Back after a fantastic trip to Kerala.
After seeing Kerala, i am wondering how keralites manage to keep off their native and toil in places like Chennai and Coimbatore - struggling for everything from water to clean air.
Be it the calm back waters of Alapuzha or the magestic Athirapilly falls,this place definitely belongs to God.
This Kerala trip should go down as one of my best tours.
I think the media has had a feast with the Shankararaman murder case for the past 1 Month.
For starters, i should make myself clear on certain issues.
Though a Hindu, i have a very different view of God.
I really believe all humans are born equals. Manu be Damned.
I don’t celebrate ceremonies with any of the religiousness that one would otherwise associate with a nice, middle class Hindu chap.
I believe in nature and acts by human beings which reminds God rather than making God look like a human being (attributing Dheiva Kutham, Dhosham, Pabham, blah blah).
I don’t relish rituals, customs in the name of culture and tradition.
In short, i am more like an atheist without being one.
So, it should not come as a surprise that am no great fan of the Kanchi Shankara Mutt for the simple reason that they stress on rituals and customs to a terrible extent. All these hindu mutts have never bothered about giving women their due respect and rights. I had read elsewhere that the late Sri Chandrashekara Saraswathi was reluctuant to meet Indira Gandhi because she did not tonsure her head inspite of being a widow. Whether i like Indira Gandhi is a different question but going by his yardstick he would’ve refused to bless my mom.
(I am not sure if this applies to all women or brahmin women alone).
So i don’t want to respect their 2500 year old traditions when that does not translate to anything meaningful for the present day society.
Let the law take its own course. If Jeyendrar is found guilty, he should be punished, just like the way i am punished when i do something wrong.
Otherwise he will make a comeback like a Phoenix and poetic justice will be done.
The best comedy was the articles by Gurumurthy(The famous Auditor).
I like the way he puts forth his views on Economics.
But his stance on this issue is for me,laughable.
He condemns the police actions.
But is so careful not to make any reference to the Chief Minister.
(As if the CM has nothing to do with the Police:-)).
I have not been regular in posts of late.But i am not overly concerned.
Somehow in the last few weeks i realise i cannot do all and be all at all times.
There is a time and place for things and each has its own peking order.
I want to be a 3d Animator, Games developer, best selling author and anything and
everything which involves communication and which might give satisfaction not to mention financial prosperity to me and of use to others.
I guess i now realise that i cannot possibly become accomplished in all this without a plan, a way to go about all this and a realistic timeline. This is not to suggest attaining that is impossible. But i guess it requires a bit more than good intention and the inspired moments when we feel anything is possible.
It is only when we have a weekly timeline and fix on a list of to do we understand that we are far more erratic than we think.We almost always blame it on the vagaries of life.We think this is how life will be.But slowly i am beginning to understand that if we are to become what we aspire for then i guess i need this goal list more like a project manager approaching a 6-12 months timeline project.
I need to go about with clear identifiable objectives, milestones (read sub-goals) in the project which will accomplish the end result.
For e.g. i shortlisted 6 items to do last week and was able to do only one.
A few months back, i would have listed the useful/important things which i had done but not planned and then concluded maybe all this planning is nonsense.But this time for a change i rewrote the plan again for this week. Did not have high expectations about sticking to it at any cost. This week i have done a couple more.Maybe as time goes on life will be less of fire fighting mode and more of cruise mode.