I could imagine the world in my childhood days; raising
ducks, playing with hens, swimming in the nearby river with friends; eating out
homely dishes and playing war with paper bullets loaded in rubber bands; there was Doordarshan for the entertainment and DD metro
afterwards and it was a heartbreaking moment when Metro was revamped as DD
news.
All the programs from Duck tales to Captian Vyom and Shaktiman and then
came the fishing with Indian bath towels known as thorth and the climbing up of trees, roadside cricket tournaments, family tours, the 16 Rs school canteen
food, temple visits and gossipping with friends and telling tales mostly
imagined, running along the paddy farm side then the howling at current cuts
and a lot more; childhood was totally fun and when I look now children are just
in a virtual cage learning stupid stuff that wants to make everybody engineers,
doctors or CA’s…What kind of a world are we living in right now? Ask
the children of this age about their fun times they might vouch with things that
are 99% digital or synthetic or are toxins...with closed doors, unknown
neighbours and nuclear families it’s the children that suffer from such social
dilemmas and we are thriving in creating bigger markets and industries that
instills just speed in life and no meaning to it.
The question arises; where are we ushering onto? For every
one is sumptuously well outside; all our senses are gratified, if not with
natural products we have done it with chemical ones, our medicines are highly
advanced, our conquest comprises of moon and mars,we are on the peak of human
advancement and never in the course of our history have we laboured so much in
the use of our resources. We are arrogantly teaching our kids to consider
ourselves as a very highly modernized civilization capable of advanced and
sophisticated scientific and economic mechanisms which are independent on its
own and will take care of all there future needs. Doesn’t we sound idiotic or
is it just me?
The truth is that we are not conscious of our doings and are
simply following the mainstream defined by the media, politics, education and
everything swag that comes and goes with it. We are being deliberately made
zombies to follow a social man made structure which has the intellectual
support of the post colonialised era and with roots layed on the globalized
industrialised market oriented state.
In this world of conflict it is interesting to note that
every industry has particular words or a vocabulary attached to it what could
be named as jargons, I am simply astonished to find that where are the
spiritual ones? Are they missing? Where is the moksha vocabulary? Or is it not being educated or is being deliberately
made silent? In spirituality the description goes like this there is
theVakyartha, the vachyartha and the lakshyartha; the meaning of words of the
sentence and then of the lakshya of that sentence. How can we transcend the
known if not even the Vakyas are conveyed? And it is when this transcendence
occurs will I consider the world to be a better place.
