METRO DRIVE

The only two metro cities that are so proximate, in India, that could be traversed to and fro by road the same day are Chennai and Bangalore. Both the cities are so different, that it is worth traveling as often as possible, just to savour the difference.

The road route from Chennai would be Sriperumbudur, Kanchipuram, Ranipet/Arcot, Vellore, Ambur, Vaniyambadi, Krishnagiri, Hosur and Bangalore. This is if one wishes to travel availing of the NHAI(National Highways Authority of India) toll Road. The alternate route via Walajhapet, Chittoor, Kolar and Bangalore is not a two-carriage way and the road is not exactly a driver’s delight. The NHAI route is preferable on the count of driver’s comfort and also on the count that one gets to feel the variegated spread of the towns and cities of Tamil Nadu.

One of the most famous cases in the Environmental Law is the case popularly called the Vellore Citizen’s Forum case, wherein the rationale for clean environment for the citizens of a locality has been nicely balanced vis-a-vis growth. When one passes by Vellore, one is reminded of this case law. The towns of Ambur, Vaniyambadi etc are centres of leather processing units. In Ambur there is a Restaurant called Khaja, which serves decent Biryani. Beside this restaurant is another Restaurant called TAJ, a joint which is sparsely visited by the locals and therefore may not be of even the levels of Khaja Restaurant. For the vegetarians there is SHANKAR’S CAFE– which serves tiffin (a Tamil nomer for snacks!) till 11 in the morning and MEALS thereafter. But on the whole, the cleanliness in both these restaurants leave a lot to be desired.

Ambur, being the mid-way between the metros mentioned above, happens to be the stopping point of most of the travelers who do this stretch. So to be familiar with the eating joints at Ambur may be helpful. At noon, there is a place where good biryani is stated to be available on the bus station side viz. STAR BIRYANI. I was not in the least impressed with what they dish out.

May it be said as a word of caution that the Biryani available in Ambur is not a patch on the Biryani available at KARIM’S at Delhi or at Hyderabad. The aroma of the biryani from KARIM’S at Jumma Masjid lingers and wafts forever in one’s mind much after one has consumed. That is a class in itself and the food fit for Emperors, as claimed by them, is truly being served at KARIM’S.

The by-passes built by the NHAI allows one to side-step most of the towns except Ambur and that is one more reason why one can have a repast there.

Coming to the differences between Chennai and Bangalore, Chennai is the capital of the state that could legitimately boast itself of being the state which uses the only LIVE classical INTERNATIONAL language of India. Bangalore is likely to become the state HQ of the third classical language of India- Kannada.

People in Chennai are hard-working and the weather conditions make it difficult for persons to be in bed beyond sunrise. Whereas, Bangalore has a perennially clement weather which gives a greater latitude for persons to pursue their proclivities- therefore MAXIMIZING profits is the priority of the denizens. A plumbing, electrical, carpentry work for half-a-day could cost one a cool Rs.750/- and there are agencies which live off these semi-skilled labourers in Bangalore. So the Time of even the least of all the inhabitants of Bangalore is precious.

Chennai, during 11 months in a year, has steamy hot weather. The reprieve, if any, is felt only during the months of December and January. But it has its charms, like the Marina Beach on a drizzly evening is a delight incomparable. It brings wetness to the soil and moisture to the soul- which make men go on the hop and women the whole hog!!

Bangalore has many malls which open so early that it is not uncommon for young boys and girls to land up in the morning and laze till night fall. Bangalore is cosmopolitan and it is the least fanatical of its language or its culture/heritage. One can manage with Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and English. Every person is a polyglot- I sometimes wonder in which language these polyglots think!

There is not a single road like Brigade Road or MG road in Chennai to match the city of Bangalore. The goods are overpriced and tastefully displayed- yet it is a pleasant experience esp. for the youth.

More than anything else if u do anything differently in Bangalore, it runs the risk of becoming FASHION; but if u do anything differently in Chennai u are likely to get sniggers and scowls. In Bangalore WHAT WAS DONE is important,in Chennai WHO DID WHAT is important. Bangalore is not only less regulated than Chennai, but also less JUDGMENTAL.

The best combination is to shuttle between these two cities for work in Chennai and spend the weekends in Bangalore; but shuttle in a BMW VII series!

God help me.

Achilles heel

Everyone who is faintly acquainted with the Greek mythology, knows that Achilles, who was one of the heroes of the Trojan war, had a weakness that was illogical. But many may not know the story behind it. Thetis, mother of Achilles, to make her son invulnerable held her son by his heels and dipped him in the river Styx( ?). Achilles became invulnerable in all the places where the river Styx’ water came into contact- except where his mother had held him-his heels.

The place where he was held by became his most vulnerable point.

The tragedy was not because of his vulnerability at that spot, but because his opponents came to know of it and exploited it to their advantage.

There is a parallel in the Indian epic MAHABHARATA, where Duryodhana had become vulnerable in the area not exposed to his mother’s sight, when she suffused him with invincibility except for the portion (thigh and loins?) not exposed to her view. The area not viewed by his mother becomes his weak point. Bhima took advantage of that.

I’m sure there must be other parallels in various epics carrying the same concept.

But what amazes me is the myth of Achilles. The point ATTACHED to his mother becomes the very root cause of him getting killed. It is the attachment of the umbilical cord which provides the nutrition to the child and that severance is required for the child to start its life on its own. It is cut , as we all know, at birth. Likewise, despite all the anxieties and fears of one’s mother, it is essential -for the child’s weal -that the mother lets go.

Achilles lost even the minimum natural strength, that was inherent in anyone’s heel. The point of attachment became his doom.

But why did not Achilles realize his weak spot? His mom probably never knew and never had the means to know, in any case Achilles was not forewarned.

The idea is that none succeeds where he/she endeavours to beat the natural order of things. Seeking INVINCIBILITY and therefore DEATHLESSNESS, would be against the natural order. Thetis was trying for that. Had she let go of her son, he wud have suffocated to death in the river Styx & probably Achilles would have died then and there itself and ended as a footnote to a mother’s greed!

In any case, in a man, the point attached to a woman has to be snipped at the point of integration of the self, to achieve even the MINIMUM CAPABILITY of that organ! Otherwise the very point of attachment becomes so weak that anyone having knowledge thereof wud be able to destroy him.

dawning manhood

Split down and in the middle

my groping hand abruptly ends,

no diverting forks,

looking for nothing beyond!

My breath stops and skips

my mind’s eye opens,

to see what i yearn to see.

A third eye for the new head.

TRUTH is everlasting- it can wait!

She claimed not to have done it before.

He took her at her word- truth can wait, she may not- thought he!!

She was already moaning oh-my-god s!

All for what was digitally done over the attire.

Modesty breaks down, she draws his hand into her pajamas.

Skin on skin, skillfully done, draws more than mere calls to the divine!

Relieved, she shamefacedly with downcast eyes

holds his lust-soiled fingers and wipes it on her kurta hem.

Vocally regretting that he wasn’t relieved.

Thought the man in him:

THE DEER HAS LOST ITS NIMBLENESS,

IT WILL NOT BE LONG BEFORE IT BECOMES VENISON!

TERRORISM

In the news channel CNN-IBN Sunday last, there was a debate on TERRORISM. The positions of the participants which impelled me to write this blog are the reasoning given by Javed Akhthar (Hindi cinema script writer and poet in Hindi) and the objection raised by Ravi Shankar Prasad( former minister in the BJP govt.)

The position taken by Javed was that not only persons who indulge in wanton bomb blasting shud be charged under the relevant laws of Terrorism , but even when persons indulge in communal killings they shud be tried under the same laws. Ravi was of the opinion that merely because javed wanted both to be treated equally it cannot be done as there is no rationale warranting such similarity of treatment.

There is some element of truth in both the opinions. But how?

The persons who are targeted by the terrorist is not known to him. The terrorist does not hold any personal grudge against the individual, who turns out to be the ultimate victim. Yet he hurts and harms recklessly a group of people who are found in that place where he had planted or got the bomb planted. I’m sure, so far, no terrorist has planted a bomb in a place where he worships, or a place so dangerously close to his own habitation etc. In effect, even though he shows recklessness, he is sure that the persons whom he cares for are not found in the place/plane/train/ship/building where he plants the bomb. In conclusion, he plants a bomb to explode in a place where he avoids the presence of persons he cares for but does not care for the innocence of the ultimate victims.

Whereas, a person who indulges in communal violence is clear about the property that he wants to destroy and the victims he wants to offend.

This is not where the differences end. The beginning of the difficulty arises with the way the law treats the perpetrator of the aforesaid crimes and the way the majority of the country views the perpetrator and the community to which he belongs.

Not so long ago, Dean Jones the cricket commentator called the bearded cricketer a TERRORIST. Co-incidentally, the person thus called was a Muslim by faith. Of course, we all know that Dean had to apologize for that Freudian slip. If educated, empowered and enabled persons could harbour such sentiments, it is no news that the deprived & uneducated persons could be also influenced to hold opinions against communities based on flimsy perceptions and not on the principles of HUMANISM.

Thereby, here we have a swear word TERRORIST, which is an insult and when used against a particular community it gains much ring of truth.

It is this stigma that Javed was objecting to, but he missed the point.

As per section 153A of the Indian Penal Code, the maximum punishment prescribed for the commission of the offence mentioned therein, at a place of worship would be 5 years. The offences committed by the communalists are brought under the ingredients of this section. Moreover the victim is clearly defined and not nebulous like in a terrorist attack.

Whereas in a terrorist Act, there is a sudden loss of faith by the common man on the capacity of the Government of the day to maintain Law and order, which in turn leads the prosecution to invoke provisions which are tantamount to WAGING WAR WITH THE NATION ( Sec.121 IPC), which prescribes a max punishment of DEATH.

So the law treats the persons who created the same effect differently. Herein lies the CRUNCH.

The law is to view not merely the act, but circumstances, the culpable mental state of the perpetrator and is prohibited from indexing the EFFECTS created by the act per se. Therefore the communalist who has a rationale- however warped- and a defined target cannot be slapped the nomenclature of a TERRORIST. He has to be dealt with only under the section 153A of the IPC.

What Javed wanted was, to treat both the perpetrators at par. Unless the law is amended and the punishment enhanced, there appears to be very less scope of treating them at par-of course except thru a preventive detention Act.

Our Ravi Shankar Prasad just doesn’t want this to happen – a law equating both acts whether the intended victim is innocent or not; whether there is a rationale or not etc. He appears to be against it, as it may lead to the dilution of the stigma attached to the term TERRORIST, which presently is attached to a particular community which suits his hue.

May OUR country treat dangerous objectives that offend the basic structure (esp.secularism), with stringent laws, so that we remain united and meet our objective of GROWTH thru ACTION.

TOLERANCE

An anecdote to bring out the meaning of religious tolerance.

Not so long ago, but long enough for me to view the happenings objectively, once we as friends had been to Churu in the state of Rajasthan in INDIA. While on our way, it was told that a very famous temple was not very far away and that we shud pay a visit to the Hindu temple.

