Misunderstanding

Misunderstanding is not just a slip or failure to understand things in the right direction, but an invitation to the reconciling, compromising and negotiating table. It gives a chance to turn the table around and look at the issue from the other's perspective.

Once you realize there has been a sort of gap in the understanding between the two companions/partners in a relationship of any composition, it is the right time to take a call and, if need be, resort to the help of a mediator who is acceptable to both. In the absence of such an aid, you be the reason for reconciliation rather than repugnance. Take the first step towards better understanding of each other and try to be the ice-breaker yourself. To be so, the first and the foremost requirement is to humble oneself and chip-off the sharp edges of SELF in you and smoothen oneself as the pebble that has experienced the grind on its way to polished shine.

Turning a blind eye and a deaf ear and behaving like an ostrich is again nothing but reluctance towards reformation. Varied levels of language competency and lack of familiarity with the shades of meaning of the words used in a conversation also can lead to unwarranted situations of mis-understanding.

When you stand in the dock, being victimized by misunderstanding, it becomes a bit too much to take the initiative. But, this exactly is where you need to show the nerves and stand out to make the difference.

Sure, it demands a lot from you when misunderstanding wells-up from the most unexpected corners on the silliest and  the most untraceable of reasons. 

Or, if you are bent deliberately on creating misunderstanding with the purpose of escaping from the other for reasons that you wish to keep undivulged, the blemish is yours.

Making a mountain out of a mole, which usually is a byproduct of misunderstanding, is destructive an activity, causing irrecoverable damage to the individual in question and awarding him/her sleepless nights and nightmarish days.

Again, hold on as there is hope left. Often it is seen that there is a serene building-up of better tomorrows even after a devastating storm.

It may be true of some, to tonsure the head, renounce the world and be an ascetic in retaliation to the stormy developments in life. But, most people, do go through similar experiences while being part of this demanding world as they cannot ignore their humane responsibilities towards the society at large. If someone says to you, " You are a dumb-head",  are you there to be one? No dear...never.  If someone says to you what you speak is rubbish or what you  write is verbiage, are you there to stop speaking or writing ? No dear ....never. Remarks and instances in these similar lines often prove to be the causes, catalysts or manifestations of misunderstanding even among the well-read.

Incarnations were many, but the world remains the same. So, no more sanyass, no more vaanaprasth; but be in the world and face-come what may.

You know you never intend to create fissures in the much adorable, socially and religiously established relationships of human society- and if on the contrary, someone accuses you of trying for the such, trust yourself and stand firm-footed; you are innocent. Pray for them that the heavens may open-up their minds and help them see things in the right light.

Understand the misunderstanding and help everyone to rethink.

Signs of the Times

                            

 Signs of the Times 

I do feel strongly that humankind is fast heading towards its own doom. Have a look at inter personal relationships. Societies, communities & civilizations at large are fast getting vanished due to various identity crises. Universal citizenship and similar ideas sound well when heard superficially. The energy exchange taking place within the human brain overflows in the form of positive transactions of greater intensity than ever before and often times in the negative as well. Hyperactive kids and other forms of prodigies are more than common in recent years. Aren't the kids of the times super-emotional in its extremes?

Prominent scientist Stephen Hawking says, developing artificial intelligence will erase human race in the course of time, as the speed of human evolution is slower when compared to the speed of destabilization of artificial intelligence. Once unleashed, the man made intelligence goes out of human control and the degeneration and destabilization of this intelligence becomes more than impossible. Terminator series of movies will no more remain science fiction but a reality.

The signs of the times are witness to this. Human relations have degenerated to use and throw levels. Selfish motives rule the world. Living within the four walls of a cut-off flat and accessing the outer world just through the finger tips, makes Tom not only a vegetable mass but demoniac in his thought processes too. He assumes proportions that were never known before. 

No matter how highly placed; there exists a kind of vacuum in the lives of men and women. What touches and moves the heart are those sad strains which have the themes melancholy, deserted love, emptiness of the world and its affairs, hollow human relations, and selfish motives that govern the moves of individuals. Sorrow seems to be increasingly at the base of all existence. People yearn to go back to the days of the past. Hatred spews the venom all over. No end to greed. Love and related sacred sentiments are fast vanishing. The 'bright' and the 'intelligent' of the day do not understand the simple facts about human existence. The miffed and intolerant individual is trying to vilify and defame the other out there, playing the game of shifting the blame and ready to grease the palms of the highly placed for petty recognition and shallow gains. Euphemistic ravings surround his empty soul! Serendipity favors the theatrics of the whimsical educational masqueraders.

Often the one who sits so close to you proves the traitor. Individuals share common platforms and cozily purr to you showing allegiance. Brutus is not too far away but very close to you. Most likely the closest one stabs you, back-stabs you and your fall is inevitable. You too....!!! 

The poorest is the elitist of all creation. He feels for the other as he upholds that money is man-made.

There isn't a single individual who mustn't have wept and shed some secret tears. Everyone has a secret, private cause of grief. Life sometimes seems so beautiful and we wish to live hundreds of it. There comes tough times when you fall prey to others' villainy, greed and jealousy. When people whom you trust for no reasons, but just because they are human (in appearance), probably you are mistaken. They take you to task and strike unexpectedly, at an hour when you least expect it. You will find yourself, to your own great surprise, standing at the wrong side of the table, confused, perturbed, weeping and begging for pardon from the evil one. You are questioned for the wrongs committed by the wicked. "Forgive them Oh Father, for they don't know what they do", the Man on the Cross could pray this. I wish I too could pray the same. Be on your guard as long as you are just normal human wielding common powers. The wretched are awake!!  

