Its 1:00 AM in the night. I am awake because I cannot sleep. Hence, I decide to clean my room. I start with the old question papers, the old short notes and all other old old stuff that I once used to study for Law School Entrances. As I'm gathering it I feel emotional. A lump comes up and holds itself right in the throat. I feel as if I'm gathering pieces of my shattered dream.
I somehow manage to cool down and tell myself "Hey! its not as if you are not going to be admitted anywhere! You are still going to a good college! What's more now that you'll have more time you can complete your french course, learn the flute and even intern anywhere you want almost everyday. Now you have all the choices open! It's as if everything you ever wanted is lying at your feet!! You only have to choose what you want to pick up!"
The other voice however comes out too. It is weaker that the first voice, but it comes out. It says "Look at X. Look how happy X is. Only if you had worked a little harder you'd have been there! After all you've lost NALSAR only by 4 marks! HOw could you Prince...How could you??"
One side of me wants to attempt these entrances again. The other however refuses. It says "Look at all the world that is now open! You'll be more than just a lawyer if you use your time well!"
Inside of me there is this third voice which I think is my conscience mixed with my emotions. It says "Why can't we have both? Why can't you be at a law school and do all those things you want to do too??"
I don't know whether you remember what I told you that day on that katta of mine. I'd said every question has 3 ends. 1st is that you get an answer. 2nd is that you don't get an answer and the 3rd is you put the question off. Kill it. Ignore it. Try to draw your mind away from it. Suffocate it. To do just that I came online at this unearthly hour.
I dont know whether it is your help, ear, advice that I seek or is it just my own way of clearing my thoughts. Just read this and do what you think is apt.
Prince...
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Sunday, May 28, 2006
There are no answers...
Fun, Frolic and Fish! Yes! The trip to Goa was all that and a little but important more. On way back we decide to take a night halt at Chiplun. My room has an A/C, a TV, a huge double bed to be shared between me and my sister and my mind that has just received news from a friend: I have done miserably in one of my Law School entrances. I am not as much thinking about the result as much I am of my future. Knowing that HSC results are going to be a complete disaster I am more of wondering what is it that I am heading to?
Answers don’t come easily. In fact I have just learned some time back when I met my father’s long lost friend Nandakumar Patil that there are no answers at all. Nandakumar Patil used to be a hot looking material 29 years ago women including my mom used to be crazy after. Never did he care about his studies as much he did about acting in various plays. Dad's account later confirmed that he won the best actor state level award for 3 years consecutively. What is interesting is now he is neither an actor nor does he account or audit being a commerce graduate. He works in the State Transport Services as the controller of traffic. Now he sees whether the drivers follow the planned schedule and whether the broken vehicles are looked after properly. Interesting isn’t it?
More interesting is the fact that he’s married a doctor wife, a girl who’s more educated, more independent and more able than himself. In course of conversation when a question arose how did she say yes to someone as weird as Nandakumar she said she didn’t really care what her life partner was up to. She was confident that it was she who mattered if she wanted a good life and that no other person really mattered for a persons good life.
Then when the layers of past memories were being undone by this crowd of 4 who happened to be long lost friends for the last 29 years, they started remembering their other friends they are no more in contact with. Some 18-time failure, chain smoker had married the most beautiful girl, a girl who could have anyone she wanted. An 18-time failure that too at commerce undergraduate level? He was not good looking or wealthy. An 18 time failure cannot be smart! What was it that she saw in him? But then, their wedding did happen. It is a truth, a fact that no one disputes.
Then as members of ABVP in their time my mom also knows Nandakumar uncle’s wife, the doctor. She asks her about some other friend who used to be a miserable failure at everything then. Studies, co-curricular or extra curricular, he was of no use. Today he’s a multi millioner doctor at Kolhapur with three three-storied hospitals. An evidence that academics has nothing to do with real life successes.
And as these thoughts are scooting through I fall asleep to wake up 2 hours later at a doorbell. It’s my dad calling me for tea to his room. There is a person sitting there on the chair in front of him in his room. His name: Mr. Relekar.