We reached the temple precincts by about lunch-time. It was not a very hot day, as it was sometime during the winter months. We got out of our car and my Hindu friends started removing their shoes and socks to leave those behind in the car.They were surprised that i had not stirred to remove my shoes or my socks off my feet.

The smartest ( i prefer to keep names out) of my friends, said HEY DUDE U CAN’T ENTER THE TEMPLE WITH ALL THOSE LEATHER OR YOUR SMELLY SOCKS ON, LIKE U DO IN YR CHURCHES.

I said, Boss! I am not entering the Temple.

He was concerned as he thought that i did not like the parallel he drew between the Temples and Churches. I was as liberated then, as much as I am now. But there was hardly any scope for discussing religious matters as we were at an age, when our mental space was filled with fine restaurants, nice ambiance, elegant women and girls- who were breaking into womanhood and were donning traits and skimpy micros to assess their attraction quotient from the response from the type of men they mentally held in awe!

I allayed his anxiety and said that it had nothing to do with what he said about entering the Churches with smelly socks and dirty shoes. I told him firmly that i was not coming for reasons which i told him i’d explain while having lunch. He agreed and left for his Darshan. He came back probably in 45 mins. I’d had a peaceful smoke and taken my rounds in the market which was exclusively catering to the devotees who wanted certain puja material.

We went to a nearby restaurant which was serving authentic Rajasthani food. As we sat, my pal said I DIDN’T IMAGINE THAT U WERE A FANATIC! I had not entirely unanticipated that response from him. I said that my personal experience and my religious conviction made me believe that i’d be first of all a misfit to enter a temple and secondly, i may be forced by circumstances to do things which are explicitly forbidden in my religion.

He was flabbergasted that an Indian could be not only liberal enough to visit the Temple but was also adducing reasons for his staying back. I told him that when i, was a kid of seven and, wanted to gain access to the Tanjore BRAHADEESWARAR temple i was thwarted by the person standing at the entrance, after he ascertained if i was a Hindu and negatively answered by me, he held my hand restrainingly and told me that i can’t enter. When i went back home, i was wondering if i was wrongly stopped.

With none to turn to, i asked the Driver Rajendran, who was my dad’s driver if it was a mistake for a christian to enter the temple. He said in chaste Tamil, saar from your mannerism and the body language he had made out that u were just a curious visitor and not a devotee, that made him single u out. So don’t take it to your heart. Rajendran was a witness to the scene in front of the THANJAI BRAHADEESWARAR temple. Rajendran had been a lorry owner and had fallen in bad times and thus had taken up employment. He was a person with tremendous self respect and conducted himself with dignity which was way beyond the function he was performing, at that time.

That night I had to take a serious decision- whether i cud enter a temple merely as a visitor and not as a devotee? The inner voice’ answer was a resounding NO.

My friend after hearing the episode thought that that had happened so far back in the past that it shud not be allowed to interfere with the present.

I said i was not thru. I told him that my religion was monotheistic and the name of my God was JESUS. I neither know about other Gods nor am i obliged to know about other Gods, therefore i was merely following the prescription of my religious creed. I am too small a fry to talk about others’ beliefs but for the integrity of my existence, i have to focus on one God and the name is JESUS.

So where is the prohibition to enter Temples, even if u do not recognize our Gods? – he asked. I told him AS AN INDIAN I HAVE THE LIBERTY TO ENTER A TEMPLE OR NOT TO, SO DO I HAVE THE RIGHT TO ENTER A CHURCH OR NOT TO, WHY DO U HAVE TO INSIST ON MY ENTERING THE TEMPLE?

FURTHER IF I WERE TO ENTER, AND A PLATTER WITH A BURNING CAMPHOR WERE TO BE EXTENDED BEFORE ME, I WOULD NOT WORSHIPFULLY FOLD MY PALMS TO THE FIRE EXTENDED TO ME, AS IT WOULD AGAINST MY BELIEF. THEREFORE WHY GET INTO A SITUATION THAT MIGHT MAKE ME STAND OUT AND CAUSE CONSTERNATION TO THE OTHER DEVOTEES?

THEREFORE i as a matter of principle and practice do not enter Temples.

IN future i also will not enter your churches, my friend said.

I told him, I FOLLOW MY RULES AND YOU SHUD YOURS ! I am prohibited from doing certain things and the commandments are NEGATIVELY WORDED for me such as, YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME; but if such restrictions are placed in your religion you shud also follow that.

This is a great country which has given rights to individuals NOT TO SING EVEN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, IF IT WERE TO BE AGAINST THEIR CREED AND PRACTICE- but they have to show respect for the singing of the anthem by standing up etc. (Supreme court’s decision on JEHOVAH’S WITNESS Vs. STATE OF KERALA)

Once the Mahatma said, I AM A HINDU, A CHRISTIAN, A JEW, A MUSLIM and a PARSI.

Jinnah who was in the vicinity said ONLY A HINDU COULD SAY THAT.

Knowing the sarcasm of Jinnah one can undersatand the sense in which he must have made that statement, but in its essence a HINDU IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN WORSHIP ANY GOD IN ANY PLACE WITHOUT ATTRACTING THE FEELING OF GUILT- BASED ON HIS RELIGION.

Let us preserve it.

VOICE vs WORD

Aaron voiced Moses’ message

But the WORD was from God.

The Baptist voiced the message of Repentance,

But the WORD in flesh was JESUS.

They (MPs) voice their opinion in the Parliament,

But the WORD is from the President.

THE WORD is the Babel from which

spring the visual and the audio interpretations!

NUTS and BOLTS!!(377 IPC)

Hi,

This is regarding the debate on section 377 of IPC, between the HOME ministry and the HEALTH ministry in INDIA .

India is a country plagued with misplaced zeal, but when it hits ministers, the zeal gets into cabinet meetings and statistics is made the bedrock of pushing thru opinions, which are imbalanced. The Health Minister’s call for elimination of section 377, is one of those imbalanced propositions which shud be thrown out, without a thought (ironic?) and without a debate.

The reasons are there for any sane person to see:-

societies have been built on trial and error method, and the methods that encouraged LIFE , GROWTH and HAPPINESS have been promoted thru the ages. We stand on this tradition. We have collectively understood that the right fitting for a BOLT is to be found in a NUT. Not anything that resembles or cud function as a NUT, but a NUT that is meant to fit the BOLT. There is pleasure, progeny and propriety in the scheme of things as they exist.

Section 377 is firstly gender neutral, secondly if there is no penetration there is no offence, thirdly the act shud be UNNATURAL. With these basic ingredients to this offence, it is possible to bring a host of sexual activities perpetrated by perverse adults on innocent children/boys/girls/women/men/animals. The punishment prescribed is max life and with fine. Which is stringent.

Merely because this section cud be invoked i.r.o sex between consenting adults also, it does not mean that this section is to be scrapped. An exception i.r.o consenting adults, cud be made with suitable amendments. Mr. Ramadoss is known for throwing the child along with the water in the bath-tub. He did not consult the TOURISM minister, when he proposed the banning of smoking in restaurants and hotels, but when he gets sympathetic with the gay community, he wants the only enabling section- i.r.o many other offences- to be thrown out of the statute book!

Gays have a right to practice their beliefs and indulge in sex with consenting adults of the same sex or in unnatural methods with persons of the opposite sex, the problem arises when their problems spill over to the public domain and do not fall within the paradigm already familiar to the society. The problems such as, when persons bring complaints in matters which relate to domestic violence relating to cohabiting consenting adults of the same sex , how shud the police react? it is a new terrain and it shud be dealt with discretely, with laws specific to such persons and conditions. The laws that have certain POSTULATES like marriage is between a male and female,  should not be disturbed.

This TRENCHING of gays rights brings division which is no good for the society and the rights shud be separated and dealt with on the principles of good conscience, reasonableness and fairness(like the circuit judges of yore in the UK), as to codify laws for this new breed cannot be allowed, much less encouraged, to taint the precedents of the law well established.

LAWS are meant to organize society into active, healthy and productive units. We shud not and cannot be silent when efforts are made by policy makers to override the very principles on which the society rests.

MAY MEN REMAIN MEN AND WOMEN, WOMEN,

AND TO EACH HIS/HER FUNCTIONS REMAIN!

BUT LET THE IN-BETWEENS CHOOSE

THEIR PATH AND COOK THEIR OWN GOOSE!

DEFROCKED!

Aaron was taken to the hill-top,

By moses, the chosen one.

Aaron was the Communicator

Moses the Medium of Jehovah.

Communication’s to be stifled,

before the medium extinguishes!

Moses defrocks Aaron-

Aaron dies of shame.

Moses condoles,

but secures his words.

YET ANOTHER TRIUMPH OF WORD OVER VOICE.

John the baptist was the voice of the one crying in the wilderness

But the WORD in flesh was JESUS.

SMOKING POLICY!

Hi Liberals, Die-hards & the “MEAN”minded,

Whatever hue yr conviction might be of, it is time to take note of the MAJORITARIANISM which is eating into the tolerance quotient of the liberals of this great country- i.e INDIA.

Smoking is gonna affect not only the smoker, but also those who are exposed to the stream of the exhaled smoke. Point taken and as a matter of defending their rights, in public places the smokers ought not to smoke.

Is my fully window wound-up car a public place or a private place, while on the road?

It is a tricky question. If u say it is private, then why have a rule that penalizes the smoking driver in DELHI? Further why absolve the passenger who smokes, with all the windows wound-down?

or are we to conclude that the only way to discipline the drivers- who have gone out of the control of the owners- is to expose them to the police force? Maybe yes. Nobody cares for the drivers (an INDIAN driver) or his right to smoke, as it helps him to beat the sleep and drowsiness which creeps on him, as mostly his bosses keep him waiting without reason and his female bosses expect him to run and open the back left door for them to step out languorously!!

IT IS A CLASS LEGISLATION (or A CLASS SUB-ORDINATE LEGISLATION).

The driver becomes stealthy and instead of holding his ciggy between his index and middle fingers, starts holding it inverted between the thumb and index! Guilt has already been spread by the society on his consciousness.

THERE is a saying in TAMIL (the only thriving classical language of India)- which says that a dog after biting the goat with impunity, bites the bull/cow/ox and then the dog is emboldened to bite MAN.

We make laws and rules without testing if the rules, when at the stage of conception itself, trench on the individual rights. Later, the rules are extended to squelch the bleating dying sounds of the liberals.

No doubt, CIGARETTE SMOKING MAY BE INJURIOUS, but who gives us the right to take away the man’s right to indulge in an injurious act esp. if his act harms none?

The minister who is spear-heading this move hails from a party that had FELLED TREES TO PREVENT TRAFFIC ON THE STATE AND NATIONAL HIGHWAYS! Now they become champions of causes, when backwardness and ignorance are inundating their party cadres!! The minister and his dad shud do something about the pathetic condition of his supporters, instead of instigating legislation curbing the liberties of INDIANS- all in the disguise of HEALTH!!

The APEX court shud decide cases on LEGAL PRINCIPLES and not based on POLICY. Unfortunately, the SC was in no mood to look into the rights of the smokers affected. It was unwilling to be reasonable and require the executive to clearly demarcate the PUBLIC PLACE from PRIVATE SPACE. It has allowed itself to be convinced by the laudable policy of RESTRAINING SMOKING, all at the cost of an INDIAN’S RIGHT TO BE WRONG- WHEN HE HURTS NONE!

