I started the journey from home at 7 pm Friday. With two suitcases! That may not be a big deal at all but well, that scares hell out of any mumbaikar if he knows that he will have to go through Andheri, Wadala and Kurla station crowd and local to get to LTT. For a Mumbaikar(A citizen of Mumbai) it is a metaphor for climbing Mt.Everest or Cycling Tour de France. Well it was difficult one for sure, left me in sweats, but I got down easily at Tilak Nagar Station and fortunately journey went as planned, well better than planned.
But L.T.T. seemed to be a different world altogether. Slow moving people, scarce people, distinct smell of Indian Railway urinals carried to every nook and corner of the terminus by the cool sea wind, no railway boards signal, the arrivals and departures of local trains but only few small red Led boards, one signalling position of coaches and time, no continuous announcements of arrivals and departures of trains. No humdrum on arrival of a train. No warnings announced on the speaker, for not to travel on roof of the trains or on not touching unknown bags. There was a laziness in the atmosphere, one which always has been inherent quality of the Indian railway Stations after the train has left.
It felt as if the place belonged to a village. I couldn't believe for few moments that I was in some place in Mumbai. My eyes felt little disturbed at the scene which I hadn't seen for almost one and half year. It was a silent chaos, almost killing me. I really felt that I was living an illusion and suddenly felt to be brought out of it. I was living in the place rightly called Maya Nagari (the city of illusions).
Here people want to run so much ahead of life that they believe they will outrun even death. Well my new discovery was important life keys are found in stillness. All issues can be resolved when your mind, finds a emptiness for itself. A emptiness or peacefulness to muster on the thoughts which it hadn't chased. To find solutions to the problems. Mind if is source of all questions, questions which just pops out of it, then it must also be a source of all answers, only you have to give a chance to pop on its own and not force it. One night is enough for our powerful minds to resolve any issue ranging from any incurable illness to change of attitude. It is that powerful Well after many days, I am travelling in railways and it feels great. Ironically I feel, I am returning home.
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