Mr. Relekar is B.Com, LL.B, CA from University of Pune. B.Com from BMCC and LL.B from Symbiosis. He teaches in the college at Chiplun and takes commerce classes for students. As the trend goes he asks me about what my plans for future are. Which stream have I done my +2 in? I answer Law and Commerce respectively not knowing the above data. Had I known all that before I would probably have answered the second question as Science or Arts. And then begins my 1hr long interview. What is debit? What is credit? What is suspense account? What is the entry for this? What is the entry for that?
I cant answer even 2 questions to his complete satisfaction. He tells me “beta you need to read all your books form 11th standard again” in my mind I say “you are right sir except the last word. I dnt need to read them “again”, I only need to read them”
And then he tells me how privileged I am as compared to people from Chiplun. A person from Chiplun lacks big ambitions says he. They don’t want a car, they feel its fine to walk even 15 kms.
May be he is right. I just don’t have a big ambition to drive me. May be I just don’t need that A/C and TV room with a huge Bed? I can sleep on the floor just as sound. May be I am happy with a bicycle…who knows? But if everything continues the way its going where do I think I will end up? Will I get the only girl I love more than anything ever with only a bicycle and no bed to sleep?
Again…there are no answers…
Answers don’t come easily. In fact I have just learned some time back when I met my father’s long lost friend Nandakumar Patil that there are no answers at all. Nandakumar Patil used to be a hot looking material 29 years ago women including my mom used to be crazy after. Never did he care about his studies as much he did about acting in various plays. Dad's account later confirmed that he won the best actor state level award for 3 years consecutively. What is interesting is now he is neither an actor nor does he account or audit being a commerce graduate. He works in the State Transport Services as the controller of traffic. Now he sees whether the drivers follow the planned schedule and whether the broken vehicles are looked after properly. Interesting isn’t it?
More interesting is the fact that he’s married a doctor wife, a girl who’s more educated, more independent and more able than himself. In course of conversation when a question arose how did she say yes to someone as weird as Nandakumar she said she didn’t really care what her life partner was up to. She was confident that it was she who mattered if she wanted a good life and that no other person really mattered for a persons good life.
Then when the layers of past memories were being undone by this crowd of 4 who happened to be long lost friends for the last 29 years, they started remembering their other friends they are no more in contact with. Some 18-time failure, chain smoker had married the most beautiful girl, a girl who could have anyone she wanted. An 18-time failure that too at commerce undergraduate level? He was not good looking or wealthy. An 18 time failure cannot be smart! What was it that she saw in him? But then, their wedding did happen. It is a truth, a fact that no one disputes.
Then as members of ABVP in their time my mom also knows Nandakumar uncle’s wife, the doctor. She asks her about some other friend who used to be a miserable failure at everything then. Studies, co-curricular or extra curricular, he was of no use. Today he’s a multi millioner doctor at Kolhapur with three three-storied hospitals. An evidence that academics has nothing to do with real life successes.
And as these thoughts are scooting through I fall asleep to wake up 2 hours later at a doorbell. It’s my dad calling me for tea to his room. There is a person sitting there on the chair in front of him in his room. His name: Mr. Relekar.
Mr. Relekar is B.Com, LL.B, CA from University of Pune. B.Com from BMCC and LL.B from Symbiosis. He teaches in the college at Chiplun and takes commerce classes for students. As the trend goes he asks me about what my plans for future are. Which stream have I done my +2 in? I answer Law and Commerce respectively not knowing the above data. Had I known all that before I would probably have answered the second question as Science or Arts. And then begins my 1hr long interview. What is debit? What is credit? What is suspense account? What is the entry for this? What is the entry for that?
I cant answer even 2 questions to his complete satisfaction. He tells me “beta you need to read all your books form 11th standard again” in my mind I say “you are right sir except the last word. I dnt need to read them “again”, I only need to read them”
And then he tells me how privileged I am as compared to people from Chiplun. A person from Chiplun lacks big ambitions says he. They don’t want a car, they feel its fine to walk even 15 kms.
