When in Rome, do the Romans!

Suno gaur se duniya waalon...
Hindi movies hit an all time low!!
Salaam Namaste ko to hum salaam karte hai. Except for the occasional one liners, like the title, by Javed Jaffery the movie was unbearable!
I dont go to watch a movie to be shouted at, and that too from foolish hero-heroines with Dolby surround sound throats.
With a football filled belly, definitely not looking like baby laden, our beloved Preeto rani is jumping around in a way that not even many not so pregnant actresses can jump around!
Machi what a crap movie! The only saving grace of the day was the lovely rainy weather and my bike full throttle on an empty night road! Seasons perfect for a Mahabs trip...Banner come next weekend, we'll do a Mahabs trip or a Pondy trip...

Religion of the Uplifted

Religion has four basic definitions in the dictionary. The first two declare that it is the belief in a superhuman controlling power termed ‘God’. The third calls it a particular system of faith and worship.

But I would say that the fourth is the most true and appropriate. It says that religion is something one is devoted to. According to me that is what religion is all about. Believing in something and someone and be completely and honestly devoted to it.

For one in love, his god is his beloved and religion his love for his beloved. Whatever he does, he does for the happiness of his love. His every action strives to make his beloved happy.

For a true engineer, religion is his machines, his produce, and his design, for it is towards these things a true engineer is devoted to.
For an artist it is his art, his painting, his music his dance. Only, his means to attain that abstract form are different.

Some sing, some dance, some paint, others solve problems; some others recite mantras or read namaaz. Yet, if you look closely, all strive to attain the abstract form which many call ‘God’, which is hidden somewhere in the depths of human mind and only concentration is required to approach closer and closer to it.

The only difference lies in the means of concentration which varies form mind to mind. One has to recognise what kind of labyrinth his mind is, at the end of which lies the abstract form all strive to achieve, and accordingly select his means.
The one who realises this is the one who, I believe, is enlightened and truly uplifted.

27th August 2002

Old Writings....

The following few posts will be some old scribblings written in long hand...
Many are still incomplete so they will not figure online, but those that are digitized are here open for criticism...