Sharing means "having or giving a portion of (something) with another or others; use, occupy, or enjoy (something) jointly with another or others; possess (a view or quality) in common with others; have a part in (something, especially an activity)." (Source: Oxford Dictionaries) Sharing could also be of one's knowledge as do the Professors, teachers, and academics; experience as in the old and wise passing down their wisdom and advice; and personal experiences that one feels will bring cheer to another, motivate him, etc.
To enlighten means "to provide someone with information and understanding, or to explain the true facts about something to someone." (Source: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus)
The Siddhas have left behind volumes of written scriptures that publishers like Thamarai Noolagam Chennai have made easily accessible to the masses. Ask anyone where to buy books on Siddhas they shall point us to this publisher. They have become synonymous with the name Siddhas. Ramalinga Adigal gave us the Arutpa, a compendium of songs that described his experience in seeking and wanting to return back to God's kingdom. Imagine the great loss or void that we would have felt if he had not shared them. Paramahansa Yogananda chose to write his autobiography that has come to change many individual's lives. His book introduced me to the existence of godly men or gurus. I guess after reading it I could bring myself to accept gurus both in the flesh and in subtle form too. Gandhi gave us his autobiography that shed light on his life, principles, and his mission. Many adopt his principle of Ahimsa to this day. Many an author whom I have mentioned and taken excerpts from their texts and books as references in this blog had shed light on things that were beyond our understanding but that we went through too. Nagarajan, in wanting to become divine, chose to share his experiences and understanding as he began to put them into practice in his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/NagarajanRV
Carl Sagan in describing the miracle of the written word says,
For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except for firsthand experience, almost everything we knew was passed on by word of mouth. As in the children’s game “Telephone,” over tens and hundreds of generations, information would slowly be distorted and lost.
Books changed all that. Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the point of view of others, and not just those in power; to contemplate — with the best teachers — the insights, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, drawn from the entire planet and from all of our history. They allow people long dead to talk inside our heads. Books can accompany us everywhere. Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over the hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses.
(Source: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/11/08/carl-sagan-books-reading/)
If once we loved to have stories told or read to us, and picked up the reading habit ourselves, these days only a select few read has the generation has moved on or rather back to preferring to be read to as in audiobooks. Many have moved on to other forms of media to gain knowledge. YouTube videos have made a great impact on the way people accessed information, replacing television, and newspapers. The advent of the internet to the masses and the many media forms have slowly replaced the need to flip pages to reach a particular search with just a click of the browser tabs.
This blog was an offshoot of my earlier websites including indianheartbeat. It was created to showcase my artwork literally keeping it intact and free from dust as my collection of art on canvas and paper was deteriorating and collecting dust. After returning from my maiden journey to India in 2003, I documented my journey. This surprisingly had a following with many getting in touch with me and later ending up visiting my gurus Supramania Swami and Tavayogi Thangarasan Adigal whom I had written about extensively. This was my way of giving back to my gurus for coming into my life and bringing a profound change. I shared the joy of meeting them, speaking to them, journeying with them, etc. Readers liked the stories that were told on these pages. In 2013 I switched to blogging for ease of embedding media into my stories. To date there are 2615 entries, many might be repetitious I acknowledge. What is written is for me too for in looking up the references and explanation to my experiences I too learned many a thing with you readers.
I am happy that my daughters too have begun sharing their thoughts, and experiences with others. When my elder daughter broke her leg in an accident and was laid for some nine months, she wrote her experience where she documented these trying moments and painful experiences. http://berrysweetprincess.blogspot.com/2011/04/caring-malaysians-kindness-helps-ease.html, http://berrysweetprincess.blogspot.com/2011/04/learning-to-walk-again.html, and at http://berrysweetprincess.blogspot.com/2011/04/autologous-conditioned-plasma-acp.html
Until we were faced with no other option but to place a titanium rod implant as she had felled into the 5 % category of patients who had nonunion of their fractured bones, the good doctor suddenly suggested if we would like to go for ACP that was widely used in the USA for sports injuries. That day we learned about an alternative treatment called Autologous Conditioned Plasma.
Fifteen ml of blood is taken from your arm with a specially developed double syringe. Then, in a centrifuge, the anti-inflammatory and restorative components are separated from the rest of the blood. This blood plasma is kept separate in the double syringe. The active ingredients are injected into the diseased joint under local anesthesia.
In her case, it was administered at the spot of fracture. She recovered fast.
Today my second daughter shared her experience on YouTube, which I had briefly mentioned in past post. As she wrote "As many people including myself had never heard of this condition, I decided to make a video to shed light on Retinal Detachment and my experience with it", sharing is also about enlightening others.
She is currently in South Korea doing a student exchange program. She was to go over for the spring semester but circumstances were not in favor. But the delay was all a blessing in disguise as we came to know. We discovered her eye condition that needed surgery. Imagine if she had left and came to know about it later.