May be he is right. I just don’t have a big ambition to drive me. May be I just don’t need that A/C and TV room with a huge Bed? I can sleep on the floor just as sound. May be I am happy with a bicycle…who knows? But if everything continues the way its going where do I think I will end up? Will I get the only girl I love more than anything ever with only a bicycle and no bed to sleep?
Again…there are no answers…
Friday, April 28, 2006
21st Century
Don’t sleep; don’t eat
Don’t drink; just think!
Just learn; then unlearn, relearn
Not winning is sinning
So be the best, without rest
Strive! Dive! But don’t live!
Stress! Distress! No peace! But still press!
Lifelines no more matter, meet deadlines; they do
Die if you can but get through!
Production, sale, bank balance
Marketing, HR and blood pressure
If you can make them all at once rise
Only then you’re wise!
And then when you die with a heart stroke
On your tombstone you must write
“Come One! Come All!”
This isn’t a cemetery! Its 21st century!
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
If a man is not a lover in his 20s, strong in his 30s, rich in his 40s and wise in his 50s, he will never be so”
Now that is a line I don’t remember where exactly I have read but I do know that I want to be each of those alternate words above: lover, strong, rich and wise though not necessarily in that order. If I were given a choice I’d rather be wise, strong enough to stand by my wisdom, love something unconditionally and finally be rich if at all time and wisdom allowed me to.
Success is not about which law school you pass out from or how rich you become. Success is a feeling of satisfaction about your own life and what you have been able to earn from it. “Success is a journey and not an end” might sound clichéd but it is nonetheless true. When I picture myself 80 something wondering how I spent my youth and where did all my middle years go, I want to be satisfied more than being sitting at a back of a Mercedes or a Ferrari that I frankly think is a waste of money when a Swift or an Indica does the same job for me in less than 10% of the price.
Satisfaction does not mean not having worries, regrets or failures. Satisfaction means the over all experience of life being treasure-some. It is when you are happy not with what you have achieved but with the way you have achieved it. Its not about traveling long, its about traveling well and being happy about what the journey has given you.
Satisfaction comes when you know what you have is all you think you need (as against want.) to give a vague idea of what I mean I can use the example above. A Mercedes is a car people use to show their wealth. It has softest of leather seats in the world, best of suspensions, TV, radio, a drink vendor and what not inside it. But the point is, do I need a car or a living room? If a car is all I need then what’s all the show off about? A normal small car like say Swift or Indica will do the same work for me. Hence, I do not need a Mercedes.
Knowledge is something that has many advantages. Firstly, it is cheap. Secondly, it is useful. Thirdly, no one can steal it from you once you have it and most importantly, the more you have it the more you know that what you have is less. The difference between money and knowledge apart from it always being with you is that complete knowledge is harmless. Its greed (also called curiosity) doesn’t harm anyone. Hence I presume that the most important priority in any mans life must be knowledge rather than anything else. Moreover it might also lead to wealth in future.
What is more important however is to stand by your knowledge and your opinion about it in adverse circumstances and also to be able to state your knowledge and opinion candidly, artistically, simply and stubbornly at the same time being understanding of the counterview, respecting it and being open for a change in our view if it indeed is convincing enough.
When it comes to love however there can be as many views as people on this earth. Love is something that you do irrespective of what people think of it. When you do it only because you want to do it and because you enjoy doing it its love. Love gives you the reason to live. Love is the longing, the one thing that you’d do the rest of your life you were told that it was to end a week later. If you don’t have something like that, go find it!
That’s all there is to life, to success and to satisfaction. I think I need to write no more, but what I know is that I’m searching it myself and I shall find it soon.
THPrince.
Now that is a line I don’t remember where exactly I have read but I do know that I want to be each of those alternate words above: lover, strong, rich and wise though not necessarily in that order. If I were given a choice I’d rather be wise, strong enough to stand by my wisdom, love something unconditionally and finally be rich if at all time and wisdom allowed me to.
