LANE CHANGE WITHIN CIRCLE

 "Sweet as it be,sad as meant to be, refreshing whenever you choose, free until you are tied to noose...Life is what it is and none explains it better than life itself"~Shri

As you walk pass 30 years of your space on earth,you feel like you understand the living on earth as a better adult.But I bet you don't.As the Zen saying goes,"Life would have been elsewhere,where else you search for it in a tunnel".Attuned to the conundrums of middle time crisis,the mind goes aghast with the speedy process of earn,fame and flame.When I was reading Buddha, I felt ,Siddhartha left the home at 29,earned the enlightenment at 35,so is it already time for me to leave home and try to become one!! The squandering mind then get linearized thinking about the age of information I have been born into.I am no Buddha and can neither be so in future.Then what am I? The carefully framed 5 W questions of English language peep through right on the day when someone points to you when you are 30 years old.

Being a thorough read of Albert Camus, the idea of  "Absurdism" comes now and then when thinking about the essential space, one occupies in this Universe.However, I am no less inspired by Nietzsche either,hence the relentless pursuit of "Super man" with the breaking of tradition has always existed within.The concaved thought of one's understanding about life has always been framed by the interactions he has had in his life time.This makes the life of all beings on earth unique as no interaction happens with the same frequency.When looking back the journey of life with no strings attached,every human at 30 believes that the revelation has not yet happened and the drive is happening on a second gear mode.Exceptions do exists where the reverse gear of life's revelation happens as you move down the cliff of nowhere. However the journey of life is not more best than it is now.

As I watch my sexagenarian parents who have walked past the changing lanes of life,I really stand grounded for I am blessed with the curiosity of unconventional fissures of modernist living.The liberty of the millennials lies in the fact that the new era of information provides the unexplored dimensions of human thoughts.However the fear of saturation and the depthlessness of sensual exchanges always exist.With the liberal thought breaking the ethos of sustained emotional connect,the change of lane within the circle at 30 years,I believe should be an unapprehensive appreciation of the transit with a gentle smile.

The greatest take away in this journey pursuit is breaking the strong foundations of self ego brick by brick via life experiences.To conclude , "I asked a monk how to stand tall,he just smiled and bowed".Life's period is ephemeral and all that lane that you plan to change is no more than a dot in the whole canvas of Universe unfolding.

A FALLING ETHICAL ENTERPRISE

Credited with the decorum of Non Violence day,October 2 till date has retained the fondly remembrance of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.Numerous articles,podcasts, political drama,over and above the day is just more than a public holiday for the overworked common population of India.The man,his vision and his ideology have been utilised in numerous ways beyond imagination for the culmination of a mass mentality of an ideal figurine.The purpose of the Gandhian way of life is a mockery today as it's just treated with what we call as "Vanja Pugazchi Ani"-an impractical and non sense life style in an all materialistic world.Trying to understand the psyche of Gandhi in connection to the time of his living,I admire him for his journey on a tight and slender rope of truth and truth alone.

In my earlier write up about Gandhi, (A TANGLED REVERENCE),I was trying to understand the experiments he conducted upon himself and upon the society,strictly restricting to his psychological behaviour.Now as I read more and draw parallels from the millennial life style,the ethical conundrum of Gandhi is a worthy introspection.Gandhi's ethical way is based upon truth and one strong conviction,

   "Not only does the end result needs to be good but also the pathway to such result should be sin free"

In a world running behind results and lure of fame and wealth,Gandhi's ethical stand is a failing enterprise.It's not faulty but just failing.As we move decade to decade towards the 22nd century, the shackles of culture, the karma theory and the boundaries of morality are getting thawed just like our glacial treasure.Gandhi's idea of Swarajya where we take back to the local democratic roots have been replaced by market oriented society where the production happens not for the need but for the cost.Similarly Gandhi's take on Chaturvarna and his strong belief on the inherent selfless man can be searched today only with a high resolution microscope.Gandhi and Marx, both agreed on a stateless society.However, today though that dream has been half fulfilled,stateless society has been replaced with status hungry markets.

A worthy remembrance today will be Gandhi's opinion on womanhood.True, that the world has marched forward and women today have been making an imprint in almost all fields.Gandhi though rooted to cultural psyche,stands to be a gender neutral person,as far as I have understood.Gandhi's political ideology,where he claims for the bottom up approach and called upon the rich to strive for common progress, is highly flattened in the Globalised era.Lastly,Gandhi's fight against untouchability have taken different forms from two-tumblers to intercaste marriages.But the Indian society have a deeply strong connection of  born with the ''chaapa'' of caste rather than equity and equality.His ideals of ahimsa, firm resistance and undeniable belief on humanity can only be considered an Utopian for the current century man.Quoting Einstein,"Generations to come,it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth''  

Despite all these,Gandhi as an enterprise who propagated non-violence, truth and firm conviction on religious morality has been reduced to falling legacy overshadowed by the waves of time.In his own words," I am a man of yesterday",Gandhi's wit,wisdom and moral ambiguity have not been subjected to serious investigation by the younger generation.The simple reason being that the man himself has become a base ground for numerous political octopus propaganda.All said and done, the rigorous code of Gandhian ethics and his seven deadly sins concept requires a non-biased and undistracted mind space to revisit during the crucial times of human crisis.