Appealingly attractive!
There was a video clip .....
Both the toys are quite
“attractive”....
But the 'attraction' offered by one is
repulsive to the baby, while the other evokes a cheer!
When both are placed together, the
sharp-attraction of the repulsive one over-shadows the soft
attraction of the other one!
A student seeks an appealing
attraction, towards his work/project/submission/whatever, from the
evaluators.... The student's judgement about what-might-appeal to
an evaluator contributes to the 'presentation' style of what ever is
submitted...
There was a movie 'Sindhu Bhairavi'...
It was a novice at music, who educated the master of music, into
'how to present' a subtle music in a more appealing form, toning down
the complexities at its initial stages!
A few successful salesmen earn their
salary more-due-to their appeal finding skills, rather than the
quality of product itself....
A spiritual seeker does not bother
about any appeal in others towards his own 'seeking' ... If it
seems to irritate the others, he moves out of their way! The tools
and techniques of Aghori's for instance, evokes a repulsive emotion
in 'normal' people, and hence they seek a recluse to pursue their
activities of quest...
A spiritual Master, happens to be the
best-one at forging an appeal into something that cannot be even
“presented” in a perceivable form, to a disciple stuck into
just-sensory-levels...
The Mastery of this 'forging an appeal'
is almost like a self-evaluating-software, when it is about a
spiritual arena, and the indicative yardstick is perhaps the
yet-another-subtle capability of the Master to 'sight a potential
candidate' when even the candidate himself is unaware of it!
At least about worldly aspects of
handling the material-life.... are we going to outsource our own
perception, into the hands of somebody who hones his skills into
deciding as to what should appeal to us? Ha..! That is what the
present day TV commercials seem to be doing! They almost decide what
we ought-to-like! The news-media is not to be left behind! They
decide our emotional inclinations too! Isolated instances of theft,
molestation, insults, abuse etc dominate the priority far above
global concerns like environment (which can wipe out the human race,
if neglected), or starvation (which topples the balance against other
life forms!).. etc..
Sensitivity perhaps decides the
direction and force of appeal, as to who wins the tug-o-war!
Yours, Unappealingly unattractive,
psn(24th April, 2015)
3 comments:
Oh! Marvellous video !
Dear Sir, as I showed it to my son & wife, and the way they articulated the message, that perfectly rhymes with the tone, tenor, spirit...and of course, the appeal of the write-up !
Thanks a lot :)
Thank you sir,
The video conveys lot better than I can do with words!
A baby's innocence lends authenticity too!
psn
nice one! I was reminded of story of elias howe-who invented sewing machine. he was poor guy but had just idea that sewing can be done by machine and struggled all his life and finally made it - the basic idea that two strings have to be used one via needle and other coming from down and make what is called a lock stitch is his.
But all the money and name was made by singer - (his name still remains and we all also know it via singer company even in India, while howe's company is now rarely even sighted ) -who modified and commercially marketed it. Singer knew commercial aspects better.
Not that elias gave up-he fought battles in court and got a lot of money as royalty and howe company was also there for quite some time in USA. He used this money to donate during civil war in USA to army people. He was also involved in invention of a zipper.
Even many spiritual gurus in india have been generally more like howe - who enjoyed "brush up" with truth much more rather than keeping their legacy alive. I hope you agree!
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