Friday, March 12, 2010

PARADIGMATIC CONVERGENCE

Everyone wants to improve from the state they are in to a desired state with a defined purpose and policy . It is a continuous process. I am curious to analyse the path , process and how the purpose and policy is sustaining .when I do so ,it is amazing to know even without the knowledge of the doer, the path is not changing but the very purpose is vanished after a particular point thus making the path as circle.

Imagine in a path ( with an assumption - if you go upward the result is positive and if you go downward the result is negative ie like a curve in the graph) , you go forward with the motto in mind that whatever you are doing is right . After an era or period of time, you will realize the path was circle. That is why the process was giving positive result up to one point and after that , though steps forward was same from the start point , it went downward and started giving negative result.

This is my perception and I find the commonality in various things:-

Media : From the time it is born, it is continuously trying to update/educate people with whatever happening in various aspects of life. It also followed some strict policy like it should not publish news which are not good to see in the morning like train accidents- pictures of dead bodies etc.. not to carry obscene pictures (some papers started separate pullout to take care of this segment – without affecting the main paper and its policies). So, to do this professionally they needed freedom.

Media is going in the same path with freedom , recently ended up competing for viewership and readership.(Like your T20 cricket , no matter what stroke you play, get a six or a Four.) In the process teaming up with terrorist (though unknowingly- I Guess) in Mumbai attack .

Terrorists plan and execute some kind of attack and their last and important relay is to spread the fear and insecurity in people’s mind. Like any other relay race, you put your best athlete in the last part of relay to get the better result. The terrorist were more than happy, got better result than expected and got astonished the way our media performed in Mumbai attack. The terrorist even gave command to their team members just seeing the media.

If a young girl is molested by some miscreants in the middle of the road, every single media person will be rather fighting among themselves for better angle to shoot and show as live and exclusive than saving her.

If this was the purpose when it started, they would have got so much to carry then, because hundreds years ago the society would have been at least couple of percentage less civilized.






Middle class and Resources: The poor middle class family obviously had very little resources to support the big family. So young kids thought that they should study well, earn well to own a big house in order to give a better standard of living to the family. The young society went in that path and did own a big 3 bed rooms flats for themselves eventually, but only to house 2 (wife and himself) . While, the young man who is working at US time in software industry , promptly found parents a place at old aged homes, tries his best to find time to even speak with wife, as she is working in UK time in same industry .

When they set a goal they wanted big house to make the family happy . You long for it and when you reach it the purpose itself has disappeared. As I am thinking this , my mind is indexing Adi Shankarar’s Bajagovindam.




Artham anartham in bhajagovindam
artham anartham bhávaya nityamnásti tataç sukhaleùaç satyamputrádapi dhanabhájam bhètiçsarvatraiúá vihitá rètiç.(29)`Wealth is no good'; thus reflect always; there is not the least happiness therefrom; this is the truth. For the wealthy, there is fear even from a son; everywhere this is the regular mode.



FOOD : Annam cha Brahma – as per veda, brahmam is everywhere and nowhere . but, in search, every important thing are seen as brahma. So food is important indeed for anyone to exist as it is supposed to give energy and strength .

But now every single ingredient of food is acting like poison, though which is poison and which is not - varies from person to person.

Parents and Kids education:

The sloka from hitopadesh is conveying subtly the parents responsibility in educating the child.

mAtA shatruH pitA vairI, yena bAlo na pAThitaH na shobhate sabhAmadhye, haMsamadhye bako yathA

mother is enemy, father is competitor, by whom the child is not educated (who) doesn't grace the (august) assembly, as the crane amongst swans

here in this shloka from hitopadesh, of course, the king is thinking about his useless princes who are not worthy yet of being a king. and he is thinking that as a parent it is his responsibility to educate his children, else they will be like crane among swans.

The parents exactly understood and accepted the responsibility and went in that path only to end up helping the business of top 10 schools of their city. Because, they want to put their money only in the schools with the track record.(winning horse – safe bet ! is it not). Teaching profession, per se , was a service to the society has turned now in to big Industry.

Knowledge: People with less education thought had they been educated they would have got knowledge to handle many things with confidence. In that path the society studied well and got convinced about the possession of knowledge. Now , the knowledge itself is ruling human. A man does not believe the doctor ,he checks the tablets and side effects in the net or goes to another doctor for second opinion.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

The man with the knowledge is today so much confused and in the beginning of the path he was longing for clarity is isn’t.

Circle – half positive and the rest negative though the path is same –when I wonder this loop, I remember the phrase from Garuda puranam which I listened some time ago:-

It is like this – when asked, the man with wants always behind material and to get that, he is doing lot of sins and he dies – so what happens ! Garuda replies “ Punar daridhara Punar Papihi” meaning again born as man with wants and again a sinner ----- the loop goes on.


To make my self clear , I certainly do not wear a mask of negativism, I only wonder the circular path, loop mentioned in the garuda puranam and so many factors of life and its commonality.

3 comments:

  1. very interesting facts of life and nice quotes from sanskrit documents.I feel that If you want to achieve something great you have to sacrifice something it may be considered as a negative. I like to finish my comment by sharing a beautiful quote about "DESTINY" i hope you like it

    "Over the same sea, on the same winds,
    A ship sails from one direction.
    Another in the opposite,
    it is not the wind that decides
    In which direction the ship goes;
    It's the sails: how they are tied and how they are manoevuvered...
    Similarly, it is not fate that decides where your life is going
    It is all about how you take life,
    And where you take it."


    With warm wishes
    YRK

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  2. While reading this I remember one tamil saying "alavukku minjinal amirthamum nanju" We can relate this to most of the things you have mentioned above. Be it media, knowledge or food there should be an underlying social responsibility. I was told that Newspaper in Israel never carry an unwanted news like theft, rape, etc. They ensure all the inspirational things are carried. I remember another Kural "vaimai enapaduvadu yaathenil yadhondrum theemai elada solal" Same way media shall select the news which is good and useful for the readers.

    Knowledge should make you feel humble, wise and love towards other living being. If your knowledge does not bring such good qualities, then the time spent on acquiring such knowledge is waste.

    I stop here due to time constraint

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  3. one word for it - profound!

    Having said that, i think one of the reasons that we "loose purpose" is because our targets keep changing from one to another. Also, not all of us are satisfied with what we get through our previous karma, isn't it the major reason for many people being unhappy? All we want is more, a lot more than we have before...
    the media needs ratings, the software guy wants better things for his family( but only, family has a different meaning, it includes his wife and children). It is to be noted that the purpose might be technically termed the same, but gains a whole different meaning as time passes by.
    love
    hemu

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