Sensitivity Potential

“My I please touch your feet to collect a little dust from it” She asked! ('charnon ki dhool' or something like that is the Hindi version of it... I ain't too sure!)

An amazing dialogue from the 'First Lady' of that house hold!

This dialogue came towards the fag end of the movie, “Apne Paraye” and as I heard it, it raised the goose-pimples in me (the Indian way of 'goose-pimple' not fear... Rongte Khada hona!)...

A little prior to that the Boss of the house (Utpa Dutt-ji, a master-actor when it comes to subtle emotions), with that typical elongated laughter exclaims, ' My brother decided to move back to town... Yes, he is smart.. he understood, .. with me around, his vakaalat (legal practice—subtle meaning= politics) won't sell here!'....

What is amazing is the direction excellence, and script-dexterity at providing a very subtle hint at the ancient values of joint-family!

Sensitivity was a potential, with the head of the family, to be invoked at will, not a helpless antenna like our ancient small-size radio's which would play two broadcast stations simultaneously when the sensitivity of the 'receiver' was unable to be matched by the amplifier mechanism to synchronise it effectively with that tiny needle, to be 'touched' very gently (not moved liberally, to even 'get' the desired station!)...

He did not even pay attention to trifles in the family ('chillar' affairs) again, a conscious curb on his attentiveness, not an unbridled alertness!!! (We have 'heads' of the country who play dumb, refusing to pay attention to great scams even, and say, 'it has not come to my notice'! May be they are sore at the status of the figurative heads, their counter parts, who enjoys freedom from being questioned about being so-dumb!)...

He chose not to pay attention, because he represents the ability to repose 'unconditional' trust in his juniors in the family....

And when things went a little out of control (the whole story narrates the details, as to how, such chain of events lead to that 'little-out-of-control'..), when that came to his notice, it did not take much time to consciously apply his alertness, attentiveness, his sensitivity, and in 'no-time' set things in proper order, while retaining his composure of that inimitable-relaxed-elongated laughter!

It so happened that, it took almost half-time, for that lady-of-the-house to 'realise' the worth of this spouse of hers, and therefore that 'may I collect the dust of your feet' (“even the dust is sufficiently charged to pass on the positive vibrations, emanating from you so-subtly, all the time, unnoticed even by me!!!... Oh! How much of-you, I missed all along!” is the message, that this lady struggles to convey to the audience, 'acting-it-out'!!!)

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we are not exactly “thick-skinned”, by default... We are receptive too.. it is just that we do not “allow it to happen!”... Please see, that simple thing the goose pimples, what can possibly prevent it from surging?... The dead skin, retained to to clothing-syle (if too tight 'usually'), refusal to scrub it consciously during a regular bath (presumed, of course), the water containing plaque-like hard-water chemicals forming a formidable layer(over a period of time), ... importantly, we, refusing that natural air-conditioning system in-built in us to function properly due to fancy for gadgets like Fan(see!), A/c ('a' see.. too!).. and several other factors, over a period of time, contributing heavily to acquire a 'thoroughly insensitive-like skin'... would ... at best... produce an 'unknown/unexplained ... itch-only... while the original design was to intimate us yet again through that joyousness accompanying that 'goose-pimple' phenomenon!!! (And we complain, .. sort of... that the animals are able to 'sense' the onset of next-change-in-weather)!!!

Shat-Kriya... is one set of the 'earliest' of practices, a heavy-concept-embedded ... tool, meant to cleanse a disciple, who seeks tutelage of a spiritual Master!

Yours,

psn (25th January, 2014)

post script:

When I had a glimpse of this experience... as to 'what all.... this extra cleanliness can do..' a thought irritated me... “Hey, if this is the requirement at body level, physical level, to become a potential in sensitivity, at will... I can't imagine, the mind-cleansing-program! I have half-a-mind to even postpone it to 'some-other' next time!... What????... said somebody deep within, and then started the real problem!