I was thinking.....While coming back from school, though we are tired to the core still the only thing which we think is when we go out to play with friends. After time passes and this time we are coming from college, no matter how tired we are, we still think how much better can the night be made. When we are in working age, we are in no mood to think about anything else but work, work and work.
In all this we are also bitten by this insect of Technology, luxury, iphones, Macs, PCs and communicators, which we proudly use. In all the hoch poch of the activities going on around us, the situation virtually poses as if no one has time for anything else.
But then there is this one person who is residing within all of us. The guy, which in a way makes us complete. The 100% purity that resides in us is the insider. Its the hidden person who basically knows what we dont even realise in our daily lives. This guys comes out in regular intervals and at that time we really become completely ourselve. All of a sudden a sense of belonging enters us, a sense of responsibility gets into us...its actually not coming from outside from within us, already residing.
I happened to browse the internet, when I came across this blog called "Jana Gana Mana", this blog made that guy inside me come out, as it is the frequency of him coming out has increased, but, I am thankful to the blogger, who seems absolutely clear about his concepts and the opinions seem to be showing us what I didnt realise. Reading that blog, I felt a sense of guilt inside me. I felt, that somewhere whatever we feel as proud citizens of the country, all goes in vain, if we dont know what our National Anthem is all about.
That time I realised the guy within me coming out. Thats the person who made me feel what I should know and now the guilt is gone as I know what it really means. But it doenst just stop here. According to me, National Anthem is all about knowing your country, and just not singing without knowing what it means. Its equally true that inspite of not knowing the meaning of it, we still get a wierd feeling when the National Anthem is on. Thats when, the guy within us is awake!! We are complete at that time. At our purest!!
I started writing down whatever came to my mind on my Laptop and also stuck a post on the bolg "Jana Gana Mana" with sheer feeling of joy that the person in me was awake. Believe me, you never feel purer!!
National Anthem is the first and foremost things to know about if we want ourselves to be called IN-dian!! And NO...no one needs to be educated, or economically advanced or only of the "creamy layers" to know. The IN-dian in me and all of us which resides inside needs to come out.
In the outset of many mails being circulated and things talked about here also about the "Jana Gana Mana" being written for the king who was to visit India. My common sense doesnt allow me to believe in that stuff because firstly the if we buy the fact then i guess the meaning/interpretation talks more about the nation than the so called ruler, and if we go by what the english people were, they would have hated it to the core for the kind of treatment they had been giving us and what kind of people they thought they were. For an anthem to be written for the king, they would need 90% mention of the king and may be 5% of the country, but in our case its totally inverse. So I guess I would disagree on that fact that these set of lines were written for the king. We as so called responsible citizens of India should really understand what we really need to be in order to be even become eligible to be called "Responsible". People talk about big things...but I guess all our efforts would remain incomplete if we fail to recognise its basic criteria. I mean people dont even know the meaning of what they say, follow or do and just blindly do it, thats why they say that our country is so prone to falling to others because we make our own enemies in the name of all these things, and others took undue advantage of us, like the English people did. Its rather a thing to feel guilty that a set of people and a country of a size of one of our states, comes and rules us and continued to do it for a period more than a century.People should realise that our National Anthem is one set of lines which consists of every and I say every part of our country, I guess that covers everyone and thats what Really India is all about!! An Example of secularism and Democracy. The People!! The Republic!! and Our Minds!! this is what all JANA GANA MANA is all about and should be as clear as possible. All for one nation and ONE Nation for ALL!!
In all the hoch poch of the working culture and time bars and Virtual world existances and out of the heavy routines that we are always in, whenever we hear or say the National Anthem, there is always a strange feeling in our minds, goosebumps, face upright. This is that feelign which many people dont realise what it is but they sure feel it!! Everyone of us does. Whether it is in our School annual functions, the 26th or 15th or even at the beginning of a movie in a swanky multiplex. Answer this....why do you feel irritated, when we see someone sitting while the national anthem is going on?? Thats coz we want everyone of us here to be proud of our Anthem. But whats the sense in feeling proud if we dont know the meaning of what we are saying...so be it...its never too late...Its high time we sow the seeds.
