As I See It

A lot was imbibed by the little foe of mine during the time that I spent at a prestigious school for primary education. Religious sentiments were honored to the unimaginable limits. The days started with the chant of the truth..
"maatha pithaa guru deivam.."
It is said that the Almighty himself quoted the above statement thus giving him the least priority in the order of worship.
Reflecting on the above truth last nite, I felt that there was a hidden meaning attached to the same.
Well , lets look at it from my foe's perspective.

It is considered that Maata (Mother) should be the first one to be worshipped followed by Pitaa (father) , Guru (teacher) and Himself. This is since , it is the mother who brought us to the world. So first prayers to the divine being. Then comes the no less important role played by the father who shows us the way to life. The teacher follows next prior to Himself because, he was the one who would have shown us the path of Knowledge which is an alias of God.
Lets us assume that in an idealistic situation, every birth on this earth worships its Mother. When I say birth, I mean to include all the possible cases..Humans,animals,plants,insects,microorganisms etc.
Since no birth is possible without a Mother, then as an universal principle , all the mothers existing on this earth would be worshipped. When we worship somebody, as an automatic implication, Godliness is attached to that entity.
So deducing from the above case, Mothers and Fathers are attached with a Godly status.
Now follows the case of a teacher.
It is impossible for any human, to abstain from the process of learning. He either learns the good or the evil,but the fact remains that heis constantly in the process of learning. His metamorphosis is based on what he learns for the most of the time. If he learns the good knowledge , he becomes respectable in the soceity lest he is termed as a liability to the society. So where does he learn the knowledge from? Well the sources are many.Nature is a good teacher.Since Im assuming idealistic situation, let us believe that everyone learns only the good things from the external factors..Nature and fellow members of the soceity.So the latter set of people act as teachers as well as students at the same time. If A learns something from B, then B is A's teacher. Since the process of Knowledge acquisition is constant , B also constantly updates himself . So B could be A's student in other issues or B could be a student of another entity C who inturn learns something valuable from A. So this vicious cycle continues.When this is taken to the highest level .. the earth, then almost all the humans, need to be worshipped since they act as teachers as well as students at varied instants of time.

Now applying the principle of generality, we observe that all the humans would be worshipped in one form or the other..As Mother,Father or teacher.
So we need to worship every soul that coexists with us.
And that happens to be one interpretation of the Advaita philosophy. God and men are one.
Now lets remove the idealistic situation and refine to practical terms. So the simplification would be ..
Worship only the good in others thereby treating everyone as God... Anbey Sivam..!!! (Love is God)

Oops ..!! what was I talking.

Fate vs Destiny

It is believed by many that before we are born we make definitive choices as to what we wish to learn and the aim we want to fulfil during the course of our life. It is a decision , which is rarely remembered after our birth but in hindsight we often see that events and circumstances have led us unknowingly towards the chosen destination.So our destiny could be classified as our own motivational force. It is the spiritual will of the person, a deep inner need , something that drives us to what seems impossible.It nurtures us with hope in our darkest moments enabling us to dream of better things and resides in a place wher we are bound to find our fulfilment.
Destiny is what we are here on earth to achieve.It is that which guides us and our need on a quest . The quest to make a mark on something which is a brainchild of ours. If we all went about fulfilling our destiny then the need for a concept called fate would have been lost. Most of us have peoblems identifying our destiny and if at all we manage to do that, more often than not we would be completely lost on how to initialise the process. It is at that moment that the fate comes to play a significant part in our lives as most of us have little memory of what we have committed to do. We are entangled in the material world and often lose sight of our own unique potential.So based on my foe's opinion, Fate could be categorised as our Personal Guardian.
It calls us to attention and knocks us back on to the right path if we stray away from the destined purpose. It is a friendly nudge in the right direction. Though many would regard Fate to be unkind and whimsical in approach, it is both generous and as well as extremely midful of the needs of our soul. Most of the times it hurts. Again, it is only through hardship that we often realise our inner potentials and scale new heights with respect to self realisation.
We often pose a lot of questions on our destiny and are impatient to listen to the answers for they dont happen to spring up in a flash. It happens at the right moment. This could be synonymous to the attempt of feeding a new born wih Panneer Tikka( Kindly Excuse!!, that happens to be my favorite). The knowledge or the taste of good things can only be appreciated at appropriate age with appropriate common sense. Answers could be heard by getting to know more of ourselves and chasing our target with utmost commitment and dedication. Listening to your intuition could help us in this regard.

Destiny is something that we chose to be. Fate happens to us ,seemingly takes away our choices but eventually would lead us back to the choice of Desiny that we chose even before we were born.

Dark Life

My eyes were closed then, they say...
Lived for free in a dungeon, they say...
sucked blood like a vampire, they say...
clung to her like a parasite, they say..
slept and played in dark, they say...
only to hurt her at will, they say..
won my freedom using her pain, they say...
I was on my own , they say..
Have my eyes and not her , they say..
Have my vision, yet Im blind, I say.

Vande Ganapatim..

vakrathunda mahakaaya surya koti samaprabha