MAJORITARIANISM is the malaise that plagues large societies, where composite culture and practices are slowly eliminated and the human spirit is STUNTED thru restrictive rules and legislation. May the INDIAN liberal rise and voice his opinion against it!!

PIGEONS’ FEED

Pink-footed pigeons cat-walking beside the rail tracks &

slant-pecking fallen grains from goods train.

INNOCENCE feeding itself near chugging danger.

If danger did not pass by, the pink-footed innocent pigeons wud have to fly far for its peck.

TRUTH Vs. WISDOM

Discovery of Truth begets BOLDNESS of the spirit (& some times recklessness), but

WISDOM begets LIFE (and therefore GROWTH).

Wisdom distinguishes contextual truths, textual truths & subjective truths

From absolute truth, if any!!

The Birds & the Bees

The Beauty of the petals, the stateliness with which it rose from its calyx, the hear-say glory and heritage of the flower- all these kept the bee in tremendous awe of the flower.

The bee dared not to get inside to draw the nectar. The bee was no more moved by its NEED of wanting to slake its appetite by tasting the nectar. It was overawed by the mere thought of HAVING TO enter the beautiful flower and slaking its thirst.

However, just as a homage to its beauty, the bee started hovering over the flower buzzing and fanning the beautiful flower- but never consciously daring to enter. The flower was elated and was tossing its head at the adoration of the bee. The bee returned every morning to pay its obeisance at the altar of the vanity of the flower. The flower with the adoration became vain in its attitude and forgot both its date of expiry, and its necessities.

The other flowers in the vicinity were growing seed in their ovaries and were heard whispering about the murmurings of their wombs and their feelings of elongating their lives thru their progeny. This adored flower heard all those whisperings in the dark nights, but cudn’t feel, much less understand, their whispers.

The day dawned as usual, our hero bee made his buzzing visit and was seen hovering over the flower with no effort to enter nor, betraying any sign of wanting to ever!! The flower started to wilt by the evening and this brought great sorrow to the bee, as it interpreted the flower wilting in the evenings as a sign of its reduced tempo in its adoration.

However the mornings brought cheer to the bee as the flower was fresh.

An old bee, which had seen the purpose of the bee and the flower for many a generation seeing the bee’s unswerving adoration of the flower, took our hero bee aside and said: IDIOT, YOU HAVE WASTED YR TIME LIVING OFF THE HONEY IN THE HIVE, IT IS YOUR DUTY TO COLLECT NECTAR AND THE FLOWER TO GET POLLINATED IN THE PROCESS. BUT U HAVE PAID HOMAGE TO YOUR FEARS IN THE GUISE OF APPRECIATING BEAUTY. POLLINATE HER OR U LEAVE HER BARREN WITH NO SEED OF HERS TO SUSTAIN HER STRAIN.

How could i? Especially when i have been so close, yet never showed any signs of selfishness- said the bee.

THE GOOD OLD BEE SAID ‘ GET TO HER AND RAVISH HER SENSE OF VANITY, WHICH U HAVE BEEN FOSTERING IN HER FOR NO GOOD. THE DEED’S TO BE DONE AND STRENGTH SHALL SUBJUGATE BEAUTY, BUT UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE STRONG’ .

THE BEE DID IT!

Golden mug & the brass rivet in the crown

King Solomon rushed with his crown

to the wash-room,

placed he the crown on the alabaster sill

next to the golden mug in the loo.

The mug told the brass rivet on the crown thus:

‘U have no merit, yet u r placed so high.

Lo the Times are bad!’

Said the humble, but well placed rivet,

‘Merit doesn’t count when it concerns the functions.

I thru my strength fasten the meritorious gold’.

CREED vs. PROPAGATION

It has been widely reported that provocative statements have been made by the Christian groups which go by the name of NEW LIFE and PENTECOST in and around the areas of Mangalore, Chikmagalur etc. in the state of Karnataka, India.

As per Article 25 of the constitution every Indian is guaranteed the right to practice, profess and propagate his religion. Any infringement on this guaranteed right may be got redressed through our Courts.

The moot question is whether one could bring into conflict one’s beliefs with that of another’s belief during propagation of one’s religion.

The answer , in my opinion, wud be that if one is making a statement of one’s belief and not derogatorily portraying the beliefs of the other religions and still if there were to be any conflict of beliefs, it wud not tantamount to denigrating other religious beliefs. But if the propagator contrasts one’s beliefs with that of the other and negatively portrays the other religion- especially in intemperate language, it would be not merely an offence ( Cf. Indian Penal Code Section 153A) but also a SIN.

Why a sin?

Do we have a right to destroy the belief of another, however desirable the alternative wud be which is being offered by us? No. Beliefs form the core of our being and any disturbance therein might dilapidate the very foundation of our mental equilibrium and existence. Further new beliefs take time to take root and therefore individuals cannot posit those new beliefs with implicit TRUST. Therefore to destroy one’s beliefs ( in whatever religious shape it might be) is a CARDINAL SIN.

Christians believe in ONE GOD with the concept of three in one viz. GOD the Father, GOD the Son and GOD the Holy Ghost. The system of faith is monotheistic . This is fundamental to the Christian faith.

It has been reported in the media that certain sections of Hindu organizations have stated that pamphlets have been distributed by X-ian organization stating that the HINDU gods are not true gods.If the allegations are true, it must be stated in all reasonableness that NO CHRISTIAN IS ALLOWED THE LUXURY OF SITTING ON JUDGMENT ON THE BELIEFS OF THE OTHER. He merely has been mandated to propagate the GOOD NEWS that the Messiah has come and the propagation is merely a LIBERTY, in a social context, and not a RIGHT.

Jesus says, if the town where u proclaim the Gospel does not entertain you in peace, SHAKE OFF THE VERY DUST OF YOUR FEET AND DEPART. He has not mandated Christians to go overboard and constrain people to adopt the message of the arrival of the messiah and His message.

Let me narrate the story of SAUL of Tarsus (later called PAUL). He was BREATHING THREATENINGS against the Christians and armed with letters from the authorities was purging X-ians in the synagogues, On his way to Damascus Jesus appeared ( or a blinding light) and said IT IS HARD FOR THEE TO KICK AGAINST THE PRICKS(feminists beware!). and he was softened into Christianity thru blindness. He was put on hold for three days and one Ananias was sent to him by GOD and his blindness was healed(?). God meets people according to his PREDESTINATION of GRACE and christians shud not arrogate to themselves such roles and leave it in the hands of the God they believe.

To state our CREED is one thing but to contrast it with another’s creed is silly, stupid and dangerous. Silly because a CREED is built on beliefs which are not based on provable facts. Stupid because one is not aware of the shifting sands on which one is standing, while threatening/warning others of standing on shifting sands. Dangerous because, it can spoil the brotherhood and amity, which are the only basis of PEACE and GROWTH.

GUILT vs. Sin

The connection between the proscribed ACT and the state of mind of the person who had committed the ACT is GUILT.

The proscribed Act could have been proscribed by the scriptures, the law or even one’s own conscience. We are making our own laws by choosing to stay with a group which has certain norms, and sooner or later we are engulfed by the norms followed or prescribed by that group. Therefore, to criticize the norms of the particular group- of which we made/ acquiesced ourselves a part of- is not gonna help us. We as free individuals have chosen- even if it had been for want of a better option.

There are religious groups/sects which make its members GUILTY.

Guilty of what? Well, we are not aware of all the laws which are in force at any given point of time. Therefore we have all fallen short of His GRACE by having infringed/ violated those laws. Merely because we are not visited upon by the sanctions prescribed immediately upon commission of the offence/wrong, it does not mean that we are innocent. We remain in the state of undetected wrong-doers/offenders/vow-breakers etc..

The issue is that the moment we commit an offence, we could become aware of our guilt or regret and feel guilty later for any number of reasons. But the ALIENATION of the self occurs only and I REPEAT only after WE HAVE FOUND OURSELVES GUILTY.

The organizations which have descended upon mankind in the guise of purifying the guilty have taken full advantage of the power of guilt:-

GUILT MAKES MEN TO RETREAT(Adam &Eve)

GUILT MAKES MEN HELPLESS(Cain after the murder of his bro Abel)

GUILT MAKES MAN FEEL INFERIOR IN HIS OWN EYES (Moses after committing murder and hiding in the desert0

GUILT MAKES HIM SURRENDER WITHOUT A FIGHT(Saul the king after he met Samuel from the dead)

GUILT MAKES HIM AN EMOTIONAL WRECK( David after the incident of the intimation by the prophet reg murder of Uriah)

GUILT MAKES MAN WILLING TO PART ANYTHING TO GET RELIEF (Zachchaeus(sp.) after he entertained Jesus)

The list is endless, but the point to be made is that prior to their feeling guilty, they never felt so – as they were either ignorant of their sin or were justifying their acts. It is in those weak moments that the sense of guilt rises and engulfs a man’s mind.

The religious groups that take advantage of the guilt have proliferated without number. The problems that we face are attributed to our sins- mostly hidden to our eyes and crystal clear to their eyes. They expound upon our sins and prescribe remedies to those sins- mostly relieving us of our properties and money!!

It is a must that we have to have an idea of sins and have the alacrity to identify them and confess it to God and help ourselves. Cain after killing his brother Abel could not bear the paranoia of death thru others, but when he approached God, God gave him a relief that the person who kills Cain wud be 7 times guiltier. God did not withhold relief even from the first fratricider- not merely a fratricider but one who killed a person who loved God and offered a more excellent sacrifice!!

The alacrity depends on 2 factors one is lack of WILLFULNESS and secondly weakness. If we are not willful we wud approach God upon intimation/realization of our guilt. If we willfully commit sins we delay our own repentance.

JESUS CAME TO THIS WORLD NOT TO ELIMINATE SIN, BUT TO SAVE MANKIND BY BREAKING THE BOND BETWEEN SIN AND GUILT THRU HIS GRACE!

This Grace is like a right and it has to be CLAIMED thru REPENTANCE.

As I have reiterated in my earlier blogs, merely spending time clearing the spiritual mess we create for ourselves is not our purpose. ACTION is our purpose. God makes a promise to King David – u shall not lack a son to rule Israel: God makes a promise to JEHU king of Israel(10 tribes) that his seed shall rule for 4 generations. David was an adulterer/ murderer and Jehu was a Regicider (he killed 2 kings), yet God made promises to them because they were ACTION oriented people and consistently got rid of their guilt thru repentant action.

LET US GET HIS GRACE TO CLEAR OUR GUILT AND TAKE PROMPT ACTION IN ALL MATTERS.

waste

She was like a note paper kept at refill points,

whoever wanted to test their refills took their turn to scribble on her.

She didn’t know that like that paper she would end up in the waste basket!

DOUBT?

Entertaining a doubt is premature acclimatization of the mind for defeat!

When u don’t know how good the field is,

or how high the bar is set,

how can a competitor presuppose a negative result, instead of getting ready for it?