What brings us all together is nothing but only this feeling of being one!! Thats why it is called " NATIONAL ANTHEM"...it is called "JANA GANA MANA"....All for one ONE for all!! Lets bring the guy OUT in order to feel IN-dian "Jaya he"!! JAI HIND!!
Sorry it might be gone long way....but dont we get carried away...when this wierd feeling comes in us??
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Of Gods, Parents and Perspectives - Right Perpectives, if we are in the Right Hands!!
The very reason why we, are what we are at our own places, is due to those people who are responsible for our physical as well as mental being. We are creatures due to our creators!! From Chromosomes to "life-o-somes", the feeling of being an existant part of this world, I can say "I" because of these people, PARENTS!!
Everyone has their own percerption of GOD. The very first thought that might have created God in our minds or in the whole wide world is the probable reason that GOD is the creator of this whole world. We make this statement, even after being just one of the n number of creatures and things, whether living or non-living, in this big place. Our source of creation is only limited to one stage above us, though the main source is always carried from one generation to other. The so called "Generation" in itself tells us what it means. What I mean to say here is, perspective!! GOD, the creator for us, is in PARENTS. Lets be practical, the cause of our existance is coz of the creator!! Some deem it as GOD, I call them MOM n DAD!!
Life makes us pass thru all such ages, from adolescent age to back to "stone" age. This is a natural cycle ofcourse!! The time before and after these two ages respectively is the time which is not in our control. But what is in our control is the time between it. In this time, everyone has their own view of how to spend their time. Ofcourse all this, somehow depends on how we have been taught, as to how should we be spending it. The matter is not spending but HOW we are spending it. Now, again, here comes a very subjective factor on each and every person's mind. Everyone have their own set of rules and ways to live lives, in the end, what matters is how happy we have been spending this time.
These "set of rules" are formed as a result of the moulds that we are put in when we are growing. So a lot depends on what kind of shape we get in, by the time we get our own lives in our own hands. Perpective again comes in, here!! Actually, perpective is always there... For some, it is the same trend that will be followed which is exisiting, for some trend means something which is to be set "afresh" (either for the sake of it, with due respect to it, or due to disagreement), this goes on for every Generation. Thats why even a trend is said to be "Generated", and so the a new GENERATION is formed, to carry its own ways to live, forward!
For this whole cycle to start running, the main factor is our "derivation". The very ability of creating rules for ourselves, setting trends, living Life, and stuff, comes from the derivation, defnition, set in us by our PARENTS!! But, PARENTS are not the only ones who give us birth, PARENTS are our potters!! they are the ones who mould us into what we end up in!! No matter how much we vary from being what we were supposed to be, our BIOS settings are the same. Our genes are the same, our engines are the same!! A Maruti can be modified into a merc or vice versa by changes in the body, but what remains inside is somewhere the same. Noone can become either.
Then there are some types who defy what i said, they never are the persons, they were supposed to be, thats because, the potter was some other source. In our Society, PARENTS are meant to be the biological parents who have the ultimate responsibility to bring us up. But, its not always like that. The upbringing is not only by the parents but also by the surrounding. Everyone have their brains to think, to conclude, to form opinions, one breach in the firewall of our systems and there goes the virus!! The breach is somewhere not the responsibility of the PARENTS, but its the other PARENTS, who do this. Soceity as it is called, has a good and also has a bad side, where good is difficult to inculcate but the success in the end, and BAD is the easiest to get it into us but Worst in the end. This is what normally our PARENTS mould us into, the ability to identify things on our own, as to what is good and what is bad.
AGAIN comes PERSPECTIVE!! What is good, is not necessarily good for u, and same in the case of BAD. So there is the root cause of people having distinct identities. Not only do we look different than each other but also think different than each other. The "Chemical Locha" in our minds is the most advanced system that even we havent been able to explore fully till now. But for the part that we know, we surely have to accept one thing, OUR PARENTS are the ones from whom we learn to actually have a PERSPECTIVE, in the first place.
All those people who have never been even close to their parents due to their PERSPECTIVES have to accept one fact that the ability of disagreeing and having a perpective has been sown by their own parents.
