Aqua…

The best drink in the world from the dawn of life to the end of universe would always be water!

As a child on a sunny day when you run and play and come home, the first thing you ask for is water!

Sometimes you drink so fast that you cough! You just can’t wait to quench that thirst! At that time it is the sweetest thing in the world and the most satisfying feeling after you drink this nectar!

Did you ever stop to think that the water you drink right now in one part of the world would one day become rain in a different part! The water in the glass right now may be trapped but it is a patient prisoner since it can wait! It will anyway outlive you and then it will be free to flow!

It can take any shape and colour and taste! And finally it can roam the skies as a cloud and get sweet in a flowing river or salty in the mighty ocean or sea!

Did you ever stop to think that the expiry date on the bottle is not of the water but of the bottle! Water does not have an expiry date!

Finally did you ever stop to think how the amount of water in the Earth is always constant! It just changes shape and state but the final amount remains the same!

Ever since you have life on Earth, the one thing which has always been constant is the amount of water!

Have you also wondered how the thirst only gets quenched for that time! Your thirst is controlled! It’s never cured! It’s because the water you drink again gets out of your system one way or the other and finally you get the thirst back!

Now it is seen that normally when we get dehydrated (as measured by an increasing concentration of solutes in our blood) thirst kicks in to make us drink water to dilute our blood back down to an acceptable level. But, once we start drinking, this sensation generally subsides within a minute or less, even if we were really thirsty!

But actually the hydration actually takes time! The feeling of satiety is so that we do not overload the body with water! Yes! Even drinking more water is not good!

So the body even has a protective mechanism against the nectar of Gods! Water! It has been suggested that receptors in the throat – and the thirst centre in the brain that’s connected to them – are able to reliably identify the action of swallowing fluid (as opposed to swallowing food) and have the ability to ‘switch thirst off’ long before the fluids have been absorbed properly. It’s like the receptors send an advance signal that says “don’t worry brain, water is on the way, you can stop being thirsty now”!

It may not be as effective when it comes to food though! But still it depends on your brain! You actually need only a couple of Puris to solve your hunger! Anything more than that would actually become your fat friend!
Now lets not digress! Quenching thirst is the matter for now!

Our whole life, day in and out we spend in quenching this never ending thirst!

You cannot have a drink of water which can make your thirst to end forever!

Also imagine that the drink of water you are drinking right now is older than not only you but also any living thing on Earth right now! So next time you drink water, just respect that for an instant!

Respect also was what Swamy Vivekananda had for Ramakrishna Paramahansa.

We can respect everyone also!

Shubh ratri!