Courage

Courage, i sometimes muse, is the greatest of virtues- as this would impel a person to seek out excellence or would be sought out and crowned. David might have been a shepherd boy, but the spirit of God drove Samuel to seek him out. It could have been Courage, confined to shepherding, but divine will seeks out the courageous. Jephthah, was one. Gideon was another.
Or are the examples cited, just a post facto reasoning justifying their elevation?  None can be certain.

Do we have data of those who had the courage, but were left out for other reasons?

In the absence of such data is it right to come to such an inescapable conclusion, or is it just an exercise of the human mind to look for some trait and certify that trait to be the cause of all good things that followed?
But one can believe in anything, as it is not subject to absolute and objective reasoning. Further it could be a choice which hurts none and hence none has the locus-standi to object to such reasoning.
The trouble is only when such a conclusion is clothed as a scientific and unimpeachable fact!

All beliefs that do not bring  harm to the individual or the society, should be ignored by the society and ought to be supported at the individual level.

CONSCIENCE

Conscience like the phoenix rises out of the depraved mass of ashes when it is least expected and asserts itself to such an extent that it ain’t possible to shirk or shrug.

One may need the forgiveness of one’s past before restarting one’s life again.

Not disowning but recognizing the irrelevance of the past experience.

JUDGING FOR CHOICE

Can u start judging for the purpose of making choice and not merely for sitting on judgment?  Yes.

But the line is so fine that the trouble when one starts judging is that one tends to believe that the so called TRUTH arrived at is universal, whereas when judging for making a choice one factors in one’s own limitations and the exigencies of the present circumstances.

Whereas for making an absolute judgment one has to have knowledge of TRUTHS which are immutable.

Since that is humanly impossible all judgments for making choices end up as beliefs. These beliefs may find favour with some who agree with us, but mere agreement of devotees is no proof of having arrived at the absolute TRUTH!

Hence belief coupled with humility is the only humanly possible Truth.

PAST SINS?

Can the flower,

that fibrillated at the buzz of the bee-

at its blossom,

having lost its scent and its hue now

sit sorrowful and seek pardon at having fibrillated

at the heat that it can’t feel now?

GOD’S FAVOURS

Can He? Reflects yr assessment of His capability as to whether he could or not.

Once this is settled in the affirmative, the next question is Would He?

Which means whether He would WILL his capabilities to be directed towards what u desire?

Now the subsidiary question is, why would He will to deploy his capabilities in yr favour?

Now u have to know or believe that He knows yr expectation and that u r worthy to receive His line of action favourable to u.

Now if He could and would, then the question When arises. Since u as well as yr desire could be limited by time, it becomes imperative to obtain an answer to this.

This is mostly to sustain yr Hope and expectation.

After this point, nothing sustains a man except His grace!

BELIEF

Belief is the perfect substitute to man’s imperfect understanding.

Since facts are not knowable always, structural beliefs step in to fill up the gaps.

Job’s predicament

A vision which has become shameful to hold any longer- because of the fallen standards and dilapidated hopes.

Unless the situation alters for the better drastically,

even to reclaim the vision seems impossible, leave alone realizing it!

LINGUA DEI

A petty thief steals a pen and seeks God’s help to get away,

a murderer after committing a murder either seeks God’s aid in escape from capture or retribution,

the scientist looks up to God for enlightenment

– we thru our actions draw to God.

Good ones lead us to him for growth, and rotten ones to him for forgiveness, or out of fear and retribution.
To put it, we thru our actions are constantly defining our language of interaction with God.

May it be good and progressive.

DEVIL’S advocate

A devil’s advocate, primarily is a person who wants to arrive at a predetermined conclusion after eliminating thru disproving ideas and facts against his predetermined conclusion. It is a process of elimination which is the tool to carve out the adverse ideas and facts and thereby arrive at the TRUTH.

In contrast, is the system of belief where choice is made, if the ideas or the facts are in consonance. To play the devil’s advocate one needs to have enormous knowledge and the power to exclude, not the power to choose!

To become a devil’s advocate, one has to have a duality- a mind to reject and a heart to give direction. The objective of the advocate is not to gloss over the foibles, but to verify and if found true to arraign and prevent canonization of the unholy!

AS THERE IS ONLY ONE THING WHICH IS WORSE THAN PROFANING THE HOLY and that is SANCTIFYING THE PROFANE.

Conscious action

Time is the measurement of interconnected action and based on the regularity of future actions . Which has led humans to believe that TIME exists definitely in future, which is a fallacy.

In the absence of Action and Consciousness thereof, there is no Time!

LIFE IS MADE UP OF ACTION & CONSCIOUSNESS.

Society Vs. Suicide

Suicide is an offence which is the only act of harm done and the perpetrator is never available to be punished or to repent.

The society can tolerate an unpunished criminal, but it cannot tolerate an unrepentant one. Thereby all religions assign hell to the successful suiciders!!

Further the society which glorifies LIFE cannot be seen as recommending something (Death), which itself – by the mere fact of living- is not practicing.

As an extension of this idea, it is unable to take a call on EUTHANASIA also.

Had it been because of HOPE, that the society in a short while wud be able to provide relief to the despondent and retrieve him/her from Death as a relief option, i’d have agreed. But denying someone his wishes, because of the society’s helplessness, is a sin.

NON-VERIFIABLE BELIEFS

There are factually verifiable beliefs and factually non verifiable beliefs.

Of the factually non verifiable beliefs, one should not look for intrinsic merit, one should look for the efficacy of the belief vis a vis the believer.

Belief in the intangibles brings changes in the direction and perception, which are subjective preferences.

CHURCH DOCTRINE

Hi Guys,

Sunday, therefore another day to hear the sermon and hold one’s peace at church, and to set the record straight in the blog.

The theme for today’s sermon was EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN.

We all face only one shortage and that is TIME. Had things been the way it was prior to Noah’s time, we’d have had all the time to do 2 things:-

1. to ascertain from those older than us ( maybe a Methuselah could ask for details from Adam and wud have had an un-perverted narration of facts on history) and form true opinions. and

2. not having to rely on the biased & preconceived notions of the so called researchers who look for something,and when they find nothing, they substantiate their theories with straws- which get bandied about and make the issues hazier.

But Alas! that is not to be and here we are with limited time at our disposal and unless otherwise it is our job or is paying, we do not want to spare TIME to clarify issues, which are cardinal to our being. Hence an accurate HISTORICAL perspective may not be available to me, but I am also aware that anyone else touching upon this topic wud be under the same liability.

When we talk of EMPOWERMENT, we are talking of giving a greater say in the decision making process of the systems, and to ensure that – when the opportunity is well used by those empowered- if the objectives of the systems are met and those objectives are salubrious in the long run, then those suggestions are to be adopted- however contrary to the existing system the suggestions might be.

Practically this may not be so- as the system might need revamping before such salubrious suggestions are given effect to. Then, the suggestions adopted cannot see the germination thereof. And as already stated, we don’t have time to follow through, and the suggestions languish for want of implementation.

In a church if one talks of empowerment, what is one talking of? To be a member of a Committee of Appointments for the profs in the colleges run by the church; to have a say in the spending of the diocesan funds?; to become a priest and have a say in the politics of the Christian flock? Nay- there is a Christian side to the system. If one wants to be the forerunner to CHRIST, he has to be like John the Baptist and live outside the societal comforts. No protection, gotta call rogues as vipers, antagonize tetrarchs, get one’s head served in a platter( all for the sinuous dance of Herod’s victim’s daughter- Salome).

When such were the consequences , no woman was willing to walk in camel’s skin, eat wild honey and spew venom against the powerful. But now that the years of hard work of the staunch believers have borne fruit and in the foreseeable future none might be required to do the dirty and difficult jobs as described before, the chicks are putting pressure to be closer to the honey-pot and squealing for an occasional dip in it. The worst is that, men are eager to push their women folk in front and get their agendas fulfilled thru them! So much for empowerment!!!

Woman was not made to get into the hurly burly of leading in spiritual matters, but was created to be of support to man in his endeavors.

God said I WILL MAKE A HELP MEET FOR HIM. Help and nothing more. Eve wanted to rise above the status assigned and there she opened communication channels with the serpent and REVEALED the secret of the tree of knowledge; ate of it; gave some to the MAN- whose assistant she was- and thereby created the mess we are in. It may all be symbolic, but the symbolism has to be extended to squeeze out the implications.

I do not agree with the diktat of Paul that HE DOESN’T GIVE AUTHORITY FOR WOMEN TO SPEAK IN CHURCH. No doubt, this is a passage in the Bible, but when no such PROHIBITION was given by JESUS through all the four Gospels, there is not much weight to the Paulian prohibition.

Further when the disciples tried to stifle the shouts of Hosanna, Jesus’ command was that, if these did not cry out the STONES would cry out the Hosannas. Therefore, God could make anyone a tool in His absolute will. It could be a woman too.

While Jesus was still in the flesh, there is no record to show that he chose them for spreading the gospel. That does not mean that a woman shud not become one- but it also means that we shud not make it an overt agenda to make a woman a priest or a Bishop for the sake of making a woman priest or a woman bishop. Women shud become worthy before they breach the male bastion and then fix standards for their gender. That is how it has been and that is how it ought to be.

There was this Judge named BARAK (cf: JUDGES in the Bible), whose reliance on Deborah was absolute and had to share the glory, of defeating Sisera, with her. He was warned of such sharing and consequently the reduction in Glory , yet he chose sharing. If one wants to depend on women it is nothing wrong, but prescribing it for statistical purposes and for tokenism, is a TABOO.

CHRISTIANITY is a religion for proving it with one’s life and not thru one’s acquired skills and connections! May it remain to be so and let every sane Christian uphold the same.

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He slipped and fell through the supporting net of life and thus his search for truth started.

None finds out the TRUTH except thru slipping and falling thru the net of societal sanity and religiosity.

But mere slipping and falling thru doesn’t guarantee the dawning of the truth. When it dawns one has to have the readiness of the self to have one’s eyes open to perceive it in all its ugliness and nakedness. It changes not only one’s world view but also one’s priorities.

the bad blend

He looked for two things in his woman DEVOTION and SERENITY.

Devotion to him meant that she doesn’t make herself scarce when he wants her and

Serenity, meant that when he wasn’t around and when alone, she shouldn’t worry by raking up jealousies and envy in her mind .

Each of those qualities was difficult to find and to find the twain in one was nigh impossible. He didn’t find one, so he embarked on finding one with either and inculcating the other.

But his life became a see saw. One declined with the rise of the other.

Serenity brought indifference and devotion brought anxiety.

His mission started! A chase of the mirage!

MINDLESS MISTRESS

He after obtaining her emotional submission, would launch on the physical assault, that led her to drift from her partial consciousness to total dissolving and disappearance of the observing mind.

She was no more watching herself, much less him, she was rapidly losing herself on the onslaught of the strokes which tingled her being.

The man was observing the molten mass and redoubled his oaring, wanting to see her in that state of mindlessness!
That state was what gave him the ultimate sense of manhood.

