Mystic Mantra: Climb every mountain

Dasharath Manjhi — nicknamed “Mountain Man” — lost his wife on the way to hospital since circumventing a mountain took six hours and they couldn’t reach there on time. Dasharath’s love for his wife made him slog singlehandedly with hammer and chisel for 22 years to chisel a mountain passage 360-feet-long, 30-feet-wide and 25-feet-high that has reduced the distance between Atri and Wazirganj of Gaya district from 50 km to 10 km!

While we make mountains out of molehills, determined folks like Dasharath do the opposite; they transform mighty mountains into molehills by demonstrating that no mountain is too high to surmount. Today being “International Mountain Day” with the theme “Mountains Matter”, let’s reflect on mountain-matters from various perspectives.

Your school exams, an imminent job-transfer, an addiction, a dreaded disease, a nagging doubt, the birth of your firstborn or the death of your spouse — all these can seem like mountains, looming large before you: intimidating, yet intriguing; perilous, yet pregnant with promise. After you climb and conquer each of the mountains, you will realise that there’s still another one to climb. May you climb all.