Stupid versus (stupid)²
I know, the title is bound to cause some kind of emotional stir…
Let me hurry to explain.
It is quite understandable, if two neighbouring inmates of a mental health home fail to take notice of each other for a decade even…..as next cell dwellers…🙏
But if a gross stupidity remains unnoticed by onlookers for a long time???😰🤔🤔. Who is more stupid? (stupid-squared...S² 🤣)
The madman of narayanath made sure that others noticed him, by consciously doing stupid things 😜 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naranath_Bhranthan )
A baby of just 6 months,
discovered after 3 days, in a debris 6 feet deep, after a massive earthquake, surprises us and we even call it a miracle 🙏…
Probably, medical science might find some clue….the baby has tiny lungs, nil activity…..so it conserves the limited oxygen available in the small crevice under the debris. Slow breathing was BECAUSE the baby is too ignorant to panic😜
Now, the OPPOSITE 🙏
#GarbhaGruha Sanctum -anctorum, of ancient Hindu temples….😜
Zero ventilation ( only a small door, and poojari/priest crawls in, )
That priest, uses up the available scant oxygen O² by burning camphor, dhoopsticks, lighting oil lamps etc….😜
And, when he comes out…..he shuts that small door, until he creeps in next time….
All the 3 to 5 hours he remains inside, he exhausts the available oxygen in the name of doing aarati, deepam, dhoopam to propitiate the deity.
This priest spends at least 6 hours in that I'll ventilated work_place( his office 🤣😜)
Decades of unbroken service in that I'll ventilated work_place ( no casual leave, privilege leave, or even SICK-leave😜…the fellow seldom falls sick)
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏. 😰😰😰😰
At least …..he ???? atleast he ought to have noticed the paradox? Lack of ventilation keeps him intelligent ( not just physically healthy 😓😰🙏🙏🙏) for decades???? ( Kerala priests are requested to do complex calculation in astrology, called prasnaKundali…. horoscope asking a question ❓, to seek answers to mysterious problems 😳)
Why did we not try to notice this STUPIDITY of ancients, who built giant structures in vast premises, but designed the most_important room to be most ill-ventilated, and used to DEPLETE the scantily available O² 🤔???
I am thoroughly embarrassed that I failed to find out the reason for decades, despite noticing this "stupidity" even as a kid…
I shouldn't disturb others, nudging them to 'find out experiencially "🙏
My sole purpose was……to remind ourselves that…
Not noticing a stupidity ( too grossly visible to ignore), is not a wisdom 🙏
Humbly yours,
PSN (5th July, 2023)
1 comment:
Interesting observation about why baby survives being buried in debris . It makes sense …. No panic and small lungs.
Regarding ill ventilated gurbagriha … does it make the mind and body tough being in tough condition for 5/6 hrs daily. Also of mind is engrossed in deity the discomfort idea doesn’t come to mind as one assumes that with God around nothing can be wrong or go wrong. This thought itself is enough to keep troubles away as half the illness begins in the mind before it translates into body.
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