The
credit and the debit of this blog accrues to a very unique kind of
'seeker', whose open-ness outbeats all sorts of 'usual' short-comings
and conservative-nessess that bogs down an aam aadmi normally from a
spiritual pursuit...
He
pretended to over look that, I had copy-pasted somebody's profile,
and asked about my being an actor.... So far it was okay... What
intrigued me was when he nudged me about a 'pretense'... !!!
Why
not? I thought! That sent me 'pretending' to be a blogger about
pretense... or 'pre-tense'... that pretense about which we are not
aware most of the times!
Long
ago, a teacher told us a simple example... An actor did that
Hanuman role, with that mace on the shoulder too well... The
audience applauded him, saying, 'Hey it is difficult to believe that
you are not a Hanuman!'... That got into his head... The drama
over, but, he simply would not put down that mace! (Anyway, it was a
card-board one, thanks to craftmanship of decorator/stage-creator/s
skills)... He simply walked down the stage, and walked past the
audience to a loud cheer and acknowledgment... They felt grateful
that he walked amidst them... Not it stayed into his head... On
the road, he was too busy to notice public looking slyly, squealing
at his comical attire... But at home, his pitiable family had to
bear the brunt of his nonpretentious pretense!
(The
ancients say... “We got identified with that which we are
not!”... they said it in so many ways, several times, and
through several means!.... We just put down 'our-own-dear'
pretenses for a while, and the rest is His-story, instead of an
auto-bio-graph-y)
It
is that kind of pretenses, which we think to be our 'original-me'
.... which is of great concern to our genuine teacher/Guru...
Now, if that Guru is going to ampute that pretense, and if it pains
a little, is it wise, running out of that operation-theatre half way?
At least allow the surgeon to sew us up properly! Self-operation is
not totally impossible... it is almost improbable... We need the
ability to Knead ourselves, we need a well polished mirror, we need a
vision that can re-reverse the reverse image of a mirror, and we need
a polishing stone, a touch-stone, beside us, besides other well
polished, time-tested spiritual tools, for a 'do-it-by-yourself'
operative session... and for a post-operative care? (Another
pretentious pretense?) Dunno!
non-Pretentiously
yours,
psn(25th
April, 2013)
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