In the name of GOD

After half a dozen of phone calls between different pairs among the taxi guy, office security, Ajit, Vinayak and me, I booked a cab and was waiting at the National Travels, KR Market. My colleague Vinayak was arriving to Bangalore with a whole bunch of luggage and his wife and asked my help to ship the same (just the luggage :P) to his newly rented house. It was a pleasant early morning with a wonderful breeze hitting my drowsy face which was right out of the office doing night shift, with every one just getting settled to get into work, with buses arriving, auto rickshaws dropping and picking up passengers. Every thing was so pleasant except a heavy noise/sound coming out of a set of cheap quality electrical speakers tied to a tree near by. I felt it as noise but generally its called devotional songs, Suprabatham or what ever. The intensity was so high that it literally was disturbing every passenger around there. I don't know how many school students with exams, old people with health problems were getting distributed by it behind. I strongly guess that the temple management responsible for the noice didn't took any kind of permission from the relevant authority for the same. Also guess if any police around or any one getting distributed by it even thought of asking the temple management to stop it. I guess they all were habituated to it years down the line just like the people at the shores of dirty Moosi river in Hyderabad.

I came back to home and read in the front page of my favorite news paper Eenadu that an MP from Karnataka named Gali Janardhan Reddy donated a diamond stuffed crown to the god Tirupathi Venkateshwara Swami which is of worth rupees 40 crores. In the same news paper in 7th or 8th page, I read a news article where Loksatta Party president JayaPrakash Narayan saying that if their party had 40 crores of funds, they could have made a significant difference in the passed by Assembly/Loksabha elections. While one was taking pride in donating a crown to a statue of god, other was feeling bad in failing to 'serve the human which in turn is serving the god'. Not sure if thats how it is or if thats how the G O D wants it to be.

There was a scene in a Tamil/Telugu movie Kakka kaka (Gharshana) where a road side fella tries to escape from a policeman (while caught teasing a collage girl) by showing the (Ayyappa) Mala !! There are some organizations which catch the couple found in parks, roads etc. on every Feb. 14th and try to make them brother and sisters !! There are cricketers of exceptional records, there are politicians in the best positions who bow at a man in Andhra Pradesh who is considered to be a god !! Every thing... In the name of god !!!

One makes money in the name of god, one dumps money in rivers in the same name. One finds mind piece in the name of god, one makes the surroundings dirty in the same name. One creates races in the name of god, one divides races in the same name. One stops touching meat in the name of god, one takes lives of sheep in the same name. One feeds a hungry stomach in the name of god, one wastes milk, honey and ghee by dirtying statues in the same name. Good or bad, it keeps on happening in the name of god, an unknown, unseen, abstract G O D.

A man who could stand on his words and spend more than a decade of life in forest is a god. A man who could bare the pain of cross for the sake of good is a god. Its not necessarily be a Rama or Jesus, it could even be you or me. Who knows, Bagat Singh, a man who fought for freedom and gave his life at the age of 23 and Vivekananda a man who inspired millions of young people with his speeches and sayings may turn out to be gods in the temple for future generations.

Smell of a beautiful flower, skin of a beautiful fish, smile of a young baby, human brain, sex, emotions... I don't think are the out comes of chemical and physical reactions over millions of years. There certainly is a super power behind it and is Almighty to me but not the god. God is in you, god is in me, in every pure and every selfless action.