Whither is gone the sheen of human beings? Behold the man! Where is the man? Evolution of human race is fast approaching a full circle. We have hundreds of people around us, just to say an unfeeling "hi", but nothing beyond. Are we growing or ceasing to be humans?

We Shall Overcome "Someday!"

We Shall Overcome "Someday!"

We live in a money driven and only money driven society. It is absurd of you to search for genuine humanness and fraternity.

Religions and gurus teach you of ways to reach the absolute. But the religious philosophies that teach you of annihilation of the enemy but not to love your enemy too, can never bring in the sentiments of eternal peace and universal brotherhood. Brotherhood is something that melts the barriers of enmity. As long as living babas and ashrams of love charging and money making cults take front stage, and all political denominations take sides of convenience with them, India will remain a pagan state where castrations, murders and rapes are rated as "acts of heroism".

Where monetary benefits and pleasures of the lower senses rule the helm, people are likely to remain BPL,that you may have chances infinite to woo them as your political vote banks. A place where the so called educated doctors and bureaucrats function as the spokespersons of fraud god men, education announces itself castrated and the political will of the nation's rulers gets into a state of being rendered a hermaphrodite.

Money wrestles its way through the essence of humanity. Political manipulation of the religious sentiments adds to the escalation of power in the hands of heathen religious monsters. A country of such a great manpower must learn to earn better labels than being known as a third world country or a developing country.

This country has been singing the hymn of perpetual hope - " We shall overcome, we shall overcome, one day" for more than sixty six years,and is yet to encounter that " one day". It is a pitiable picture this great country - which has given birth to religions and infinite number of religious gurus living and dead - presents before the world at large.

At the core of one's heart one should have the lessons of sacrificial love and empathy for the one out there, to effect a community sustaining on human values. "Hum honge kamyaab ek din" . Day of good governance too did not bring that oasis closer to the common man who longs for one time full meal a day. Shame on you all political bigwigs. If India is not a slave country in the political front today, it is so in many other fronts of its own making.

Mera Bharat Mahan. If not for the foreign exchequer and the sweat and blood of those who work overseas and send their little savings back home, the picture of this great land of sadhus and sanths will deteriorate further into greater dirty mess.(The views of a politically neutral citizen - The Real"Mango Man")

The Real "Mango Man"

 The Real "Mango Man"

I have been a strong well wisher of Times Now and its Editor in Chief. 

The channel now seems to have become the mouth-piece of the Ruling Party (as is usual with many others) and forgets even the apparent truth in many of its investigative journalistic ventures. May be it is playing the journalism of survival. It needs to learn the art of balancing act lest lose the claim of being No.1.

If not for Times Now and the media hype, this government would not have been in power so comfortably. Mr. Modi is voted to power not by the members of just one political party alone. Plainly, he is not BJP's Prime Minister, but India's. Remember, once the elections are over, the elected P.M & his council of ministers must cease to be projecting themselves as organs of a specific political party. They should be able to rise above the "narrow domestic walls" of political affiliations and biased affinities.

An average Indian looks forward to a progressive and peace loving nation where people of varying religious backgrounds live cordially in mutual trust and cooperation. Fortunately,India in the villages, to a greater extend lives peacefully, untouched by the fanatic aspirations of certain fringe religious sects.

I support Mr. Modi minus his hindutva shade of face, for I place my faith not in eliminating the enemy but in mitigating the enmity. I live and work mostly with true believers of Hinduism. Hinduism is better understood by non-hindus than the advertisers of hindutva. They have  neither the knowledge of the religion nor the desire to know, but with business in mind they create bottlenecks in the path of progress and try to get the harmonious religious fabric of the peace loving masses torn apart. When a child, I was fed regularly by a Hindu mother of my neighborhood, as my mother was away helping my father's business in the town. I fondly remember her as my second mother and her children as my brothers and sisters. We never knew the discriminating religious behaviors. I never knew her as a Hindu, but as mother.

Universal brotherhood is not just an abstract idea but it is the feeling helping you to grow above the petty belittling religious parochialism. Let men & women follow whichever faith they feel following or promoting. Let the leader of the country take a neutral position and be unperturbed by the fringe elements of the ruling political party. He is the P.M not just by virtue of those who follow and share the hindutva way of living. He needs to learn how to strike a balance.

Men and women are created with the free will to follow and practice whichever stream of faith they wish. Let "Modi" learn these basics from his friend "Barack". Visiting and sharing should help each other learn better in matters that matter the best to all men and women one represents.

Mr. Modi is a man with grassroots level experience of the sufferings of the ordinary people. India has created the "biggest middle class" from the least of all. Now it is Mr. Modi's turn to handpick and lift this middle class to the dignity of a world class. He is the man with great ideas that have its roots in the wisdom of ordinary living.

The soul of India lives in the villages. The average villager must have the minimum of roti, kapada & makkan. The farmer should get his share of profit for his produce, not the MNCs. The day the farmer out there in the farms is able to sleep fearlessly, the day when the mother of the family has her barns full to feed her kids, the day when political bigwigs understand that development is not the skyscrapers in certain pockets of their own constituencies and metro cities are not the reflection of integral growth of a nation, the day when the human exodus from villages to the towns and cities stops - if you can make this happen - you are the Second Gandhi from Gujarat - provided people forget 2002, the seemingly baseless blot on Mr. Modi. He has grown to erase the doubting Thomases off their apprehensions and prove to the world "India mein kitna hai dum". He has the potential.Let us join hands with this man on a real mission.(The views of a politically neutral citizen - The real "Mango Man").