There was this Ex Cricketer, Lala Amarnath who in those Doordarshan days or perhaps even before, used to be in the panel of Commentators as an "Expert". His brief was to comment on the nuances of the game whilst in the course of play and at the end to give an analysis .
He would always start with the preamble "This is LA, giving you Expert Comments"!!
I honestly believe that this man was just naive without any pretense to either the knowledge of English language or any great oratory skills. He knew his Cricket period.
There are however guys who are smart and are fully confident that their verbal finery would enable them to hold forth on almost every subject on earth. These guys have a huge fan following who will gush over his grasp of the subject & the oratory brilliance. If by a stroke of bad luck they are confronted with legitimate rebuttals they quite comfortably resort to the trick of appearing "modest" without a semblance of humility. To me these guys are the ones who are so totally fascinated by the path, that they miss the goal almost completely and to stretch it further, I feel that these guys suffer from an inferiority complex which forces them to assert themselves all the time.
The more I come across these guys the more is my faith in that "all is thy will" paradigm, which I seem to be convinced, will lead me to complete "trust". Faith is the path, Trust is the goal. This exact anti-thesis of the "smart alecs" is what is "saranaagathy" in Samskrit. This surrenders willingly all pretense of "I know" paradigm in genuine humility without a trace of any complex.
Which brings to my maverick thought or is it a radical view? The word Dharma in Samskrit refers to righteous "action". Righteous action is therefore the path, & discarding all action in saranaagathy in total detachment is the final Goal in our merger with Him. The two verses in Gita, the first in chapter 2 & the second in the 18th chapter seem to suggest to me this understanding .
Is this an acceptable interpretation? Think it over folks.......
Ekalavya alias Vichu
He would always start with the preamble "This is LA, giving you Expert Comments"!!
I honestly believe that this man was just naive without any pretense to either the knowledge of English language or any great oratory skills. He knew his Cricket period.
There are however guys who are smart and are fully confident that their verbal finery would enable them to hold forth on almost every subject on earth. These guys have a huge fan following who will gush over his grasp of the subject & the oratory brilliance. If by a stroke of bad luck they are confronted with legitimate rebuttals they quite comfortably resort to the trick of appearing "modest" without a semblance of humility. To me these guys are the ones who are so totally fascinated by the path, that they miss the goal almost completely and to stretch it further, I feel that these guys suffer from an inferiority complex which forces them to assert themselves all the time.
The more I come across these guys the more is my faith in that "all is thy will" paradigm, which I seem to be convinced, will lead me to complete "trust". Faith is the path, Trust is the goal. This exact anti-thesis of the "smart alecs" is what is "saranaagathy" in Samskrit. This surrenders willingly all pretense of "I know" paradigm in genuine humility without a trace of any complex.
Which brings to my maverick thought or is it a radical view? The word Dharma in Samskrit refers to righteous "action". Righteous action is therefore the path, & discarding all action in saranaagathy in total detachment is the final Goal in our merger with Him. The two verses in Gita, the first in chapter 2 & the second in the 18th chapter seem to suggest to me this understanding .
Is this an acceptable interpretation? Think it over folks.......
Ekalavya alias Vichu
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