The whole world is today obsessed with the Ayodhya Verdict. News channels have been hogging at the doors of the court and the citizens have been glued to their TV sets eager to know who will walk with the cake. Be it the babus in the office of or the workers in the chai wala shop the only topic being discussed for past a week has been ‘what verdict would court give’ amidst all this cacophony and social drama one thing that emerges out is a very old lesson that ma told me once while watching Mahabharata and combing my hair. Though I faintly remember how the episode began but I clearly remember a statement being made with a chakra constantly moving and saying ‘Mein Samay Hoon’ (I am time). I being a kid innocently had asked Ma what is samay? Her answer I faintly remember but the crux of what she explained is still hidden somewhere after all these years. ‘Samay’ (time0 she explained is something that keeps moving and changing.
I never agreed to it in school because I had the same school and same teachers and same maths till I forgot that lesson (which by the way I very quickly did may be a week of its survival would be an exaggeration of samay) but understood its value as I grew up and there is lot hidden behind this simple line that, ‘time keeps changing’. Today when the verdict came out it was this simple line, hinted to me years back that kept tickling my thoughts, provoking me to write this little note which is just an outpour of my brain’s thoughts and nothing more than that until you understand the meaning behind it.
The verdict today reinstated my belief in a statement which we often use and has been fed into my mind by my loved ones time and again, that only ‘one thing is constant and that is change’ and ‘it’s time that keeps changing’. So I say that time despite changing remains constant and again and again even after ages’ time has proven that things come back in cycle. There was a time when god was one and divisions on name of gods didn’t prevail and its time again that despite the division religions will come together and pray at the same locale. The locale which has taken lives of many and has led to humongous communal violence today stands as a marker of unity of the two religions. I don’t know what to call it a change (which it obviously is) or a phenomenon which ‘samay’ has been demonstrating since ages. Whatever it is today it stands as a marker of the peace and sanctity that the land owed to its people since ages. The dharma yudh which was never one but yet tagged as one has finally ended (hopefully) bringing in peace hopefully. Every present should listen to this story so that they are prepared for the future and know the righteous way of leading in future after all ‘samay’ has noted it all.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
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niceee.....even i remember asking my mom about 'samay'...though i dont remember the answer...
ReplyDeleteand yeah....dey cant even prove dat dere is God, let alone which God owns dat piece of land....and if dere is God....he doesnt require dat small piece of land....he has everything....dunno why the people are fighting...
:) true god doesn't need that pc of land he is universally present
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