Success is not about which law school you pass out from or how rich you become. Success is a feeling of satisfaction about your own life and what you have been able to earn from it. “Success is a journey and not an end” might sound clichéd but it is nonetheless true. When I picture myself 80 something wondering how I spent my youth and where did all my middle years go, I want to be satisfied more than being sitting at a back of a Mercedes or a Ferrari that I frankly think is a waste of money when a Swift or an Indica does the same job for me in less than 10% of the price.
Satisfaction does not mean not having worries, regrets or failures. Satisfaction means the over all experience of life being treasure-some. It is when you are happy not with what you have achieved but with the way you have achieved it. Its not about traveling long, its about traveling well and being happy about what the journey has given you.
Satisfaction comes when you know what you have is all you think you need (as against want.) to give a vague idea of what I mean I can use the example above. A Mercedes is a car people use to show their wealth. It has softest of leather seats in the world, best of suspensions, TV, radio, a drink vendor and what not inside it. But the point is, do I need a car or a living room? If a car is all I need then what’s all the show off about? A normal small car like say Swift or Indica will do the same work for me. Hence, I do not need a Mercedes.
Knowledge is something that has many advantages. Firstly, it is cheap. Secondly, it is useful. Thirdly, no one can steal it from you once you have it and most importantly, the more you have it the more you know that what you have is less. The difference between money and knowledge apart from it always being with you is that complete knowledge is harmless. Its greed (also called curiosity) doesn’t harm anyone. Hence I presume that the most important priority in any mans life must be knowledge rather than anything else. Moreover it might also lead to wealth in future.
What is more important however is to stand by your knowledge and your opinion about it in adverse circumstances and also to be able to state your knowledge and opinion candidly, artistically, simply and stubbornly at the same time being understanding of the counterview, respecting it and being open for a change in our view if it indeed is convincing enough.
When it comes to love however there can be as many views as people on this earth. Love is something that you do irrespective of what people think of it. When you do it only because you want to do it and because you enjoy doing it its love. Love gives you the reason to live. Love is the longing, the one thing that you’d do the rest of your life you were told that it was to end a week later. If you don’t have something like that, go find it!
That’s all there is to life, to success and to satisfaction. I think I need to write no more, but what I know is that I’m searching it myself and I shall find it soon.
THPrince.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Bridging The Divide
After browsing through the recent issue of a national magazine I switched to reading an academic competition magazine as a preparation dose for the National Law School of India University Entrance Exams (Popularly known as Big Daddy in law aspirants) that I have been dreaming of cracking. Both the issues had one thing in common; they were about bridging the divide. While the formers’ arguments scattered all over from bridging the divide between haves and have-nots of various kinds ranging from poor and rich to Information technology savvy and unsavvy the academic competition magazine boasted about bridging the gap between rural and the urban India.
But are these the only gaps that need to be bridged? Is there nothing more to a human than material wants of money, technology, of being able to reserve railway tickets at home through the Internet or withdrawing cash from an ATM?
As far as my belief goes, there certainly is. The gap that needs to be bridged in the true sense isn’t and never was of having or not having or of possessing or not possessing materials or resources until recently. It is and has always been of thinking like and thinking unlike. Poverty always there until richness arrived, so was hunger until food. Before poverty or hunger came however, there always lived Humans.
We all agree to the fact that one thing that separates humans from all others is his ability to think, to think independently and act accordingly. And these thoughts come labeled in various forms. Some call it “philosophy” some “religion” and some have their own way to live without labeling it. Conflict occurs when the two thoughts contradict or one is threatened of being wiped out due to the other. Islamic terrorism, Naxalite Terrorism or violence in any other form as of today is the result of this very conflict. The bloodshed, the violence, the loss of life and humanity is its price. It is the price of not being able to coexist along with each other, respecting each other without being a threat to each other.