The observer in him was severe and would not tolerate him being lethargic or giving in to the pleasures of so base a nature.
This observer within, made him a marvel in the minds of those women. They used to come out of those mindless periods, with a sneaking suspicion that he had seen them during those gaps of their consciousness- the thought that he was the author of their mindless state brought a sense of shame to them.
She would scratch him to see if he would talk about her dilapidated state of consciousness. His silence gave her a feeling that he hadn’t noticed her mindless state, which pacified her.

But her urge to get into that state of mindlessness impelled her to seduce him. He was crowned the king of her consciousness.
Now that he had mounted the tigress, he had no option but to duplicate her mindlessness. A task to which he was equal. She used to call him fondly ‘ MY GAP FILLER’ .

A true tribute to what happened, but none who heard her could sense even remotely the intensity and his dexterity of their union!

INACTIVITY breeds DESPAIR

Hamlet had an opportunity while he found his uncle praying- did nothing and repented later.

David saw Saul asleep and did not kill him.That brought him the tribe of Benjamin later.

If God be with us, whatever we do would turn out fine.

Does it mean God wasn’t with Hamlet? It is not a conclusive inference- man is only granted the liberty to act and if he doesn’t exercise it for positive activity, he is not granted divine favours.

Hamlet merely regretted his inaction and did nothing further, but David sustained his activity and also took advantage of his generosity by announcing to Saul how his life was in David’s hand.

HUMILITY OF THE SPIRIT

God is with the humble. Truly so, as the humble are the least willful, and any good that happens to them cannot be explained logically except by attributing divine intervention. Therefore when the humble are elevated, the masses are to be convinced that it is good to be humble and without any other trait or effort they could also be elevated in their due time.

There have been more humble people who have never left their station in life, than those who rose- thru that trait alone.

Humility is the ultimate expression of fear. There is nothing that is more demeaning to human spirit than HUMILITY. Humility of the spirit is when a person is thoroughly beaten by all the forces around. Moses, who was raised in the palace was weakened to such an extent in 40 years of wilderness life, that when God asks him to talk- he says he can’t. Such is the work of the forces that beat a man’s spirit to pulp. He feels that he has nothing to contribute, no purpose to achieve and nowhere to go.
In this state of disintegration there arises sometimes an illogical spirit, which if it is allowed to lead him may lead to power, but oftentimes to madness and delusion.
Rarely like moses, to a combination of both!

The lost self

For her it was going back to find -if she could find -what she had lost.

She was only sure of having lost something. But what, when, where and to whom she had no clue.
Her journey back to him was to find out if she could pick up the clues to what she could have lost.

Either with the hope that he might ask her about something which she could gather as having been noticed by him then, and now not with her.

And then retrace the time of loss, from the silence of the men who made no mention of it.
So her journey was a search trip, but the fool thought that it was a return of the prodigal for good.

He tried his best to entertain her, but he noticed her always looking for something.

An observer, instead of a participant. This puzzled him.

tackle sequence

Dodge,

deflect,

deter,

decimate or decapitate-

but only in this order.

To practise in this order one has to have great patience,

immeasurable Trust in God and

a staunch belief in the doctrine of notice.

BATHSHEBA’S ROLL!

David importunes Uriah to go to his house, hoping probably that he would sleep with Bathsheba and hence could pass off the child as the legitimate child of the couple! When his plans failed, he sends a letter to Joab thru Uriah scheming his death. No contraceptives were available, in any case even if some quacky precautions had been taken they were not efficacious. Now, what Bathsheba did none knows.

She had ample opportunity to pervert history- being the king’s mom(Solomon), had attained a position whereby she could control the perceptions of the erudite and the knowledge of the masses! But it could be speculated that she could have threatened David- maybe persuasively that it would not be in king’s interest to be exposed for adultery!

In any case, David had decided to jump from covetousness to adultery to murder! Uriah was a brave fool, not wondering why the king should take such a great interest in him. But what amazes me is that even if uriah did not go to his house, why did not the bitch Bathsheba go and meet her husband who had returned from the front Alive!

A feminist view would be to view her situation sympathetically- that the pregnant dame was carrying the symbol of her fallen status and did not want to present herself with hypocritical chastity (it was exactly the type of hiding, that Adam and Eve went into after eating of the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, when the Lord came calling in the eventide!).
Coming to Uriah’s refusal to go home- had he got to know that his wife had visited the king in his absence (after all, Uriah was a commander in his own right too! and therefore must have had pals who had hinted). And was it the reason for his refusal to soil his pestle in her mortared unchaste pussy?

None could know the pain- except for Uriah-  had he known!
In all uriah , his wife’s child – all dead paved the way for a peaceful interpretation of history.

Winston Churchill once said I HOPE HISTORY WOULD TREAT ME KINDLY- AS I INTEND TO WRITE IT!

LIBERTY

None has the right to pass a judgment on a fellow individual,

as he/she is a contemporaneous temple of God.

Therefore he/she is not subject to another’s set of standards.

However one has the divine liberty granted to him/her to form an opinion

-to make a choice to accept or to lay off.

This is a liberty adjunct to one’s own existence, not a right to make absolute judgments.

Idiotic

No doubt man’s situation is pitiable, if only he would consider and see his own condition.

But if he finds distraction and believes in it, there is salvation.

Salvation not thru escape from the condition, but thru ignoring the reality.

But how to ignore, thru belief? Yes, when the belief is matured to Faith and overpowers the perception of reality!

When such a faith dawns, he has hit the threshold of his salvation.

Sustaining that faith needs greater effort. Then the daily/weekly STARCHING of the soul begins.

The MENTAL warrior

Mother fixation in him prevented him from seeing women having sexual needs. Further complication was that, in pursuance of such needs, he could never visualize a woman, make a substantive move towards display of her immediate need.
But Time, taught him to observe that one lil motion of hers to recognize that spill over.

Time, also equipped him with the means to seize that moment and convert it into an experience of a personal nature.
But whenever such encounters were successful, he also through his behaviour showed that he was merely fulfilling her need and in no way guaranteeing fulfillment of her future WANTS!
This finesse-ing, gave him the mental experience without the bruises to his soul!

moses

Moses realized in all his 40 years in the doghouse

that merely because the Maker was silent on the ill treatment of a fellow human, it did not give him a right to kill a man;

that mating with sisters was an abomination;

that making a brassen serpent was an exception to the commandment of making any graven image;

that marrying an Ethiopian was another exception to the rule of marrying within the jewry!

Rules are truly made by the superiors for the inferiors to follow!

The best is that the superiors are not bound by their own rules- just like the House of Lords!

Worse still is that he was able to get God’s help to bring about sanctions on the rebels like Miriam, Korah etc.

Joshua and Caleb, backed the winning horse, they both loved life and foresaw that they could take over at the departure of Moses. The Judahite (Caleb was from this tribe) gets his hill, and the Josephite (Joshua was from one of the two tribes of Joseph) gets to lead– which means he gets to set the rebellious boys against the external enemies and deflect their ire from getting focussed on to him.

Patience with perseverence truly pays.

MONETARY policy?

Money!

The means through which a woman discovers a successful man!

Time-lag

Zorba’s only regret was that he wasn’t old enough

when she was young enough,

to be seen as a lustful object.

When God Lies

Your conception of God, defines yr relationship, expectation and attitude towards God in particular and mankind in general.

If one were to believe that God could call for a conclave of angels/spirits and give the liberty to one to be a lying spirit in the mouths of prophets- like what Micaiah (1kings 22: 22) said, it is questioning the sovereignty of God.

God Himself may not do this to his children, but when he finds that his children have exceeded in wickedness thru willfulness than weakness, He could resort to any sovereign device. But He never uses these against the humble ones before God! God’s will be done. Period.

One more to boot!!

Women get the accent right and the idea wrong.

In men it is the other way round.

PREACHY MCP

Woman! Surrender your will, communicate your thoughts, fears, hopes and schemes- but hope not to get a feedback till the work is done; silently pray for his weal more than yours;

whether u knit your soul to his or not, knit with his fortunes which engenders greater trust;

and most of all scabbard his sword but drain him not to inaction- for he is thy hope and vehicle to yr fortune and peace.

Not for nothing that Abraham was called LORD by Sarah!

POSITIVE Illusion

While marching to each his/her grave,

this couple dripped of adoration for each other so much-

that the onlookers forgot that they too were marching to the self-same one-way destination.

Some of them started believing in a similar possibility in their own lives,

which changed the way they perceived.

Positivity spreads for the better.

HOPE of the positive is as much an illusion

As the ANXIETY of the negative.

What we LOVE shud overpower ANXIETY,

And give direction!

Oh Delilah!

When vexation strikes, efforts cease engendering loss of love for life- at the worst end of the spectrum.
Samson was one of the victims of a feminine vexation. Delilah got a job from the philistines coloured with patriotism.

Maybe she was idiotic enough not to know the consequences of her action.
She probably wanted to demonstrate to the philistines that Samson was in love with her to the point of death!

the dilemma

When u make up your mind, it is easier for God to prepare u to receive what u want.

But when u can’t make up yr mind, god has to prepare u to receive whatever u get!

can’t to could

When u can’t, don’t. But merely because u can’t don’t think u wouldn’t.

U would if u could.

Try to become capable and u could what u once thought u couldn’t.

Life is all about moving from can’t to could.

hope

When one’s survival instinct is high and choices are few, patience is inevitable.

Hope is the gap filler to fill up the mental space created by patience!

the diff

What does one mean by calling someone a CUNT?

It is very different from calling one a DICK, in the sense that a dick can be dysfunctional- which means it is structured to be capable of erection but not rising.

But when called a CUNT, it simply means he doesn’t have the structure to rise at all. A structurally deficient person.

mom to my kids!

What exactly does the MOTHER TO MY KIDS mean?

Is it that she carried the zygote of my contribution to term?

Or is it that she quenched the heat of my passion with her carnal captivity?

Or is it that she is the Goddess who gave me an extension to my life thru an heir?

Or is it that she relieved me of my purposeless lust and made my life purposeful?

Or is it that she protected me from other women and saved me from depravity?

Or is it that she shared my ennui?

Or is it that she made me see my falsity of keeping myself in a state of mental hermaphoriditism and made me fill the form of man instead of vying with the woman within?

Or is it that she gave me the look of a responsible person who could  move with respectability in the society?

Or more? My mind can’t see more at present- should i give up seeking more reasons? Nay, not till the Almighty gives me the grace to think up!

Justice Sen

Hi Fellow liberals,

This issue is about IMPEACHMENT of Justice Sen of the Kolkata High Court. The approval of the Chief Justice of India has been obtained and in his opinion the impeachment proceedings should commence.

The Constitution of India provides for impeachment of the high court and supreme court justices, as they should be under no pressure or obligation and ought to fearlessly discharge their functions.

The Supreme court of india is NOT the supervisory body and was not envisaged by the constitution to put pressure on the justices of the high courts.

Here we have a justice who made it to the Bench at the age of 45 and in all likelihood wud have 17 years – at least at the high court and unreasonableness NOT interfering, would be elevated to the Supreme court, which wud extend his tenure by another 3 years. Therefore a 20 year stint!

