Eyes reign supreme among the physical faculties.  Nostrils function for the continuance of life. However, parents prefer to refer their wards as eyes.  Eyes are special for they shed tears for aches and pains of all other organs.  They are known for sacrificing their self-interest.  They help in perusing the other parts but see not themselves. 

In kinesics, eyes dominate.  Nobel Laureate, Singer eulogized eyes as the windows to look at the soul of an individual.  Assamese language has a proverbial statement that a person with colourless eyes is not to be trusted.  Some do not look at but look through.  Eyes reflect attraction and aversion, affection and apathy, contentment and covetousness, satiation and gluttony, passion and callousness, compassion and impatience.

Words may envelop but eyes reveal.  Speech is scabbard but sight is sword.  Eyes can recite poetry, chant hymns and sing songs.  Eye contact is important in communication.  While conversing, proper orientation of eyes will make the presentation convincing.  Gouging the eyes was the poignant punishment awarded by the invaders.  It was a grave punishment before their departure to grave.  Mahatma (not the School) remarked “An eye for an eye would only end up making the whole world blind”.

The first cataract surgery was done in India.  Kannappar was the first to donate his eyes.  He wanted the almighty to peruse the world with the human vision. 

Eyes have many references in daily usage .  Those who are at loggerheads ‘do not see eye to eye’.  The preferred becomes ‘the blue eyed boy’.  Keeping an eye on skeptical individuals is an important ingredient for an administrator.  One who ignores the genuine demands, ‘turns a blind eye’.  Some times, a startling experience may be an ‘eye opener’.  Statistics may mislead and keep us ‘blind folded’ to reach wrong conclusions.  One who plans for the next generation is a ‘visionary’. People who do not foresee the probable contingencies suffer from ‘myopia’.  ‘Argus eyed’ men could not be ‘hoodwinked’ by others.

Eye lids are immortalized as symbols of security.  Blinking lubricates and steadfast watching of the visual media obstructs blinking, thereby exhausting the eyes.  Cleansing the eyes with crystal clear water retains the retina free from infection.  Eyes act as thermometers of our system.  Heat or acidity or diabetes is expressed through the eyes. Colour blindness is a trait associated with sex-linked genes.  The women act as carriers to transmit them to their male off springs. 

The poesy of love finds its fluency through eyes.  People say, “love is blind”.  Some draw analogy by reading the two usages, ‘love is blind’ and ‘god is love’, in conjunction and conclude that ‘god is blind’.  Love cannot be blind as two fall in love by exchange through eyes.  Love is the meeting of the minds and marriage of souls.  Shakespeare justifies, “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind and therefore is winged cupid painted blind”.  As Saint Antony Exupery said love is not two persons gazing at each other but both looking together towards the same direction. 

Eyes are crucial in improving the awareness.  A few have eyes all over their bodies and they could see what happens on their back.  Blindness is divine injustice.  A few individuals with gifted intellectual profundity and rare creativity have overcome the limitations imposed by existence.  They performed miracles by the power of their inner vision. They tilted their eyes inward.  Dr. Johnson, though highly biased and critical about Milton, could not help acknowledging his genius.  He had to confess that “the great works of Milton were performed under discountenance and in blindness but difficulties vanished at his touch”. 

The best way to preserve one’s eyes is by donating.  One could donate, something alive in him even after his death.  The continuation of vision quenches the quest for life after exile.  It is the best of all donations, as one does not know even the face of the recipient.