This inability of not being able to digest foreign thoughts is the result of judging others on our own experiences. It is about looking at life through our self-designed design of pigeonholes denying to believe that some other design may also exist. Unbelieving in some other or every other design than our own makes us want to destroy it or if we can’t, we prefer being away from it. Until and unless a position of respect is achieved by every human mind for itself and every other, the true gap shall never be bridged. Because true gap isn’t about someone having more than me, someone will always have more but the true gap is about someone not thinking like me. One doesn’t require food, money more than necessary to live peacefully but one does require respect to his thoughts to rest in peace.
But are these the only gaps that need to be bridged? Is there nothing more to a human than material wants of money, technology, of being able to reserve railway tickets at home through the Internet or withdrawing cash from an ATM?
As far as my belief goes, there certainly is. The gap that needs to be bridged in the true sense isn’t and never was of having or not having or of possessing or not possessing materials or resources until recently. It is and has always been of thinking like and thinking unlike. Poverty always there until richness arrived, so was hunger until food. Before poverty or hunger came however, there always lived Humans.
We all agree to the fact that one thing that separates humans from all others is his ability to think, to think independently and act accordingly. And these thoughts come labeled in various forms. Some call it “philosophy” some “religion” and some have their own way to live without labeling it. Conflict occurs when the two thoughts contradict or one is threatened of being wiped out due to the other. Islamic terrorism, Naxalite Terrorism or violence in any other form as of today is the result of this very conflict. The bloodshed, the violence, the loss of life and humanity is its price. It is the price of not being able to coexist along with each other, respecting each other without being a threat to each other.
This inability of not being able to digest foreign thoughts is the result of judging others on our own experiences. It is about looking at life through our self-designed design of pigeonholes denying to believe that some other design may also exist. Unbelieving in some other or every other design than our own makes us want to destroy it or if we can’t, we prefer being away from it. Until and unless a position of respect is achieved by every human mind for itself and every other, the true gap shall never be bridged. Because true gap isn’t about someone having more than me, someone will always have more but the true gap is about someone not thinking like me. One doesn’t require food, money more than necessary to live peacefully but one does require respect to his thoughts to rest in peace.
Monday, January 02, 2006
Dream...it costs nothing!
People who read my blog are used to the edited versions of my works. Mostly when I write, I think about it first, write it, edit it and then only cut paste it here for all of you to read. But this is a different post. I'm writing it here right now!
I never thought I'd ever be inspired about writing on personal feelings on public things like blogs. But as the saying "Expect the unexpected!" so here I am writing about my personal feelings for the first and might just be the last time.
I dont remember the second last time had a dream while sleeping but the last time I had it, I was shouting out "Dont talk or move! Just stick to me there and sit freezed!" and that was on my Ducati as I was breezing her along at 400 kms/hr.
Its no joke! I think I was about 30yrs old in it. An NLSIU pass out and I'd done my Post graduation from Oxford or Harvard or something like that. I didnt earn much though. Just a few crores here and there. Bill gates even then was the richest man on earth follwed by Lakshmi Niwas Mittal.
It was when the alarm alarmed all of a sudden that I knew it was no more my Ducati engines firing. All of a sudden here again I was. A worth nothing almost spoilt brat who hasnt even touched his Board texts or entrance books. And again I made a "new year" resolution to start studying today. Funnily even when the elephant has passed me and only his tail remains wagging, I still feel I can or will defeat it. I still feel I will win, do well in boards and get through into a decent law school. And as my day started again with new hope, new enthusiasm and new spirit of winning the world all I had as my capital to think what I keep thinking were the words of a man people consider great:
Listen to the mustn't's child
Listen to The Don'ts
Listen to the impossibles, The Won'ts
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Listen to the shouldn'ts
And then listen close to me
Anything can happen child, ANYTHING can be...
And as my mom yells at me again to convince me that I wont even get 50% in my Boards I look down into a book I have never had any interest in....
Prince...
I never thought I'd ever be inspired about writing on personal feelings on public things like blogs. But as the saying "Expect the unexpected!" so here I am writing about my personal feelings for the first and might just be the last time.
