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Thursday 28 August, 2008
By  Vikas Vij   00:10 | 18/Mar/2008 |  1 Comment(s)
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Black and White

This title is inspired from Subhash Ghai's recently released movie. The chief protagonist of this movie, like every emotional human being, sees everything in Black and White.
 
Though if we dive to the depths, we shall know that everything exists in shades of grey. Complete black or complete white is an illusion of the mind.
 
An emotional woman can never find anything wrong in her daughter, nor anything right in her daughter-in-law. This applies universally across cultures, and across ages and time-periods.
 
Godse becomes a Monster, and Gandhi becomes a Mahatma. Though both were human beings.
 
Similarly, Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a man of exceptional qualities and character. Before things went terribly sour between Hindus and Muslims, Gopal Krishan Gokhale, a distinguished Brahmin leader, called Jinnah "the best ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity."
 
Errors, like garbage, float on the surface. Good qualities, like pearls, remain hidden in deep waters.
 
Crows pick on the garbage. Swans look for pearls.
 
Osho Rajneesh wrote a book titled "Gehre paani paith". This title was inspired from the following doha:
 
Jin khoja tinn paaya, gehre paani paith
Main baawri boodan dari, rahi kinaare baith
 
Whoever has found the truth, had to dive in deep waters
I, like a fool, was scared of drowning, and kept sitting at the shores
 
[Note: "boodan" is the same as "dooban", in a colloquial usage.]
 
It takes courage to search for the truth. To challenge the status quo. Because fear is a great resistance factor, which opposes the search, and proposes Bhakti.
 
In the deep seas, a sense of calmness takes over, and silence prevails. Whereas shallow waters at the shores are extremely noisy and excited.
 
Excitement is eliminated from our flesh, once we understand that others are not perfectly black, and we are not perfectly white. Empathising with the other side gives birth to peace.
 
When a monstrous wave hits the deep sea, the wave becomes the sea. The sea is larger than the wave. Similarly, when a shallow man meets a man of depth, the shallow man will calm down.
 
Whereas... when both men are shallow, it is time for Kali's act.

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