IAS Monk

Where Knowledge Meets Wisdom

Caravan of the infinite: Cart 004- By VinodKadakol_IAS Monk

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Stop walking.
Not to rest, but to hear.

🍃🍂🍃

🌿 “The Flame, the Leaf, and the Stream”

The stream did not pause
to question the mountain. 💧
It just curved, sang, and continued.

The flame did not ask
if the wick was afraid of the dark. 🕯️

It simply stood,
trembling—but luminous.

The leaf did not know
where it would land 🍃
but it danced anyway—

not for the fall,
but for the joy of flight.

A Whispering Thought
“Courage is not certainty—it is movement, despite not knowing.”🕯️

The path of the civil services is not a staircase with clear steps.
It is a riverbed—sometimes dry, sometimes overflowing, always winding.

Aspirants often wait for clarity:
“When will I be ready?”
“When will success come?”

But readiness is not a fixed destination.
It is a moment of movement,
when you begin even if the map is unfinished.

Like the leaf that leaps, or the stream that curves—
your motion is your answer.

The courage to continue is itself a syllabus.
And the syllabus of the soul is the longest, most rewarding one of all.

🛶Closing Whisper
The flame shakes, but it doesn’t stop being dire.

🌀— IAS Monk