Imperfection of Perfection
It was three days long seminars and session, I had been through. At the end of third day, I felt like I passed from university. I had heard about a beach or rather an island 'Sentosa' in singapore. It was my third and last day in singapore. I never yearned for going to shopping malls or wandering around exquisite Arcade out there. I felt all that quite plastic.. man made places made rarely for needies but for hypocrites by hypocrites. I was neither needy nor hypocrites so I abhorred entering in it unless I am dying with hunger... Well, I was burdened with three long days of university and wanted to shirk off that as early as possible. No choice could be better than 'Sentosa'.
Cab left me at the entrance of the island. I boarded, the private bus of Sentosa. I was alone and the bus was empty. It is rare experience for a metro guy to travel in a bus empty unless its too late at night. But here noon sun was scorching overhead and the bus was quirking through small hilly roads of Sentosa. After around ten minutes, I reached the beach, the 'Sentosa Beach'. As my feet touched the ground, I felt it quite odd that it wasn't sand. It was a soil similiar to my hometown in Uttar pradesh. There were few directions for the beach. I followed it as If I was playing some computer game. Finally, I saw empty sky, blue ocean(after travelling 7000 miles from Homeland, again Indian ocean) and gray sand.
There were babes, ladies, couples, families and stags. Beach was full but not as full as it used to be in Goa. Well, Let me not be the judge for this, as I went on weekdays. Palm trees, Coconut trees were systematically grown as if somebody has arrayed it in predefined fashion. Not a single dead leaf can you find on coconuts branches. Not a single fallen leaf. All trees were marked as if they will be wiped out after some time. Not even a inch more sand tresspassing the foot path. I suspected if the fishes were cultured or naturally present. Small satellite island, an islet was bit distanced hanging in pure oceanic order. Wooden suspended bridge was formed between beach and the satellite island, with entry as closed. The wind moved but dead. The waves struck the sand. It looked dead. The whole crowd were enjoying a dead beach. It was so perfect that it looked plastic... highly man-made.. It lost the naturality. There was no sound in the wind. It moved as though in cemetary. I couldn't spend much time in that icon of perfection and left for some hot shot mall nearby. Perhaps, it was full-fledged superficiality, the temple of capitalism then half-humane , half-natural, mere perfection of Beach of 'Sentosa'.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
glimpse of hypnotism...
My eyes rolled over and tucked to a point. She exclaimed with benediction, her thoughtful countenance and the splinter of subdued laughter, shirked on her face. Smirk of faithlessness on her face made me on the verge of lossing my confidence. But a garnered back the pieces of my dignity and let clear, discrete command, 'Concentrate on your knee. Your knee is full of pain. It needs to relax... relaaax.. relaaaaax...' Each time I said 'relax', I got more relaxed then she did. Each time, I switched over to different organ.. knee.. hips.. chest... chin.. eyes.. forehead... I subdued to greater slumber than she did. She had something else in her mind... She was not surrendered to me.. But I was surrendered to myself... I felt her breathe.. each and every breathe.. that relinquished from her nostril... was witnessed.
After a long time, the windows of the room were open. One gory tree stood there apathetically. Real life is colorful but this gory tree was black and white, colorless, devoid of life, meant only for scaring dwellers. She remained in meditative posture. I witnessed both, the lively she and the deadly tree. The gorgeous lady and unearthly, deadened tree. Between these two, I stood as passive passage between she and Thee. I meant to be a passage. But she was not open. I belied myself that she is getting hypnotised. But in indeed only I got hypnotised. I went into the deep relaxation where we both lived... Deep silence where we both lived happily forever......
After a long time, the windows of the room were open. One gory tree stood there apathetically. Real life is colorful but this gory tree was black and white, colorless, devoid of life, meant only for scaring dwellers. She remained in meditative posture. I witnessed both, the lively she and the deadly tree. The gorgeous lady and unearthly, deadened tree. Between these two, I stood as passive passage between she and Thee. I meant to be a passage. But she was not open. I belied myself that she is getting hypnotised. But in indeed only I got hypnotised. I went into the deep relaxation where we both lived... Deep silence where we both lived happily forever......
Monday, December 31, 2007
16 Feet from the Earth
Oh !! Me !! Wandering 16 feet above the ground, watching the whole earth as a chess board, the pawns well placed and knew their role quite well. Only the Unbeknownst player knows the aim for this endless rule based wanderings of each pawn. Generally, its not quite visible from a plane as high as 16 feet from ground. But I made every possible effort to discern whats going on, down there. Her eyes were closed and she stood against a wall. A boy was kissing her on lips as good as a child licks the icecream, or better than that, with better effort atleast. His eyes were open and seemed to be gaining something. But looking a girl I felt, she enjoyed more than the boy. Surrender is womanish and is so enjoyable. Alertness is male by nature. Alert people never enjoy a single bit of life. They just be alert, follow few rules and live a great life serving the Master Player. I wish, this boy could be woman for a moment. I wish, could he be bit surrender-ous and reach the level of enjoyment, she has reached already.
