Ardh Satya: Half Truth

Well my obsession to this poem by the maratha maestro Dilip Chitre made many a friends laugh at me.... Those were good days when people kept looking for an opportunity to pull your leg. Still i think this poem deserves a mention and so here it is..... A really thought provoking work.


Chakravyuh mein ghusne se pehle kaun tha main, aur kaisa tha
Yeh mujhe yaad hi na rahe

Chakravyuh mein ghusne ke baad
Merey our chakravuyh ke beech sirf jaan leva nikatta (nearness) thi
Is ka mujhe patha he na chaley

Chakravyuh se bahar nikalney paar main mukth ho javun baley hi.
Fir bhi chakravyuh ke rachna mei farkh hi naa padega

Marun ya maaron mara javun ya jaan se mar doon
Iska faisla kabhi na ho payega

Soya hua admi jab neend mein se utkhar chalnaa shuru karta hai
Tab saapnon ka saansar usey dubara dhek hi nahi payega

Us roshni mei,
Jo nirnay ki roshni hai
Saab kuch saaman hoga kya?

Ek paladey mei napun sakta
Dusrey paladey par paarush
Aur theek tarazu ke kaantey paar

Ardh satya

By DILIP CHITRE

The Satanic God, The Godly Satan and Me

Here is something i wrote sometime back. Thought I might share it. Incidentally on reading it again today, I agree more to the title of my blog space....DISSENTED UNISONS.... Have a look.

They say there is god. They say there is evil. They say there is a good and they say there is a bad. The contests between the virtues and the vices have been age old and biased. The vices, evil and the bad have never been contested against the fair, even and the good on a plain ground. It has always had a biased contest with the so called and professed good where the latter had won before the contest. Who was he who marked these differences? Did we ever challenge his thought and prophesies as being a component of good or evil? I guess not. There are a million such questions which still stand unanswered and the common logic behind their acceptance is the fact that it has been agreed upon since generations. I refuse to agree to such reasoning if at all there is reasoning. I behold my right to think and to judge. I agree to give the evil a chance to prove its mettle.

The straight of Gibraltar was until long assumed to be the end of the world. No one ever questioned it as it was something being passed on through generations. The great Galileo was looked upon with disgust and was treated as an outcast and a rebel till the day the whole world started to worship his thoughts as one of the greatest revelations in the history of mankind. The point that I want to make here is anything assumed without a question is nothing but fallacy and an insult to mankind and its ability to think.

What is and who is god? The supreme power and the creator of this universe is the often heard answer. A few questions do still linger in my mind. If it was god who created this world which is one of his best creations, why is he not part of it? Is it so shameful or is it that it is not a great creation and we are living in hell which we assume to reach after we die? If he is a part of this world, he is mortal as we know that there is nothing immortal in this universe. If he is mortal, why do we worship him and regard him for being immortal. What is his age? When was he born? Why is he hiding? Why not do a life cycle assessment of god? These arguments might sound weird and disturbing for the brains which refuse to accept the fact that god is a non entity. I stand in the middle of god and Satan today and am asking these questions because I live by reason and logic and am providing the same opportunity for both god and Satan.

God as I see it is nothing but an extended version of ones fear. He is the living manifestation of our incompetence and lack of knowledge. I would like to take the reader to our prehistoric times wherein the wind, sea, water, thunder, jungles were worshipped. At that point in time there was no Christ, no Krishna, no Prophet, no Judas, no Nanak and no Buddha. These were the gods of the prehistoric times. These were worshipped because man was afraid of their fury, their anger and their power to destroy. He had been witness to incidents when he was exposed to the wrath of these natural forces. He had no answer to such phenomenon then and was helpless. Over the period of time, the meteorological sciences evolved, engineering sciences evolved which understood these forces and to a large extent invented and developed ways wherein man could be saved by the wrath of these forces. The fear is till there today but very minimal. This is because we have been successful in exploring the logic, science and reason behind these forces. They do not scare us anymore so we do not worship them anymore.