I dont remember the second last time had a dream while sleeping but the last time I had it, I was shouting out "Dont talk or move! Just stick to me there and sit freezed!" and that was on my Ducati as I was breezing her along at 400 kms/hr.
Its no joke! I think I was about 30yrs old in it. An NLSIU pass out and I'd done my Post graduation from Oxford or Harvard or something like that. I didnt earn much though. Just a few crores here and there. Bill gates even then was the richest man on earth follwed by Lakshmi Niwas Mittal.
It was when the alarm alarmed all of a sudden that I knew it was no more my Ducati engines firing. All of a sudden here again I was. A worth nothing almost spoilt brat who hasnt even touched his Board texts or entrance books. And again I made a "new year" resolution to start studying today. Funnily even when the elephant has passed me and only his tail remains wagging, I still feel I can or will defeat it. I still feel I will win, do well in boards and get through into a decent law school. And as my day started again with new hope, new enthusiasm and new spirit of winning the world all I had as my capital to think what I keep thinking were the words of a man people consider great:
Listen to the mustn't's child
Listen to The Don'ts
Listen to the impossibles, The Won'ts
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Listen to the shouldn'ts
And then listen close to me
Anything can happen child, ANYTHING can be...
And as my mom yells at me again to convince me that I wont even get 50% in my Boards I look down into a book I have never had any interest in....
Prince...
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Purpose Of Life!
For Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull is was flying. For Sania Mirza it is probably to be the best tennis player in the world. For me, I still don’t know.
Yes! I’m talking about the purpose of life. Why do you live? What is it that you wake up every morning for?
The Bible says to know it you’ll have to find and search for Jesus. For God. Because he created you. You cannot ask a tool what is was invented for. You can only ask its inventor what and how it to be used if you want to use it. Similarly, you cannot ask yourself what were you created for. You can ask it only to your creator.
The Geetha says it is to strive. To strive to compound yourself with Him. This striving can be anything you do. It may be by following religion, by worshipping what you do or else by pursuance of knowledge.
All these arguments are based on one common assumption. They’re based on the assumption that God exists. What if I challenge this assumption? What if I ask “where” is god? Or “is” there a god? Is there an answer?
There is an answer. But to find it one would have to widen his vision. His perspectives need to broaden. What he must ask is not “where” is god. What he must ask is “what” is god?
Magnificence, elegance, beauty, excellence are all but unfulfilling to answer this question. To put into a broader light just think which people do we compare to god? I’m sure no Indian has ever not heard the phrase “if cricket is a religion Sachin is god.”
Wonder why no other player was ever compared to God?
A woman with emphasized reproductive organs and an inviting charming face is often compared to a goddess. On porn sites she becomes “Sex goddess.”
Just go back to your nostalgic anecdotes. You will find one place where you felt your insignificance. It might be on a sea cliff watching a sun set. It might as well be in the sky when you peeped out of the window of your plane while flying or may even be something as small as someone’s eyes. What was it that you felt in those moments?
Imagine a place of all marble. White, smooth, natural marble. Mountains of marble all over you, where there is lonely you and silence. Silence but for the stream of white water that is flowing right in front of your eyes striking its own musical notes on your minds instrument. And you are there all alone on a moonlit winter night. How beautiful do you think the place will be? You must have begun wondering whether the place actually exists. The answer is it exists. Where, is a matter incontexual here.
If you have never been to a jungle, then open the closest encyclopedia on nature that you find. Watch images in it. The birds, animals and other creatures. The stalagmites and stalactites and other naturally occurring structures.
From Sachin’s and woman’s comparison to god and goddesses let us move on to idols of gods and goddesses. What do you find? An elephant headed human with four hands? A ten handed and serene faced lady riding a tiger? Royal looking blue bodied male sleeping leisurely on a huge snake?
What are all these? What do they signify? From Sachin to goddess called women, from women to nature, from nature to idols. They are all but various perceptions of perfect “somethings”.