A 'bazaar', the first place to make the whole world a civilized place. The first place to make the 'economy', one powerful parameter in this World. 'Commodity' is the integral part of bazaar. 'Commodity' is something that can sold/bought. In this world, each and every person is a commodity. This is the characteristic that collates both the living and non-living entities. Non-living 'commodities' are exchanged for money/wealth. Living commodities are exchanged for emotions, power and sometimes money/wealth. Spinoza used to say, 'This whole universe is one common substance'. Sometimes, I feel, even though this statement looks metaphysical and philosophical in nature, it has similarity to many concepts arising in the world, Human rights, Economics, Racism..
Now the biggest myth, the whole humanity lives in. Each living human being is a commodity as well as a pawn following certain rules, being placed at certain position on the chess board of destiny. I saw another girl, may be married woman. She had her hands in hand with her husband. They both, once upon a time made a pact with each other, in the witness of their so-called-near-and-dear-ones, that they will sleep together, bear children and respect each others emotions. Now thats deal. This deal has placed them at a unique place on the chess-board. Now they can only have certain moves specified by the pact. What have made their lives miserable, is that pact ? Rules and ecstacy don't go hand-in-hand. They are semantically opposite, although not linguistically. The simplest step forward to achieve ecstacy is, forget the sense of commodity. Now as soon as that 'deal', that 'pact' is forgotten, the shear relationship becomes enjoyable. In short, if the couple forgets that they are married they will have better orgasm than before.
Next step is to forget the sense of pawn itself. Let's align with the player, not with pawn. Forget the rules, the mom-dad has given us, the society has given us, the teachers have given us. It will let the real creations to emerge from our-own-selves, the real selves, not the commodities.
A 'bazaar', the first place to make the whole world a civilized place. The first place to make the 'economy', one powerful parameter in this World. 'Commodity' is the integral part of bazaar. 'Commodity' is something that can sold/bought. In this world, each and every person is a commodity. This is the characteristic that collates both the living and non-living entities. Non-living 'commodities' are exchanged for money/wealth. Living commodities are exchanged for emotions, power and sometimes money/wealth. Spinoza used to say, 'This whole universe is one common substance'. Sometimes, I feel, even though this statement looks metaphysical and philosophical in nature, it has similarity to many concepts arising in the world, Human rights, Economics, Racism..
Now the biggest myth, the whole humanity lives in. Each living human being is a commodity as well as a pawn following certain rules, being placed at certain position on the chess board of destiny. I saw another girl, may be married woman. She had her hands in hand with her husband. They both, once upon a time made a pact with each other, in the witness of their so-called-near-and-dear-ones, that they will sleep together, bear children and respect each others emotions. Now thats deal. This deal has placed them at a unique place on the chess-board. Now they can only have certain moves specified by the pact. What have made their lives miserable, is that pact ? Rules and ecstacy don't go hand-in-hand. They are semantically opposite, although not linguistically. The simplest step forward to achieve ecstacy is, forget the sense of commodity. Now as soon as that 'deal', that 'pact' is forgotten, the shear relationship becomes enjoyable. In short, if the couple forgets that they are married they will have better orgasm than before.
Next step is to forget the sense of pawn itself. Let's align with the player, not with pawn. Forget the rules, the mom-dad has given us, the society has given us, the teachers have given us. It will let the real creations to emerge from our-own-selves, the real selves, not the commodities.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
तिलक Revisited
One fine morning I woke up only to discover that I had bad stinking breathe due to smoking and still bad mood because of what I have been drifting through-out past my life and what I am gonna drift for rest of my life. Freedom is my birth right, says some big shot in indian 'political' independence. Well what I mean is, it is not some kind of fake thing with me as it is for everyone else including the sayer himself. My thoughts, actions, attitude, habits and consciousness, everything is free. Free of social bondages and un-acknowledged dictums.
You all, don't be so snickery and your souls don't talk to you some piece of golden words as it is to me. Your society is a fake notion. Set of some forlorn people who come together to form dictums they themselves follow and expect everyone to follow. Does this make a society? No. Society is for the benefit of all. Not for alliance with some rules formed eons back. It needs to be re-furbished. Political thoughts seeks balance between commonality and individuality. US and UK are tooo individualist, so lot of concessions for people. Homosexuals/transexuals/euthanasia and such many tooo individualist stuffs are allowed there and some places like that. But not everywhere. The change is political thought. Whose benefit is it for ? Take china. The thought centralized in commonality. it lies more in commune. Nothing to do with individuals. Not even bloggin is allowed. Polity is so skeptic of its own people that it suppresses even a single ignite within its territory to the entire world, even so benign world wide web.