This analogy leads us to a point where we establish the fact that we worship things that we fear. All of us fear the evil, the Satan. He then under the reasoning established should be worshipped and is none different than god himself. Man is powerful and fear can only come down in one form. Fear is fear as A is A. There can be no other meaning to it. Fear cannot hold attributes like the good fear and the bad fear. If we start assigning attributes to fear, we start being biased again. The entire universe is an explanation of science. I would agree to a few of my friends who would pose questions on me regarding many unanswered issues and questions with regard to the creation and birth of this universe. To them, I would like to go back to the example of Galileo and say that our science is still not so developed to find answers to those questions. The growth of science would mean the death of god. An absolute panacea is something which will eliminate all fears from our minds and thereby eliminate the God as well as the Satan. There would be no one to blame them for our mistakes and no one to take credit for our successes. It would be only us, responsible for what we do. To some extent, even today we are in a manner quite similar to our pre historic godfathers who were apprehensive about various forces of nature. Even now we are apprehensive about many issues. I might be over estimating or talking in a language which reeks of over optimism and agree that the absolute evolution of science is more of an ideal situation as of date and does not seem very practically possible but this does not refute my reasoning that the day when it is achieved there would be no fear and no god or Satan. To assign all these scientific evolutions to someone called god is like taking credit away from someone deserving.

I myself believe in God and am not an atheist but a few questions still linger in my mind which I cannot ignore. These questions put me in a dilemma. Although being a believer in god, I have more faith in the power of mankind and the ability of the muscle and the brain. There is nothing more powerful and more beautiful than that. God is a sign of my weakness and I am not ashamed to confess it.

Utopia: It does exist

Well its really very late to talk on the subject but why not???? This post is dedicated to the most wonderful days of my life. My life at IIFM.

Whats the big fuss about this place called IIFM???? Every IIFMite on the net keeps bragging about it???? Well to this I'd say, you cannot imagine the Indian summer, its effect and its harshness until u've been there. Contrary to this IIFM would come as the first rain after this summer. Its more than a place on the map. You need to experience it to know what we're talking about.

Life @ IIFM started for me on a really funny note. I was one of the first ones to reach the campus. Once there, I saw a few people sitting in the lawn between the hostels and chatting. My Delhi University mind told me, this was something like ragging (I said to myself COOL!!!!) I walked up to my room and there was this guy from the lawn following me who said "JAB FRESH HO JAO TO NEECHE AA JAANA"(Once u've freshed up, come down to the lawn). The tone and the body language made me think he was a senior to me. Once in the lawn, I got to know he was no else than a batchmate. One who would be one of my closest friends and an iconic figure in IIFM. The great Sreekant Kumar.

Well that done, I understood that life was slow at IIFM and that was quite a shock to begin with but over a period of time we acclamatised to life there or rather IIFM acclamatised to our way of life. Some wonderful seniors, fantastic juniors and lifelong friends is what IIFM gave me. From playing pranks to bringing changes in the system, booze parties to saraswati pooja and Govinda, from wildlife in India to the future of corporates, worst fights to the greatest friendship tales; we did it all at IIFM. In a way sometimes, I feel IIFM is like the iconic hindi blockbuster SHOLAY. Its just a perfect mix. Something u'd like to experience over and over again.

Well all that we mentioned above is nothing new to any MBA institute. All of them do it. So what is it about this place. Introspecting a little, I came to the conclusion that IIFM allowed each one of us to learn and live management without being snobs. All of us kept our respective identities and never changed them. Shree babu is still the typical Bihari guy, Roby still confused, doped and musical, Tirkey still hasnt increased the rate of his speech delivery. What I mean to say is there were no airs about anyone, whether inside or outside IIFM. We were all tha same and probably that is what made life so damn cool at IIFM. Also its a wonderful place to be in which puts you in a fantastically peaceful state of mind. You need silence, walk down to any corner of the campus (Sunset point being the fav), you need commotion and happenings, what better place than the IIFM boys hostel and the most celebrated "BABA Mandalis".

Apart from all these, I love IIFM because it has given me the biggest reason to smile and grin wide and open in my life. Two really wonderful people whom I'll cherish all my life. One of them is a reflection of my one self but flip sided. He brings the storm in my life. The other one a more softer version of me, brings in the smoothness that prevents me from turning into a machine from a human. This is the reason why I love both these wonderful human beings. They reflect the two shades of me which when combined results in Dissented unisons.

Hello.......

Hello Blog.........

This ofcourse is my first blog ever apart from a few comments posted here and there. The choice of starting up an own blog space indeed took me quite some time although for no reason or probably important reasons. See thats the reason why I've named you Dissented Unisons :) .

Well to just introduce myself to you, I'm an MBA (less by qualification and more by chance), working in Delhi. I hail from Jharkhand (a recently formed state in India) but my heart lies in Bihar. A commerece graduate from Delhi University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal.

I hope both of us together would have a good time and I am able to do justice to you. Probably together we can try and transform these dissented unisons into simple unisons. Rather on the contrary, we might also add a few more such dissents. Lets see, thats for time to tell.