Resting

The aroma of freshly prepared Mutter Paneer was filling every nook and corner of my tiny little kitchen,  and I assumed to the living room too, because there was my younger one screaming, ‘”Mom, that smells great, can we start lunch?”

To that I rolled my eyes, since an hour had not passed since his last meal.  I shouted back, “It needs to rest for some time, so please wait”.   I noticed amused responses from my husband and my elder son, as to what gibberish I was talking. “What?? It needs to rest?  What needs to rest?”

I retorted, “The flavors will get enhanced and the dish would taste better and different if we give it some time to rest “.  I was sure all cookery bloggers would agree with me, since I found that resting time of the dish is very important in cooking.   My team at home asked me if I was watching any cookery shows recently for deducing this aspect of cooking, to which I replied a strong affirmative “NO”, and that this I learnt through firsthand experience.

I have realized that the word RESTING is a very important and a significant verb, in our daily life, may it be resting after a hard day’s work for the body to recuperate, or differences in relationships, or our professional and creative zones.

Even nature has also has its own way of resting. When you see a flower blooming, it takes its own time to reveal its beauty, Mother Nature has always presented herself lazily, happily and lovingly.

Somehow time has its own significance in the agenda of life. We usually bless the souls of our departed loved ones to rest in peace, but we do not realize that to have a final peaceful resting destination it is very important to be at peace and have clarity in our actions in our  daily grind.

Being a very reactive person myself, this clarity of resting  came to me by mundane tasks like cooking, which bring home the fact that even simple chores we do in our day to day life have a great importance in the development of our personality.

 We often indulge in practices like meditation to bring our restless minds to rest, but it is seldom realized that many a times in this practice, we force ourselves to rest. Resting should be effortless, just like water, which does not need the effort to flow. That’s its nature. To be at rest, is to be in Zen.

I think I have rested enough, and it is now time to serve my Mutter Paneer. “Come on boys, time to eat, enough resting!”