No other batsman was ever compared to god. It’s the ease, the excellence, the elegance of Sachins strokes that gives him such a stature. Not every woman is compared to a goddess because not every one’s reproductive organs are almost perfect. They represent her stature because she has always been respected, worshipped and celebrated for her ability to give birth. To give birth to a new one is godly for this nature to go on.
Every creature, every sight, every feeling of vastness, of perfection, of ease and excellence in itself is god. God is not a different entity. He is not a mere person like you and me. And to excel, become vast, to expand and to exhibit excellence in something is what we must live for. To strive to be one with Him. With his excellence, His vastness, His ease and his perfection. This in itself is the purpose of every life. How to do it is what is left to us. Sports, Music, Literature, Art, Work, Be a good father, Mother, Sister, Lover is all it takes.
Prince…
Yes! I’m talking about the purpose of life. Why do you live? What is it that you wake up every morning for?
The Bible says to know it you’ll have to find and search for Jesus. For God. Because he created you. You cannot ask a tool what is was invented for. You can only ask its inventor what and how it to be used if you want to use it. Similarly, you cannot ask yourself what were you created for. You can ask it only to your creator.
The Geetha says it is to strive. To strive to compound yourself with Him. This striving can be anything you do. It may be by following religion, by worshipping what you do or else by pursuance of knowledge.
All these arguments are based on one common assumption. They’re based on the assumption that God exists. What if I challenge this assumption? What if I ask “where” is god? Or “is” there a god? Is there an answer?
There is an answer. But to find it one would have to widen his vision. His perspectives need to broaden. What he must ask is not “where” is god. What he must ask is “what” is god?
Magnificence, elegance, beauty, excellence are all but unfulfilling to answer this question. To put into a broader light just think which people do we compare to god? I’m sure no Indian has ever not heard the phrase “if cricket is a religion Sachin is god.”
Wonder why no other player was ever compared to God?
A woman with emphasized reproductive organs and an inviting charming face is often compared to a goddess. On porn sites she becomes “Sex goddess.”
Just go back to your nostalgic anecdotes. You will find one place where you felt your insignificance. It might be on a sea cliff watching a sun set. It might as well be in the sky when you peeped out of the window of your plane while flying or may even be something as small as someone’s eyes. What was it that you felt in those moments?
Imagine a place of all marble. White, smooth, natural marble. Mountains of marble all over you, where there is lonely you and silence. Silence but for the stream of white water that is flowing right in front of your eyes striking its own musical notes on your minds instrument. And you are there all alone on a moonlit winter night. How beautiful do you think the place will be? You must have begun wondering whether the place actually exists. The answer is it exists. Where, is a matter incontexual here.
If you have never been to a jungle, then open the closest encyclopedia on nature that you find. Watch images in it. The birds, animals and other creatures. The stalagmites and stalactites and other naturally occurring structures.
From Sachin’s and woman’s comparison to god and goddesses let us move on to idols of gods and goddesses. What do you find? An elephant headed human with four hands? A ten handed and serene faced lady riding a tiger? Royal looking blue bodied male sleeping leisurely on a huge snake?
What are all these? What do they signify? From Sachin to goddess called women, from women to nature, from nature to idols. They are all but various perceptions of perfect “somethings”.
No other batsman was ever compared to god. It’s the ease, the excellence, the elegance of Sachins strokes that gives him such a stature. Not every woman is compared to a goddess because not every one’s reproductive organs are almost perfect. They represent her stature because she has always been respected, worshipped and celebrated for her ability to give birth. To give birth to a new one is godly for this nature to go on.
Every creature, every sight, every feeling of vastness, of perfection, of ease and excellence in itself is god. God is not a different entity. He is not a mere person like you and me. And to excel, become vast, to expand and to exhibit excellence in something is what we must live for. To strive to be one with Him. With his excellence, His vastness, His ease and his perfection. This in itself is the purpose of every life. How to do it is what is left to us. Sports, Music, Literature, Art, Work, Be a good father, Mother, Sister, Lover is all it takes.
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