Let me start with wishing everybody a very happy new year 2009 in advance. I've got a competition at my office - One has to take a new resolution for the new year and the best resolution will be get awarded. I start to think what best resolution I can take so that I can get awarded and then get drifted away to many thoughts which keep revolving in my mind to divert me from research.
The world and the fate till now is very fair with me and my family. I've got a very caring parents, an elder sister - married and living happily, an elder brother - highly qualified but (perhaps) voluntarily not accepting small jobs with the sole intention to get placed in a high-profile job(and I am sure he'll make it). I've got a very good job- handsome salary, security, flexible working hours, profile of my interest(interest), many caring friends (No, I don't have gf or gfs if you suspect as I don't like 'oxford' meaning of it. Yes if you ask I do have many female friends) and many marriage proposals. So, what else I need. I really couldn't think up any resolution I should take.
And then I get a challenge me if I can prove if I can anyway differentiate myself from an animal - " Some tears can be wiped, some blood can be washed and life restarted. Indians are attuned to this routine for centuries, overcoming waves of invasion and carnages. Animals are better healed by time than medicine. Dawa se dua kabhi kabhi accha hota hain, as they say in Urdu-sometimes prayer is better than medicine. These clichés are parts of our lulling process, which we recite and go to sleep. After all, the animal must live and continue to survive. "(ref: http://maloykrishnadhar.com/do-not-wash-this-blood-do-not-wipe-this-tear-get-angry).
It badly hurts my ego of being successful figure, my self-dignity of being a respected civilised citizen, my proudness of being an Indian and last but not the least my chauvinistic view of being a 'male'. It takes away my sleep and I start searching for a single quality that can make me superior to animals except that I can be a part of fashion show as I've the choice to choose a cloth to wear.
What I did till now?? What we as Indians did till now?? Yes we've shouted slogans - we're descendents of great aryas and rishis, our culture is the best... blah blah but ever we tried to protect the values of those established by them? Did we ever tried live or even understand the culture, the spirituality, the religion whom we've often found talking? We followed and worshiped Rama, Krishna, Buddha etc by different-different names but never cared to imbibe a single quality of them. We never understood the basic philosophy of Indian religion that one can reach the status of God if one starts adopting Godly qualities though we worshiped Gyaneshwar, Tukaram, Ramkrishna Paramhansa, Vivekanand, Sai baba, Samarth Guru Ramdas etc.
We often went in front of God idols with new demands every time (mostly by bribing him). What if the God demands something from us - Our courage, our examples, our actions to prove that greatness of God?
'Action speaks louder than words' and it has been repeated loudly many times through many verses, in many versions, by many examples but still it is practised in words only. May be I've got a good point to take resolution. I'll try to understand the core values of spirituality to the limit of my mind and boost the inner-self, with self-confidence so that it I can stand against undesired in whatever way. I'll conquer 'lust and gold' to the extent possible without renouncing the world, and prove the greatness of my God, my Guru, whom I belief through example of mine. I'll make awake the God inside me.
I also pray my God to punish me if I ever deviate from my resolution.
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