The Mirror You See

A mirror or looking glass is an object that reflects an image. That is all about it that means to some people. Beyond seeing one’s own image the mirror has been also been used as a decorative element with many virtues importantly being the reflection it reflects. It is also seen to visually enlarge a room and give depth to it. It allows to open and play with the perspectives and to see what is behind us.

Various souls have had minds looking at mirrors beyond the true likeness or description of one’s reflections. Individuals who use personification, imagery and irony create an intense relationship between mirrors; the things it reflects and then there are emotional effects of time and appearance among individuals. With age comes loss of beauty, which many individuals have difficult times in accepting. Three types of mirrors do reflect upon mind. A concave mirror exaggerates, a convex depreciates and a plain mirror shows your life the way it is. A heartbroken but truly in love individual expresses ‘My love for you is like a mirror. You can break it into pieces but when you look closely you are still in it.

In early ages the mirror is believed to have predicted the future, captured and transported souls, and reflected far more than the user's image. Mirrors were covered at night because sleep has been seen as a tiny death in ancient cultures. The act of covering the mirrors helps keep spirit from leaving the body or welcoming other spirits to your home or dream world.

Spiritually they say mirrors reflect light which allows them to reflect the world around them. In spiritual concepts, light is a powerful symbol of wisdom and awareness. As a consequence, mirrors are symbols and carriers of truth and reflect what our truth is.

Literature under various works depicts mirrors as a symbol of truth, discovery, courage, and empowerment.

For artists mirrors can visualize emotional as well as physical realities, looking outward symbolizing sight and truth, evoking deeper meanings in pensive and ambiguous scenes.

The wise say if you are searching for the person responsible to change your life then go look in the mirror.

Mirrors have served as metaphors with myriad meanings, as symbols of divinity, power, can evoke strong feelings in us and they can also be incredibly powerful tools for changing our perspective. Reading a Bhagvat Gita’s perspective it says few things make us as self-unconscious as a mirror. Glancing at a mirror usually increases our bodily misidentification, thereby aggravating our forgetfulness of our spiritual identity.

Mirror in Punjabi is called Shisha. Seated in a congregation on a raised platform was Kar Seva Baba Jeevan Singhji in an Haryana town. A young man under the influence of alcohol extended his greetings made offerings to Babaji and seeing much space on the platform sat in one corner. Village heads recognized the local man ever in drunken stage got up to have him removed. Babaji stopped them and asked the man his name, he replied Shisha Singh. Babaji remarked people look into Shisha to tidy & smarten themselves. Shisha is a reflection of mind its purity and truthfulness, you need to set examples to other but what a disgrace you are. The words of Santji hit deep in the man and the dazed man uttered ‘So help change me”. The man received the saint’s shelter and then spent all his time in their Sangat, Nam Simran and Seva. It is said after about 9-10 years later the same man was known as Baba Shisha Singhji KarSeva wale at Harminder Saheb.

“Mind is a mirror, how rare are those who as Gurmukh see themselves in it”. SGGS115