If the press is to be believed, the issue relates to the misappropriation of Rs.25 lacs, when he was the receiver. This deed was said to have been done in the 90’s when he was still in the bar. The deeds of his past have come to haunt him. Bad TIMES.

What baffles me is the effort made by some other Judges to coax, cajole, pressurize him to resign. All in the name of Maintaining the IMAGE of the Judiciary. Resigning is an option available to the Justice when he realizes that he had done an indefensible blunder/mistake, and as a recourse towards absolution he finds himself unworthy of the constitutional post and moves out on his own.

But when other Brother and sister Judges put pressure on him, it is neither an act of self-realization nor an act reflecting his contrition, but a PEER PRESSURE. This act by the other judges, whether from the Supreme court or the other High courts is an act of COMPULSION.

The Judges are not unaware of the fact that the impeachment proceedings are cumbersome, besides bringing in division in the parliament on parochial/ partisan consideration. Justice Ramaswamy’s case is an evident example of the said consideration.

Arun Jaitely’s statement that the judges are chosen/appointed by the judges is ridiculous. The judges may not have a state machinery to find out the moral weaknesses/willful misbehaviour of the persons to be elevated. It is the Government, which should apply its resources to verify the character of the persons to be elevated to the bench.

The CJI has given his opinion on the issue and the matter is to be looked into by the Govt.,and further by the parliament if it were to pass the mandatory hurdles.

IT IS NOBODY’S BUSINESS TO PUT PRESSURE ON JUSTICE SEN- MUCH LESS THE OTHER JUSTICES, AND LET US UPHOLD THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY.

FREEDOM before DUTY

The inferior mind is blind to the secondary, tertiary and multiple use of a particular product or situation. The superior mind conceals the secondary, tertiary and multiple uses from the inferior mind and glorifies the primary use- so that they could enjoy the same things for other reasons and yet avoiding crowding for the same objects and situations.

It is this distinction that distinguishes the superior mind.

Down the lane comes the communist and observes that the superior mind is not enjoying the same objects and situation for the reasons that the inferior mind is enjoying. He discovers the reasons and tries enlightening the inferior mind, but it is so dense that unless the inferior sheds his denseness thru experience, it isn’t possible to enlighten them.

They are stuck to the primary use- like the Jews enjoyed their day’s repose after a day’s work slaving it out for the Egyptians. But working for building pyramids was not definitely to their glory.

The Egyptians encouraged everyone in the name of Duty. Duty towards accomplishing the task of building the pyramid. But the superior mind was devising ways of perpetuating the name of pharaoh by housing the dead ones to trace genealogy and to display the same for an un-achievable pedigree.

Moses attempted to bring that to the consciousness of the task-wearied Jews. But to no avail. An inferior mind can’t perceive the value of freedom and liberty. They were dreaming of the flesh pots of Egypt, to the freedom and ownership.

FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURE

The greatest discovery, next only to Newton’s gravitation, made by a team of learned people was the BASIC STRUCTURE concept.

A discovery which limited the FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS and promoted amorphous welfare of the group.

A shift from the individual to the group.

With Clarity, one can strive towards equality, but opacity brings inequality- since only the persons privy to the goings on behind the veil have access to the yardstick. Not only access, but also when vested with authority,the yardstick becomes gospel.

In group life interference is called for. But when the group, rather the rabble, infringes on the inalienable rights of the individual in the name of growth in disregard of the fundamental rights, and the Government keeps silent, it is to obliquely state that the constituent assembly had over rated the rights of the individual- as they had just got out of slavery!

Crystallization of the fundamental rights- however narrow- should be the starting point of any civil society. Day to day defining of the rights vis a vis the group objectives, leads individuals on the path of mental slavery to a system which could be taken over by lumpen elements in a democracy, all in the name of growth ( in India especially in the name of DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF STATE POLICY)!

RHINO & The LION CUB

The cub asked the lioness, why can’t they hunt down a rhino and eat its meat. The lioness said that its meat isn’t tasty.

The cub- which had grown to a lion- met a rhino grazing alone. So, as it happened a few years after the question had occurred, wanted to find out if the rhino’s meat was that bad. So he ventured to ambush the rhino. Swiftly he clambered over the rhino and attempted a mouthful of grab, but the pachyderm in one swipe dislodged him and while still in the air, charged and tossed him in the air.

The lion scampered back to his pride, with some sensible ideas.

He fathered many a cub, and one of those iconoclast cubs asked him, ‘why not hunt and eat a rhino?’.

Said the wise old lion, ‘ its meat isn’t tasty.’ – with a silent prayer, god if my cub ventures, let him come out safe!

Some experiences can’t be transmitted thru WORDS.

But if one survives long enough, one arrives at the truth untold, yet his answer to the question, will be the same as that of the previous generation’s.

Sympathy

Sympathy is the most dangerous of human emotions.

It makes one feel better about oneself without saying it

or worse still without knowing it.

NORMS

Stifling the throats of the human voices of norms, is a national past time! We as a nation hate standards, because we sympathize looking below and not like the Germans- who look up and hope that they could also reach the heights and hence strive! We love to sympathize and get en-webbed in mediocrity!

concealing words

She was the middle pillion on the motor bike and apparently her breasts were nuzzling against his back.

She was animatedly in conversation with her female friend behind- as the second pillion. The vivacity was not because of the topic, but the sensation stealthily felt and surrogatorily enjoyed.

new path

She did a lot of stand at ease on bed, that which started off as seeking a new experience became a meaningless habit. Now years have passed, she yearns for her past to have been more choosy and less wayward. The pining for innocence is the beginning for finding a new path and the rewriting of one’s past. This awakening is the dawn of the soul to a new morning.

non-duality

She came to zorba at an age when she had not lacked in a formal experience. But the formality was not able to relate itself to the personal welling up she was encountering.

Zorba was a master warrior.

A master in that he had an impeccable sense of prediction, and a warrior in that there was an internal preparation for any eventuality. Zorba identified her deeper need. The need to not just theorize, but have the first hand sensation.

He had shunned the theory, that he could be seen as a master of experience.

He got her exposed totally that she could stand in the nude and take commands. she never once thought what zorba thought or felt. He could take her to his room and tell her to strip and squat as if she were to pee- on her haunches.

She would silently do as told without a demur or a murmur. The sense of shame and degradation she had felt as a novice wasn’t there. But a new found joy in surrender, with a sense of resignation.

He moved his fingers straight to her twat and pinchingly took the clitoridal almond between his index and thumb. He quickly squeezingly identified the – what an allopath calls analogous to the penis. The speed with which he got the spot was baffling.

The mare a bridle, the yak a nose ring and a cow a rope strung thru her nostril. But for the woman the remnant strain of a man, hidden deep in her private parts, which she has access- but would be denied unity if she played the man too!

Now she wanted him to play what she thought a man ought to. And zorba played that to a tee.

incongruent memory

Samson’s memories of strength outlived his strength,

just like some women’s memories of their beauty!

EVENT HORIZON OF THE PRESENT

The rushing future and the receding past collide at the horizon of the present. That fleeting present is an event always etched in the past. That’s why we say i WAS(past tense) PRESENT at that time. Time flows and any happening recorded or a consciousness achieved is necessarily to be expressed in the past.

opinions passed off for counselling

The radio channel meow at Delhi has been kitschy and the pussies had emboldened the DJs to bring up for discussion polemic topics. One such was CONFESSIONS OF ADDICTION AND DISCUSSION THEREOF. This was on 8th aug 2007 at 8pm. The dj ginny was effervescently  treading on shores not familiar. Yet, when one has taken upon oneself the task of hosting a kitschy show, one has to ignore deeper truths and keep the audience on the surface.
Further the avowed espousal of women’s agenda by the channel had attracted a lot of hare brained comments from chicks who neither are competent to understand nor willing to submit to sense! Entered a stoned guy,who aptly identified himself as Monty and addressed ginny as dr. Ginny. She said she was not a dr. Monty said he thought she was. Ginny was considering that to be a mistaken fact and correcting him. In a low voice he asked if she had had any experience on addiction. When she said in the negative, he said ‘ oh it’s yr opinion’ so all yr listeners are voicing their opinions and u are just offering offhand over the counter solutions? Ain’t it? The effervescence of ginny subsided and within seconds deflated. She was led by her nose by the caller to the realization- babe quick to yr call of kitsch and do not yap on weaknesses and disabilities of individuals, esp assuming a high moral ground. The delight was the way Monty entered the show without causing any flutter and drew ginny out of her smug shell of febrile feminism, and exposed the show to be one of idiotic opinions!

Liberty to be IDLE or POOR

The only two liberties, which have not been trampled by kitschy good intention of the legislating class are the right to be poor and the right to be idle.

That is why in India one cannot find an enlightened rich man. Because if u wanna be rich in India u can’t be idle. U gotta run around and meet officials and politicians to push yr projects thru. Finally without idling there can be no enlightenment.

god can lie, if……….

Your conception of God, defines yr relationship, expectation and attitude towards God in particular and mankind in general. If one were to believe that God could call for a conclave of angels/spirits and give the liberty to one to be a lying spirit in the mouths of prophets- like what Micaiah (1kings 22: 22) said, it is questioning the sovereignty of God. God Himself may not do this to his children, but when he finds that his children have exceeded in wickedness thru willfulness than weakness, He could resort to any sovereign device. But He never uses these against the humble ones before God! God’s will be done.

DYNAMIC GUILT-SHEDDING

Hi Guys,

One of the biggest problems MAN faces is the LOSS of INNOCENCE.

If Eve had not been aware of the proscription of the Tree of Knowledge, and still had tasted it, would it have made her guilty? rather would it have made her FEEL guilty?? I think not or at least she’d have had the defence that had she known that eating of the tree were proscribed, she’d not have tasted of it. But she was aware of the command, albeit not directly.

The GUILT makes Adam and Eve REGRESS. They are not able to come forward and meet the LORD. They go HIDING. So the point to be perceived is that Guilt is followed by a certain behaviour of REGRESSION and a sense of NAKEDNESS(Exposure to the outside forces). This is the loss of innocence, Adam and Eve had not only become knowledgeable, but have become AWARE of their CONDITION. They cannot go back. The Rubicon has been crossed.

Let us take the example of Zacchaeus (Luke 19), Jesus Christ said, TODAY I MUST ABIDE AT THY HOUSE. Jesus did not make Zacchaeus feel guilty, but His(Jesus’) mere presence made him realize his state of guilt. A sudden RUSH of awareness of his guilt- that had lain hidden and suppressed in one form or the other for a long time. I take a call on the length of time, as he could return not only the goods and money taken wrongfully, but four-fold. 400% return. It takes 5-6 years to just double yr money in the Indian context as on date, and it must have been a long time since he’d been busy extorting !

The GUILT needs to be cleaned. Everyone at some point is likely to face the situation as Lady Macbeth feels–ALL THE PERFUMES OF ARABIA WILL NOT SWEETEN THIS LITTLE HAND. Lady Macbeth and her husband had been guilty of Regicide, Parricide, etc., maybe we are not socially convicted nor have we committed such foul crimes. Macbeth’s crime was just a step away from his position. He was next only to the king and his crime before being committed wouldn’t have seemed of the dimension it turned out.