For me GOD means "Source of inspiration". For me Parents mean "Source of inspiration", PARENTS are my GOD!! May sound like an exaggeration, but in this time where everything is seen from the angle of Convenience, this definition of mine would be applicable in any era and times.
I can say - I am What I am!! only because someone taught me the meaning of "I". My PARENTS!!
Everyone has their own percerption of GOD. The very first thought that might have created God in our minds or in the whole wide world is the probable reason that GOD is the creator of this whole world. We make this statement, even after being just one of the n number of creatures and things, whether living or non-living, in this big place. Our source of creation is only limited to one stage above us, though the main source is always carried from one generation to other. The so called "Generation" in itself tells us what it means. What I mean to say here is, perspective!! GOD, the creator for us, is in PARENTS. Lets be practical, the cause of our existance is coz of the creator!! Some deem it as GOD, I call them MOM n DAD!!
Life makes us pass thru all such ages, from adolescent age to back to "stone" age. This is a natural cycle ofcourse!! The time before and after these two ages respectively is the time which is not in our control. But what is in our control is the time between it. In this time, everyone has their own view of how to spend their time. Ofcourse all this, somehow depends on how we have been taught, as to how should we be spending it. The matter is not spending but HOW we are spending it. Now, again, here comes a very subjective factor on each and every person's mind. Everyone have their own set of rules and ways to live lives, in the end, what matters is how happy we have been spending this time.
These "set of rules" are formed as a result of the moulds that we are put in when we are growing. So a lot depends on what kind of shape we get in, by the time we get our own lives in our own hands. Perpective again comes in, here!! Actually, perpective is always there... For some, it is the same trend that will be followed which is exisiting, for some trend means something which is to be set "afresh" (either for the sake of it, with due respect to it, or due to disagreement), this goes on for every Generation. Thats why even a trend is said to be "Generated", and so the a new GENERATION is formed, to carry its own ways to live, forward!
For this whole cycle to start running, the main factor is our "derivation". The very ability of creating rules for ourselves, setting trends, living Life, and stuff, comes from the derivation, defnition, set in us by our PARENTS!! But, PARENTS are not the only ones who give us birth, PARENTS are our potters!! they are the ones who mould us into what we end up in!! No matter how much we vary from being what we were supposed to be, our BIOS settings are the same. Our genes are the same, our engines are the same!! A Maruti can be modified into a merc or vice versa by changes in the body, but what remains inside is somewhere the same. Noone can become either.
Then there are some types who defy what i said, they never are the persons, they were supposed to be, thats because, the potter was some other source. In our Society, PARENTS are meant to be the biological parents who have the ultimate responsibility to bring us up. But, its not always like that. The upbringing is not only by the parents but also by the surrounding. Everyone have their brains to think, to conclude, to form opinions, one breach in the firewall of our systems and there goes the virus!! The breach is somewhere not the responsibility of the PARENTS, but its the other PARENTS, who do this. Soceity as it is called, has a good and also has a bad side, where good is difficult to inculcate but the success in the end, and BAD is the easiest to get it into us but Worst in the end. This is what normally our PARENTS mould us into, the ability to identify things on our own, as to what is good and what is bad.
AGAIN comes PERSPECTIVE!! What is good, is not necessarily good for u, and same in the case of BAD. So there is the root cause of people having distinct identities. Not only do we look different than each other but also think different than each other. The "Chemical Locha" in our minds is the most advanced system that even we havent been able to explore fully till now. But for the part that we know, we surely have to accept one thing, OUR PARENTS are the ones from whom we learn to actually have a PERSPECTIVE, in the first place.
All those people who have never been even close to their parents due to their PERSPECTIVES have to accept one fact that the ability of disagreeing and having a perpective has been sown by their own parents.
For me GOD means "Source of inspiration". For me Parents mean "Source of inspiration", PARENTS are my GOD!! May sound like an exaggeration, but in this time where everything is seen from the angle of Convenience, this definition of mine would be applicable in any era and times.
I can say - I am What I am!! only because someone taught me the meaning of "I". My PARENTS!!
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