Ponderable pieces

Mahabharatha etc quotes

There is this story in the Mahabharatha. King Yudhistir along with other pandava brothers while strolling over the city comes across a poor man who asks for alms. King Yudhister asks him to come to the royal court the next day.

Bheem starts laughing on hearing this, and when queried by the king as to the reason for this, the former answers that he was just amazed at the king being absolutely sure of being alive the next day by even overcoming the Lord of death, if he were to come and present himself.

My take from this story? The moment the thought of giving away springs up, one should not waste time deciding when, or whether it deserves etc. The latter part especially the determining of the need for giving only to the deserving may really not qualify for being termed “charity” seems another point to note. Let me however pass this debate and come to the point I wanted to make namely that if one wants to share some good thought, he/she should just “do it” Nike style.

The face-book and twitters are perhaps serving this cause beautifully and quite contrarily to my discomfort when I see today’s gen-next chatting away merrily for hours in these two great sites!!! I wonder if I have to become “website savvy” to be able to chat. But then our blog-site seemed a good enough platform for pouring out more thoughts without wasting time like may be Yudhister?!! Here I go therefore folks…..

Anand has said something about the Avadhutha Gita being very famous to Gujaratis, and he would be keen on more. I would take this literally and seriously and today’s piece will take a piece from this to start with. The first sloka in the fifth Chapter goes like this.

“The word “OM” is like the sky, it is not the discernment of the essence of high and low. How can there be an enunciation of the point of the word “OM” which annuls the manifestation of the un-manifest”.

The author’s explanatory note:

The word “OM” is so enunciated that the last letter “m” ends as it were in an inaudible sound. This represents the transcendental aspect of reality and is called a “bindu”. Since the point of “OM” represents the transcendental, its realization negates all relative realities.

Let me get away from this profound advaitha treatises and take a quote from another epic “adhyathma Ramayan” which is more poignant. The scene is Ayodhya, Rama has been banished to the forests, Bharath goes visiting Kousalya who is inconsolable with grief. She is fully aware of Bharath’s unblemished and selfless love for Lord Rama. She tells Bharath thus:

“After having the “vidhaatha” Himself born unto me as my son, isn’t it my terrible “vidhi” (fate) that I should be deprived of His Company. Indeed it is clear that fate is stronger than the “vidhaatha” Himself”.

(The word vidhaatha is one who decides your vidhi was my initial thought. Going by this even Vidhaatha seems helpless when your fate is bad or at times like this kali yuga when even the Vidhaatha seems to be clueless or unable to predict the course of events. Where is then succor for tormented minds like me, or similar minded going to come from?) A point worth mulling over or is it better to join the gang of “kandathe kaatchi kondathe kolum” (a crude translation: whatever you see is the real scene, and whatever role you assume is the real role ….) Think it over……….

The pieces of the last few days, to my belief seem as good starters for me to get into more heavy pieces sooner than later. Hopefully I should be able to sustain, and you will all be there for help.

Love

Vichu