We are not any different. We are all guilty and fallen short of the GRACE- it is no mere repetition of the verse from the Bible, but a realization. Herod did not feel the GUILT after having granted the wish (John’s head as a reward to her dance performance) of Salome. Herod must have palliated his conscience by the fact that he was merely keeping the promise made to his niece (daughter of the victim of Herod’s crime)!

But when a prophet meets David and tells him of the murder of URIAH and exposes the sinful crime(as it was a guilt against God and the society), he REPENTS. Therefore, he gets to retain not only Bathsheba, but begets a son, through his victim’s wife. who later becomes his heir (king Solomon) to the throne.

The crux is therefore REPENTANCE. Herod wouldn’t repent, instead would incarcerate John the Baptist. It is that which leads him to finally meet his ignominious end.

Prior to repentance is the most important stage, which is SUBMISSION to the statement of charge brought by the prophet. A prophet is one who aids another contemporary human being to become aware of his guilt, which is not visible to himself.

This blindness to one’s own guilt is caused by our own preoccupations. Now the question is do we abandon our duties and go on a long GUILT trip and make a mess of our lives??

NO, NO and NO. The Bible has examples who have made it (obtained REPENTANCE ) simultaneously and that we shall call the DYNAMIC GUILT-SHEDDING. D V we shall deal with it in our next session

Man’s plight!!

In a man’s youth, he keeps her happy with his virility, when middle aged with his property in goods and status in the society, in the pre-geriatric stage with his property in real and in the geriatric stage with his legacy and amnesia!

Hierarchical TRAITS

In a hierarchy the persons on top are WILLFUL,

the ones in the middle are MINDFUL and

the ones at the bottom are DUTIFUL.

Mostly the trait exhibited reflects their position in the hierarchy.

Virginity?

In a debate in channel m tv, on gender issue a woman called anousha springs a question on a callow youth if he was a virgin?

The woman had got into a mental rut!

Virginity is a factual phenomenon only applicable to females, and truly verifiable and provable.

The question can be whether the loss of the hymen was because of a finger or something thicker. But never that it wasn’t there to start with,
poor anousha, a victim of gender equality idea, stretched beyond reality!

WHAT APPLIES TO THE GOOSE MAY NOT APPLY TO THE GANDER ALWAYS!

Notice

If women did not remind men of their marital status with such outward symbols such as marriage rings and mangalasutras, men may be encouraged to entertain adulterous thoughts with impunity against married women, on the clause of ignorance(lack of NOTICE)!

Rich bitch

If u wanna fertilize her, u gotta frig her- that has changed considerably with technology. Now if she doesn’t want to be ploughed for being fertilized, she can get the anonymous sperm and get her egg done with an og specialist. No ploughing and shoving!

Even better is to hire a woman to carry her fertilized egg to term. Biological, but no traditional hassles.

God put pleasure in that activity to aid procreation- but humans in their innovative best have made them discrete. Pleasure and procreation don’t have to go together for the willful rich!

ASS-essment

If superior donkeys are made to assess the inferior horses, the comedy would be that the donkeys would use the yardstick that in its asinine  opinion would be ideal -to slog.

And the horses would be sniggering instead of neighing!

Believed fact?

I am asked to believe firstly that Jesus died for my sins, then converting this belief into a fact i am required to understand his compassion in dying for me.

My logic fails, but, i guess, the only function of religion is to stop human logic after a point.

Honorary husbands!!

Honorary husbands don’t have to DISCHARGE the functions, yet their wives publicly claim them to be their husbands.

The functions could have been assumed by or delegated to someone else, or the functions may be performed by a person who is in adverse possession of the wife.

Hurry up, it’s time!!

History, is what one is made to remember. One cannot take lessons from what one is not made to remember. If one spends all of his time figuring out the facts of history, he’d have no time to know and do anything. Hence Belief is the only substitution for history. Believe in SOMETHING and start acting, with faith in yr belief.

Facts of the past is difficult and Truth is impossible.

old tool, new problem

Her rebellion had been visited by smooth seduction by him and consequently  by a gradual deprivation of her mind. This state of mindlessness brought peace which was not long lasting. Within 2 days she found herself in the rebellious throes of her mind, secretly desiring a return to the state of mindlessness, being subjected to the procedure adopted by him as before.

He was relentless in his method- as he believed that his method was the only way. The fool did not recognize that his own body was mostly a tool of his mind and that the tool blunts with boredom and overuse! Ennui crept in.
A new dimension of problem to deal with.

logic

He was the type of guy who in his penchant for stretching logic, couldn’t reconcile throughout his life that the point next to 30, in tennis, was 40 and not 45!

the crow at the Mac’s

He wanted the CROW to come up to him and perch itself on his outstretched palm. He wanted the crow to trust him. The crow is the least trusting and most alert- in the sense that any activity in its vicinity is perceived as an attempt to hurt its interest and would quickly exit.
God said, besides the nature, the crow has never been loved by anyone other than its own breed. The only way for the crow to shed its genes and memories of its experience is to overwhelm those with love. Zorba, waited with love in his heart and duly reflected in his eyes. But the CROW did not get inspired. After hours of waiting, finally grew hungry and got himself some burger from the nearby mac’s. While chomping on it, he threw a few crumbs of the patty to the crow. The crow shed a bit of its inhibition and with its usual circumspection, that the crumbs were not a human ploy to trap, he pecked a crumb and in one swift and elegant perch landed a lil away.
Zorba, felt a connection. An intended love taking the shape of love. A sort of dynamic love. Now he did not want the crow to shed its skepticism or alertness, it needed it for its survival, after all not everyone is gonna be overcome with such feelings of love for a crow- all the time. His aberration, however well intended and good, cannot be expected to alter the perceptions of years of experience,  and expectation born of it.
Zorba, touched upon a pebble of wisdom and was squeezing it to find a corner. No corner, but a hope that something solid except a sphere had to have corners, kept him squeezing it harder. Something to keep him going. A pebble and a strange love for a scavenging crow!

The bite!

He saw her twat wherein her labia was found draped on the sides of her patulous clitoris, like a bulldog’s upper lip. He thought- this has a better bite,  though toothless!

Flatter flattery

He called her an Angel.

She was exhilarated to put it mildly,

– till the day he called her the fallen woman.

Redolent of the fallen  Lucifer.

AMBITION GOT LUCIFER DOWN,

HERE HIS SUSPICION GOT HER DOWN!!

IN A MAN, WHAT HE DOES; &

IN A WOMAN, WHAT A MAN THOUGHT SHE COULD HAVE DONE!!

GRACE

God’s grace is the teflon coating of God, from scrutiny of His relentless principles of retribution!

David upon intimation, of any wrongdoing by him,

obtained God’s grace through timely penitence and propitiation,

There is no greater shield than GRACE, and

there is no worse vulnerability THAN without Grace.

ASCRIPTION

God is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. Yes such epithets are emotionally sustainable, but on second thoughts is a human being in a position to judge and ascribe such laudable epithets to God? No, when he has to assume his inferiority in terms of Knowledge, space limitation, Time, health etc how can he judge God and ascribe those things to a superior Being whose attributes he can’t even imagine??

WHOM CAN HE FEAR?

God is love- naturally, as he can fear nothing, why should He not love all!

Our lack of love is more out of fear than out of our inability to love.

ACTIVITY

Free to that extent that u could choose anything, but nothing to choose from! It is the  downslide of inactivity. It is from this point that one realizes the importance of activity and starts limiting his mind, which constantly judges and refuses action through rejection. The servility of the mind is understood only at that point.

To exalt the MIND and WOMAN are the most decadent activity of the inactive!

the MCP hypothesis!!

Fidelity is most important for a woman for avoiding confusion- under normal circumstances. Confusion because, if she were to make love to more than one on the same day or thereabouts, the father of the issue may be a cause for doubt, thereby causing confusion. The least that a parent could do is to tell the child who the father is. Since it is the mother and only the mother who could certify that, it is essential that she be sure of the facts.

But if a man were to have sex with two or more women and the woman were to have it with one alone, there would be no such confusion.

Hence recommending fidelity in a woman has the effect of avoiding confusion. Thereby bringing stability to the society. But women demanding fidelity in men, has no effect other than social implications.

It is organic in a woman and inorganic in a man.

dormancy

Every seed in the store is crying out to God to get it into circumstances to sprout.

All such cries aren’t answered but the seeds which have not cried out don’t sprout when put in conditions compatible.

PHALLIC devotion

Ductile duct- drawn out by slender fingers,

languorously tracing the bulbous ridge,

choking the shaft and sighting the mushrooming  glistening head,

lowers her head to get the tactile feel in the buccal vacuum.

The ultimate in linga pooja!

JOSEPH’S story!!

Did Joseph tell Jacob about his brothers’ deed of having sold him for a price to the Ishmaelites after him having become the minister in Egypt? I think so. He reported all matters to his father and to destroy his brothers’ credibility he’d have done that further he couldn’t have concocted a better story than telling the truth as to how he ended up in Egypt. Truth stated to his advantage! Or had he learnt the lesson, not to carry old and damaging tales to others, with all those terrible experiences? Maybe. But he in all probability to wangle the birthright he might have stated the fact. But what was the fact? He wrote the history in Egypt! God gives the good man the opportunity to give final touches to history.

Dual deal!!

this girl of all seventeen with her bro of twelve, went to the mall like Dinah to see around.
Her youth and scanty dress were riveting the attention of many a bull around. She parried those admiring and betimes lustful looks, with pride, coyness and sudden tingle in her loins!
She’d interact with her brother, who was accompanying her, as if she was all with him- poor fellow, little did he realize that she was doing what every woman was created to do. Allure, when willing be demure, and when ready get it manured!

LOVE over FEAR

The world is divided into those who Fear and those who love. Those who fear, fear the happening of a thing negatively perceived by them, consequently want to avoid those perceptions which induce fear. But those who love, want to do something or want something to happen. A thing which they positively perceive would elicit happiness, safety, security etc. The fear factor underlies all love, but the overcoming of fear, after it crosses a threshold, inspires love. The old testament predominantly exhorts, FEAR NOT. But the new testament of Christ, exhorts LOVE- the love that inspires brotherhood and allays humans fearing other humans or unpleasant situations . This was the rending of the veil- the mental liberation of fear granted through the crucifixion of the Christ. He that hath an ear, let him hear.

considered concession

The prophet Mohammed’s allowance for males to marry up to 4 females at any given point of time, as per some social scientists was because lots of widows were turning vagrants and hence to avoid that plight. I don’t think that that could have been the sole  reason. Spiritually, he probably did not want men to be frustrated by viragoes, nags and other unwholesome women, instead he wanted men to be a satisfied lot. Further a man should not be controlled by any single woman, rather he should be treated as a lord by each woman vying with the rest. Simply put woman worshiping should be shunned by the valiant men. Further, men should be given greater liberty to choose their partners without losing favor of his existing wives. Men should not be made to feel guilty because of women- simple and straight.

ALAS, it is done with!!

