From a past few days, I'm hooked to Mahabharata - The TV series, which had charmed the whole nation in the 90s. Since I was a li'l kid then, I hadn't watched the series from the beginning and had watched it only in bits and pieces. Recently, I got to know that a friend of mine had the whole series with him, so I persuaded him to lend me that and finally got it. I have been watching it whenever I have free time. Since I fell ill this week, I couldn't go to college either. So I was free through out the day and hence I started watching it continuously! :D
I have come towards the climax now where the turn-of-the-century war in Kurukshetra has Finally begun! All the great warriors have blown their conch and have signalled the start. Now, all of a sudden, the greatest warrior, Arjuna is in a dilemma as to fight the battle or not, because all those warriors who are his opponents are none other than his dearest Grandfather, Guru, and cousins. He feels ashamed of himself as he is there today to kill those people only for the sake of a piece of earth! how selfish is that! and so, he asks his charioteer, Lord Krishna as to what he should do and thus the Great Lord imparts the ever-true message, The Gita!
As I watched this, I remembered reading the Gita sometime ago. So beautiful is the Bhagavad Gita and of course the greatest work - The Mahabharata which contains this holy scripture, which has such simple yet profound values and all those incidents with such truthful messages that, if adopted in life make our lives so meaningful and devoid of sorrows. We have the answer for all our questions in this great work and yet we don't take the effort of reading and understanding it! Arjuna asks all those questions to the Lord which may arise in every man's mind and the Lord answers all of them so well that it leaves behind no doubt in Arjuna's mind. Here as we all know, Arjuna is the one who symbolises of all of us and Lord Krishna states the ultimate truth to us. If you may observe, The Holy Gita is the only holy scripture that was born in such a dramatic scenario! No other holy scripture has had such an interesting start.
Watching this series had a very wonderful effect on me! It got me thinking about the wonderful way of life, the culture, the protocol, the mannerisms, the system of education, politics and every aspect of life that was so systematic and meaningful! All this conveys to us that the Sanathana Dharma (Hinduism) is not a mere religion, but a Way of Life! So vast and deep is this Dharma that subsumes every aspect of the human life. Today there are various religions in the world. One religion says that God has no form, other says He has a definite form, yet another says God is nothing but Fire or Energy and so on. But in Hinduism there is place for every theory and every form of worship because it believes that ultimately there is only one God and just like the way every river finally merges with the ocean, similarly every soul has to finally reach the God may it follow any stream! How generous is this concept and how tolerant!!
Today we see many fundamentalists who proclaim themselves to be the Protectors of this vast religion, trying to whittle it down into a narrow minded creed! Real Hindu is the one who believes in the beautiful concept of "Live and Let Live". Hinduism can proudly say that it is the only religion which has never attempted at "conversion" of people from other religion into it's fold. In fact there is no ritual in this Dharma as such, which signifies "conversion"!! It is a matter of great pride to call myself a "Hindu" today as that term stands for such wonderful and sublime meanings!
Therefore, I'm glad and proud to be a Hindu! (By saying "proud", I don't mean to be arrogant, but try to be a real Hindu who believes in the noble concept of "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam") :) And this article is just a tiny and humble tribute to the greatest Dharma!
Om Tat Sat
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Sunday, August 01, 2010
We never like what we have and never have what we like!
I'm sure all of you have heard this statement a lot of times. Mostly by our elders or parents, whenever they see us crib about something. All these pearls of wisdom sound like dry philosophy till we experience those things ourselves and start lecturing about it to others who think the same that we thought before realising the truth!!
Why I'm saying this now is because, right now I'm in the final year of my Law. In a year from now, I'd either be hunting for a job or if I'm fortunate enough, would have landed a job! (The college in which I study doesn't have a Placement Cell, so the burden is on our shoulders to find a job!) I'm unfortunate when it comes to the batch that I have. It's a very dull batch and people ain't friendly either. There are only 2-3 people whom I can confidently call my Friends! Right from Day 1 of this course, I have been wanting to get out of college and start working. (Not that I'm too impatient to start working and earn a great name, but mainly coz of the wonderful batch that I've got. The thought of being with them for 5 long years was very depressing, yet I've managed to survive till now!! It's been a very boring and tedious journey).
Though I haven't had a very exciting college life, I wouldn't want it to end! I'm not lucky enough like you guys who had a great batch and good friend gang, :) but still I have had the leisure to do what I wished to do and I always had my school friends with whom I could hang out. I wouldn't want to lose out on that!
Most of my old friends had taken up Engineering. (that seems to be the norm now-a-days. Nothing against them though!! Have got some great help from these guys whenever I've had a problem with my lappy, free of cost!! ;) And all of them are great friends :) ) Since their course is for 4 years, all of them finished their education this year and have started working!! It's a very nice feeling to see all my friends stand on their own feet! :) When I see them, that urge of getting away from my batch and start working becomes stronger and also feel good that this is the last year! But still, a part of me doesn't want this to end!!
In legal profession, they use 2 statements very often while talking abt exercising an indivuals' rights to the detriment of others. It goes like this: You cannot beat hot and cold at the same time/You cannot have the cake and eat it too. I feel, these statements hold good not only to the legal scenario but also in general to the human longing. In my case it would be the leisurely college life and the work. In your case, something else!
So, we never have what we like and never like what we have AND we can't have all luxuries simulataneously in life!! :) Do you agree?!
Why I'm saying this now is because, right now I'm in the final year of my Law. In a year from now, I'd either be hunting for a job or if I'm fortunate enough, would have landed a job! (The college in which I study doesn't have a Placement Cell, so the burden is on our shoulders to find a job!) I'm unfortunate when it comes to the batch that I have. It's a very dull batch and people ain't friendly either. There are only 2-3 people whom I can confidently call my Friends! Right from Day 1 of this course, I have been wanting to get out of college and start working. (Not that I'm too impatient to start working and earn a great name, but mainly coz of the wonderful batch that I've got. The thought of being with them for 5 long years was very depressing, yet I've managed to survive till now!! It's been a very boring and tedious journey).
Though I haven't had a very exciting college life, I wouldn't want it to end! I'm not lucky enough like you guys who had a great batch and good friend gang, :) but still I have had the leisure to do what I wished to do and I always had my school friends with whom I could hang out. I wouldn't want to lose out on that!
Most of my old friends had taken up Engineering. (that seems to be the norm now-a-days. Nothing against them though!! Have got some great help from these guys whenever I've had a problem with my lappy, free of cost!! ;) And all of them are great friends :) ) Since their course is for 4 years, all of them finished their education this year and have started working!! It's a very nice feeling to see all my friends stand on their own feet! :) When I see them, that urge of getting away from my batch and start working becomes stronger and also feel good that this is the last year! But still, a part of me doesn't want this to end!!
In legal profession, they use 2 statements very often while talking abt exercising an indivuals' rights to the detriment of others. It goes like this: You cannot beat hot and cold at the same time/You cannot have the cake and eat it too. I feel, these statements hold good not only to the legal scenario but also in general to the human longing. In my case it would be the leisurely college life and the work. In your case, something else!
So, we never have what we like and never like what we have AND we can't have all luxuries simulataneously in life!! :) Do you agree?!
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