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Comment on Dear God… by Charmcaester

Charmcaester — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:02:46 +0000

I do agree with you. We all have our own equations with everything Universal. The question is, how much does this birth identity matter as we grow up? At person level it defines every single role of our lives irrespective of what we have achieved through labour (which is sort of unfair) and at political level, it defines the power structures (particularly in India). The answer is (probably), Gods or no Gods, we need a faith to absorb unprecedented shocks, to attribute our feats to, to feel secure, to be at home in the colony of our bodies.

Comment on Dear God… by Alok Kumar

Alok Kumar — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:17:04 +0000

An honest post, I must say. I will tell you about an instant that left a deep impact on me. One day I was flipping through the newspapers, may be some 8-9 years ago. I guess it was HT. There was this column in which some Indian thought leaders were talking about spirituality and themselves.
Someone (I dunno who), wrote… “I have a personal equation with God.”
This line impacted me deeply. That day I realized how much I hated other people talking to me about their Gods, but how much I loved my own Gods. I hated it when someone would preach me about the divine feats of Lord Krishna or the amazing achievements of Lord Hanuman. Or may be I did not want to listen at all about what others thought who my God is. I got a new identity for the Gods I believed in. Yes, they were Hindu, yes they included Kali and Durga and Shiva and Vishnu, but no, they did not feature in all the epic sagas that people sang about them. My Durga did not kill Mahishashur. She could have killed any evil for that matter, and that evil could have been any buffalo or man or pig for that matter. I realized that I wanted to believe in something who’s above me, but not someone who is imposed on me. I feared the wrath of the various Hindu Gods, but I definitely knew that nobody actually understood what they actually liked, or disliked, or were. I believed that my Gods had the properties that I worshiped, not the other way round. I did create the Gods of my own, in some sense, with properties that I wanted to worship in them. So my Shiva was not that short tempered, my Kali was a wee bit more fierce and my Ganesh wasn’t actually fond of laddoos, for I knew no Pandit would know if it actually was so.
I did have a personal equation with the Gods.

I wrote this here because I can relate that HT statement with this post. You too seem to have a very personal equation with him/ her.

An honest post, indeed!

Keep believing.

Comment on The Graduation Post by Charmcaester

Charmcaester — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:31:22 +0000

Thanks a lot. And thanks.

Comment on The Graduation Post by Alok

Alok — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:28:24 +0000

We all are looking forward to your future, dear. And congrats.

Comment on A Montage by Alok

Alok — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:28:58 +0000

“Goli maar bheje mein!
Bhejaa shor karta hai!
Bheje ki sunega to marega kallooo
Maaamaaa, Kalllooo maamaaaaa…”