Friday, November 12, 2010
Karma acts quite fast in 2010.
10 minutes after posting something on sewage, as I go out for a walk, I get a warm bird dropping on my neck...LOL
I have felt that kaksteen and I both have this in common...that we both are bothered by the dirt in the world, the kind of dirt that is repulsive to look at, and that we both try to do something about it.
Ofcourse, we can get jealous of the other.
While I have not yet really mastered my capacity to help others, I have a suggestion for him. I told him to leave negativity...for example, the way he talks rudely or uses obscene words or even a website named after him that has porno stuff. His approach is like a doctor trying to cure a leprosy patient by hugging him to show his empathy. But if the doctor keeps doing this, he is going to be himself a leprosy patient one-day. The mind is a fertile land and whatever thoughts one implants in it becomes the reality, whether positive or negative, it starts growing. A doctor can best help the patient by prescribing a good medicine but not live the life of the patient to show empathy.
One may then ask...who is there to do the dirty jobs that keeps the other sections to live comfortably? Let's take the manual cleaning of the sewage in India. It's one of the worst plights that anyone can go through. These workers, whenever there is a blockage in the sewage lines, they have to get under the sewage water in the manhole and release any blockage. For a long time, I thought this water was that of drinking water or bathing water. Then it slowly dawned on me that these waters also take the excretions from the toilet. Now, when one section of the society is going to a fine dining restaurant, why is the other entering this sort of situations? It's a complex issue. For one thing and though this may sound callous, there is an element of karma in it. People generally don't become a sewage cleaner or a billionaire overnight. An ordinary worker leading a wrong way of life keeps on going down till one-day he is forced to work as a sewage cleaner to satisfy his hunger. The same way an ordinary worker works diligently to become a billionaire. The error in the understanding of people is that they look at a situation as a snapshot at that time and lament the injustice in the world. But does this mean the sewage cleaner has no redemption? Unlike Judeo-Christinity-Islamic belief of eternal hell, there is no such belief of an eternal hell in Hinduism. Hell in the Hindu belief is experiencing suffering as a cleansing process. It's a reversing of the direction of falling downwards to start rising upwards in evolution. So what's the solution to the sewage problem? 2 processes take place simultaneously. First, the worker says 'I understand that I have to work to live and my previous recklessness landed me in this poor job for which I have gone through enough. Now, I'm not taking it any more. If you people in the society cannot be careful enough in dropping things that can cause blockage in the drain or any other such things, I'm not going to get into it and you may as well experience the stink in your house or street or road. Second, some good souls from the society enact a law to stop manual sewage cleaning and make the sewage cleaning process automatic by using machines. This is what is presently happening here. At the end of the day, the worker gets a good job forgetting the past as a bad dream and can tell himself that what is considered filthy by humans is food to the pig.
kaksteen has great intensity, the greatest I have seen among Pravda members. It is for this reason that I gave him the name 'Vishnu' while naming everyone according to Vishnusahasranama. But it is all held in the prison of negativity. Now, positivity doesn't mean whites, the west, materialism and negativity doesn't mean blacks, the east, spirituality. A sewage cleaner lives half of his life in dirt and the rest in enjoyments like watching TV, having sex etc. Kaksteen seems to come from a well to do back-ground but still engages in these things. He may think that it is a part of duty or service...well, it is. But, when there is a better option, why take this? These are observations and not judgement. It's because I have no right to call myself better than a sewage cleaner who does his job properly when I myself have not worked till this time in the evening today. But as I posted once as my signature in that forum, "I have an opinion on everything!"
I don't really know how far my idea of him is true. I certainly don't mean that he is some sort of a saint! But once I read that his friend committed suicide by jumping from the building and so I thought he may be undergoing some of the psychosis I go through. Then, he was very popular among the Pravda members and so I thought that he must be having some good in him to warrant such backing from others.
He may resent what I have written comparing him to a sewage cleaner but I have written for his good, as equals.
Ofcourse, we can get jealous of the other.
While I have not yet really mastered my capacity to help others, I have a suggestion for him. I told him to leave negativity...for example, the way he talks rudely or uses obscene words or even a website named after him that has porno stuff. His approach is like a doctor trying to cure a leprosy patient by hugging him to show his empathy. But if the doctor keeps doing this, he is going to be himself a leprosy patient one-day. The mind is a fertile land and whatever thoughts one implants in it becomes the reality, whether positive or negative, it starts growing. A doctor can best help the patient by prescribing a good medicine but not live the life of the patient to show empathy.
