'Harmony is Virtue'

‘Harmony is  Virtue’

• P.Natarajan.

A day before, we had been to IKEA in Canton MI and the first thing attracted me was the slogan board welcoming the visitors. It read “ Welcome to IKEA, It is great to see you”. As we went around shopping, we entered a ‘model living room’. Two other apt displays struck me one reading as “ The Living room is a Place where Life Happens”. and the other “ A Big Sofa to Bring Us All Together”. A quote immediately transpired in my mind. It is about harmony and I remember it right “ Harmony is when the sum is greater than its parts”. Pythagoras, the renowned mathematician, has written

“ Virtue is Harmony”. Visit to IKEA has prompted me to take up this essay titled as “Harmony is Virtue”. Pythagoras saying reminds me that maths and music have harmony and when you play music, you feel like solving a maths problem.

The Universe is complete and whole. The people are just a microscopic part of the Universe. Each of us is complete and whole as well, as we are, who we are and where we are.  We live with integrity. We live in harmony with fellow human beings. We are conscious about what we say and what we do.

How we lead our inner life is reflected in our outer life also. Negative energy and such associated thoughts block the harmonious path. Course correction is imperative for success.

Balancing act is another requirement of keeping harmony. There are ups and downs, success and failure in the journey of life. We learn by experience the balancing act and not to get disheartened or cowed down. We may have to go for counselling in extreme cases to overcome depression.

Change is the order of the day. The Sun rises and falls. The Moon waxes and wanes. The seasons change periodically. We learn to live with the changing patterns and time to live in harmony with the nature.

Harmony is to live in Einstein’s time. As work expands, Time also expands. We can expand time by doing what we love and condense by doing the opposite, This mantra when faithfully followed keep us in harmony without remorse. We realize that we live in the present moment, neither in the past nor in the future. The present is a gift to us, To survive in peace,harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation and one flag. Each gift of nature possesses its own radiant energy and bound together by cosmic energy. In work places, man and machine need to be in harmony.

Living in harmony is a conscious choice of how we want to live. Happiness is when what you think, what you say,and what you do are in harmony. When we abide by law we create beauty and harmony. When we don’t, disharmony and chaos bound to prevail. For instance harmonics in power system in current or voltage arises with non linear loads and heats up the equipment, conductor, and the likes.

Accord, amity, agreement, peace, amiability, unity, rapport, like mindedness are synonymous to harmony. Harmony helps the healing process.

I wish to remember two quotes to sum up the significance of harmony:-

1. “ When there is righteousness in heart, there is beauty in character. When there is beauty in character, there is harmony in home. When there is harmony in home, there is harmony in the nation. When there is harmony in nation, there is peace in the world.” - A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.
2. “ Music creates harmony out of the chaos, rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous” - Yehudi Menuhin

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