Why Gandhi Will Rock Forever

| MARKETER Why Gandhi will ROCK eternally? ‘It’s good to be essential. But it’s more necessary to be nice.’ Picture a world the place everyone was nice to each other. No ‘Yours’….No ‘Mine’…Only ‘Ours’. The thought itself is pleasantly empowering. Universal Love just isn't a Utopian concept. Atleast not within the dictionary of Gandhi………and right here’s my tribute to this wonderful man who walked on this planet and this nice nation and showed the world how universal love & brotherhood can take an entire nation out of the darkish shackles of centuries’ old slavery. I discovered my true hero in Gandhi once I watched the extraordinarily lovable grand-fatherly like characterization of Gandhi within the latest Hindi flick ‘ Lagey Raho MunnaBhai’. There is an endearing quality about an individual who believes within the power of goodness. Goodness does triumph….It’s no fairy-tale. And this belief calls for a lot of conviction and internal self-consc iousness. To stand rock-soild for the reality and rise up and take onus in your failings is actual heroism. Some of the social messages being handled within the story-line have been simply put, Outstanding. Very subtely told beneath the garb of clever & inspiring comedy, I totally loved the scene where a young woman takes heed of Gandhi’s advice in relation to the choice of her life-partner. It’s necessary to marry a person who treats the lowly with the identical quantity of respect he/she would give to a Mr.Azeem Premji or a Mr.Bill Gates.Again here, the identical theme of being good is emphasised. Gandhi couldn’t have presecribed a greater sure-shot method of finding one’s Mr/Miss.Perfect. That’s why he's still ROCKIN…. Another scene which I completely identified with was the results of being a Manglik and its non-justification for being treated as a direct out-cast. It brought forth in focus the outrageous diploma of supersitions this country was dabbled in. Too many kaalams, muhurtums,kundlis, manglik, all kinds of chauts n vrats….In quick too many rituals to make one’s already sophisticated life even more advanced.It’s crazy how for some, each minute occasion in their life is dictated by muhurtams n vaasthus n kundalis n some ‘kalams’ all that . I marvel why do people right here succumb themselves to such added issues in life.Phew! Hats off to the billions in our nation â€" we ought to be the pure alternative for the Nobel Prize for Patience, if ever they plan to incorporate one such class. It actually surprises me once I hear many a proud father or mother discuss in regards to the success price of Indian marriages and the logic behind it â€" Astrological Kundli matches……of Mangliks n Non-mangliks alike. Methinks, the only purpose for the success fee within the yesteryears was the truth that girls weren’t that empowered. They didn’t also have a say go away alone voice in selecting their own life-associate. There was no concep t of a marriage between the equals. It was a marriage of the bread-winner and his dependent. Wonder if kundli matches and the step-motherly therapy given to Mangliks will save the rising pattern of divorce rates in India? Gandhi stands for freedom from all such futile complexities.and that’s why he still rocks… Another fascinating discussion that unfolds from this whole issue is why do Indians bank on and attribute their success to an auspicious time n favorable planetary postion and so forth and strip themselves of being actually worthy and answerable for their very own success..More on this in my next post….. At this conclusionary juncture, I am reminded of Tagore’s verses from ‘Gitanjali’ which I suppose ought to be a litany for all : ‘Where the mind is with out worry and the pinnacle is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow home partitions Where words come out from the depth of reality Where tireless striving stretches its arms in direction of perfection Where the clear stream of purpose has not lost its means Into the dreary desert sand of useless habit Where the mind is led forward by thee Into ever-widening thought and motion Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake’ Post navigation four comments Hi Tina, By a strange coincidence I also noticed Lage Raho Munnabhai on nineteenth October, the day u wrote your weblog. I noticed it not at a multiplex paying Rs a hundred seventy five however at an old cinema corridor (in all probability Mahatma Gandhi’s time) paying a paltry Rs 35 for the balcony seat, thanks to the tax exemption. However, the state of Gujarat, the place Gandhiji was born has not prolonged the tax exemption as it's dominated by insensitive individuals who assume that if a film is a business success it wants no exemption. Well, I beloved the character of sanjay dutt, a zombie who turns into a Gandhian under compelling circumstances and realises what it means to inform the truth and be good to individuals, understand the ache and suffering of others and help them resolve their issues in a peaceful way. Instead of reading tomes of Gandhian philosophy this short movie susccinctly sums up in three hours, the quintessential philosophy of Gandhiji. The yo unger director deserves a tribute for conceiving the story, and dealing on the script for three years sharpening it. I had heard that Thomas Grey who wrote the “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” took twenty years to shine it till it grew to become a gem of the purest ray serene. So additionally the Munnabhai story. I completely agree with u that society is ridden