One may then ask...who is there to do the dirty jobs that keeps the other sections to live comfortably? Let's take the manual cleaning of the sewage in India. It's one of the worst plights that anyone can go through. These workers, whenever there is a blockage in the sewage lines, they have to get under the sewage water in the manhole and release any blockage. For a long time, I thought this water was that of drinking water or bathing water. Then it slowly dawned on me that these waters also take the excretions from the toilet. Now, when one section of the society is going to a fine dining restaurant, why is the other entering this sort of situations? It's a complex issue. For one thing and though this may sound callous, there is an element of karma in it. People generally don't become a sewage cleaner or a billionaire overnight. An ordinary worker leading a wrong way of life keeps on going down till one-day he is forced to work as a sewage cleaner to satisfy his hunger. The same way an ordinary worker works diligently to become a billionaire. The error in the understanding of people is that they look at a situation as a snapshot at that time and lament the injustice in the world. But does this mean the sewage cleaner has no redemption? Unlike Judeo-Christinity-Islamic belief of eternal hell, there is no such belief of an eternal hell in Hinduism. Hell in the Hindu belief is experiencing suffering as a cleansing process. It's a reversing of the direction of falling downwards to start rising upwards in evolution. So what's the solution to the sewage problem? 2 processes take place simultaneously. First, the worker says 'I understand that I have to work to live and my previous recklessness landed me in this poor job for which I have gone through enough. Now, I'm not taking it any more. If you people in the society cannot be careful enough in dropping things that can cause blockage in the drain or any other such things, I'm not going to get into it and you may as well experience the stink in your house or street or road. Second, some good souls from the society enact a law to stop manual sewage cleaning and make the sewage cleaning process automatic by using machines. This is what is presently happening here. At the end of the day, the worker gets a good job forgetting the past as a bad dream and can tell himself that what is considered filthy by humans is food to the pig.
kaksteen has great intensity, the greatest I have seen among Pravda members. It is for this reason that I gave him the name 'Vishnu' while naming everyone according to Vishnusahasranama. But it is all held in the prison of negativity. Now, positivity doesn't mean whites, the west, materialism and negativity doesn't mean blacks, the east, spirituality. A sewage cleaner lives half of his life in dirt and the rest in enjoyments like watching TV, having sex etc. Kaksteen seems to come from a well to do back-ground but still engages in these things. He may think that it is a part of duty or service...well, it is. But, when there is a better option, why take this? These are observations and not judgement. It's because I have no right to call myself better than a sewage cleaner who does his job properly when I myself have not worked till this time in the evening today. But as I posted once as my signature in that forum, "I have an opinion on everything!"
I don't really know how far my idea of him is true. I certainly don't mean that he is some sort of a saint! But once I read that his friend committed suicide by jumping from the building and so I thought he may be undergoing some of the psychosis I go through. Then, he was very popular among the Pravda members and so I thought that he must be having some good in him to warrant such backing from others.
He may resent what I have written comparing him to a sewage cleaner but I have written for his good, as equals.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Good morning...maybe I went a little far in my blog posts last night.
A newbie once asked me to modify my internet settings when I was in pravda to log into the network. Since that time, even though my brain is severely retarded to have common-sense, I'm aware that I'm a part of the network. Infact, now there is a feedback-mechanism...when I post something that is sensitive, my computer needs rebooting when I start it the next time. It looks like the network flushes out these internet activities of mine so that a hot-blooded intel or terrorist doesn't decide that it is Judgment Day. I'm sorry to cause you any stress this way but I try my best not to get worked up.
I also understand that there is real-time monitoring of my computer and internet activities. I tell this to those who have to sit and put up with me...you can relax and enjoy your job without getting neurotic.
Likewise...don't get stressed out keeping your hands on the panic-button. I won't get psyched out if you disconnect me every now and then for damage control.
We are all in this together. Unfortunately, there is no dislike option. Even though Archana back-stabbed me, I'm still fond of her and love her, though I understand that she now belongs to someone else. Even though I have left the Pravda forum for good, I cannot leave the network. It' because both Archana and Pravda are very much a part of my life and happy memories, though sometimes gone bitter. Let's try to minimize the friction. I have never wanted more than my share of the world, which is the same as everyone else's.
For all my wanderings, I know clearly the way out and every day I go to my destination. Please do not waste much of your time on me. Go and live your life happily. My life is taken care of. You may keep in touch with me by sending me a 'Hi' in your own way whenever you feel good. You are also never far away from my thoughts. I may sound like a narcissist or an avatar come down to save planet earth, but this is not my real nature. I just want a normal life like everyone else.
A newbie once asked me to modify my internet settings when I was in pravda to log into the network. Since that time, even though my brain is severely retarded to have common-sense, I'm aware that I'm a part of the network. Infact, now there is a feedback-mechanism...when I post something that is sensitive, my computer needs rebooting when I start it the next time. It looks like the network flushes out these internet activities of mine so that a hot-blooded intel or terrorist doesn't decide that it is Judgment Day. I'm sorry to cause you any stress this way but I try my best not to get worked up.
I also understand that there is real-time monitoring of my computer and internet activities. I tell this to those who have to sit and put up with me...you can relax and enjoy your job without getting neurotic.
Likewise...don't get stressed out keeping your hands on the panic-button. I won't get psyched out if you disconnect me every now and then for damage control.
We are all in this together. Unfortunately, there is no dislike option. Even though Archana back-stabbed me, I'm still fond of her and love her, though I understand that she now belongs to someone else. Even though I have left the Pravda forum for good, I cannot leave the network. It' because both Archana and Pravda are very much a part of my life and happy memories, though sometimes gone bitter. Let's try to minimize the friction. I have never wanted more than my share of the world, which is the same as everyone else's.
For all my wanderings, I know clearly the way out and every day I go to my destination. Please do not waste much of your time on me. Go and live your life happily. My life is taken care of. You may keep in touch with me by sending me a 'Hi' in your own way whenever you feel good. You are also never far away from my thoughts. I may sound like a narcissist or an avatar come down to save planet earth, but this is not my real nature. I just want a normal life like everyone else.
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