Now we all know how volatile the nutrients in a leafy vegetable are. So I felt a bit off about cooking it and then packing it. It would travel across the city and go to an air-conditioned office where it would be opened five or six hours later and consumed.
Wouldn’t all the nutrients evaporate by then?
But then, the box is airtight! Where would the nutrients go? Where could they possibly go from a space where escape of any kind was not possible?
I thought about that for a while.
And perhaps what I thought next is not an exact or perfect analogy, maybe it is not scientific and verifiable but well, when did I ever say this piece was about logic and set formulae?
If the soul of a man can escape from the body and this life despite your keeping him locked up in a vacuum from where no escape is possible…why can the soul of my spinach veggie not escape from the air-tight container too?
According to one of Kabir ke dohe our body possess 10 gates from where life can easily escape…so there are possible escapes..our lives are not locked up in vacuum…bt the surprising fact is that that we are living..death is no wonder..life is a wonder.From Kabir ke dohe-
das dwaare ka pinjra,taame panchi ka kaun.
rahe ko achraj hai,gaye achambha kaun.
{This is my view ..this is not to offend you…and i just love your works and this too is a gr8 one}