eerie realm of time all this while just awaiting your arrival. It was just the moment when I realized that you had been there all night. While I was listening to symphony of the waves you had been comforting the shadows in your embrace. Who were they?

Shadows drawn on the sandy canvas or two beings frozen in that frame of horizon confined to the lines drawn by you! I tried hard to verbalize a name for them but shadows carry no identities! And then they merged just like waves rushing forth and retreating back to merge into the vast stillness of the depths of ocean. Space, which had held them all along, made way and breeze too chose to become still to witness that moment of merger. The singularity of that moment, when the shadows became one, held the promise of holding the all-encompassing multi-plurality in its emergent being.

That was also the singular moment when eons ago the sands had welcomed with open arms the river in their embrace. The river too had come rushing down the peaks and traversing the plains just for that moment only. The skies had promised to reveal to her the locale of her ultimate destination. It was just that singular moment when waves giving up the stillness of ocean rushed forth to discover the ripple from where they had emerged once long ago. Their incessant symphony too bequeathed its notes to the echoes just to find the promised solace in the silence of drenched and satiated sands.

Every movement stood still in that stillness and the symphony of waves rushed back in the silence of the depth of ocean. But where were you? There were no footprints only drenched sands. I stood there rooted in that moment and you, as always, had moved on…

January 31, 2006

Workshop # 16  
Articles  
Amma by Bhaskar Kolluri 
Any Good News? by Shyamala Sathiaseelan 
Childhood Innocence by Arya Bhushan 
Knowledge: The Role of an Initiator by Mahesh Sharma 
Mother – An Object of Reverence by Naira Yaqoob  - Winner # 1
Mommy and Me by Rajameena 
My Flesh and Blood by Pavalamani Pragasam 
Perspectives by Manjula Waldron 
That Singular Moment by Dr. Vidur Jyoti 
The Embrace of the Sea Goddess by Michael Levy  - Winner # 2

Stories   
A Year Since the Tsunami by Kanchan Mahesh  
Only for You by Mehru Jaffer 

Poetry 
A Mother's Joy by Michael Levy
A Son... by Rina Basu 
A Timeless Tale by Mahesh Jambunathan
Agony Of a Lonely Son by Jyothi Lakshmi. B
Boy! by NS Murty 
By The Sea by Dr. Uma Asopa 
Come by Frances Schiavina
Come On Hug Honey! by T.A. Ramesh 
Each Day is a Lifeline by Shane Taylor 
Eternity's Moments by Sudipta Chatterjee  
From Me to You by Ramendra Kumar 
How I Wish I Had My Childhood Back! by NS Murty 
Into the Arms of Mother Nature by Kanchan Mahesh 
Joy Meets Its Maker by Sugandha Indulkar 
Let's Run Together by Miryam Masih Nahar
Little Bird by Prashant Bhushan 
Mind's Window by Seema Banerjee-Ray 
Missing You by Kerry Lowe 
Mother by Anisa Chaudhary
Mother and Sea by AJ Rao  
Mother Calling by Rajeshwari Hemmadi 
Mother Embrace Child by Jayati Gupta 
Mother to her Child by Gaurang Bhatt, MD
My Child by Dr. Sirisha Dabiru
My Refuge by Vasanta Athilat 
My Sonny Boy by Ramendra Kumar 
Now and Then by Dr. Amitabh Mitra 
Ocean of Love by Shernaz Wadia  - Winner # 3
Sea of Love by Bibhudatta Dash  
Silent Expression! by Bollimuntha Venkata Ramana Rao
Someone by Naira Yaqoob 
Soul's Canvas by Seema Banerjee-Ray 
The Arrival by Sudipta Chatterjee 
The Child Within by Charlene Howard
The Gift of Bliss... by Joy A Burki-Watson 
The Sea is Calling by Smita Agrawal
The Theft by Saptarshi Das 
The Way You Make Me Feel... by Neha Girotra 
To Strangers! by Seema Banerjee-Ray
Tsunami by Frances Schiavina
Unconditional Love by Christine Redman-Waldeyer 
Untitled by Maneesha 
Water Polo by Seema Banerjee-Ray 
Where All Duality Ends ... by Sugandha Indulkar 
With Open Arms, I Welcome The Future by Sugandha Indulkar
Your Open Wide Arms by Rajender Krishan
 

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