Sunday, January 23, 2011

Arvy's travels

A couple of blogs before I had mentioned my experience with a Burqa-clad woman. What I didn't mention then was that when I was returning home, I dropped in at a hotel to have some food. I was having a nice plate o 14 idli when some Muslim guys came in. Now, I don't generalize that every Muslim I see is some terrorist. That's too stupid. Anyway, these guys just went in. And today, I saw one of the guys walking along the beach...I can say with 99% surety. Well again, this is too big a co-incidence but so what...he may well be a friend. I generally do not identify anyone I may know for 4 reasons...the 1st reason is that I do not know if he or she is good or bad, the 2nd reason is that I do not know if he is a friend or foe and the 3rd reason is that it may be a coincidence. The 4th reason, which is the most important and which over-rides all others is that I mind my own business and it is not my work.

But today, the thing that was odd was that when I saw guy again again with another, I changed path and behind these two guys with the cars hiding me. It was like suddenly I disappeared from the vision when they were expecting me to pass by them. This can all be dismissed as paranoid behaviour except that just as I was expecting, the other guy 'seemed' surprised to have lost me and turned around to find me behind him. Again, this can be paranoid behaviour. When I come home, a guy covered with a headscarf comes in to my apartment and as I walk up the stairs, removes a package from underneath. My thought went briefly to the recent Varanasi blast where the bomb was put under some sort of stairs. And after some 20 minutes, I hear all sorts of noises outside which are supposed to be from crackers bursting for a marriage or temple function.

These things don't bother me much because I live a firm life of Yoga, Sharanagathi and Samnyama.