with superstition, false value techniques,crass materialism and insensitivity to struggling.Gandhiji sang an exquisite bhajan ” Vaishnava Janato tene kahiye jo peeda paraye jaane re” which implies They are the true people of God who perceive the sufferings of others. And one other poem which was his favourite was “Lead kindly mild, amidst the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on”The Nobel Peace Prize Committee recently lamented thefact that they may not award the NObel Peace Prize to Gandhiji? As if that meant something to him! Sweden was ally of UK in WWII and could unwell afford to displease Churchill who on ce known as Gandhiji” a half naked fakir ascending the viceregal steps, shoot him.” It was Einstein who stated that centuries from now folks would scarce believe that an individual of Gandhiji’s nature ever walked on this earth. A thousand Nobel prizes can not match the assertion of the daddy of Relativity concept. It is claimed when Bernard Shaw heard of Gandhiji’s assasination he remarked” It is too harmful to be too good” But Gandhiji died with a smile on his lips after uttering “Hey Ram HeyRam” He did not curse his assassin. Reminiscent of one other nice apostle of peace who lived two thousand years ago who mentioned ” Father forgive them for they know not what they do” How many leaders of Gandhiji’s timbre exist at present? U can rely them in your fingers. May be a Sunderlal Bahuguna who hugs bushes when the demolition squad come with their axes, a Medha Pathak who can starve herself to close dying for the sake of the miserablae tribals deprived of their l and to hold water to the rich someplace faraway, a Baba Amte, although paralysed for over thirty years, runs a lepers home from his mattress, a veritable Father Damien of India. Yes, so long as we break coconuts and perform puja at each Government function or inauguration, and apply tilaks and put on sacred wrist bands to show off your religiousity, there is no deliverance for our nation. But then what in regards to the west? Dont they break champaigne bottles while launching a ship or a project? Dont they consider in the signs of the zodiac and skim the weekly forecast columns, or present their palm to palmists and astrlogers. Ignorance and superstition is a common phenomenon. Only in India, it is in an epidemic form. There are a fwew NGOs like Andh Shraddha Nirmoolan Samiti in Pune,run by dedicated rationalists that are fighting the evils of superstition, such as barring entry to ladies within the Shani temples in Maharashtra, feeding milk to snakes on Nagpanchami etc. But they fa ce robust opposition. What about the cntroversy in regards to the Ayyappa temple? Is it not suprstition of the worst type? When faith is packaged and marketed with the assistance of superstition it turns into blind religion, however it is lapped up by the plenty. Are Mangliks doomed to remain unmarried for all times? No they have to look for different Mangliks of their ilk whose horoscopes be sure that the girl or boy is not going to convey demise to the in legal guidelines. Superstition forsooth! And what about the miracle Godmen who take swisswatches from their sleeves and when challenged by PCSorkar, beat him and drive him out of their ashram? Much needs to be done in this nation. But initially is to coach the lots. On the one hand we're highly intellectual within the 1 or 2 % of our educated population and greater than half the folks cant sign their names. angootta chaaps. And we spend thousands of crores on polio eradication, which is proving to be a failure and neglect ailments like malaria and tb which take millions of lives, and we concentrate as an alternative on HIV aids maybe because of the foreign help dangled earlier than the NGOs and the Government. We can go on and on? But what is the resolution? We write these blogs which only some folks learn and even they may not be fascinated in the topic. HOw can u spread the message to a broader part of the individuals. A movement known as for the place we've to be prepared to go out depart our cocooned existence and work among the many poor and sensitise them to social evils and make them aware of their rights. Not for glamour, but out of all humility and for the love of it. Can u discover such dedicated individuals and in that case who will unite them and organise a movement? Well, i think i've rattled off more than what i got down to in reply to your easy and candy piece on Munnabhai. Sorry for the digressions. Please proceed your blogs. I will learn the remainder of your blogs too and may comment on them. U write in such easy language and so nicely! And how is little Pammoo? I am positive he would grow up in much better world than we did. Adieu Like Like This remark has been eliminated by a weblog administrator. Like Like Reblogged this on THE TINA EDIT and commented: An old blog that I wrote about Gandhi! eleven years back in time! Happy Gandhi Jayanthi! Like Like Gandhi and his practices will proceed to complement the society primarily due to the following components.1. Teachings of Gandhi and prescription for fellow human beings have been examined in his life itself. 2. As they are saying in ISO trainings , he stated what he did and did what he men tioned. There was full sync his thought and motion. 3. All his teachings and practices had been from the good aspects of faith and spirituality from a living point of view.4. He was sincere in intent, function and apply. Like Liked by 1 particular person Fill in your details beneath or click an icon to log in: