It would be balance.
See that person over there! consumed by the facts and figures flashing on the triple screen set up, their mind absorbing the fluctuations and parameters, each second a missed variable could lose hundreds, or thousands. See that one over there! staring at the canvas, awaiting the creative spark to initiate, to be a maverick and express something the like of which the world has never seen. Both are stressed, both consumed, each will say the other’s pursuit is pointless but each experience the same level of anxiety.
Lakshmi is a Goddess who is depicted with four arms, she will be seen in the shops of many an Indian shop who will explain she is the Goddess of wealth? But this is not true, and demeaning to a Goddess whose virtues are those of balance, between the physical life an the spiritual.
Lakshmi is Balance.
The accumulation of wealth, or more accurately the delight in the pleasures that life has to offer both materially (Artharva) and by the personal experience of pleasure (Kama) , is in balance with ethically living (Dharma) and the realisation that this person we call us is fragmentary in the scheme of the universe, but a reflection contained in a body to experience, and that, it, is not the real I, this is (Moksha~ The liberation of self and realisation of our true nature).
The investment bank, the dealer at the desk, under contract to make lots of money for someone to get fat perhaps needs to understand life is not the pursuit of accumulation of wealth, and the person who seeks to define something beautiful perhaps needs to rest in the here and now, that everything by nature of it being existent is beautiful.
In life we can do things creatively or logically, We can make music or we can organise the house, we can write stories or we can plan our budget, we need to do both, interspersing with each. The mind can be a passive sponge or a fiery animator. It needs to balance both parts. Also, to rest, and witness the chaos that we have filled the mind with over the course of the day, to observe the random madness that overwhelms us.
It is the season of Libra. Equal in nature and balance in the mind.
Daily writing prompt 26th Sept ( What could you do more of)
Wot’s this all about then Guv’nor ?;-
The Random musings of a nobody. “Dagenham Dave”, is slang for someone one stop short of Barking (mad), though more contemporarily refers to any wayfaring and carefree person. Dagenham is a town to the eastern side of London (Luds Dominium) that was first recorded in a Barking charter in 666a.d. as the town of Daeccanham. Daecca is an ancient man’s name meaning ‘bright’ or ‘famous’ . Ham is short for Hamlet.
Dave is short for David, Hebrew for ‘Beloved’, My Surname ‘Wenborn’ derives from old English meaning of the Winding Stream.
Contents:-
1/ Book Reviews.
They’re not reviews as such- to recommend or asway, I neither seek to promote nor condemn, more my personal reflections on the books I read. In that respect it’s a subjective thing.
2/ Short Stories and Tales
Short stories borne from imagination, dreams, thoughts and wanderings. Too large to be written in my journal of shadows.
3/ Full Books
Books that were once published elsewhere, I have full copyright on these, and of course given here freely.
4/ Magazines and Articles
Small snippets and articles that may or may not have appeared elsewhere, and information not included in Journal of shadows.
5/ Poetry
A small selection of poetry. Like song, I create as a means to an artistic diary.
6/ WordPress Challenges
Wordpress (where this website is hosted) offer up a daily prompt for people to answer, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.
I do not accept donations or offers, bribes etc, and do not advertise or am paid to promote anything either. All donations should be sent to either of the following ;-
Zarach ~ Helping Children living in poverty
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caitanyam ātmā ;
jñānaṃ bandhaḥ;
yoniḥ vikalpaḥ;
ñāna adhiṣṭhānaṃ matṛkā:.
The Western Gate 
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