If u have walked long enough on the wrong path, it is a fait accompli and any amount of penance cannot wipe it off except for God. The reason- a line of action involves Time and Space. Space can be retraced, but Time cannot be recalled or retraced in absolute terms. For an outsider, the record stays!

Samson’s folly

Samson paid for delilah’s body but not for her loyalty. The lords of the philistines could not have tempted her if she had had lots of money- enough to secure her future. But samson failed to appreciate this in the whore.

a father could be his son’s son!!!

One is not able to resolve certain conundrum – for eg. Whether patience begets purpose or purpose begets patience. This type of question is born out of the belief that a father cannot be his son’s son! Patience beyond a point becomes the father of purpose and purpose beyond a point becomes the father of patience!

gotta be strong to see

One cannot see certain things if he doesn’t do certain things. For example, if a man has not acquired the physical skill to plough for a long time and the mental toughness to last beyond the woman’s antics on bed, he cannot watch her lose her state of mindfulness and see her drift into the delirium of loss of self monitoring mechanism of the mind. If he doesn’t build up that tempo, he is sure to be caught up in her wiles of pleasing, sympathising, judging, consoling, encouraging, egging etc. The man recognizes his power not thru depletion but by doing the act that presupposes depletion and controls the depletion and raises the mind -that expects depletion -to a state of mindlessness.

Luck vs. Fortune

Luck is erratic and fortune is timely. The former is not trustworthy but a boon. The latter is trustable but testing one’s patience.

power doesn’t corrupt

Lord Acton missed the mark narrowly, power doesn’t corrupt, but primarily makes one impatient and the absolutely powerful, absolutely impatient. Corruption is to cut down the time taken or to avoid the unpleasantness and thereby being bogged down. Being bogged down is getting stuck in Time. Hence wanting to avoid unpleasantness is relatable to time.

daniel’s expose of nebu’s untold dream!!

Like the dwarf stuck with his name, nebuchadnezzar was stuck with the dream. He could not utter it, otherwise the chaldeans and the jewish captives would give untrue interpretations. But the weight was heavy- to the point like the dwarf, had to cry out loud. So as he stood on the terrace of his garden and was reminiscing one of the pussies he had dilated, he called for her. She after servicing him was asked by the king what she wanted. She wanted him, but a king could never ever give up himself to a woman, so she asked him for the dream as yet untold to any human ears. He narrated the statue and the shining this and that etc. Daniel meanwhile had people to tell him who the king had been spending time with. One of the lessons that Daniel learnt early was that- make the mouth that is neighbour to the ears the king spoke, to talk. He enticed a eunuch to speak to her and casually get the details of all the private things exchanged. She, to prove that she knew something that only the king knew, said everything in great detail- not wanting to miss out on any detail. The eunuch for the gold, gave the dream to Daniel. He thanked shadrach meshach and abednego for all the help. Went to the king’s court and very ably presented the vision and whatever he thought it meant- all so far in time and proportion that it was unverifiable!
He came back with all the importance of a sharp winner. Nebuchadnezzar, had a sneaking suspicion if daniel had met the cunt of the harem. Thorough verification showed that daniel had not had a chance to meet her. Now nebu had a good night’s repose. Daniel had to keep it a tight secret. Arioch and he met with and had a pact, i help u by feeding the ears of nebu with good reports for the help. U keep the secret unto yourself. Meanwhile daniel wrote the book and therein mentioned that God revealed it to him. Of course God, gave him the wisdom to ferret out the info without leaving a trail. Smart ass daniel! The jewry as usual love incredible stories and the ones at the top know that God gets most of the things done thru human agency.

bandh

In the adversarial form, it is none of the judge’s duty to plead a point or even in favour of any party’s interest. The justices of the supreme court have assisted the writ petitioner by suggesting to him that he would have a good case, if he could file a contempt petition against the chief minister of tamil nadu for having enforced the bandh despite the court ruling against the bandh. It seems to be advisorial litigation and not adversarial litigation. The issue to be decided should have been as to- if the chief minister and the party president are one and the same, which way could he go in a situation like this. Would there be conflict of interest if he in his capacity as party chief act illegally, can he be detained under the law? if not, he should be prohibited, as the immunity enjoyed cannot override the operation of the rule of law ! Only his overt support could be taken cognizance of in law and therefore any overt act which smacks of conflict of duties ought to be judicially settled one way or the other.

collective consciousness

In fact there is no such thing as good and evil. Evil is something that is avoided by most humans as they presuppose that the challenges those arise after the choice of evil cannot be handled by them and history shows that not many who have trodden that path had been successful and happy. But when many humans choose the very same evil, the society acquires an ability collectively to handle the challenges hidden therein. Thereby collectively eliminating the insurmountable challenges which follow consequent on that choice.

memories

If u haven’t done it while u could, u’d b having that much less memories to regret or cherish!

on second thoughts

If prima facie u don’t find something beautiful,

what u subsequently discover as beautiful is an invention,

which has more purpose than quality.

faith

If one looks for something long enough, even if the thing didn’t exist at the time of one’s looking, he would create the thing by having looked for it hard enough!

the recoil

Any cot reminded zorba of the anvil. Like a blacksmith, he saw that as a place to lay something and hammer it into the desired shape. He had hammered many an iron willed babe into shape, on the anvil of life! But his greatest chagrin was that unlike the blacksmith’s they refused to perpetually retain the shape hammered into! The babes had to be rehammered the moment he saw them forgetting the hammering or rebellion creeping in to test his slave driver traits.

prophecy

Adjusting the facts to accomodate a prophecy, is an art that is nurtured thru keeping history and looking for events to have the events interpreted in tune with the prophecy.

stuck

By the time the canvas got arranged,

the paint went dry.

By the time fresh paint was bought,

the maestro lost the inspiration.

Now the vision is desiccated and

like a gene stuck in the strand,

struggling like philomela to express itself.

beatitude- mercy

Blessed are the merciful, as they remember the mercy obtained by them.
Blessed are the merciful, as they hope that they can obtain mercy.
Blessed are the merciful, as they know that the day may not be far off, when they may seek it and having been merciful then would entitle them for it now.

devil,the needed evil

Between God and Man one needs the devil. But for which, how does one escape from guilt on one side and hubris on the other side? If when one is righteous like Job, one can’t accuse God- that would be hubris. If one is humble and yet weak how can he bear the guilt- he needs the devil to off-load his guilt . Hence a spiritual life without the devil is unimaginable as that of life without god.

beggarly elements

Besides the scientifically established gravitational force, the forces that act on one’s mind is palpable only when the will built by one thru childhood disappears. At those willless moments, uninvited those forces dawn on u. To submerge those forces any amount of knowledge won’t help, but Faith in a Belief, gradually removes one from the grip of those forces. Relating those forces to a system of planetary positions may be exciting initially and thus may lead one to believe that those are the causes and hence placating them might alleviate one’s pain if not altogether remove them. But non corporeal forces cannot be fought by corporeal force. The non corporeal force which alone helped me was the idea of Jesus, and subjugating the mind to that power.

stretch the lie

Her charm primarily rose from the fact that she put all her wares to display, but none for sale. Mere display made people think, that they could have it for the right consideration. Many offers, were received and lingeringly rejected. The display parts were kept in order and view, burnished, buffed and bouncy! She was under no illusion that the bounce and buff were eternal, but she also recognized that effort stretches the end of the Time of anything! Now and then some sly comments were reported of her discreetly by some of her cronies, who enjoyed her proximity, just to learn how she was doing whatever she was doing.

courage

He ran after a thought that was looking for a worthy man to carry it. The thought said, ‘ u can enrich yourself by flaunting me, but u can’t defend me against other rivalling thoughts, so why want me?”

title, possession & enjoyment

He had sown in the furrows ploughed by the other.

No doubt he had saved himself of a lot of labour.

But when the reaping time came he saw his seed

being garnered into the other’s barns!

The status and title DO matter.

Don’t allow them to dawn on you at the reaping time!

the wasted question

He asked her, ‘ when she had her first sexual experience? ‘ she was not only a liberated person but who did not apportion privileges based on the gender. She said- are u asking for the first time when my hand was held and i became a jelly or when i was kissed on my hand and i turned gooey, or when i was first kissed on my lips, or when i boldly participated in the kiss that i darted my tongue into his mouth and also licked his moustache or is it the first time he held my hips and fondled my tit with one hand and kissed my naked nipple and felt his moustache as bristles on my areola, or the first time when he smote with his wand but failed to part for fear of losing what a fool like u would check to find on the day of the nuptials if i had it or not? She said i am a virgin by all physical standards- give or take a few stolen kisses and intimate rubs. This made his mind agitated, he could neither swallow what he heard nor show that he resented her indiscreet past. That would be like telling her why don’t u lie and keep me happy!

Hello world!

Hi Guys,

This relates to india. The burning issues are floods in Bihar & acquisition of land in Singur. The issue realating to Singur is best explained through an analogy by regaling a story from the Bible.

There was a king called AHAB who badly wanted to have the VINEYARD of NABOTH for the purposes of planting herbs. Naboth refused, Ahab’s countenance fell, his queen Jezebel couldn’t take that the most powerful man was not man enough to take what he wanted to have, thru guile, enticement or force.

She devices a plan with the elders of the area, gets NABOTH implicated in a case of blasphemy and gets him stoned and thus hands over the vineyard for the use of AHAB, the king of Israel. So much for the manliness- leaving it in the hands of the wicked woman to obtain what he wanted.

In India there was a FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT granted by the constitution when the constituion was adopted by the people of India. In the name of stripping the Zamindars and other land lords and princes of large land holdings, the right was down graded to that of a constitutional right. Subsequently , through the LAND ACQUISITION ACT 1894 (?), the right to acquire was given to the government to acquire land on behalf of Companies.

NOW, like JEZEBEL, the govt of west bengal has acquired land forcibly from individuals and handed it over to the already cash rich TATA (AHAB)!!

The issue boils down to whether the government should interfere in the affairs between individuals who hold small parcels of land on the one side and big businesses on the other, all in the name of DEVELOPMENT. I am sure that if the NANO factory did not come up in Singur, it could have been brought up in Uttarakhand, Orissa etc.. Earlier in the name of liquidating the concentration of wealth (LAND) in the hands of the few we raped the FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT. Now in the name of DEVELOPMENT we are doing the same.

The only difference is that, earlier the RICH landlords were involved and now the poor farmers are involved. Earlier we rid ourselves of a precious right without compunction, now we are impotent to revive the dead right, even though we know that the poor are involved. Are we being judgemental that the poor have only got this much right to demand for their land and when they want more, it is nothing but greed? Nay, the man who gets a life-time opportunity to make a bargain with the company, should be protected by the GOVERNMENT to drive as hard a bargain as possible. If the Jezebelite Government feels for the Ahab like companies, it should allot land which is in its own title, possession and enjoyment.

The pretext of DEVELOPMENT should not be exalted in this vast country merely for a 1000 acres, especially at the cost of the original FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT.

LET US RESTORE THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS GRANTED BY THE MOST LEARNED CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, AND NOT BECOME PAWNS IN THE HANDS OF THE EXPEDIENT POLITICIAN!! LONG LIVE THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN INDIA IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM AND CONTENT.