Here I envision, man to become society in himself. Man to be free as Tilak says, not in words, not in thoughts but indeed.
You all, don't be so snickery and your souls don't talk to you some piece of golden words as it is to me. Your society is a fake notion. Set of some forlorn people who come together to form dictums they themselves follow and expect everyone to follow. Does this make a society? No. Society is for the benefit of all. Not for alliance with some rules formed eons back. It needs to be re-furbished. Political thoughts seeks balance between commonality and individuality. US and UK are tooo individualist, so lot of concessions for people. Homosexuals/transexuals/euthanasia and such many tooo individualist stuffs are allowed there and some places like that. But not everywhere. The change is political thought. Whose benefit is it for ? Take china. The thought centralized in commonality. it lies more in commune. Nothing to do with individuals. Not even bloggin is allowed. Polity is so skeptic of its own people that it suppresses even a single ignite within its territory to the entire world, even so benign world wide web.
Here I envision, man to become society in himself. Man to be free as Tilak says, not in words, not in thoughts but indeed.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
भारतीय दर्शन का भूला बिछ्रा मार्ग
Story of alienation begins like this। Three thousand years ago, there use to be six theistic(astika) schools of Indian Philosophy, Nyay, Samkhya, Vedanta, Yoga, Mimamas, Vaiseshika. Only three are extant now, Mimamsa, Yoga and Vedanta. Reason, rest all were too metaphysical and provided no short cuts. Yoga and Vedanta have prevailed owing to great efforts from ISKCON and Swami Vivekanda. Leave Vedanta and Yoga aside, the one irrational school of thought has prevailed in every household, in every ceremony is Mimamsa. Mimamsa says, it is possible to achieve God, dispel Sorrow and reach salvation by means of Karm-Kanda i.e. some religious processing (like satyanarayan bhagwan kee Pooja Or Feast for 5 Brahmans or Visiting a Temple, atop the mountain).
One of the most logical and epistemologically rich school of thought was Samkhya। Samkhya had dualist view of the world. According to Samkhya, there exist just two things in the world, Purush (its Atman, Soul irrelevant to Gender) and Prakriti (the nature, body,॥). Prakriti is a primordial substance that metamorphoses into various other forms and shapes. Like, Earth gets converted to food we eat. Our excreta gets dissolved back to earth. Our body is just one form of prakriti. It will eventually dissolve in prakriti. It will again be primordial thick mass indistinguishable between you and me. The actual identity of the person is Purush not prakriti. His self lies in Purush, the atman. But he feels, he is, his body. He feels, he is his power, his position. The roots of sorrow are here. They are right here in the Person’s identification with prakriti. Person is unable to distinguish himself from his body that is root of all his sorrow.
Shrimad Bhagvad Geeta, makes many reference to Samkhya school of thought। But the ways and solutions provided in Samkhya are no more followed. They have been forgotten. Other short-cut, lowly schools are followed and ingrained in the thought process of future generations. Future generations tend to become smarter and logical, they started rejecting illogical processions, illogical chantings. They are misled that Indian philosophy is meager Karm-Kanda and nothing more. Time is now to rejuvenate the other less paved ways of Indian Philosophy….
One of the most logical and epistemologically rich school of thought was Samkhya। Samkhya had dualist view of the world. According to Samkhya, there exist just two things in the world, Purush (its Atman, Soul irrelevant to Gender) and Prakriti (the nature, body,॥). Prakriti is a primordial substance that metamorphoses into various other forms and shapes. Like, Earth gets converted to food we eat. Our excreta gets dissolved back to earth. Our body is just one form of prakriti. It will eventually dissolve in prakriti. It will again be primordial thick mass indistinguishable between you and me. The actual identity of the person is Purush not prakriti. His self lies in Purush, the atman. But he feels, he is, his body. He feels, he is his power, his position. The roots of sorrow are here. They are right here in the Person’s identification with prakriti. Person is unable to distinguish himself from his body that is root of all his sorrow.
Shrimad Bhagvad Geeta, makes many reference to Samkhya school of thought। But the ways and solutions provided in Samkhya are no more followed. They have been forgotten. Other short-cut, lowly schools are followed and ingrained in the thought process of future generations. Future generations tend to become smarter and logical, they started rejecting illogical processions, illogical chantings. They are misled that Indian philosophy is meager Karm-Kanda and nothing more. Time is now to rejuvenate the other less paved ways of Indian Philosophy….
Sunday, November 4, 2007
God
Either a thing exist or it exist not. Thomas Aquinas elaborates further. If a thing exist now that means at some point of time it would have existed not and at some time in future it will cease to exist again. Now for all the atheists in the world, If this world, this universe exists now, it would have been some point in past when it wouldn't have been there. If nothing existed then how could something come out of nothing. This calls for inevitability of God. If nothing exists then God prevails. The term we call nothingness or emptyness is feeling of Godliness, Divinity.
We become knowledged by perception of outside world through our senses. Through senses we create mental image of these worldly objects. So our world consists of set of these images, impressions and Ideas. In short, World is nothing but collection of these infinite ideas. Now keep subtracting your ideas, impressions and mental images from your knowledge subset, until you reach ZERO. Attainment of zero, is nothing but feeling of emptyness, feeling of nothingness, feeling of Godhood. This transition of Humanhood to Godhood is possible only by removing the curtain of knowledge and ideas.
Next step is dropping the idea of Idea itself. Dropping the idea of process of mental image formation. Dropping the idea of impressions. This will prevent us from forming any idea or mental imagery. With this nudity of knowledge, you become as nascent as a new born baby in the world. In this state, even a look at any petty object will make you feel the difference, that you have been seeing this world throgh a tainted glass of your ideas. You have been devoid of Godliness. You have been devoid of nothingness.
We become knowledged by perception of outside world through our senses. Through senses we create mental image of these worldly objects. So our world consists of set of these images, impressions and Ideas. In short, World is nothing but collection of these infinite ideas. Now keep subtracting your ideas, impressions and mental images from your knowledge subset, until you reach ZERO. Attainment of zero, is nothing but feeling of emptyness, feeling of nothingness, feeling of Godhood. This transition of Humanhood to Godhood is possible only by removing the curtain of knowledge and ideas.
Next step is dropping the idea of Idea itself. Dropping the idea of process of mental image formation. Dropping the idea of impressions. This will prevent us from forming any idea or mental imagery. With this nudity of knowledge, you become as nascent as a new born baby in the world. In this state, even a look at any petty object will make you feel the difference, that you have been seeing this world throgh a tainted glass of your ideas. You have been devoid of Godliness. You have been devoid of nothingness.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Green or Red Revolution
JMM leader and former CM of Jharkhand state, Babulal Marandi’s daughter gets killed by Naxalites. Reason is attributed to first Green revolution way back in1960s. In the population of 1000+ crores, 650 Crores gain their livelihood from agriculture. A govt of India has bare 1.27% of GDP planned for improvement in agricultural sector. Out of 650 Crores, nearly 300 Crores gain are land-less farmers and agro-labors. Past 60 years of planning has worked on technological advancements in agriculture. Technological advancements have multiplying effect on the throughput on agriculture sector. At the dawn of independence, there has been huge economic inequality in population involved in agriculture. Because of technological multiplication factor, the inequality itself has been multiplied to a larger hiatus. The rift between rich peasantry and land-less labors has increased manifold past 60 years. No wonders, more than 1/3rd of Indian territory is inflicted with Naxalism. Its com-proportionate with percentage of land-less labor.
Land reforms have never been addressed in five year plans of India. Despite Leftist involvement in NDA coalition, there is no agenda on land-reforms. Government has no plans to address distribution of land to land-less farmers, ceiling on agricultural land for rich peasants. Without these reforms, the economic rift in agricultural hoi polloi will not improve. And any advancement in technology and farming is going to accentuate the inequality. First Green revolution has been triggered in the areas of already high production and rich peasants such as Punjab, Western UP and Harayana. Partially because of immediate sorting of food sufficiency problem in India that time, or immediate high returns of investment from economic ground, or political stratagem with rich land-owners, but beneficient cycle of growth didn’t whirl to the extent expected in other regions.
I heard, there is going to Land reform committee headed by PM (Luminary PM). Let’s see how the second green revolution works out, just to keep Red revolution in Abeyance.
Land reforms have never been addressed in five year plans of India. Despite Leftist involvement in NDA coalition, there is no agenda on land-reforms. Government has no plans to address distribution of land to land-less farmers, ceiling on agricultural land for rich peasants. Without these reforms, the economic rift in agricultural hoi polloi will not improve. And any advancement in technology and farming is going to accentuate the inequality. First Green revolution has been triggered in the areas of already high production and rich peasants such as Punjab, Western UP and Harayana. Partially because of immediate sorting of food sufficiency problem in India that time, or immediate high returns of investment from economic ground, or political stratagem with rich land-owners, but beneficient cycle of growth didn’t whirl to the extent expected in other regions.
I heard, there is going to Land reform committee headed by PM (Luminary PM). Let’s see how the second green revolution works out, just to keep Red revolution in Abeyance.
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