“OK Google”
It took a few days for me to grasp, what it meant, when it said “Say OK Google”...
I had seen it early enough... But it did not persuade me strongly enough like those Income tax authorities, who say it with also some 'dire consequences', and we just comply, ... whatever our other compulsions!
But when I did see, that it responds to anything 'suffixed' to that “OK Google”... it opened my eyes! Whew!... That's what I have been doing with even people around! Making the “right kind of noises”.. and getting away with it!...
“Pleezz”... And it is mandatory for the other fellow in the seat to park his bottom a little more squeezed to allow mine to be 'housed' in that narrow space! A tailor will look baffled, when his quick calculations out of 'tape-drill' pratice says 'impossible-fit' in that half space!
“Okay, put your hands up NOW!”... This may not work in rural India as yet!... The cop says some other slang (utterly irrelevant to the action sought to be invoked, and yet the response is invariably super-accurate!)....
Am I 'treating' others around like some gadget? (Somebody reminded me, 'We love gadgets, and use people' or something to that effect!)...
Oh! The teacher on the spiritual path said “surrender”... and most of us tried offering our purse, savings, our-gadgets.... a few even offered their own lives! He said 'none of these I want... it is your surrender!'.... Means?... 'surrender' itself will do?... (Sounds almost like ... 'just saying OK Google'... is alone enough... no further words needed?... Bah the 'action' part is what gadgets look out for, and dealing with everything and everyone around as we would with gadgets, I guess, I too became a 'gadget-like' thing!... And here the suggestion is 'dynamic state of surrender'?)....
Oh! Maybe... that 'reverence' culture that we had, in ancient days, not bothering to even looking at, and then transcending the 'freedom-culture' (West-like)... might be the 'in-thing' of those days... That 'reverence' style of looking at people around... obviates the need-even to 'surrender'... Oh! It almost seems like, they just played the 'reverse-roles'.. almost like saying “I am your gadget, Okay?... do unto me, as you would unto yourselves!”
Yours Okay!
Psn (19th April, 2015)
It took a few days for me to grasp, what it meant, when it said “Say OK Google”...
I had seen it early enough... But it did not persuade me strongly enough like those Income tax authorities, who say it with also some 'dire consequences', and we just comply, ... whatever our other compulsions!
But when I did see, that it responds to anything 'suffixed' to that “OK Google”... it opened my eyes! Whew!... That's what I have been doing with even people around! Making the “right kind of noises”.. and getting away with it!...
“Pleezz”... And it is mandatory for the other fellow in the seat to park his bottom a little more squeezed to allow mine to be 'housed' in that narrow space! A tailor will look baffled, when his quick calculations out of 'tape-drill' pratice says 'impossible-fit' in that half space!
“Okay, put your hands up NOW!”... This may not work in rural India as yet!... The cop says some other slang (utterly irrelevant to the action sought to be invoked, and yet the response is invariably super-accurate!)....
Am I 'treating' others around like some gadget? (Somebody reminded me, 'We love gadgets, and use people' or something to that effect!)...
Oh! The teacher on the spiritual path said “surrender”... and most of us tried offering our purse, savings, our-gadgets.... a few even offered their own lives! He said 'none of these I want... it is your surrender!'.... Means?... 'surrender' itself will do?... (Sounds almost like ... 'just saying OK Google'... is alone enough... no further words needed?... Bah the 'action' part is what gadgets look out for, and dealing with everything and everyone around as we would with gadgets, I guess, I too became a 'gadget-like' thing!... And here the suggestion is 'dynamic state of surrender'?)....
Oh! Maybe... that 'reverence' culture that we had, in ancient days, not bothering to even looking at, and then transcending the 'freedom-culture' (West-like)... might be the 'in-thing' of those days... That 'reverence' style of looking at people around... obviates the need-even to 'surrender'... Oh! It almost seems like, they just played the 'reverse-roles'.. almost like saying “I am your gadget, Okay?... do unto me, as you would unto yourselves!”
Yours Okay!
Psn (19th April, 2015)
2 comments:
The universe resonates ever with the 'okay' note.
Every moment, as one takes a snapshot of it, it does not ask to pause a while to give a perfect pose. The tragedy is, we otherwise are always used to remain in a preparatory mode.
Yes Sir, may be we have already lost that equipoise to be in that perennial-mode...A sage like discipline (and more than that, the reverential disciple-mode) is required to be in that blessed state of being till one is absorbed in the all-is-ok mode...
Pranam.
A very "reassuring" response sir!
Why it feels so, let others figure it out for themselves, if need be.
We know.
Naman...
psn
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