Please Note: NO PANGAAS!!! Plzzz excuse me... as I don believe in illogical beliefs and by the way this is my post and I get to write what I feel; so pls do go ahead and read.... Don't break heads n hearts!!! Ok here goes the posting...
Scraped projects are back on my head and I am busy finishing them. Between all this mess I was on phone with a close buddy of mine and we started discussing about "soul mates". I was eager to do a Google on soul mates funda before resuming my work.
Wikipedia says - "Soul mate is a term sometimes used to designate someone with whom one has a feeling of deep and natural affinity, friendship, love, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality and / or compatibility. A related concept is that of the twin flame or twin soul - which is thought to be the ultimate soul mate, the one and only other half of one's soul, for which all souls are driven to find and join. Some followers of the New Age religion believe that souls are literally made and / or fated to be the mates of each other, or to play certain other important roles in each other's lives."
Mera khaali dimaag fir chalne laga... projects and deadlines went on the back seat. How many soul mates can we have? Are our parents, siblings and friends our soul mates? How much can we believe in this? I was trying to identify / figure out the perfect soul mates - "Shiv-Parvati"; "Laila-Majnu"; "Radha-Krishna" Hmmm... If its Radha & Krishna… Mira Bai kahan jayegi?
If we rethink of the Mira Bai episode or incident... She was the first Indian lady who broke all the rules of Indian society (I don know if "Radha" has any historical evidence) and showed the courage of expressing her true love towards someone, even after her marriage. Many might reject this point saying that she was devoted to God, but remember that she considered lord Krishna as a lover and wished to meet him. You can find her feelings of love expressed in her own words in her bhajans. (Refer to ur old NCERT Hindi school text books... tuff bhajans... I knew how I had to mug those). She was married to some maharaj at a young age; but even at her husband's house, her love towards Krishna didn't subside. At last she was offered a cup of poison which she (though she knew) drank… Such was the passion of her love. What she got from her devotion would never be known by u; but what we got is a thought to think, what was it that led a woman take such a courageous step during such an orthodox atmosphere of 14th century?
THINK OVER!!! OVER OVER OVER... NOT OVER... Something striked me again!!! Ok let me put it here with this post.... Plzzz… no controversies!!! Haan to kahaan the hum…yea… Talkin about Meera!!! Now how can I miss lord Krishna. I've heard that lord Krishna had 16,000 wives (!!!) so why wasn't he HIV positive. (There is no mention of any STD related death during those times). Waise, he was my kind of guy, “made for today”. Didn't u notice he was involved in every influential man's death in one way or another… God!!! I am a great fan of his tricks. He was genius... but the question is still there.. "Why wasn't he HIV +ve"
WHO CARES!!!
Scraped projects are back on my head and I am busy finishing them. Between all this mess I was on phone with a close buddy of mine and we started discussing about "soul mates". I was eager to do a Google on soul mates funda before resuming my work.
Wikipedia says - "Soul mate is a term sometimes used to designate someone with whom one has a feeling of deep and natural affinity, friendship, love, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality and / or compatibility. A related concept is that of the twin flame or twin soul - which is thought to be the ultimate soul mate, the one and only other half of one's soul, for which all souls are driven to find and join. Some followers of the New Age religion believe that souls are literally made and / or fated to be the mates of each other, or to play certain other important roles in each other's lives."
Mera khaali dimaag fir chalne laga... projects and deadlines went on the back seat. How many soul mates can we have? Are our parents, siblings and friends our soul mates? How much can we believe in this? I was trying to identify / figure out the perfect soul mates - "Shiv-Parvati"; "Laila-Majnu"; "Radha-Krishna" Hmmm... If its Radha & Krishna… Mira Bai kahan jayegi?
If we rethink of the Mira Bai episode or incident... She was the first Indian lady who broke all the rules of Indian society (I don know if "Radha" has any historical evidence) and showed the courage of expressing her true love towards someone, even after her marriage. Many might reject this point saying that she was devoted to God, but remember that she considered lord Krishna as a lover and wished to meet him. You can find her feelings of love expressed in her own words in her bhajans. (Refer to ur old NCERT Hindi school text books... tuff bhajans... I knew how I had to mug those). She was married to some maharaj at a young age; but even at her husband's house, her love towards Krishna didn't subside. At last she was offered a cup of poison which she (though she knew) drank… Such was the passion of her love. What she got from her devotion would never be known by u; but what we got is a thought to think, what was it that led a woman take such a courageous step during such an orthodox atmosphere of 14th century?
THINK OVER!!! OVER OVER OVER... NOT OVER... Something striked me again!!! Ok let me put it here with this post.... Plzzz… no controversies!!! Haan to kahaan the hum…yea… Talkin about Meera!!! Now how can I miss lord Krishna. I've heard that lord Krishna had 16,000 wives (!!!) so why wasn't he HIV positive. (There is no mention of any STD related death during those times). Waise, he was my kind of guy, “made for today”. Didn't u notice he was involved in every influential man's death in one way or another… God!!! I am a great fan of his tricks. He was genius... but the question is still there.. "Why wasn't he HIV +ve"
WHO CARES!!!
1 comment:
Baiju, this comment I must warn you is going to be of blog proportions.In any case I felt I must share with you certain insights of my own as well as some less heard interpretations of the Bhagvatham itself. You know, as a child my ishta daivat (fairy godfather?) was mariyaada purushottam SriRam.In my daily prayers, I wished to be just like him.But now if you ask me, I have defected to the clever Krishna camp.And YES! I agree,he was a character for today even centuries back.If you want to flourish and not just survive, you have to be like Krishna.And NO! I dont believe in the concept of soul mates.Take it from me there is no such thing.Now coming to the 16,000 wives, they were women freed from captivity, held by some rakshas.In a society where even Ram cast aspersions on Sita after she returned from Lanka, one can very well imagine what social status or future such women could have hoped for.Krishna performed a great humanitarian service by extending protection to these women and a so called social status of being his wives.That does not mean they were his consorts.But being the multifaceted personality that he was, he could very well have related differently with each individual "wife".So my guess is that the rakshas would probably have died of HIV if Krishna had not got to him first.As for Meera, though I can imagine how she would have felt,my identification with her plight ends at the point where she decided to choose death over life with another man.You must read this book called "CUCKOLD" by Kiran Nagarkar.It gives one a deep insight into the love triangle that was Maharaj Kumar of Mewar-Meera-Krishna.
Regards
Rajani
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