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Shree
Ganeshaya Namah
Be
with Bejan
By
Bejan Daruwalla
(Shree Ganeshaya Namah Dear Readers,
This column is not about astrology and numerology. I am not a guru. But I was
for 50 years a professor of English. To me education means STIMULATION to bring
out your full POTENTIAL. Therefore I will ask you questions, request you to
choose from it, and give a reply. I will not comment on your reply. You can see
and read the replies of others in the newspaper and JUDGE FOR YOURSELF. In
other words you can be your own guru. Try it. It will surprise you.)
1) We all know that love is the fevicol or bonding of life. Love
is permanent. But the great story teller Summerset Maughan tells us in his book
“Summing up” that finally love turns to cold gravy. In other words love is not
permanent. Do you agree? The question is “is love permanent?”
2) There was a competition between two men. One man was very
strong. The other man was weak. Therefore the judge said if you fight it will
not be an equal fight. Therefore I will do a strange thing. In one hand I will
choose a poison pill which will cause death. In the other hand there will be
nothing. Will both of you agree to choose one of the two hands? This will be a
real test of your courage. My question
is, “do you think it is just and fair test?”
3) People say revenge may be wicked but it is natural. Others
say you must not take revenge and forgive the person who hurts and harms you.
My question is, “who do you think is right?”
4) Ganesha says on one side we have reincarnation, heaven, after
death experience, ghosts and spirits. On the other side we have absolutely
nothing after death. In other words death is the end of it all. My question is
which of these two you prefer?
5) We all want freedom and liberty. To have this freedom and
liberty we must break with a single mighty powerful bound the chains which bind
us and limit us. But we can also be free if we work on the chains little by
little every day, just as prisoners in the jail use a saw to cut the prison
bars little by little every night. My question is which of these two you will
choose?
6) What is the most effective medicine in life? On one side we
have love which can heal. On the other side we have humour. Humour kills ego
and false pomposity. The reason is you cannot laugh and pretend to be powerful
at the same time. Love is the bonding. Humour is the salt of life. If you have
to pick only one of these two which will it be?
7) Poets are certainly “the unacknowledged legislators of the
world”. It means what the poets dream today the world realises tomorrow. But it
is equally true that many poets are completely eccentric, make love to many
women, do not feel guilty and many times break all the traditional values and
lead a completely free bohemian wayward life. My question is should the poets
be allowed to do so or should they be controlled and trapped by the government?
SHREE GANESHAYA NAMAH
8) I agree completely that rapists, arsonists, murderers, blackmailers
are the scum of the Earth. They should therefore be wiped out. Why should
others suffer them? But the hard core fact remains that they too were babes
once with chubby cheeks, deer eyes and feet like flowers and leaves. In other
words they too were innocently beautiful and truthfully glorious. If we think
of them in this way would we like to kill them? So my question is can we find
it in our heart to forgive them given all these different possibilities?
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