Digging Around and into the Mind

Gardening is a wonderful experirnce to be totally in touch with nature, forget the mundane happenings and be in sync with the greenery around. During one such afternoon, after a good drive, I was busy mixing manure for the plants in our small garden comprising of flowering plants. It required mixing three varities of organic manure. And after that, Dad asked me to dig around the plants to pour in the required manure for each plant. As I started digging around one plant and started filling up manure and mixing it with the sand, I was asked to dig more. I was told that the manure had to go in deep into the ground surrounding the roots of the plant for it to act. And hence I started digging. And at the same time pondering.
It is the same with life. To grow in our attitudes, values, we need nutrition to be supplied very close to our root-the root being our mind. It is essential to conceive what we want to grow at and apply this thought to our mind that would absorb and reflect it in our actions. The more nutrition we apply to our mind, the more we grow in a healthy manner. The resolutions that we take every New Year need to have a deep will in ourselves to see that they are followed. This conviction stems from the resolute mind. Thoughts keep appearing in our mind and vanishing. We resolve to do a lot of things but many a time, we fail to keep up with our convictions.
Those that stem deep from within have a greater impact.
Nature indeed teaches us lessons in a subtle manner.