“Beta, don't do it...
you know your Pitaaji ka Gussa isn't it?”
“Beta, you don't know
your Pitaaji ka real Gussa.... I suggest you refrain... rest is
your choice”
We get to hear at times
these kinds of suggestions often...
The idea is, better learn
to 'appreciate' the worth of something...
But kids, learn to
appreciate instead... the 'goodness of Gussa'... they get fed,
quite inadvertently, that 'Gussa works' ... and they slowly learn
how to get angry... if it doesn't work initially, they feel that
they did not do it 'the right way'... and the persuasion is 'to
better it next time'... !!!
And then when it is
already too late, some learned doctor pronounces a 'link' between
that BP trouble and the Gussa (anger!)... and the middle aged adult
does not remember where the knot got started, to untie it..!
Such mistaken appreciation
often gets us into trouble...
I was quite amused to read
an article...
“An
Indian owner of a billboard dedicated to Nelson Mandela was red-faced
on Thursday after the discovery that a photo
of actor Morgan Freeman was used instead of one of the anti-apartheid
hero.
The billboard was erected on the side of a road in Coimbatore as part
of memorials across the world to Mandela.
But
Freeman’s face loomed large in the billboard over small images of
Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi. “We should be
proud that we were part of an era when they lived,” read the Tamil
message on the board. Cloth merchant Chandrashekhar, who paid for the
board in a private capacity as a mark of respect to the former South
African leader, said it was a mistake by the designer. Morgan Freeman
played Mandela in the 2009 film Invictus . —
AFP...”
“Lord
Krishna uses 'Colgate' toothpaste”... declared a kid, adding “and
I will compromise for nothing less” ... after seeing the
commercial break while viewing the TV serial 'Mahabharat'...(the same
actor's face made a very impressive impact on the kid... at both
the places, the serial-story, and the ad'..!)
...
Is
it not the 'perception' level that decides how we appreciate
initially, and then this appreciation grows into craze, and then into
imbibed-craving/traits/ habits etc... (the release of cigarette
smoke into curls, circles in the air, for instance, makes such an
appeal when the hero does it, and the heroine flashes a charming
smile at that 'capability'!)....
Ah...
now the spiritual teacher has quite a task, when all this does not
work... to first undo that 'very faulty and erroneous
way-of-appreciation... and only then, to try and induce an approach
for 'trying' to appreciate 'that' ... that-which-evades even
perception itself, only thereafter, to even think of an
appreciation!
Appreciably
yours,
psn(20th
December, 2013)
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