Blabber

It is not entirely a futile thing to do!

Quite a few depend on it to understand a dry text, when the grasp of it is going to save their 'neck'...
They read it quite a few times...


When this reading(blabber),  is outwardly-silent... the label does not get stuck to this person (but when dementia sets in at old age, this blabber becomes a bit-pronounced, quite inevitably)..

Blabber is not something indispensable... in fact it is a deterrent to the spiritual progress!!!

Some people need to read something aloud, a few times, to grasp what is written...

Few others yet... need somebody to read it aloud to them a few times , to grasp... (tuition master makes a living :)

The grasp, out of this blabber is usually made up of ....
a fuzzy sense of what gets-made-out-of... a group of words that makes a complete sense (Grammar calls it a sentence)... and we use usually, the 'most' popular sense of the word... (evidence is abundant when we seem to have lost the conceptual sense of even a few common words, when we find 'Xerox' to be much-more-meaningful than 'photocopying'... We can now proudly declare 'Xeroxing'...

People love to talk to a computer monitor...
plug earphones of a handset, and cheerfully blabber to yourself (no scope for any misunderstanding, by an onlooker!)...

A sample blabber of mine...

Somebody answered a query about 'purpose' of a group (when people were an assorted type)...
and somebody answered: “Like minded people's to get the Hindu Nationalist news to update and discussion. ..”

This answer gave scope for my blabber! :)
I reeled out:
“"to get the Hindu Nationalist"

this is what the mind likes to say, as a 'natural form of expression'.... (what seems closest to our 'feelings' about our togetherness as a 'culture' which inherited a rich heritage!)...

The word 'Hindu' comes quite close to 'Nationalism', quite effortlessly!

(Yes, and this very word evokes a 'religious-polarisation' to quite a few, whether they like to 'express it openly or not'...

Somewhere, the 'popular sense' of the word.. due to the way it is used ... overtakes our ability to reach deeper that what it means due to its use (Xerox reaches faster than a photocopy, though Xerox is a company that produces/produced photocopying machines!)

The "problem" with those who belong to the "ism" called 'Hinduism'... was two-fold!

1) They never needed a name for the mere 'way of life' that they adopted, and only when other 'isms' entered this land, a few centuries ago, they needed to distinguish 'themselves-from-us', and so they 'had-to' call us by 'some-name'.... The 'people on the other side of river-Indus, ... indu's or H-indus... ' (how the name came about is not so important as.... whether we ourselves had given ourselves 'a' name... )...

Does it not feel so amazing, that we never thought of a 'name' on 'religious-lines' to ourselves, even though we had a very wide spectrum of cultural-varieties in our life-style?(Life styles were broadly based on rituals and traditions that suited the inner growth, and were also dependent on external support!!!)... When one culture of one-area found it easy to 'look-at' why the neighbouring culture is a little different that themselves,... the 'religions' that entered/invaded us did not pose any problem of 'acceptance' (we looked at it as 'yet-another-culture' and maybe they looked at us as yet-another-religion , which perhaps, "also-explains" why it was 'they' who had to name-us ... as Hindus!)....

We used to refer to people as 'northerners/southerners' or... even pardesi(the desh which is 'different' from ours).... Even today, it is very common to notice people around Kerala referring to people as 'southerners' of Kerala (thekkan), while the whole of Kerala is a tiny strip of land!...

2)The spirit of 'nationalism'.... Even this aspect is a bit 'unique' to ancient people, when they never attempted to even 'conceptualise' a 'nation'... What we find as the binding factor amongst us (despite heavy cultural differences , even 'right-within' the Hindus-ourselves), ... is elusive for our own grasp!!! I 'tried' ... or rather... attempted to ... come close to this 'elusive' binding factor...

Let me use an example which is 'just-an-indicative-one'... to point a finger at: Suppose the crowd of some 40 people are allowed to enter a hall where railway-tickets are reserved at some 3 counters... Every pair of eyes of these 40 would take a look at these 3 counters, and 'look' for a 'human' being at these counters... only one person is at one of the counters.... the whole 40 would rush to 'queue' in front of that counter... We notice a 'unity' in the 'decision' to stand at that counter.. But the logic is so-simple, that we fail to 'notice' the unity or 'unison' in their behaviour pattern (which is ....'choosing' to stand only-in-front' of that-counter, where there is a person ready-to-issue-tickets)...

