Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
So I heard it say... Love is here to stay how is it then that war happens murder pacifies suicide nurtures robbery gratifies who loves.. Is it the child.. Who is a child.. an ignorant being A reckless soul.. A demanding attention seeking helpless lore We have to pamper Bear the misdemeanour We have to be patient Wait till the child is senescent An Adult.. Still Ignorant Still Reckless Still demanding ..attention seeking Waring.. murdering.. robbing.. Hurting beloved ones.. An Adult.. We love .. so we pamper.. we are patient... So I heard it say... Love is here to stay... Yet again I ask... Who loves? Should I ask.. what is love...?
Assuming an unborn child is closest to God. .. really believing there is a god. Add to that the hope that children can debate with god ... and I can already see my mind sinking into an abyss of hopelessness...
While in the womb, if we do have any consciousness and or soul as is widely believed in theology... what would we ask of God? Wrong question again, What would God ask of us.. mortals...
GOD : "Have you read the "Terms and Conditions" of Being Born carefully ??"
If only we hadn't been so acutely lathargic so as to blindly right check the box in the form and proceed towards ejection, there could be some sense in what we do ... or to put it as expected.. how we live.
Terms & Conditions : Investments are subject to morality risk Please read the offer document carefully.
A - Following is restricted only for human being born (here after referred to as you/your) and are within the age of 5 and below :
1 Concerns regarding food. beverages, medication, physical training activities are outsourced & are strictly under the supervision of the third party (here after referred to as Parents).
1.1 If you don't like to do what you are expected (eat, drink etc), you can only cry, wail, shriek about it. It may or may not be useful...
1.2 You can defaecate or urinate as you feel. Responsibility of your hygiene is again with the third party (parents). You can throw tantrums (cry, wail, shriek) or speak and convey your situation.
2 The creator of your life (here after referred to as God) is not responsible for the performance of the third party to check if you are being beaten or pampered when you throw your tantrums.Hence you are warned already, further inquiries in this regard will not be entertained.
2.1 Despite the warning if repeated complaints are piled at the Processing Center (Heaven), the investments made during the tenure of contract (here after referred to as Life) will be passed over to probation center (Hell).
2.2 Your future endeavors may suffer. Success may be elusive. So don't bother God. Bother Parents.
2.3 God will not be accountable for the procedures of recovery in hell and cannot be liable for any actions thereafter.
3 You are exempted from any monetary penalization upon willful damage / destruction of objects including walls, cloths, crockery, toys (unlimited category).
3.1 Parents are liable for the expense of the damage.
3.2 Parents have the authority to determine the severity of your actions and can therefore do as they please with you.
3.3 Some countries have government officials who can check the actions of parents and deem them fit or unfit. If unfit, you may or may not be given to an alternative parenting department.
3.4 God is exempted from looking into the affairs of the third party (Refer 2), therefore seeking intervention of Govt. officials, their actions and the consequences on your Life is not within the jurisdiction of God. Advised to read 2.1 & 2.2 for more details.
B - Following is restricted only for human being born (here after referred to as you/your) and are in the age range of 5 and above :
4 Once age of 5 is crossed, your scale of investment towards heaven would solely be determined by your ability to appease the third party (Parents).
4.1 Parents disappointed with respect to your academics, social behavior, physical features,strength & ability,choice of occupation, sexual preferences, spouse, choice of your residency, how you wish to bring up your children, habits, dreams, ambitions, possessions and or anything which you believe is yours alone is a bad venture which will surely be settled in Hell.
4.2 Absolute compliance towards parent's whims & fancies is a mandate if after life security is sought in Heaven. Refer 2 & 3 for more details.
4.3 Your age, achievements, maturity, wants, needs so on and so forth is irrelevant as long as the third party (Parents) assigned for your tenure of contract (Life) is still valid and capable of breathing. You shall always be the child till the parent is alive.
5 You can argue, debate or disown the third party.
5.1 This might accelerate your life towards perdition. Refer to 4.
5.2 There can be some lag time in which you can choose to separate and later reconcile with the Parents. In which case, there may be some leniency towards clause 4. This is strictly subjective and will be settled on a case wise analysis.
