A run up the hill

Satara Marathon created history, for getting the largest number of runners registered for half-Marathon, making a, Guinness book of World Record. 

This year, 18 of us have registered for this Marathon which will be conducted on September 18th, 2016.

As a part of the preparation for this Marathon, we decided a uphill run at Sinhagad.

Saturday, at dawn 5:00, 9 of us started by car to the base of the hill, Sinhagad. We reached the place at 5:35am. After parking our car at the start of the ghat to Sinhagad we did some warm-up exercises and started to jog uphill.

The daylight had just broken and the climate around, was superb. It was little cloudy and humid with a gentle breeze flowing around. The chirping of the birds was filling the ears with an occasional cry of a Peacock being heard. The Sahyadri on one side and the valley on the other, a properly marked tar road to run on, I almost fell in love with those moments.

Four of us Amit, Akash, Kaustubh and me decided to run for 35min uphill, and then to complete the run back.

Accordingly, we started to run. 

Initially I started to jog, after sometime, got tired and started to walk. This game of jog and walk went on for 20min. I had got too tired, but I resolved to keep on walking if not jog. After another 10min my legs started getting heavy, I started having breathlessness, I still kept on moving. 

In this condition, I experienced a feeling of oneness with everything around. There were no thoughts at all. It was a state of meditation. It was bliss!

Though tired, legs heavy, breathlessness, but everything around and everything inside wanted that feeling to continue ; and continue till eternity.

Finally, it was 35min and Amit, who was much ahead of us, returned back and we started going downhill. 

I was completely soaked with sweat. There was a smile on the face which just wouldn't stop. I experienced completeness. I experienced the oneness; with "Him".

We visit religious places; Temples, Mosques, Churches and Gurdwaras, in search of the divine. We do all sorts of rituals, donate different things, to please him. We starve ourselves sometimes to death just to experience,"Him", in and through our suffering. And here I was, following a simple exercise routine. Doing nothing, but just putting my body, heart and mind into a condition of limits and crossing it. In the process feeling one with Him. Experiencing, "Him", to be a part of me!

Physical activity leading to Spirituality!

First through our body and then going beyond to experience that onneness.

No religion, no rituals, no sacrifice required.

Just crossing the limits to experience Him! 

You too might have experienced this, while performing your favourite activity and then crossing your limits, like playing a musical instrument, sometimes while cooking to serve others, driving long distance, or ...... Looking forward to listening to your expression of onneness.