Now , extending this 'sensibility'.... if we can look at ancient people (who were yet-without the name, 'Hindus'... ), we can also see why they chose 'individually' to stand in the 'same queue' of 'way of life!... Tantric style of worship suited the people of Kerala, while Mantric style suited yet others... The whole of Kerala did not resort to 'tonsure' in the ancient days, while the 'rest-of-India' found it useful to have a 'tonsure' on certain occasions!... It is despite these sharp-differences that we found a 'unifying factor'... (the unifying factor was... evolve into the highest potential of being 'a-human'!)....

All this is my own 'ideas'... perception... or whatever...

I found it so 'obvious' that the 'expression'..... "Hindu-Nationalist" seemed quite 'natural' due to the very nature of what remains as a 'residue-yet' within us....

Now, it is a matter of choice, whether we do-like or not... to firstly 'examine-thoroughly' and then ... if found-sensible... pursue further, with or without changes/alterations, to this concept!

(For me, ... as-of-now... this is an ongoing process of understanding my own roots, with a preparedness to re-examine my own-premises(basis), also on an on-going basis!

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Unquote:

Now,

the “queue” that I had referred to in the 'sample-blabber' of mine...
was an indicative one...

Yes, ancients too seemed to be in a 'virtual-queue'....
today... Hindus themselves(leaving out the exceptions!)... do not know why-at-all this queue is there?

At some government premises, a very long queue is seen... Fresh citizens take a look... and even as the 'thought' comes like this “what is this queue about?”... they find the queue swelling by another 20 feet (about 40 people added)... Now what?... First scramble to stand in the queue... so that what ever the 'hell-it-is/was'.... we don't miss it due merely-to being tail-enders! Now ask, the next bloke “hey what is it about?”... He says, “dunno.... even I stood merely because it is a queue!!! Not all are fools :)...” he declares proudly!

The queue that ancients decided to stand into (not physically though)... may have been that of 'spiritual-path'!!! :))... :)

And 'religions'... only happen to provide ... that spiritual evolvement as quite-an-incidental benefit, while the purpose of 'grouping' was more for a social order where ethics relating to a humane-orderliness could not be codified into a 'general-law'!!!

Spirituality is a subject matter of solicitation (like insurance)... Now, trying to use that ancient way-of-life, very much like a 'religion' (for whatever reasons), is for sure going to present numerable problems...
One such popular problem is... “Hey, why is it so hard to demolish this religion(Hinduism), when even its own-followers are not sincere about it?”... (this time, even the mere queuing-up does bestow subtle benefits... can't be really helped!... But not 'entirely' without problems! Somebody asks, “Hey what kind of Gods do you worship?.. The dad chops the head of his son, copy-pastes the head of an elephant when the mom laments too-loudly... and all these three are 'Gods' for you?”... The symbolism is not yet within the grasp of the followers, what then to speak about askers!... We love a 'pencil's story-autobiography', but can't grasp that-of-a stone-idols... Obviously!!!. .. A pencil can be used, and felt so-grossly... where as that stone-idol is a mute spectator, so unresponsive at our sensory-levels :)).... )...

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about “Blabber”....
the tool of 'chanting' ... the way it was undertaken in the ancient days... is often misconstrued and likened with 'blabber-tool' of the present day....
This, despite the ample hint “Shraddhavaam labhatey gyanam...” by our 'Krish' of epic stories!... A contrast-quote was provided by yet another giant, later on, (though to stress the very same concept, but emphasizing the defects of a 'blabber'...) with the words... “nahi nahi rakshati dukrnj karane.... Bhaja govindam....” (blabber-style doesn't help)...
Patanjali asks too briefly : are you free from helplessly-blabbering?... then , please leave this place.. this book is not for you! (Chitta vritti nirodhah)...

Blabberingly yours,

psn (26th September, 2015)