The
meaning is itself, about meaninglessness of something else...
usually about words, statements or actions, efforts etc...
Somehow,
this word did not manage to get into my 'active-vocabulary' though I
get to hear it quite often... (when the conversation is in Hindi,
usually)... Maybe because, I was a bit apprehensive about my own
inattentiveness, that might dismiss a 'phenomenon' happening on the
outside, (my mind being the 'inside-world' for me!). Often, we miss
the subtle point, and casually dismiss something as 'useless,
meaningless, futile, non-consequential.. etc'... Even when I
see/hear somebody dismissing something as 'bakwaas', my attentiveness
gets alerted to look for what exactly made that person say so?.. If
that person is right, his analysis helps me... his 'experience of
something' is worthwhile using for my own future dealing (for
instance, somebody bought a gadget, say a mobile... which turned out
to be a 'bakwaas' for him... I try to see, if he has realised that
it is a 'touch-screen-operation' and therefore it has not too many
buttons!... When I saw the 'proof' of Euclid's theorem, in a book
called Vedic mathematics, the author remarked about the
'prescribed-proof-at-school' as “ultra-notorious for its
cumbrousness, clumsiness, etc.. there are several vedic proofs
thereof (everyone of them much simpler than Euclid's)”.....!
and...
and
yet, I did not feel tempted to dismiss either of them as 'bakwaas'!
About
spiritual concepts, almost all of them seem to be 'bakwaas' to a mind
which insists on being riveted 'only-on' logical analysis , and
prepared to look through only-sensory levels of perception! (A
typical example was... I used to draw a 'blank' to this query that
I ask of those professionals, who oversee the 'initiation' and
perhaps also teach, the “ow to do the routine rituals once a
person wears that holy-thread”... I used to ask, “Why is it that
what ever actions 'they' do, just-because a person wears that thread,
does not allow an experience through perception?... We eat, and we
experience a hunger-satiation.. we drink water, and can feel a
thirst being quenched.. but these rituals.. they leave no
residual-experience?”... I do not like to embarrass with
questions like, “When we pray, looking at a deity-idol, does He
hear? Or is it just a 'missed-call'?”... There are people who
co-relate with some personal experiences, which do look like a
'bakwaas' for non-believers... But this 'threading-business' only
deals with 'ritualistic-performance' and seldom finds scope to
co-relate with any 'miracle', usually... The chants might give some
psychological-peace of mind... but, very few 'claim' a 'tangible
result'... And yet, these rituals have stood the test of time! Good
enough a reason, if we care to examine it as something beyond a
'bakwaas'! I do not 'chase' for an answer ('rozi-roti ka sawaal hai'
for that hapless priestly-person!)...
On
a forum (speaking tree), I had a chance to look 'yet again' at
my-bakwaas, when somebody repeated this chant of 'bakwaas'!
And,
all I could manage was to provide a few varieties of Bakwaas.. I
was surprised, when it found 'some-appeal'...! And therefore I
thought why not 'broadcast that bakwaas'!
Quote:
Bakwaas
varieties...
(Imaginary samples)
1. A kid wakes up, looks into a 3D visual through a 3D glasses, pre-fitted on to him, while he was in deep sleep... and 'experiences' those visuals as 'his real experiences' and exclaims “What you say is Bakwaas... I am in deep trouble right now.. no escape in sight... If you can't come to rescue, just shut-up dad, and le'me deal it as best as I can”...
2. The Dad... takes a look at the screen... only blurred images... does not even realise, the screen needs a 3D lens to view... says, 'Bakwaas,... where is the image even? First of all, to get 'afraided-so-much' ?.. why are you afraiding looking at such distorted images?' (for him even the 2D is blurred!
3. The mom... takes a look at both, the dad and the kid.. “Bakwaas.. neither the 3D experience , nor the time spent to criticise it at '2D' level itself.. is going to cook the breakfast... Hunger is real.. need is food... No vegetables in our 'mortury-ice-box'... err... I mean... Re-Fridge-rator...whatever... Get the veg soon!
4. Some lean fragile fellow sitting eyes closed in a corner.. “Bakwaas.. who said, intake through mouth is the 'reality' to feed that hunger?... Here I am, replicating the ancients.. doing a complex combination of mudras+kriyas... the pituitary glands secreting a unique kind of substance.. and it permeates into my body, and absorbs nutients like that cactus in a dry sandy desert!”
5. “Bakwaas” says that 'ghost'... hanging somewhere near the ceiling... “all these guys are wasting the time, just as I too did... and now repenting , hanging half way! Engaged too much into wordly material things... neglecting the 'being' within”
6. Et-cet-tra... Etcetera... (Oh! Etc itself means 'further-bakwaas)!!!
(Imaginary samples)
1. A kid wakes up, looks into a 3D visual through a 3D glasses, pre-fitted on to him, while he was in deep sleep... and 'experiences' those visuals as 'his real experiences' and exclaims “What you say is Bakwaas... I am in deep trouble right now.. no escape in sight... If you can't come to rescue, just shut-up dad, and le'me deal it as best as I can”...
2. The Dad... takes a look at the screen... only blurred images... does not even realise, the screen needs a 3D lens to view... says, 'Bakwaas,... where is the image even? First of all, to get 'afraided-so-much' ?.. why are you afraiding looking at such distorted images?' (for him even the 2D is blurred!
3. The mom... takes a look at both, the dad and the kid.. “Bakwaas.. neither the 3D experience , nor the time spent to criticise it at '2D' level itself.. is going to cook the breakfast... Hunger is real.. need is food... No vegetables in our 'mortury-ice-box'... err... I mean... Re-Fridge-rator...whatever... Get the veg soon!
4. Some lean fragile fellow sitting eyes closed in a corner.. “Bakwaas.. who said, intake through mouth is the 'reality' to feed that hunger?... Here I am, replicating the ancients.. doing a complex combination of mudras+kriyas... the pituitary glands secreting a unique kind of substance.. and it permeates into my body, and absorbs nutients like that cactus in a dry sandy desert!”
5. “Bakwaas” says that 'ghost'... hanging somewhere near the ceiling... “all these guys are wasting the time, just as I too did... and now repenting , hanging half way! Engaged too much into wordly material things... neglecting the 'being' within”
6. Et-cet-tra... Etcetera... (Oh! Etc itself means 'further-bakwaas)!!!
unquote...
Bakwaas-ingly-yours,
psn
(3rd November, 2014)
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