A brief online chat with Surajit Basak in 2019

Surajit

Sorrow is the tree of knowledge….

Om…..pain has a depth but pleasure….. Om

Vicki Woodyard

True, but it is a depth that hurts.

Surajit:

“Hurt” carves deeper depth into our being ,so that we can contain more sorrow……om

Vicki Woodyard

Have you had a life of sorrow?

Surajit Basak

Sorrow is the “Tree of Knowledge”…… om…

through sorrow I witness the might of wisdom……om

Vicki Woodyard

So a life of sorrow has not been a wasted life? That is food for thought, as I have suffered deeply and will continue to. Just how my life works.

Surajit Basak

Not a wasted life, but a life without being a prisoner of a grief stricken being…….om…

Vicki Woodyard

You speak in riddles, dear Surajit. It sounds as if you are saying I should use my suffering to consciously get rid of it.

Surajit Basak

Om…

You are wise….and beyond the vanity of despotic mind……..om…

I go now, my loving Vicki….I watch moon while sleeping on a mat spreading out in the open courtyard….om….

good night, Vicki…..you are wise…..om

(And after I read his beautiful wisdom, I felt healed.)

Vicki Woodyard