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hello good people.....I am back with updates from my past week....It still beats me how you guys deal with life's bewildering nature in the absence of my pearly wisdom.......:P...
I think the scenario may be like this......faced with a conundrum(thats the word for the day) that fate throws upon us periodically ....we introspect,think and question ourselves....is it right????..am i bring truthful to myself???... and finally the most important of all "would this bring in more money" ????:P.....but there is nothing to worry friends.....for we can be rest aassured that our decisions wont affect the revolving orbits of mars .....even if it did there is nothing to worry...as we don't live on mars.....:P
So what do I write about today......Do I write about the socio-economic changes that has influenced the industrial age from 1920-2010 ....or do I ramble on as usual about unimportant topics which would bring peace and succour to your disturbed minds..:P
ahhh.......I can hear my readers gentle heart going aflutter......I can actually feel his apprehension.....he/she(To confirm the fact that I am no sexist) thinks "will the author succumb today to the pressures of society??"....."will he still continue the blog in a jocular vein or will he come on high brow and heavy??":P
My friends though my soul (lets call him Sidney the soul) would want to have a go at society's ills I would rather not or rather my brain(bittu the brain) would not let me do this.
You people have to understand that Iam at a tender phase when we all want to set right societys wrongs ,catch hold of people and tell them how to live life......Luckily I am at the fag end of such unholy ideologies.....
two years ago if you had invited me on a trip which would have involved mollycoddling people into living life the way it should be....I would have packed my toothbrush and pyjamas and joined you without a murmur......but now temperd with years of experience with people I have realized that its no good teling people what to do....rather one should keep ones thoughts to oneself and just laugh at people when they stumble :P
I realize that I have not yet begun today's theme and more than you its worrying me.....till the time I think up a good enough story...let me tell you about a place which i frequently visit.. ....
There is a Matth(sort of gurukul) near my house where guys ranging from 8 to 30 come to learn the holy texts.......daily agenda for these guys completely revolves around the deity which in this case is vishnu......they wake up at ungodly hours to take bath, startling nocturnal creatures having a late supper.....breakfast is a meagre affair ......as the god is waiting for his daily quota of bhakti......after the deity is given a bath and decorated grandly......they do pooja which lasts or around two hours ,I think the daily costs of flower offering itself would amount to thousands.......after this they all knuckle down and then follows a 4 course meal....the way they eat is mind boggling.......everything on the plate is mixed into a gooey paste and forced down the throat.......
During the afternoon one of the pundits gets an idea into his head to go philosophical.....he picks up any text in archaic sanskrit and interprets it......the motley crowd that surrounds him includes sleepy teens as well as doddering oldies in their eighties trying to wring sense out of obscure texts which god alone knows is useless :P....after having a nice pseudo intellectual debate they again go back to worshipping the lord......this is the evening ritual...ideally a time when all the hardworking people visit the temple to unshoulder their responsibilites on god :P...after paying the dakshina they prostrate before the deity and the pandit asking for recourse from software companies which are hell bent on sucking their bone marrow.......even a small promotion or a word of falsified praise from their seniors makes the guy thinks that god is on his side :P....
The hindu as we are referred is used to the concept of "surrender" .....the idea that the almighty takes care of all.....I truly believe in god and know that he/she exists......but I beg to differ on the point where he saves even the downtrodden.....
It would be a poor movie director who involves himself in the cast as the camera is rolling....his role is behind the curtains as the wire puller.....
The whole idea as the holy texts propagate as god being the source is true....if its not for the directors vision the movie would'nt be made in the first place.......but this director is unique....his art is for himself.....the joy of creating and allowing it to express itself on its own is a privilege which god alone enjoys......
If he interferes in the process the joy is lost.....any interference leads to loss of control ,loss of freedom....what is the fun in forcing someone to act as we force him to....would'nt it be more exciting if the subject thought for himself,acted for himself and grew to maturity by himself....an artistic creation which touches completion or perfection on its own......It takes a brilliant mind to conceive of such an idea....
Rather than save the coward from the bullying arrows of misfortune...teach him to handle the bow......he will be surprised that he is capable of things which heretofore where unaattinable...the realisation dawns that within him is a force which has an infinite potential to uplift him and take him to heights unknown......provided he desires it......
The subject realises that fear is only in the mind.....he/she is actually free..there is neither success nor sorrow...only learning.........he becomes "stithapragya".....undisturbed by emotions ...as he stands on the truth....he has known it......as far as my meagre experience of life is concerned....I have observed that true courage stems from truth....yaya...i know cliched.....but listen to the justification (if you have not fallen asleep already :P) ..........
The truth is very simple...who am I...xyz.....what i know....abc.....what i dont know.....pqr.......simple finished.......that is all there is to it....if this is you and you don't mind showing it to the world ,what is there to fear??........fear stems from the impulse to dominate,to show that I am something more than you are......when we stand on the truth...there is no other...so there is no relative subject for the fear to survive.....its after all just that.....a reflection of the state of mind.....
to be empirical.....
whats your current mood......
maybe a bit down as you didnt get the promotion you were promised......
now imagine......you are racing in a lambhorgini......on your left is a good looking femalr who has eyes only for you...and you are actually on your way to your 30 million dollar home ...
see how pleasantly pleased we are....
though both were just projections of the mind........not reality.. ....
so my friends I can see you guys are profusely sweating.....a dim suspicion floats on the boundary of your brain whether this blog is tending towards the metaphysical and unknown terra firma......fear not mates.....next blog shall be full of reviews on "whats your rashee?""..and maybe a poll on which role of priyanka chopra is the hottest ??":P.......next time I promise we will not let lose my flights of fancy and be grounded by answering basic questions like "whether harman baweja gets all the 12 Priyanka chopras in the end" :p..
till then contemplate on the purpose of your existence or be practical and wait for the release of "whats your rashee?" :P
Hari Om....
I go Nietsche huh...if I go Nietsche, then Nietsche was a relatively jolly chap indeed.
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