6. If and when you become eligible toward employment with god (Be Parents), all of the above clauses are still applicable. Refer 4.1
7. If you are unsuccessful in life, be it academics, job, spouse, wealth, health basically in anything.. it could be due to your failure of adherence towards the warning in Clause 2. Therefore, clause 4 and 5 can help overcoming the issues. All in all, it is all your actions which will yield the results. Don't bother God.
8. Actions like charity towards the needy, donations towards shrines, rituals and ceremonies are directly productive towards making Your Parents happy first and then the rest of the parents across the world. So do not be misled that it has go to do anything directly with God. Refer 4.
9. Sacrifice and Compromise are the only two holy words needed to reach heaven.
10. Hell is not such a bad place. It is only ill interpreted. Here is the divine interpretation :
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them." -- Oscar Wilde
Just recently, myself... a cosy urban
Indian, felt besieged by yet another series of "Breaking News"
.... multitude of riots and mass murders ...overwhelming sights of
humanity being ravaged in relief camps... Indians v/s Bangladeshis,
North East woes, Maharashtra v/s UP – Bihar... Coal Scams .... 2G
scams.. BJP – Congress... Anna Camp ...
Sitting at home .. watching the world
go by in a blur in the confined television screen... all I could
really think of doing was changing the channels to find some
sanity...The Chalta Hai..Hota Hai.. attitude is what truly defines
the Aamchi Mumbai spirit... 7 years ago, Mumbai was flooded and it's
still a date to reckon with..... 26/7. This piece of news garnered
the highest TRPs as we saw double deck buses flooded and scores of
people sinking and swimming across the roads...amidst sewage water..
I was home... wondering what it must be like... thanking god for not
being stranded on the streets... feeling bad for others and also
there was the devil's joy of being only a mere recipient of ill fated
news where all you need to do is show some empathy even if you don't
really feel it.
It becomes a mutual cord of
anti-incumbency ... point of discussion and debate... especially on
national television.
I had the privilege of witnessing this
first hand on Monday (Sept 3, 2012) as the city found itself in
similar deluge. Flooded Roads. Traffic Massacre and people as usual
.... CHILLED OUT!!!...
Started from Marol ...got onto a bus at
6 pm ish... Took almost an hour to just travel 4 km and then jammed
in the traffic for another hour... got down, hitched a bike ride from
an absolute stranger ... winding through the murky flooding lanes of
Jari Mari Road...towards Kurla... Bike too reached a point of
standstill and after that it was on foot for over 2 hours that I
witnessed the carnival.
Water levels waist deep, open shops
with floating packets of chips and what not... small kids trying to
bucket out the water tirelessly and pointlessly from their homes..
women and children all huddled. Saw an old man sitting over a table
top... smiling and chatting... the tranquility on his face! for them
its just another day... a typical monsoon Mumbai day....
For all those worriers of Hindu Muslim
divide.... this was a sight to relish... for hundreds of Muslims were
out on the streets (That area being predominantly of Islamic
demography) ... guiding the stranded pedestrians through potholes and
open man holes and construction sites ... shortest routes... serving
potable water....biscuits etc... all while it's pouring...
While I saw this.. all that came to my
mind is... why are these people even out? Shouldn't they be in their
homes.. they have the very option, the very choice to do so. They
don't really need to suffer the assault on their senses unlike the
other commuters. I would have slept in the cushion of my home for all
I know. Selfless and undying efforts from young boys and elders alike
for so many hours. How did it matter who's worships whom!
Mumbai... it has never stopped living
.... I did learn more in that one day than in my whole
insignificant life .... the fact that my body can endure so much...
the obviousness of ignoring all that's unnecessary like ... walking
through sewage water which contains the entire city's defecated
matter.... the ability to trust blindly....to walk with strangers
hand in hand...to respect people of all sect and admit their bravery
and skillsets.. that those who have almost nothing can still oblige
you so much....
If anything, I hope my rendezvous with
the city at its most demanding hour has made me a more acceptable
human being... and more believing ... a person whose faith is
restored....
